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Edward Carson

Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson PC (9 February 1854 – 22 October 1935) was a leader of the Irish Unionists, a barrister and a judge. As leader of the Irish Unionists he unsuccessfully opposed both Irish home rule and Irish independence, although he did succeed in getting Northern Ireland to remain in the United Kingdom. During World War I he served as de facto Leader of the Opposition.

Quotes

 * This Home Rule conspiracy is the most nefarious conspiracy that has ever been put before the electors of this country.
 * Speech in Eastbourne (25 November 1911), quoted in The Times (27 November 1911), p. 7

 * We have given of our best to build up the Empire. We recall the names of Wellington, of Roberts, of White of Ladysmith, and we think of Coghill of Isandula, around whose body when it was found dead the flag of the British race, the old Union Jack, was found. All these were men of loyalist Ireland and mainly of Ulster. And now, forsooth, this great England, the great country that boasts of liberty, of adherence to principle, and of never deserting its friends, is to sacrifice the loyalists to the necessity of maintaining this heaven-sent Government in power.
 * Speech in Eastbourne (25 November 1911), quoted in The Times (27 November 1911), p. 7

 * I am here tonight under the most tragic circumstances, with the possibilities of grave and difficult operations in Belfast and in Ulster within almost a few days...I am here to tell you solemnly and honestly that we intend to see this matter through. The cost may be great, the sufferings may be terrible.
 * Speech in the Albert Hall, 12 January 1912.

 * We do not want sentence of death with a stay of execution for six years.
 * Speech in the House of Commons against a Government amendment allowing each county of Ulster to opt out of Home Rule for six years, 9 March 1914.

 * England's difficulty is not Ulster's opportunity. However we are treated, and however others act, let us act rightly. We do not seek to purchase terms by selling our patriotism.
 * Speech to delegates of the Ulster Unionist Council in Belfast, 3 September 1914.

 * Talk to me of treaties! Talk to me of the League of Nations! Every Great Power in Europe was pledged by treaty to preserve Belgium. That was a League of Nations, but it failed.
 * Speech (7 December 1917), Liberal Magazine, XXV (1917), p. 604, quoted in Henry R. Winkler, ‘The Development of the League of Nations Idea in Great Britain, 1914-1919’, The Journal of Modern History Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1948), p. 105

 * Talk of a League of Nations! Let us at all events begin with a League of British Nations.
 * Speech (c. 10 December 1917), Liberal Magazine, XXV (1917), p. 606, quoted in Henry R. Winkler, ‘The Development of the League of Nations Idea in Great Britain, 1914-1919’, The Journal of Modern History Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1948), p. 105

 * Nothing Ireland—north, south, east, and west—has suffered so much in its history as the broken pledges of British statesmen.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (16 April 1918). The Irish Nationalist MP John Dillon interrupted: "We are agreed at last on one thing."

 * I wonder how many Members of this House and of His Majesty's Government are really following out the conspiracy to drive the British out of India and out of Egypt? It is all one conspiracy, it is all engineered in the same way, it all has the same object—to destroy our sea power and drive us out of Asia.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (8 July 1920)

 * We in Ulster will tolerate no Sinn Féin. But we tell you this—that if, having offered you our help, you are yourselves unable to protect us from the machinations of Sinn Féin, and you won't take our help; well then, we tell you that we will take the matter into our own hands. We will reorganise.
 * Speech in Belfast (12 July 1920)

 * There is no one in the world who would be more pleased to see an absolute unity in Ireland than I would, and it could be purchased tomorrow, at what does not seem to me a very big price. If the South and West of Ireland came forward tomorrow to Ulster and said – "Look here, we have to run our old island, and we have to run her together, and we will give up all this everlasting teaching of hatred of England, and we will shake hands with you, and you and we together, within the Empire, doing our best for ourselves and the United Kingdom, and for all His Majesty's Dominion will join together", I will undertake that we would accept the handshake.
 * Speech in Torquay (30 January 1921)

 * You will be a Parliament for the whole community. We used to say that we could not trust an Irish Parliament in Dublin to do justice to the Protestant minority. Let us take care that that reproach can no longer be made against your Parliament, and from the outset let them see that the Catholic minority have nothing to fear from a Protestant majority. ... Let us take care that we win all that is best amongst those who have been opposed to us in this community. ... And so I say: from the start be tolerant to all religions, and, while maintaining to the last your own traditions and your own citizenship, take care that similar rights are preserved for those who differ from us.
 * Speech to the Ulster Unionist Council in Belfast (4 February 1921), quoted in Geoffrey Lewis, Carson: The Man Who Divided Ireland (2006), pp. 227–28

 * What a fool I was. I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so was Ireland, in the political game that was to get the Conservative Party into power.
 * Speech in the House of Lords (14 December 1921)

 * But I say to my Ulster friends, and I say it with all sincerity and solemnity: "Do not be led into any such false line. Stick to your old ideals of closer and closer connection with this country. The Coalition Government, after all, is not the British nation, and the British nation will certainly see you righted. Your interests lie with Great Britain. You have helped her, and you have helped her Empire, and her Empire belongs just as much to you as it does to England. Stick to it, and trust the British people."
 * Speech in the House of Lords (14 December 1921)

Quotes about Carson

 * I trust he will conduct his cross-examination with all the added bitterness of an old friend.
 * Oscar Wilde, on learning that Carson had been briefed to defend the Marquess of Queensberry in the libel trial.

 * Dear Carson, I never heard a more powerful speech nor a more searching crossXam. I congratulate you on having escaped most of the filth. Yrs ever, R. Henn Collins.
 * Note passed by Mr Justice Henn Collins to Carson at the end of the Queensberry libel trial, quoted in Merlin Holland, "The Irish Peacock and the Scarlet Marquess" (4th Estate, 2002), p. xxx.

 * Although a Unionist, he never was un-Irish.
 * Tim Healy, quoted in Edward Marjoribanks, The Life of Lord Carson: Volume I (1932), p. 9

 * I asked [ David Lloyd George ] if he believed in Carson. “Yes”, he said. “He is a great man: he has courage, he has determination; he has judgment”. I questioned whether he had judgment. “Oh, yes”, was [Lloyd George's] reply. “He was extraordinarily clever over the Ulster business: his calculations were almost unerring”.
 * Frances Stevenson's diary entry (8 February 1916), quoted in A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: A Diary (1971), p. 96

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"Hi, my name is Lyle and I believe you stepped on my shoe..."

