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"[drunkenly] Gentlemen, keep the war going please. We're going to roll in a few gutters."
"Morton Lowry — Donnie Scott"
"There are so many hospitals now they have to give them numbers. This is No: 76. There's 500 patients. Most of these men will die. Those that don't will never walk again, see again, taste again... love again! No, it's not great to have a hole your head. You're lucky to be still alive. Being born of nobility, you've advantages these men here do not. They don't have choices. It's not a game. This is the lowest we'll ever get. It never gets darker."
"[Asking Phipps to translate to the German POW] Ask him if he'll drink a toast to the dead."
"Matthias Schweighöfer — Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen"
"James Burke — Flaherty"
"Carl Esmond — Hauptmann Von Mueller"
"I only attack if I can win."
"Volker Bruch — Lothar Freiherr von Richthofen"
"Man is a savage animal, who, periodically to relieve his nervous tension, tries to destroy himself."
"Steffen Schroeder — Oberleutnant Karl Bodenschatz"
"Lena Headey — Nurse Käte Otersdorf"
"Heroes Rise. Empires Fall. Legends Endure."
"[briefing the other pilots] Keep the sun on your back. Don't fire too soon. It just warns your opponents, it has no other effects. The best range for shooting is 50 meters, not more. But remember, our tasks is to bring down aeroplanes, not men. So stop firing when your opponent's falling. Gentlemen, we are sportsmen, not butchers."
"David Niven — Lieutenant Scott"
"Barry Fitzgerald — Bott"
"Michael Brooke — Captain Squires"
"[to Käte] When I became a pilot, I truly thought I had see everything from up there. I saw nothing. I was blind before I met you. You opened my eyes. You thought me to see what I didn't want to see. We all choose to fly. Voss, Sternberg, Lehmann, Wolff, Hawker. On whatever side we fought, we all knew the risks we took. I wanted to be the best, I wanted to win and I thought I won. But I can see now, Kate. I have seen that we have turned the world into a damn slaughter house. And I'm already too big a part of it. They're using my photograph, to give hope where there is none. They used my name to feign immortality, whereas the reality is annihilation. You said it yourself, "The men dying out there, they have no choice." I have! I cannot order them into battle. I can perhaps leads them. Help them! Die with them. But I will not betrayed them, nor keep the truth from them by remaining the immortal god's Berlin wants me to be. You... are my greatest victory."
"One warrior ruled the sky."
"Til Schweiger — Leutnant Werner Voss"
"Tino Mewes — Oberleutnant Kurt Wolff"
"Joseph Fiennes — "Captain" Roy Brown"
"Roaring into each blood-red dawn... fighting for women they had never seen ... for love they might never know ! !"
"Axel Prahl — General der Kavallerie Ernst von Hoeppner"
"Hanno Koffler — Leutnant Lohmann"
"Maxim Mehmet — Leutnant Friedrich Sternberg"
"[Opens package dropped by enemy plane] It's his helmet and goggles. It means a very gallant gentleman died this afternoon. And for what? What have all these deaths accomplished? So many fine chaps have died in this war and are going to die in future wars. [pause] That's all, gentlemen."
"They roared through the dawn... with death on their wings!"
"You know what this place is? It's a slaughterhouse, and I'm the butcher!"
"[over Manfred's grave] I could not come sooner. It's not so easy to cross the line into British territory. Finally a friend of ours help me. He asked me why it was important for me to come here? I told him I love you. Did I ever tell you?"
"Errol Flynn — Capt. Courtney"
"Basil Rathbone — Major Brand"
"Donald Crisp — Phipps"
"Melville Cooper — Sergeant Watkins"
"Peter Willes — Hollister"
"Excuse me. Uh, I said excuse me! Oh, that's better. I'm looking for my blankie. It's this big, and it's really, really soft, and it's yellow."
"A towel, please. Thank you, Marcella. [giggles] Oh, thank you, Cody. It's so nice to have a shower after a long trip. Oh, right. I just love to pretend."
"Do you know where my blankie is?"
"It's beautiful. Whoops. Uh-uh, sorry."
"Oh, look. It's turning green."
"They're gonna fancy dance right on top of the egg."
"Well, don't give up. ( snaps ) When the rain stops, hopefully we can go hurry back outside and look around some more, and then maybe we can find it."
"Ralphie, a little guitar music, please."
"It's cracking."
"We're gonna hit... the haystack!"
"Oh, well... uh, thank you. Okay, you can go on now."
"George Hearn - Grandpa Greenfield"
"Aw... I know how you feel about losing something, Abby. But, cheer up! We’ll find that egg. You know we will! Don’t cry!"
"Shirley Douglas - Grandma Greenfield"
"Oh, that's ring number four. Only one more to go. Come back! Please! You can't our egg! No."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.