Odd quotes that stick

[Ben X]

Ketchup (we call it Tomato sauce more often here).

Only oop north!

[Jaraknarn]

Kyle Katarn said this over and over again upon encountering enemies in one of the later Jedi Knight games:

"You're joking, right?"

Ahhhhhh! Oh my lord, he said that so much!

That and the stormtroopers saying "Halt!"

To be honest, the thing that sticks with me most from thhat game was the 'efforts', I think I could recreate all of the grunts and groans verbatum.

To show you how dire my gaming youth was, all I had to play for an entire year was that game, which mostly involved me playing the multiplayer, on my own, against bots.

If were including the quote-fest that is Bethesda games, I should mention the one that stuck with me most from Skyrim, me and my mates text each other this all the time, combined with some of the other classics its hilarious.

"Some people think I'm dumb.

I showed them."

[HPopper]

One of the most often in my head heard Simpsons-quotes is a short on: Mr Burns indecision about "Ketchup - Catsup?"

I do that every time someone says Ketchup (we call it Tomato sauce more often here).

I thought I was the only one!!!

I recently replayed Grim Fandango for the first time in years and years, and it struck me how much of the dialog is ingrained in my memory.

It shone, pale as bone, as I stood there alone

And I thought to myself how the moon,

That night, cast its light on my heart's true delight

And the reef where her body was strewn

Perhaps it would be easier to list the things from Grim Fandango that didn't stick with me.

"Faith, the least exclusive club on earth, has the craftiest doorman."

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

That bit of aphoristic prose completely knocked me on my ass when I first read it. For one thing, it's just an incredibly well-written sentence. But it also captures my very contradictory and often frustrated feelings about faith, something I ultimately don't think I possess.

Oh man, Cloud Atlas is so good. My first experience with it was the Audible audiobook, which has different authors for each section. The first time it jumped perspective, I thought something was wrong with the file. And then, even when I was hip to what Mitchell was doing, I still felt sucker-punched every time the story switched gears just as I was getting interested in the new one. Has anyone read Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler? The second-person narrative part of it describes (for the first few chapters, at least) the sort of experience I had listening to Cloud Atlas for the first time.

But I digress.

From Curse of Monkey Island - sometimes when I injure myself I still say, "Ah, papapishu!"

From Community - "Come on, I'm dean, and my hands are so clean. At this moment, I am stapling!"

[thainatos]

A lot of WH Auden. One bit in particular: "I cannot remember a thing between noon and three."

Also, Sly from Anachranox: "I'll handle this lightly and politely." That guy's VO was amazing.

[Nachimir]

I don't get on with poetry, and didn't really enjoy The Waste Land, but this bit gives me goosebumps:

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,

Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell

And the profit and loss.

A current under sea

Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell

He passed the stages of his age and youth

Entering the whirlpool.

Gentile or Jew

O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,

Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

[shammack]

"You like to work hard, just like your mother. But, I don't think it's good to work too hard." - Earthbound

[Problem Machine]

"Why did I follow him? I don't know. Why do things happen as they do in dreams?"

[Upthrust]

I can hear this quote perfectly in my head, even today. I can also hear the same thing with the opening cutscenes of each Age of Empires 2 campaign.

So! You have come to hear the tale of Frederick Barbarossa? Better order us another round! Maybe three... for you see it is a great tale! But then, everything about the man was great....

Bleda will lead us to ruin!

[lobotomy42]

Perhaps it would be easier to list the things from Grim Fandango that didn't stick with me.

This is how I feel! Almost every line could be a classic. A couple of the shorter ones I repeat in conversation more often than I'd care to.

One Space Quest line has gotten stuck in my head:

[describing his battle with a sea monster] "...which I won in the nick of time with my clever thinking and my... uh... cleverness." (Roger, SQ4)

And, from having played the opening to the first Mass Effect quite a few times now:

"Is that the kind of person we want saving the galaxy?"

"That's the only kind of person who can protect the galaxy."

[elmuerte]

"I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel!"

[Problem Machine]

[Roswell47]

So many good quotes from the Max Payne games (not 3 *shudders*) but this one has really stuck with me: "Eintstein was right, time is relative to the observer. When you're looking down the barrel of a gun, time slows down. Your whole life flashes by." Man.... Fuck you Rockstar.

EDIT: Me being my regular stupid me didn't completely read the topic name, so "odd" is maybe not applicable to this quote.

[Henroid]

"Ah ah ah, you didn't say the magic word!"

[circadianwolf]

"Your punishment must be more severe!"

Pretty much every line from Jurassic Park. "Clever girl." "I really hate that man." "What about the lyseine contingency?" "A UNIX system! I know this!" etc.

"Why did I follow him? I don't know. Why do things happen as they do in dreams?"

In addition: "Always... into the east."

And yes, pretty much every line from Grim Fandango. "I've just locked an open door. Strange, yet symbolically compelling."

[jeremywc]

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster... when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you..."

Great Nietzsche quote from the opening of Baldur's Gate.

[Nachimir]

"Synthesiser Patel"

[Henroid]

I remember being super unimpressed with the end-game quotes of Deus Ex, and it didn't help that I beat Invisble War before it (somehow). The latter at least tried to provide you with something thought provoking, rather than kinda flaccidly quoting Voltaire and Paradise Lost. That said,

"He that wandreth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead."

[Scipio]

"beep ... beep ... beep ... beep ..." - Sputnik 1

[otthegreat]

"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people"

"More gold your majesty!"

"My service ... ends"

And not from Video games:

"It was not on account of the Trojan spearmen that I came here to fight, since they have done no wrong to me. Never have they driven off my cattle or my horses, nor ever in deep-soiled Phthia, nurse of warriors, did they lay waste the harvest, for many things lie between us: shadowy mountains and sounding sea. But you, shameless one, we followed, so that you might rejoice, seeking to win recompense for Menelaus and for yourself, dog-face, from the Trojans. This you disregard, and take no heed of."

Okay I had to look up some of the wording on that last one.

[Wubbles]

John Steinbeck: "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

Not only is it pretty funny, but it basically sums up the American Dream, and American Exceptionalism generally.

[Iosef Stalin]

John Steinbeck: "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

Not only is it pretty funny, but it basically sums up the American Dream, and American Exceptionalism generally.

Al Murray: "The American Dream. What is that? There's no British Dream, is there. You know why? Because we're AWAKE!"

[pabosher]

I don't like Al Murray's humour.

[Problem Machine]

Wow it's like a more douchebaggily nationalistic version of George Carlin's joke. Awesome.

[OJR]

"They're masterworks all, you can't go wrong!" - Blacksmith, Dragon's Dogma

This stuck because it's the ONLY THING HE SAYS IN GREETING! Capcom still keeping up its stellar track record of writing/voice acting in video games.

"...age is always advancing, and I'm pretty sure it's up to no good." and "Paranoid? Maybe. But that doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face." Harry Dresden, The Dresden Files.

"Oh my God! What's wrong with your face!?" Harry S. Plinkett (mainly for the goofy accent)

[Ben X]

For those who don't know, "Al Murray" is a comedy character: a douchebaggy nationalistic pub landlord (who I think was originally closeted homosexual but that got toned back for longevity's sake). He had a sitcom based around him with the ridiculous title "Time Gentlemen Please".