Quotes

 * To witness the death of another being is profoundly unnerving, when viewed with the acumen of not what is dying but that the cessation of another conscious being is occurring. When one views a creature as a being and nothing more, all must be beheld identically.  This intimation aligns my own compassion for all, creatures and men alike.
 * Slow down. Don't look at your feet or keep your minds-eye within your internal ration or desires.  Perceive everything around you without feeling, without judgement, and with understanding of what things truly are:  Empty and dualistic.  If you cannot help but have feelings, have love.  This will not breed desire.  It is simplistic, and rewarding in a karmic manner.

Lyrical Excerpts
DESOLATE I LOOK INTO THE DISTANCE RADIATING WITH PUTRID HATE MY SKIN TURNS GARNET AND MY EYES TURN WHITE IS THIS WIND RUSHING OVER ME MORE THAN A WHIM? ARE WE MORE THAN MEN? CAN I BE SAVED NOW THAT I AM?
 * "I'm More Than A Man, I'm A Soul"

our flame, my flame tells untold stories eager to reveal the desires and dreams before this flame burns down until its once lively speak is nothing more than a heated whisper not loud enough to warm our faces the wind, the cold becomes impatient and move in again waves lash in the distance a rythm to their step so much intrusion to the senses of sounds of feelings as we watch the stars fall from the sky
 * "Island"

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Mark Henry

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The result was: . Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:17, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Mark Henry
Another wrestler article of the kind we're familiar with: unmemorable quotes with no sources. Antiquary 19:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed: Result: Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:14, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 19:41, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 20:26, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 21:03, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless quotes trimmed to pithy, original essences and sourced. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:32, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 03:05, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 15:46, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Ubiquity 08:11, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Tazz

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The result was: . Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:18, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Tazz
Yet more unsourced wrestler quotations: much as you would expect. Antiquary 19:42, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed: Result: Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:14, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 19:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 20:26, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 21:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless quotes trimmed to pithy, original essences and sourced. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:32, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 15:57, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 03:05, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Ubiquity 08:13, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Bill Randall

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The result was: . Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:19, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Bill Randall
This article, which provides no assertion of notability for its subject, has been speedy-deleted 3 times by two sysops (myself and LrdChaos), but new Wikiquotian keeps recreating it, so let's give it a proper hearing anyway. Cmderr also created an associate Wikipedia article, HMMGG Festival, which at first glance appears to be a potentially notable college art event, but when I looked into the links, I found what appears to be a rather juvenile bit of fun among a small group of art students. I've asked Cmderr to provide reliable sources for the information here, and made a similar request for the WP article on its talk page. If we don't get something more concrete than the minimal, restricted HMMGG website in a day or so, I'll probably AfD the WP article, too. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:44, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed: Result: Delete. No proper notability evidence was added. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:14, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete unless notability evidence provided and quotes properly sourced. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:44, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 04:19, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I had asked to stop creating the page until and unless they could provide some evidence of notability, and this was the response: "Bill Randall (b. 1964-) Wisconsin is a visual artist currently living in Minneapolis, MN. He is referenced in who's who in American Art and has participated in over 20 group art exhibitions in museums and private galleries in the U.S. and Canada. He also has had two solo museum exhibitions and is in the collection of the Renwick gallery, New Visions Gallery, and the Elmhurst Art Museum." This was added to the user's talk page (and also copied to mine), and was not added to the page. I don't believe that it conveys notability: "who's who" books don't count for anything, and there are a large number of museums and galleries in the country, so simply having an exhibition at a few doesn't really count for much either. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:51, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Keep He is an artist of note.  The collections that he is a part of are significant.  Granted, it's not a big deal if the quotes are not here.  I ran across them while researching an exhibition at the museum I currently work at, www.mgmoa.org is the web site, you can call my office directly at 405-878-5622.  The Festival mentioned on wickipedia is part of a growing trend among groups of artists to tie collaborative efforts together with input from diverse fields.  I hope to add one or two others to wickipedia (or have an intern make the additions), though the effort is frustrating enough that more traditional media outlets may be used.  Quite honestly, I can use the experience as a classroom demonstration in the point trying to be made.  Who is qualified to say it's art.  The fact that wickis are not vetted by professionals lends itself to allowing spurious information at the expense of the legitimate.  Interesting.
 * Despite the ease of editing, Wikimedia projects are not blogs or chat rooms. Each has a specific purpose in creating a robust publications in its genre, and takes very seriously questions of notability, verification of information, and sourcing. You would be doing your students (and yourself!) a disservice if you attempted to use this situation as a classroom experience without reading the relevant policy and other information on Wikiquote and Wikipedia. (Indeed, were I a student in such a class, I'm afraid I would find some amusement in embarrassing any instructor who failed to do his homework on his own lesson.) I can leave this to you to find as an exercise to the wiki student ☺, or I would be happy to provide you with links to this information if you don't have the time or desire to explore these fascinating projects without more specific guidance. Let me know here or on my talk page. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:12, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 17:56, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 03:05, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 15:46, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

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Dennis Potter

Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June, 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best remembered for scripts which mixed autobiographical elements with social history and fantasy. Potter's plays occasionally incorporated elements of popular culture (characters miming to popular songs) and adult actors performing as children.

Quotes

 * By the time I stood for Parliament I was already carrying a walking stick, and the combination of my illness and my sense of withdrawal from a belief in a kind of Britain I would have preferred to see meant that I was no longer satisfied with such a (political) role: it wasn't creative enough, it didn't satisfy me. I simply didn't fit the bill in the end. Although I was a Labour candidate I didn't even vote in that election. I was probably the only candidate who didn't vote for his party.
 * G. Fuller (ed.), Potter on Potter (Faber and Faber, 1993), p. 14
 * On his candidature in East Hertfordshire in the 1964 general election, which formed the basis of his play "Vote, vote, vote for Nigel Barton"

 * You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent, even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke.
 * "Occupying Powers," The Guardian (28 August 1993); the quote is from the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival (27 August 1993) and refers to John Birt and Marmaduke Hussey, who were then Director-General and Chairman of the BBC.

 * As a writer you will know that one of the favourite fantasy plots of a writer is, a character's told 'you've got three months to live,' and who would you kill? I call my cancer Rupert, so I can get close to it. Because that man, Murdoch, is the one who, if I had the time (I've got too much writing to do...) I would shoot the bugger if I could. There is no one person more responsible for the pollution of what was already a fairly polluted press. And the pollution of the British press is an important part of the pollution of British political life, and it's an important part of the cynicism and misperception of our own realities that is destroying so much of our political discourse.
 * "The Long Goodbye," The Guardian (6 April 1994); the quote is from Potter's final television interview with Melvyn Bragg (5 April 1994)

 * My only regret is to die four pages too soon.
 * Final television interview with Melvyn Bragg (5 April 1994)

 * The blossom is out in full now, it’s plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it’s white. It’s the whitest, frothiest blossomest blossom that ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn’t seem to matter. But the now-ness of everything is absolutely wondrous.
 * Final television interview with Melvyn Bragg (5 April 1994)

Stand up, Nigel Barton (1965)

 * Nigel Barton: Eh dad, why do you always walk in the middle of the road? Harry Barton: I don't know. Nigel Barton: What do you think the pavement's for? Harry Barton: Dogs to poop in, by the looks of things!

