Favorite Quotes

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust,
we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned
in the distance by an invisible player.
- Albert Einstein

Jack Napier: Have you ever danced with
the devil in the pale moonlight?
- Batman (1989)

The most beautiful thing we can experience
is the mysterious; It is the source of all
true art and science
- Albert Einstein

St Jerome - the patron saint of librarians and
scholars. St. Jerome is probably the correct
saint to pray to when your computer seems to
have evaporated a 25,000-word manuscript.
- Unknown

Spock: To hunt a species to extinction is not logical.
Gillian: Whoever said the human race was logical?
- Star Trek - The Voyage Home

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is braver five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Favorite Quotes

"You are Holmes, the meddler." My friend smiled.
"Holmes, the busybody!" His smile broadened.
"Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!"
Holmes chuckled heartily.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band

[Geordi and Data are discussing Data's attempts to train Spot.]
Data: I suppose I must accept that possibility. It may be that Spot lacks the intelligence necessary to learn the appropriate responses to my commands.
[Spot looks up at Data and meows.]
Data: Mmm?
[Spot meows again.]
Data: Ah.
[Data takes a ball of yarn from his cabinet and lets Spot begin to play with it.]
Geordi La Forge: I don't know about Spot, but your training is coming along just fine. Let's go.
- Star Trek the Next Generation, Episode:Force of Nature

"Eliminate all other factors, and the
one which remains must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of the Four

Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
Translation: "Add little to little and there will be a big pile"
— Ovid.

"Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the
matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the
inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems."
- Sherlock Holmes: "A Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot. So my
disguise must be able to strike terror into their
hearts! I must be a creature of the night, black,
terrible... A... A... A bat! That's it. It's an
omen... I shall become a BAT!"
- Batman #1

Quotes - Favorites

Nightcrawler: "You young gentlemen like this film? I, also.
Chewbacca's my favorite character. I have a friend who's
much shorter, but almost as hairy and I always let him win too."
- Classic X-Men 4

"The real problem is not whether
machines think but whether men do."
- B.F. Skinner

Be bold and mighty powers
will come to your aid.
- Basil King

Catwoman: I am Catwoman. Hear me roar.
- Batman Returns

Batman: Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it.
Catwoman: A kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it.
- Batman Returns

Batman: [reading a riddle] What has yellow skin and writes?
Robin: A ball-point banana!
Batman: [reads the second riddle] What people are always in a hurry?
Robin: Rushing people... Russians!
Batman: So this means...
Robin: Someone Russian is going to slip on a banana and break their neck!
Batman: Precisely, Robin!
- Batman(1966/I)

Quotaria

"Every generation imagines itself to be more
intelligent than the one that went before it,
and wiser than the one that comes after it."
- George Orwell

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like
you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special
talent for the business of government; they have only a
talent for getting and holding office."
- H. L. Mencken

"There's no point in being grown up
if you can't be childish sometimes."
- Doctor Who

"Pair up in threes."
- Joe DiMaggio

Poison Ivy: It took God seven days to create
paradise. Let's see if I can do better.
- Batman & Robin (1997)

Set your goals high, and don't
stop till you get there.
- Bo Jackson

Quotaria

"Life doesn't imitate art, it
imitates bad television."
- Woody Allen

A hat should be taken off when you greet a
lady and left off for the rest of your life.
Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
- PJ O'Rourke

There's so much pollution in the air now that
if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place
to put it all.
- Robert Orben

"If opportunity doesn't
knock, build a door."
- Milton Berle

"We are not makers of history.
We are made by history."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Batman: Commissioner Gordon?
Dr. Chase Meridian: He's at home. I sent the signal.
Batman: What's wrong?
Dr. Chase Meridian: Last night, at the bank, I noticed something about Two-Face. His coin. It's his Achilles' heel. It can be exploited.
Batman: I know. You called me here for this? The Batsignal is not a beeper.
Dr. Chase Meridian: Well I wish I could say that my interest in you was... purely professional.
Batman: You trying to get under my cape, doctor?
Dr. Chase Meridian: A girl can't live by psychoses alone.
Batman: It's the car, right? Chicks love the car.
Dr. Chase Meridian: What is it about the wrong kind of man? In grade school it was guys with earrings. College, motorcycles, leather jackets. Now, *oh*, black rubber.
Batman: Try firemen, less to take off.
Dr. Chase Meridian: I don't mind the work. Pity I can't see behind the mask.
Batman: We all wear masks.
Dr. Chase Meridian: My life's an open book. You read?
Batman: I don't blend in at a family picnic.
Dr. Chase Meridian: Oh, we could give it a try. I'll bring the wine, you bring your scarred psyche.
Batman: Direct aren't you?
Dr. Chase Meridian: You like strong women. I've done my homework. Or do I need skin-tight vinyl and a whip?
Batman: I haven't had that much luck with women.
Dr. Chase Meridian: Maybe you just haven't met the right woman.
- Batman Forever

