All Quotes

"nuts roasting... as I open fire (In reference to the Christmas carol 'Chestnuts roasting ON an open fire')"

"Ahhh, smell those traffic fumes. And no damn aliens! Time for some R & R!"

"Hey kids you remember i'm a professional, don't try this at home!"

"What the *bleep* (f**k) is goin' on here?!"

"This won't buuuudge. (final build: It wont budge)"

"Looks like the crap has hit the fan. (upon arriving at the thrashed Duke Burger)"

"Time for the shit (bleeped when blowing up the fan in the second level) to hit the fan"

"It ain't no bike but it sure beats the hell out of walking (walking out of the first training level)"

"Female Commander: New York is in trouble Duke, the alien scum have taken over of the area around Liberty Island. Without immediate intervention they'll get the whole damn city. Your helicopter is waiting, go kick some ass..."

"Marine: I'm cocked, locked, and ready to rock Duke! [reference to The Rock]"

"Mess with the best, die like the rest ( It's a quote from the movie Hackers)"

"I'm sorry, did I break your concentration? (Reference to "Pulp Fiction")"

"Great, what am I supposed to use, harsh language? (reference to Aliens: Frost: What the hell are we supposed to use, man? Harsh language?)"

"Well, enough talk then. Come get some! Oh, Silverback, one more thing. I'm gonna enjoy pissin' on your dead body!"

"Welcome to "Cool's-Ville", Population: Me. [reference to The Iron Giant]"

"Yet it must be remembered that the essential theoretical core of the book - the relationship between oversaving, foreign investment and imperialism - appeared in an article written in 1898, before his South African trip."

"The Chinese economy would be brutally transformed into the mightiest manufacturing nation based on western capital and on an abundance of cheap, highly submissive labour."

"In tropical Africa, on the other hand, Hobson talked of 'lower races' who could only progress under western leadership"

"We must resist the notion that there is only one way to be a woman, one way to be African, and one way to be human."

"I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace."

"(WHAT'S THE PLANET'S BIGGEST CHALLENGE?) The environment. We are sharing our resources in a very inequitable way. We have parts of the world that are very deprived and parts of the world that are very rich. And that is partly the reason why we have conflict."

"As I conclude I reflect on my childhood experience when I would visit a stream next to our home to fetch water for my mother. I would drink water straight from the stream. Playing among the arrowroot leaves I tried in vain to pick up the strands of frogs’ eggs, believing they were beads. But every time I put my little fingers under them they would break. Later, I saw thousands of tadpoles: black, energetic and wriggling through the clear water against the background of the brown earth. This is the world I inherited from my parents. Today, over 50 years later, the stream has dried up, women walk long distances for water, which is not always clean, and children will never know what they have lost. The challenge is to restore the home of the tadpoles and give back to our children a world of beauty and wonder."

"Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking."

"In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground- a time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now."

"You're wrong, Proton breath. I'll be done with you and still have time to watch Oprah!"

"I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it."

"Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don't need a diploma to plant a tree."

"“In trying to explain this linkage, I was inspired by a traditional African tool that has three legs and a basin to sit on. To me the three legs represent three critical pillars of just and stable societies. The first leg stands for democratic space, where rights are respected, whether they are human rights, women's rights, children's rights, or environmental rights. The second represents sustainable and equitable management and resources. And the third stands for cultures of peace that are deliberately cultivated within communities and nations. The basin, or seat, represents society and its prospects for development. Unless all three legs are in place, supporting the seat, no society can thrive. Neither can its citizens develop their skills and creativity. When one leg is missing, the seat is unstable; when two legs are missing, it is impossible to keep any state alive; and when no legs are available, the state is as good as a failed state. No development can take place in such a state either. Instead, conflict ensues.”"

"“What people see as fearlessness is really persistence.”"

"“Hallowed landscapes lost their sacredness and were exploited as the local people became insensitive to the destruction, accepting it as a sign of progress.”"

"“You would see me there now, cultivating the earth and carrying firewood on my back up the hills to my home, where I would light a fire and cook the evening meal. I would not tell stories, because they have been replaced by books, the radio, and television”"

"“You don't need a diploma to plant a tree.”"

"No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look for. The silver lining will come, if not to us then to next generation or the generation after that. And maybe with that generation the lining will no longer be thin."

". “African women in general need to know that it’s OK for them to be the way they are — to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.”"

"“Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own … Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come.”"

"nobody knows the solution to every problem; rather than blindly following the prescriptions of others, Africans need to think and act for themselves, and learn from their mistakes."

"We all share one planet and are one humanity; there is no escaping this reality."

"Trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded and that no matter how high we go it is from our roots that we draw sustenance. It is a reminder to all of us who have had success that we cannot forget where we came from. It signifies that no matter how powerful we become in government or how many awards we receive, our power and strength and our ability to reach our goals depend on the people, those whose work remain unseen, who are the soil out of which we grow, the shoulders on which we stand."

"I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet — at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet."

"I kept stumbling and falling and stumbling and falling as I searched for the good. 'Why?' I asked myself. Now I believe that I was on the right path all along, particularly with the Green Belt Movement, but then others told me that I shouldn't have a career, that I shouldn't raise my voice, that women are supposed to have a master. That I needed to be someone else. Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others said. That I was OK the way I was. That it was all right to be strong."

"The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station."

"Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment. Maathai stands at the front of the fight to promote ecologically viable social, economic and cultural development in Kenya and in Africa. She has taken a holistic approach to sustainable development that embraces democracy, human rights and women's rights in particular. She thinks globally and acts locally."

""Now I have time to play with myself." (a reference to a similar, but different line from Duke Nukem 3D)"

"Boooorn tooo beee wiiiiild... [singing (badly) in a karaoke]"

"Come get some! [reference to Ash's quote from Army of Darkness] (says after choosing the hard difficulty setting or when picking up a new weapon)"

"Come on! (after the player was not moving for a while)"

"Damn! (after dying)"

"Dammit! (after killing any of the women in the game)"

"Damn, I'm good! (says after choosing the "Damn, I'm Good" difficulty setting or when corpses explode)"

"Damn... I'm looking good! (after looking at himself in a mirror)"