 * Harry Barton: Clever sod, aren't you? I expect they think the sun shines out of you down at Oxford. Nigel Barton. Up. Harry Barton: What? Nigel Barton. Up, dad. Up. Harry Barton: Aye, and up you, too! Nigel Barton: Everyone says 'Up at Oxford'. You come 'down' when you've finished there. Harry Barton: Well, what's this then? Does bloody Oxford move up and down the bloody map then?

 * Georgie Pringle: The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
 * Pringle, "the class comic", has been asked to choose the bible reading for a secondary school class. He has a reputation for knowing "all the dirty bits in the bible off by heart," according to Nigel Barton's narration. The quote is from Ezekiel, chapter 23, verses 1-3.

 * Miss Tillings: Stand up, Nigel Barton! Well, Nigel, do you know anything about this? I can't believe it was you! Nigel Barton: No, Miss! Miss Tillings: Then what do you know about it? Nigel Barton: I think - I think I might have had the daffodil, Miss— Miss Tillings: You might have had it? What do you mean, boy? Speak up! Nigel Barton: The stem was all broke and somebody gave it to me, Miss. Miss Tillings: Who gave it to you? Nigel Barton: Ooh, I don't like to say, Miss. Miss Tillings: You better had, Barton, and quick about it. Nigel Barton: Georgie Pringle, Miss.
 * Barton incriminates Pringle, who has bullied him, in the crime of destroying the class's daffodil; the daffodil was actually destroyed by Barton himself.

 * Nigel Barton (On TV): I feel I don't belong here, that's my trouble. Interviewer (on TV): Well, where do you belong? At home? Harry Barton: Of course! Nigel Barton (on TV): No, I'm afraid I don't. Now it hurts to say this, of course, but it's the truth. Back at home, in the village, in the workingmen's club, with people I went to school with, I'm so much on the defensive, you see. They suspect me of making qualitative judgments about their environment, you understand, but it's not that I wish to do so. Yet I even find my own father looking at me oddly some times, waiting to pounce on some remark, some expression in my face, watching me like a hawk. I don't feel at home in either place. I don't belong. It's a tightrope between two different worlds, and I'm walking it. Harry Barton: You're a bloody liar, Nigel!

Vote, vote, vote for Nigel Barton (1965)

 * Jack: (to camera) My office! (indicates mess) I'm sorry about all this, but we in the Labour Party link drabness with idealism, see. I'm a paid agent of the party, but whenever I need to know anything I have to ring up Conservative Central Office. It's a very plush place, that - carpets plucking at your bleeding ankles. You see, they link drabness with idealism, too.

 * Nigel: I don't regard clever as a dirty word. Jack: Rule one, it's never clever to appear to be clever. Long words actually hurt people, you know that? Rule two, speak slowly and clearly as though to a group of malignant kids. Rule three, keep it short. Very short. Half-truths take less time than whole ones, old mate. Oh and I see you've let your locks sprout a bit. Get 'em cut, there's a good chap. Rolling stones gather no votes.

 * Jack: You'll have to compromise, smile, concern yourself with your public image, measure your words as carefully as possible... and turn yourself into a dutiful party hack! [chuckles] Never mind, Nigel, never mind.
 * Jack Hay was based on Ron Brewer, who had been Potter's agent when he was Labour candidate for East Hertfordshire in the 1964 general election.

 * Jack: A potential Cabinet Minister if ever I saw one. Dishonest in a way which seems embarrassingly frank. Upright when creeping. And dignified when at his most stupid.

Nigel: And? Jack: Well, I've been laughing ever since, haven't I? Put a few smiles between yourself and the world, Nigel. You don't bruise so easy that way.
 * Nigel: Why the cheap jokes? Jack: Cheap? When I was a kid, we were made to stay away from school on Empire Days so we wouldn't have to wave one of those little Union Jacks. We were the richest country in the world then, or so I'm told, and my old man bow-legged from malnutrition. Us kids nearly died laughing.

 * Jack: I once had a candidate who was deeply concerned about the moral issues raised by myxomatosis. 'Look mate,' I said, 'Rabbits, as far as I'm aware, haven't yet had the vote.' Mind you, I'm an animal lover, too, you know. I've always advocated that the party that introduced family allowances for dogs would sweep the country. And it'll come, it'll come.

Casanova (1971)

 * From an interview conducted by Philip Oakes published as "Potter's Path", The Sunday Times (7 November 1971), p. 38

The libertine is the last possible hero. Traditional heroes are too derisory for words; but the libertine as hero persists. Malice and envy lap their gentle bile around him, but he is the last hero. Of course, I read his memoirs, and I simply don't believe them. They're vain and egotistical, but they are about a man who is hunted by what he is hunting—and that is freedom, expressed in sexual terms.
 * To me [...] the term "costume drama" means something totally pickled. It doesn't interest me in the slightest. What first seized my imagination was the myth of Casanova. Everyone's heard of it. But what does it mean? You hear about the office Casanova, the small-town Casanova, the shop-floor Casanova. He was what we describe as a libertine; but he was concerned with religion and sexual freedom, and these are things we have to address ourselves in now.
 * "Potter's Path", The Sunday Times (7 November 1971), p. 38

The Singing Detective (1986)

 * Philip Marlow: Minute by minute we make the world. We make our own world.

 * Philip Marlow: You're the girl in all those songs. De-dum. Nurse Mills: What songs? Philip Marlow: The songs, the songs, the bloody, bloody songs. Nurse Mills: I wish I knew what you were talking about. Philip Marlow: The songs you hear coming up the stair. Nurse Mills: Sorry? Philip Marlow: When you're a child, when you're supposed to be asleep. Those songs.

