great quotes

you know, those great quotes from movies and books that distill ages of wisdom, punctuate a discussion with a sharp rejoinder, make people think, make you look a little crazy, etc.

"I don't want dainty little moments of insight. I want everything and I want it now. I want to be ice-picked on the head by a herd of angry cheerleaders, Claire. Angry cheerleaders on drugs. You don't get that do you?

I want action. I want to be radiator steam hissing on the cement of the Santa Monica freeway after a thousand car pile-up--with acid rock from the smashed cars roaring in the background. I want to be the man in the black hood who switches on the air-raid sirens. I want to be naked and windburned and riding the lead missile of a herd heading to over to bomb every little f*ck!ng village in New Zealand."
-Douglas Coupland, Generation X

"If this is a consular ship, where is the ambassador?"
-Darth Vader

"Man's got to know his limitations."
-Dirty Harry

"I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."
-Darth Vader

"I can resist everything. Except temptation."
-Oscar Wilde

"Everything in moderation. Including moderation."
-Oscar Wilde

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same thing."
-H.L. Mencken