Raymond Burr who later played Perry Mason and Ironsides frequently portrayed scowling bad guys in film noir. He delivers a classic one liner to one member of his gang who had screwed up. He said with emphasis that "You have to study to be that stupid". What other favorite one liners have you heard from that era?
September 13, 2018, 10:39 PM
YooperSigs
"The stuff that dreams are made of". The Maltese Falcon "Top of the world, Ma"! White Heat.
End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
September 13, 2018, 11:19 PM
newtoSig765
"Not as many as you'd think" -- Men In Black
-------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken
I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18
September 14, 2018, 03:44 AM
festus haggen
Boy, the last time there was a leak like this, Noah built hisself a boat. Absence of Malice.
Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
September 14, 2018, 05:17 AM
kz1000
"You fucked up. You trusted us!"
------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt"
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris
September 14, 2018, 05:49 AM
cas
(this may be a new record for threads like this going astray)
September 14, 2018, 07:21 AM
2BobTanner
“Round up the usual suspects.” Captain Louis Renault in “Casablanca”
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken
September 14, 2018, 10:10 AM
jhe888
When the bad guys have hostages in the liquor store in "The Enforcer" and after Harry Callahan has told the lieutenant of their demands for a car, the lieutenant asks Harry what he is going to to, he says:
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
September 14, 2018, 10:28 AM
CQB60
You can’t handle the truth!
The Dude abides...
______________________________________________ Life is short. It’s shorter with the wrong gun…
September 14, 2018, 10:54 AM
icom706
"You have to forgive us for the present and we have to forgive you for the past and together we can move forward white man."
-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Ayn Rand
"He gains votes ever and anew by taking money from everybody and giving it to a few, while explaining that every penny was extracted from the few to be giving to the many."
Ogden Nash from his poem - The Politician
September 14, 2018, 11:05 AM
f2
I'm like Saudi Arabia, I have a surplus of energy.
September 14, 2018, 11:20 AM
LS1 GTO
"Play it, Sam"
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
"If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers
The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own...
September 14, 2018, 01:12 PM
Kravashera
Harry, please don’t understand me so fast.
-Magnificent Seven (1960)
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.” - Robert Heinlein
September 14, 2018, 01:41 PM
Sailor1911
"How'd ya like to have a nose like that full of nickels" - The Bank Dick
Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
“If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016
September 14, 2018, 03:33 PM
64dodge
From a later time but I can relate to Tom Arnold's line from True Lies.
"Women. Can't live with 'em. Can't kill 'em."
September 14, 2018, 03:45 PM
bald1
"Eat my shorts!" Breakfast Club
"Mama says, 'Stupid is as stupid does.'" Forest Gump
"What we've got here is a failure to communicate." Cool Hand Luke
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Network
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning." Apocalypse Now
"Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker!" Die Hard
"This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Casablanca
Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192
September 14, 2018, 03:45 PM
zoom6zoom
"It's all in the reflexes" Jack Burton, Big Trouble in Little China.
I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm.
September 14, 2018, 03:49 PM
Sigmund
"Candygram for Mongo" from Blazing Saddles
September 14, 2018, 03:52 PM
Angus the Kid
"Maybe poker's just not your game, Ike.....I know, let's have a spelling contest" - Doc Holliday, Tombstone.