Blackeyes (1989)

 * Jenny Diski "Made for TV", London Review of Books, 17:24 (14 December 1995)

 * Stephen Gilbert and John Cook (along with just about everyone else) would agree that Potter reached his reflexive nadir with Blackeyes, in which the story of the eponymous model based on the central character, Jessica, is related as a novel authored by Jessica's uncle, but rewritten by Jessica, both of whom, in the third episode, turn out to have been authored by a journalist called Jeff, who turns out himself, in the final scene, to have been the invented creature of a writer who is none other than 'Dennis Potter'.
 * The books reviewed in the article are W. Stephen Gilbert Fight & Kick & Bite: The Life and Work of Dennis Potter (Hodder, later reissued by the Overlook Press as The Life and Work...) and John Cook Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen  (Manchester University Press)

About Dennis Potter

 * Potter was in hospital for three months last summer and he has been into hospital seven times in the last 10 years. He doesn't like to talk about his illness, just as he doesn't like to talk about how really well he gets along with the BBC. "I think it is a remarkable organisation," he says, "but I don't think this should be said too often in public." Potter also loves the idea of Mrs [Mary] Whitehouse. He sees her as standing up for all the people with ducks on the walls who have been laughed at and treated like rubbish by the sophisticated metropolitan minority. He likes Mr Ross McWhirter too. "The worst thing you can say in England is 'I'll get the law on you,' and here comes the man and he does it."
 * Interview with Stanley Reynolds in The Guardian (16 February 1973) p. 10

 * His characters are stretched out, beyond naturalism. People question the parts he wrote for women, but they were idealised rather than misogynistic. His strength was that he was able to pick out human characteristics and stretch them to make intellectual points.
 * Cheryl Campbell, from tributes in The Guardian (8 June 1994) g2, p. 4 (no pagination)

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Reba (TV series)

Reba is an American sitcom starring Reba McEntire which ran from 2001 to 2007 about a woman whose life is thrown upside down when she finds out her husband of 20 years has decided to divorce her after getting his dental hygienist, - who's half her age - pregnant. Her life is thrown in a further whirlwind when her 17-year-old daughter also falls pregnant by her high school boyfriend. The show aired on The WB for the first five years and the final season aired on the CW network.

Opening theme

 * My roots are planted in the past And though my life is changing fast Who I am is who I wanna be A single mom who works two jobs Who loves her kids and never stops With gentle hands and a heart of a fighter I'm a survivor

Pilot [1.01]

 * Dr. Peters: Okay, why don't we begin with the custody arrangements?
 * Cheyenne: Oh, I wanna live with Dad.
 * Jake: I wanna stay with Mom.
 * Kyra: Is boot camp an option?

 * Kyra: Barbra Jean's pregnant?!
 * Jake: I thought Cheyenne was pregnant!
 * Cheyenne: Shut up, Jake!
 * Kyra: Back off. He's just a stupid kid.
 * Jake: I'm not stupid. She left the pregnancy test in the trash can.

 * Reba: Why is it we're the only family in Texas without a gun?

 * Kyra: So when Daddy marries Barbra Jean, what am I supposed to call her anyway?
 * Reba: You're not supposed to call her anything, when you see her at the Wal-Mart, just point to her and say, "There she is. The woman who stole my daddy."

 * Brock: Reba, I have to marry her!
 * Reba: Have to? The only reason you'd have to marry her is-- Oh my God!
 * Cheyenne: Dad! How could you!?

 * Kyra: Don't worry, Mom, I know all about birth control.
 * Reba: Oh, really? And what age is it appropriate for a young lady to become sexually active?
 * Kyra: 40.
 * Reba: Have I mentioned you're my favorite?

 * Barbra Jean: There she is, the mother of the bride.
 * Reba: (crying) You were only supposed to bring the ice.

 * Reba: Momma's got a dark side

 * Cheyenne: Getting married is so much fun! We should have done this in our junior year!
 * Reba: No, honey you were smart to wait.

The Honeymoon’s Over Or Now What [1.02]

 * Barbra Jean: God created women to carry babies and men to carry footballs.
 * (Everyone turns and looks at Brock)
 * Dr. Susan Peters: You are just precious.

 * Reba: My parents gave this pillow to Brock and me for our third aniversary.
 * Kyra: Well, we know it's not a magic pillow.

 * Cheyenne: I need to wear something that says: "Mrs. Montgomery."
 * Kyra: How about a t-shirt that says: "I'm with Stupid?"

 * Reba: Nothing says eternal love like the pooka.

 * Reba [to Cheyenne]: So how are you doing in here?
 * Cheyenne: Good, Van fell between the beds, once when we weren't even doing anything!
 * Reba: I really gotta stop asking questions...

 * Van: It doesn't matter where we sleep just as long as I'm with my wife.
 * Cheyenne: My husband.
 * Kyra: My lunch.

 * Reba [to Brock]: When you knocked up your hygienist, you lost the right to touch my muffins!

Someone’s At the Gyno With Reba [1.03]

 * (Jake is playing with a uterus model at the gynecologist's office)
 * Brock: Jake, put that down. The uterus is not a toy.

 * (After Cheyenne didn't say anything about how Van decorated the room)
 * Kyra: Well, that sucked!
 * Reba: Tell me about it!

 * Cheyenne: (as she opens the fridge, which is full of food) There is like nothing in here!

 * Cheyenne: Do you think Dad would care about what kind of bedspread is on the bed?!
 * Reba: It's obvious that your father doesn't care about what's on his bed!

You Make Me Sick [1.04]

 * Van [to Cheyenne]: I want you to stop vomiting.
 * Cheyenne: If I could control it I'd do it on you right now.

 * Van: Coach said B.J. was only sick for one day and do you know why that is?
 * Cheyenne: I don't know, something to do with Jesus?

 * Reba: There's no teenage orgy on our lawn. There's a couple frisky squirrels but I just tell Jake they're dancing.

 * Jake: Mom, singing's lame.

The Steaks Are High [1.05]

 * Reba (looks at her watch): It's 5:00 AM, somebody better whack me with a mallet.

 * Van: See...Mrs. H, I'm "Player of the Week."
 * Reba: So I heard...Ungawa

 * Reba (after agreeing to Van's plea that she host the team's steak dinner): Boy he sure makes it hard to say no.
 * Cheyenne (smiling suggestively): Tell me about it.

 * Kyra: Mom, you hold them down and I'll whack them with the mallet!
 * Cheyenne: It's Marci & Luanne. They're on the drill team.
 * Kyra: Mom, you hold them down and I'll whack them with the mallet!

The Man and the Moon [1.06]

 * Brock: Why is your blouse all wet?
 * Reba: I entered a wet blouse contest.

 * Cheyenne: What if the baby logs on one day and sees this?
 * Reba: Don't worry. By the time the baby is old enough to log on, there will be a whole new crop of butts out there.