Quotes - Batman

The Riddler: Riddle me this, and riddle me
that: who is afraid of the big, black bat?
- Batman Forever

Oh, outwitting Batman is my sole delight,
my joy, my heaven on earth, my very paradise!
- Riddler, Batman(1966/I)

The Joker: Where does he get those wonderful toys?
- Batman(1989)

Joker: A joke a day, keeps the glum away!
- Batman(1966/I)

Batman: Look at this pair of joking riddles.
Chief O'Hara: [reads] What does a turkey do when he flies upside down?
Robin: He gobbles up!
Chief O'Hara: Of course.
Batman: And, number two...
Commissioner Gordon: [reads] What weighs six ounces, sits in a tree and is very dangerous?
Robin: A sparrow with a machine gun!
Commissioner Gordon: Yes, of course.
- Batman(1966/I)

My, my, my, can we actually have a
brain beneath that pointy cowl of ours?
- The Riddler, Batman(1992)

Quotes

We must let the contradictions stand as they
are, make them understood as contradictions,
and grasp what lies beneath them.
- Hannah Arendt, Love and Saint Augustine.

Poison Ivy: He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me. He loves me...
Mr. Freeze: NOT! Surprise, I am your new cell mate. And I'm here to
 make your life a living hell. Prepare for a bitter harvest.
 Winter has come at last.
- Batman & Robin (1997)

"Fall not in love, therefore;
it will stick to your face."
- National Lampoon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath
not some strangeness in the proportion."
- Sir Francis Bacon

"The nice thing about egotists is that
they don't talk about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper

"It isn't necessary to have relatives
in Kansas City in order to be unhappy."
- Groucho Marx

Quotes

"I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war.
I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm
glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I
hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood."
- Tom Hanks

Barbara Wilson: Partners?
Dick Grayson: Partners.
Bruce Wayne: Partners.
Alfred: We're going to need a bigger cave.
- Batman & Robin (1997)

"I wish people who had
trouble communicating
would just shut up."
- Tom Lehrer

Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy: I am Nature's arm. Her spirit.
Her will. Hell, I am Mother Nature, and the time has
come for plants to take back the world so rightfully
ours! 'cause it's not nice to fool with Mother Nature.
- Batman & Robin (1997)

He who asks is a fool for five
minutes, but he who does not ask
remains a fool forever.
- Tom J. Connelly

The man who strikes first admits
that his ideas have given out.
- Chinese Proverb

Quotes

"There are two things that will be believed
of any man whatsoever, and one of them is
that he has taken to drink."
- Booth Tarkington

"I am really a sea creature. Just
a mammal that lost its fins."
- Kathleen Quinlan

'The time has come,' the Walrus said,
  'To talk of many things:
Of shoes --and ships --and sealing wax --
  Of cabbages --and kings --
And why the sea is boiling hot --
  And whether pigs have wings.'
-Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter

"A lie is a sort of myth,
and a myth is a sort of truth."
- Cyrano

Robin: I want a car, chicks dig the car.
Batman: This is why Superman works alone.
- Batman & Robin (1997)

And what shall I say of those more properly called traitors
than translators, since they betray those whom they aim to
reveal, tarnishing their glory, and seducing ignorant readers
by reading white for black?
- Joachim du Bellay, 1549

Quotes

"It is during our darkest moments
that we must focus to see the light."
- Aristotle Onassis

"The trouble with being poor is
that it takes up all your time."
- Willem de Kooning

"The tree that is beside the running
water is fresher and gives more fruit."
- Saint Teresa of Avila

"No man needs a vacation so much
as the man who has just had one."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Sometimes the appropriate response
to reality is to go insane."
- Philip K. Dick

The Riddler: Now who in the right
mind has bats on the brain?
- Batman Forever

Quotes

I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson

Christmas waves a magic wand over the world and
behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and
the only regret I have was that I didn't study
Latin harder in school so I could converse with
those people
- Dan Quayle

There are many ways of breaking
a heart. Stories were full of
hearts broken by love, but what
really broke a heart was taking
away its dream - whatever that
dream might be.
- Pearl S. Buck

'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked.
'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, gravely, 'and go on till you
come to the end: then stop.'
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Batman: What's yellow and writes?
Robin: A ballpoint banana.
Batman: Exactly!
- Batman(1966/I)