Tea and Antipathy [1.07]

 * Cheyenne: Mom, you rolled Van's socks into a ball.
 * Reba: What am I supposed to do with them? Make puppets?
 * Cheyenne: He likes them folded, otherwise they droop.
 * Reba: Things droop, Cheyenne. You'll learn that in life.

 * Reba: Van's mom never sits at the table. She might accidentally eat something.

 * Reba: [to Cheyenne] I have an idea, why don't you go shopping and pick up your husband's special milk?
 * Cheyenne: [laughing] I'm a married woman now. I don't have time to go grocery shopping.

Don't Know Much About History [1.08]

 * Reba: [to Van] Let me help you study.
 * Van: It won't help, Mrs. H.
 * Reba: Let's give it a try. Let me see that. Well, I can see the trouble started early. You spelled your name wrong.
 * Van: Shoot! I knew that one!

 * Reba: Life doesn't always turn out the way you thought it would. I always thought I'd be a singer.

 * Brock: Who fought the War of 1812?
 * Van: Soldiers.
 * Brock: Which soldiers?
 * Van: I have to know their names!?
 * Cheyenne: No, which country?
 * Van: Oh! I have no idea.

Every Picture Tells a Story [1.09]

 * Reba: Kyra, Cheyenne just felt the baby move.
 * Kyra: It's probably just gas.
 * Cheyenne: I don't get gas.
 * Kyra: We shared a room.

 * Reba: Lori Ann Garner!
 * Lori Ann: Reba Las Vegas!

 * Lori Ann: [to Reba] Catch me up. How's the divorce going?
 * Reba: Well, right now we're at the "dissolution of property" stage.
 * Lori Ann: Two words of advice: kill him. I took Robert for everything he had.
 * Reba: And he deserved it, sleeping with your housekeeper.
 * Lori Ann: No, That was John, husband number two. I kinda miss him and so does my housekeeper.

 * Van: [to Cheyenne] I told you I'm not going maternity shopping again. Those women look at me like they know what I did.
 * Cheyenne: But I need clothes that make it clear I'm pregnant, not fat.

When Good Credit Goes Bad [1.10]

 * Reba: Brock, you can't have two wives at the same time. They even made a law about it!

 * Brock: See, my lawyer told me about this form that you can sign, saying that I can get married before our divorce is actually final.
 * Reba: You want me to sign a permission slip for bigamy?

 * Brock: [to Reba] I know that Barbra Jean asking you to be the maid of honor was a little much, but we do need someone to sing.
 * Reba: I don't think you'd like the song I'd pick.

Meet the Parents [1.11]

 * Van: It's a heart keychain?
 * Cheyenne: It's because you hold the key to my heart.

 * Reba: [to Brock] If you don't come over, my parents are going to think there's something wrong with this family!
 * Kyra: Hello?

A Mid-Semester's Night Dream [1.12]

 * Mrs. Hodge: The policy of this school has always been that sex doesn't exist.
 * Reba: How's that working for you?

 * Brock: Reba, how could you start working without consulting me?!
 * Reba: Excuse me, aren't we getting a divorce?
 * Brock: I just don't like the idea about turning Kyra and Jake into latchkey kids.
 * Reba: [to Kyra] I smell your influence here.
 * Kyra: It was latchkey that gave it away, wasn't it?

Brock's Swan Song [1.13]

 * Reba: Where is John D now?
 * Brock: Oh, I don't know, Reba. I'm not a religious man.

 * Barbara Jean: [to Jake] Do you miss your grandpa?
 * Jake: I don't really remember him.
 * Barbara Jean: That's okay. You'll meet him again someday.
 * Jake: How?
 * Barbara Jean: Well, when you die, you'll go to Heaven and meet other people who have died. Everyone from Adam and Eve to Frank Sinatra!

The Story of a Divorce [1.14]

 * Lori Ann: [to Reba] Here's one. Pilot. Looks great in a uniform. It'll be a chance for you to join the mile high club!
 * Reba: I'm already a member.

 * Lori Ann: Married, dead, gay, gay, gay...
 * Reba: Three of them are gay?
 * Lori Ann: No, just the one, but he came out in a big way.

You May Kick the Bride [1.15]

 * Reba: Brock, I'm the ex-wife. "Ex" as in, "ex"-cuse me, I'm not interested.

 * Jake: [to BJ] You look like a giant marshmallow!

 * Cheyenne [while talking about BJ]: She says the bow is supposed draw attention away from the baby.
 * Reba: I'm sorry, did you say something? I couldn't take my eyes off that bow.

Vanny Dearest [1.16]

 * Sue Montgomery: Vanny!
 * Van: Mommy!
 * Cheyenne: Shoot me.

 * Cheyenne: Look at this. You can actually have a baby underwater.
 * Van: I hear whales do that.
 * Cheyenne: Was that a slam?

He's Having a Baby [1.17]

 * Reba: Where was that man when we were married? What were we? Your practice family?

 * Maya: [to Van] Didn't you have a different Mommy last time?
 * Reba: His Mommy has a paper due. I'm his Mommy's Mommy.

Labor of Love [1.19]

 * Brock: [to Reba] Dear Lord, we have to get to the hospital before she names that baby Jesus.

 * Barbra Jean: I think my water broke.
 * Reba: Oh, no! You're sitting on my purse!

The King and I [1.20]

 * Reba: So the priest left during confession?
 * Lori Ann: All I said was that he had nice eyes!
 * Reba: You are a desperate, desperate woman.

 * Brock: Look on the bright side. It's prom night and we don't have to worry about our daughter getting pregnant.

Up a Treehouse Without a Paddle [1.21]

 * Reba: You do know that you conceived this child when Brock and I were still married.
 * Barbra Jean: I don't mind.

 * Cheyenne: I wore two different shoes to school today because I can't see my feet. [everyone laughs]
 * Reba: Okay, that's not funny.
 * Kyra: Not as funny as watching her get out of a chair. [everyone starts laughing again]

 * Van [after getting hit in the crotch with a board] Okay, that's only funny if you're expecting it...

It Ain't Over Until The Redhead Sings [1.22]

 * Reba: This is Cheyenne and Van's graduation day!
 * Kyra: This is me gagging on Cheyenne and Van's graduation day!

 * Cheyenne: I'm a mommy.
 * Van: I'm a daddy.
 * Kyra: You two sure catch on fast.

House Rules [2.01]

 * Reba: What kind of a moron can't make toast?

 * Brock: I want you to apologize to Barbra Jean.
 * Reba: Hold on a second. [goes outside and looks up]
 * Brock: What are you doing?
 * Reba: Checking for flying pigs.

Skating Away [2.02]

 * Van: Mrs. H., you have to maintain a "C"- average. Who do you think I am, Albert Weinstein?
 * Reba: Van, I think you mean Albert Einstein.
 * Van: No, I mean Albert Weinstein. He was the smart kid in the senior class. [sarcastically] Wow, Einstein!

 * Reba: [to Kyra] We'll skate, we'll play Candy Land, we'll go down to the river and shoot rats if you want.

Proud Reba [2.03]

 * Reba: Well, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to get a job. [everyone laughs; Reba has a serious look on her face]
 * Cheyenne: Oh, you were serious?

Reba Works for Brock [2.04]

 * Kyra: Mom, what's with the smiley face sticker?
 * Reba: Don't ask.

 * Brock: You know, Barbara Jean wants this to work out more than anyone. She considers you a friend.
 * Reba: Why?! Why does she like me so much!
 * Brock: Everyone likes you, Reba. That's your curse.

 * Reba: Look, Brock, I'm just trying to do my job. So, your 3:00 teeth cleaning is waiting on you, at 4:00, you got a root canal and at 7:00, you should have sex with your wife. Coffee?
 * Brock: D-did you just say what I think you said??
 * Reba: Well, I must have, my whole mouth just went numb!

It's Jake's Party, Cry if You Want to [2.05]

 * Kyra: I thought you said Barbra Jean is where brain cells go when they die.

 * Reba [to Cheyenne] Hey. I brought you a corner piece.
 * Cheyenne: I don't feel like eating cake right now.
 * Reba: [sits down next to Cheyenne] But you always like a corner piece. I remember when you were little...
 * Cheyenne: My baby is crying, Mom. [A tear falls down her cheek]
 * Reba: Oh, I thought that was Van.

 * Reba: Cheyenne, I know this is tough.
 * Cheyenne: Really you do??
 * Reba: Yeah, sweetie. I do. I remember sitting outside your door fretting the same way, but I knew in my heart it was the best thing for you.
 * Cheyenne: Well, it doesn't feel right in my heart. You know all these things that are supposed to be the right things to do, in the morning when I leave her to go to school, when I come home and she's already in bed, and when I have to study French Philosophy instead of playing peek-a-boo with her, well, they just don't feel right, Mom. Not to me.

Safe Dating [2.06]

 * Van: What's up with the teenager?
 * Reba: I don't know, she's been awful moody lately. I can't figure out why.
 * Van: Thirteen-year-old girl, could be anything. School, friends, stock market.

 * Greg: Greg Hewitt, Dylan's father.
 * Reba: Reba Hart, Kyra's nightmare.

 * Kyra: [to Reba about Dylan] I don't like him anymore. He's a huge crybaby. At first I thought he was sensitive, but he's a huge crybaby. He cries at the drop of a hat. I mean literally he dropped his hat  and  burst into tears.

Mommy Nearest [2.07]

 * Reba: Barbra Jean, get out of my house.

 * Reba: I bet he cried! Did he cry like a little school girl?
 * Barbra Jean: More like whimpers really. [makes whimpering sounds]

Switch [2.08]

 * Brock: [about Reba dating again] Actually, I think you should do it.
 * Reba and Lori Ann: What!?
 * Brock: Yeah, it's been long enough. You deserve to be happy.
 * Reba: So, you two agree that I should go out?
 * Brock and Lori Ann: Yeah.
 * Reba: Well, if you two agree on something, then maybe I should do it!

 * Kyra: [about babysitting Jake] It's not fair! Why can't you babysit Jake?! I mean, you're married with a kid. I still have a life!
 * Cheyenne: What is the big deal? I used to babysit you all the time!
 * Kyra: Yeah, right! You used to stick me in my room while you sat on the couch making out with your boyfriend!
 * Cheyenne: [smiles] Oh, right!

Ring-a-Ding [2.09]

 * Kyra: Hurry up and open the door. I want to meet my new daddy.

 * Reba: I don't think people should ring-a-ding to see if they fall in love. I think people should ring-a-ding because they're already in love.

 * Brock: Kyra, we are not leaving!
 * Kyra: Why don't you just give me the room key and I'll go watch the moving picture box.

 * Cheyenne: Mom, you can relax. You have a great body.
 * Reba: Oh, well, this is an awkward mother-daughter moment.

 * Cheyenne [to Reba] Mom, don't worry. I'm sure he thinks you look great naked.
 * Reba: I think your father is ready to go! [starts pushing Cheyenne through the door]
 * Cheyenne: What are you so freaked out about? We can talk about stuff like his.
 * Reba: Cheyenne, stop! This is none of your business. You are my child, not my girlfriend. I appreciate your interest and that you think Brian has a "hot" body, but this isn't something I'm comfortable talking to you about.
 * Cheyenne: Mom, I may be your daughter, but I am also a married woman. I think this is great as long as you two are being careful. You are being careful, right?
 * Reba: Cheyenne! Yes! Very careful! 100% fool-proof careful!
 * Cheyenne: Oh. I just thought...
 * Reba: No!
 * Cheyenne: Not even a little bit?
 * Reba: I don't fully understand that question, but no.

Cookies for Santa [2.10]

 * Reba: [to Brock] I didn't buy a bike, you butt!

 * Barbra Jean: What can I do?
 * Reba: Well, you can stand out on the front porch and monitor the weather.

A Moment in Time [2.11]

 * Reba: Don't worry about Kyra. She's at that age where she doesn't want to be part of the family anymore. You hit that age at about 40, right, Brock?

 * Brock: Reba, you're making a big mistake.
 * Reba: Said the man who married Barbra Jean.

 * Barbra Jean: Wow. The last time I was video-taped in a bedroom, I didn't know about it.

The Rings [2.12]

 * Reba: You gave Cheyenne a beautiful ring.
 * Van: Even better. I gave her a love for inexpensive jewelry!

 * Barbra Jean: Brock got me this engagement ring. I think some old lady died and it's an antiquity.
 * Reba: Barbara jean that's my engagement ring!

 * Kyra: Wearing an engagement ring from a ruined marriage? That's like wearing the clothes of a dead person.

The Vasectomy [2.13]

 * Reba: Which is why you are going to find a 30-page essay named "Teenagers having babies is stupid, stupid, stupid."

 * Kyra: It's a shame that speedy isn't going to greet you at the door anymore.

 * Reba: [opens the door] Barbra Jean? Have you been standing here?
 * Barbra Jean: Yes! For 30 minutes.
 * Reba: Okay. [closes the door]

Location, Location, Location [2.23]

 * Reba: I crushed her dream of going to England, then I threw up a cookie.

 * Reba: Kyra! It's not funny that you're going to England. It's exciting! And all that because you are a good student and you like drinking tea.

 * Reba: [to Cheyenne] Do you know what I'm doing? I'm making macaroni and cheese. Do you know why I'm making macaroni and cheese? Because it's Kyra's favorite, and somehow I have to tell her that she doesn't get to go on a trip that she wants and deserves to go on because I have to bail you out again. And I have to do that with macaroni and cheese!

 * Cheyenne: Mom, I promise I'll take all the courses that I dropped.
 * Reba: Why don't you find a course that gets your head out of your butt?
 * Van: I don't think they have one or else my counselor would've told me about it.

Your Place or Mine? [2.24]

 * Reba: I'm looking for my gun. Did you know that you can see Barbra Jean's house from here?

 * Reba: You know, Barbra Jean, you don't have to lean through my window. You can get completely off my property.

 * Reba: So that's why you bought a four-bedroom house! So Kyra could move in!
 * Brock: No! We needed a room for Henry.
 * Barbra Jean: And I'm thinking of turning the spare bedroom into a library!
 * Reba: Well, that'll be one lonely book!

Sister Act [3.16]

 * Reba: Did that seem weird to you?
 * Barbra Jean: Yeah, why?
 * Reba: Because Kyra faked being sick. She's never faked being sick before! She's faked being well cause she wants to go to school!
 * Barbra Jean: Wow, I am so easily fooled. I wonder if those kids are really blind. You know, I think some of them are just lazy.

 * Barbara Jean: It's always the bullies, or the jocks, or preps. The nerds aren't all that friendly, either!
 * Reba (to Kyra, ignoring Barbra Jean): How long has this been going on?
 * Barbra Jean: My whole life!

 * Reba: Kyra, why would you hit someone?
 * Cheyenne: It's how she shows affection!
 * Kyra: Yeah, that's right. Why don't come over here for a hug?

 * Brock: Kyra, when things get tough, you have to stick with them. (Reba gives him a look) WELL, AT LEAST I DIDN'T HIT ANYONE!

 * Reba: Kyra! What did this girl do to make you snap?
 * Kyra: SHE CALLED CHEYENNE A SLUT! She called Cheyenne a slut, so I punched her, okay?
 * Cheyenne: Oh my gosh. My psycho sister loves me!

 * Barbra Jean: Kyra, there are two ways you can deal with bullies: You can either hide in a bush till they forget about you, or you can buy them presents. Oh, that reminds me, Reba, I picked you up something nice at the mall.

 * Barbra Jean: No, you can't talk to her teacher! Otherwise, you'll be smashed into a locker with chalk up your nose and duct tape in your hair!
 * Brock: Oh honey, I'm sorry. I wish I could've been there to protect you.
 * Reba: Except you were 34.

 * Cheyenne: So she didn't call me a slut?
 * Kyra: No, she called you a slut, a loser, and a teenage baby-machine.
 * Cheyenne: You could have just said yes!

 * Cheyenne: It takes one to know one, except I'm not one, but if I was one, then she would have to be one too.

 * Kyra: (about going shopping with Cheyenne) Mom, I have something to confess, and if you ever tell anyone, I'll deny it and I'll never tell you anything again.
 * Reba: What?
 * Kyra: I actually had a good time with her! (covers her mouth in surprise)

 * Cheyenne: So what did you like most about talking to me?
 * Kyra: All the words you mispronounced.

 * Kyra (to Cheyenne): All the times you weren't hugging me. I actually liked talking to you. (Cheyenne goes forward to hug Kyra) All the times you WEREN'T hugging me!

Hello, My Name is Cheyenne [4.22]

 * Cheyenne: Mom, Dad... I have great news... I'm an alcoholic!
 * (Everyone stares at her)
 * Van: I'm having a beer.

 * Brock: What's wrong, Van? Are you on the wagon?
 * Van: Yes! And they shouldn't call it a wagon because wagons are fun!

 * Cheyenne: You probably think this sounds really weird.
 * Reba: No, baby, I don't.....I think it sounds like A DRINKING PROBLEM!
 * Cheyenne: But I don't WANT a drinking problem!
 * Reba: I don't want Barbra Jean living down the street from me either, but crapstorms happen!
 * Cheyenne (thinks): What am I gonna do?
 * Reba: The first thing you are gonna do is put the drink down..(points to the counter; Cheyenne sets down her drink)
 * Reba (walks to Cheyenne): Here's the second thing. (hugs her)
 * Cheyenne: I'm scared Mom, I really am.
 * Reba: I know, baby.

Where There's Smoke [5.01]

 * Cheyenne: I do not think smoking is that bad for you... I think tobacco is a vegetable.

 * Van [to Cheyenne]: Hey, can I have one of those vitamins? Give me a Wilma and a Dino. No, I had a Dino yesterday, make it a Barney.
 * Cheyenne: No. Van those vitamins aren't for you.
 * Van: What'd you mean they're not for....are these chick vitamins? Will I grow boobs?
 * Cheyenne: No. Ok, I'm going to tell you something but you cannot repeat it. They're called Disulfiram.
 * Van: You're right, I can't repeat that.

Cheyenne's Rival [6.10]

 * Bridget: What about all the mean stuff you wrote about me on the bathroom walls. Like Bridget's missing a digit! What does that even mean?!
 * Cheyenne: Well, I don't know...but it was pretty funny in high school.

 * Reba: (about Bridget) Cheyenne, you've got to let this high school stuff go! We're talking about your home, not who should've been homecoming queen!
 * Cheyenne: ME!!! I WAS ROBBED!!!

She's With the Band [6.11]

 * Reba [to Kyra]: Well, here's how a lot of artist's parents feel. You're goin' to college, and that's that!
 * Kyra: You can't make me. I'm 18.

 * Reba: It is vital that we show a united front we have got to show her that we are all of one mind.
 * Barbra Jean: (when Kyra walks in) Kyra, it's a trap! Follow your dreams! Run, be free!

The Kids Are Alright [6.13]

 * Van: Man, my shirt stinks.
 * Kyra: The washer's broken, do you have your magic butter knife?
 * Van: (sarcastically) Oh, Ha ha ha!
 * Kyra: Once again you've won an argument with your wit.

 * Barbra Jean: Can you believe it Reba? Six years ago this family was falling apart and then I came in and put everything back together.
 * Brock: Barbra Jean, that's not exactly the way I'd put it.
 * Reba: Hang on Brock, Barbra Jean's right, we got through it all, because we're survivors. [last lines in the series]

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Woody Hayes

Wayne Woodrow Hayes (February 14, 1913 – March 12, 1987) was football coach at Ohio State University from 1951-1979

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 * There are three things that can happen when you throw a pass, and two of them are bad.
 * This quote is often attributed to Hayes, but some contend General Robert Neyland of the University of Tennessee or Darrell Royal of the University of Texas was the source. Darrell Royal gives the credit to Woody Hayes as being the source of the quote.

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Talk:Pompey

I love that quote
The "Navigare..." quote is more often related to an order to a ship captain, commanding a ship destinated for Rome loaded with grain, who refused to set to sea in storm, when Rome was starving. I have no facts supporting this theory, but I think Rome never has been under the threat of a Naval invasion, as it is and always have been a city far from the shore =) —This unsigned comment is by 2.69.131.160 (talk • contribs) 09:45, 23 December 2013.
 * Yes, that's basically it; it's another version of "the needs of the many [the starving citizens] outweigh the needs of the few [the sailors who don't want to leave port in a storm]." Here are a couple of sources. 98.207.79.51 05:14, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

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Sandy Koufax

Sandy Koufax (born Sanford Braun on 30 December 1935) is an American left-handed former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, from 1955 to 1966.

Quotes

 * What do I strive for? Well, I go out there with the idea of shooting for a no-hit game. When the first hit is made off me, I then try to keep them or any runs scored down to a minimum. The main idea is to win. As to strikeouts, yes. I am proud of my records. I'm not out there trying to blow down every hitter. There are too many smart ones in the league. I want to get them out first, strike them out if I can.
 * As quoted in "Sidelight on Sports: For Lack of an Offer" by Al Abrams, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (June 6, 1962)

 * The biggest thrill is the game where you give up one or two or three runs when you don't have anything, when you have no right even being out there, no reason to be out there. Those games are the difference between having a .500 year and a really great year. You figure, if you go out there 30 times, 15 times you're going to have great stuff and 15 times you're going to have mediocre stuff. If you can win a fair percentage of the games when you're mediocre, you're going to have a good year.
 * As quoted in "Koufax on Koufax" Sports Illustrated (December 20, 1965)

 * Well, I already have a fork ball, but it's not really another pitch. I use it instead of a change of pace. If I have a good fast ball and a good curve ball I hesitate to use anything else. But if they're not getting me by, I try to use anything I can, including the fork ball. [...] I don't know if I can throw any other pitches. I used to try the slider once in a while, and some other pitches, but since I had this little problem with my elbow it seems like only my old standby pitches don't bother me. All the new stuff, like the slider or the others I used to try, it seems like they all hurt my arm.
 * As quoted in "Koufax on Koufax"

 * You know what happens? Somebody writes a story 10 years ago and it never changes. If the guy 10 years ago was wrong, the stories are gonna be wrong for 20 years afterward. [...] They used to annoy me a lot more, but now I've begun to feel they're going to be written, there's nothing I can do about it and I'm not going to worry about it. Sometimes things don't come out the way you say them. You run into one of those reporters who's more interested in the dictionary and the very good usage of the English language, and he thinks that when says cool it means cold. But you can't let it annoy you.
 * As quoted in "Koufax on Koufax"

 * At times it's a satisfaction and at times it's a little bit of an intrusion. You don't mind the kids. But sometimes their parents get to be...well, not bad about it, but they become demanding. The kids will ask, but the parents will demand sometimes. As long as somebody asks, I don't mind at all. But the ones who demand are tough on me. I've got so many bosses already I don't know if I can stand one or two more.
 * On autograph seekers, as quoted in "Koufax on Koufax"

 * People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
 * As quoted in "Sandy Began Slowly and Then Got Worse; At Tired Arm Stage" by Charles Maher, in The Los Angeles Times (April 14, 1966)

 * I'll never know. I've never been in a fight. But I doubt whether pitching speed would have any significance. You can't go into a windup in the ring.
 * As quoted in "Stuart's Problem; Suppose Sandy Had Become a Boxer" by Sid Ziff, in The Los Angeles Times (July 7, 1966)

 * I know I was faster 10 years ago. I think Jim Maloney, Bob Veale, Bob Gibson and perhaps one or two others throw faster. In my best days I don't think I threw faster than Ryne Duren. He was the fastest I ever saw.
 * As quoted in "Stuart's Problem; Suppose Sandy Had Become a Boxer"

 * There were now men on first and second. The batter was Henry Aaron. I walked him on four straight balls, which was probably the smartest thing I did all year. There have been many times since when I wished I had been wild enough to walk Henry Aaron. I'm usually backing up third as I am wishing it.
 * In Koufax (1966) by Koufax with Ed Linn, pp. 96-97

 * It was probably the worst thing that could have happened to me, getting my first out by striking out a big hitter. Because that became my pattern for five years, trying to get out of trouble by throwing harder and harder and harder.
 * In Koufax (1966), p. 97

 * But in the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win — if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.
 * In Koufax (1966), p. 133; as quoted in "Koufax writes: 'Sure nice guys can win'" by Ed Rumill, The Christian Science Monitor (August 29, 1966) and Total Baseball : The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball (2001) by John Thorn, p. 2468

 * In 1960 I had made the transition from thrower to pitcher and had not understood that in making the transition I had made a beginning, not an end. you become a pitcher before you become a good pitcher. [...] Nor do I wish to testify under oath that I have not forgotten, do not—and will not—forget from time to time and revert to the wayward ways of my youth. It's usually when I'm tired or mad, but dumbness is not to be completely discounted either. In the 1965 All-Star Game I was terribly wild. I came into the game in the sixth inning and immediately threw seven straight balls. Although I got out of the inning, it was a struggle with every batter. [...] There was not a thing wrong with my arm. My arm was fine. My head was something else again. Knowing that I was only going to pitch an inning or two, I had thought, "Well, hell, I'll just go in and throw as hard as I can." And there I was, right back where I'd been ten years ago, wild high.
 * In Koufax (1966), p. 157

 * Roberto Clemente hit an outside fastball that was still rising when it hit against the light tower in left center field, 450 feet away from home plate. And on a 1-2 pitch at that. But there is no such thing as a good pitch to Clemente. Ask me how to pitch to Clemente, and I will tell you with complete confidence, "How do I know?" Roberto can hit any pitch, anywhere, at any time. He'll hit pitchouts, he'll hit brush-back pitches. He'll hit high, inside pitches deep to the opposite field, which would be ridiculous even if he didn't do it with both feet off the ground.
 * In Koufax (1966), p. 220

 * It is a curious thing that while a home-run hitter is expected to fatten up in the routs, and the pitchers are certainly not supposed to let up, the opposing team becomes furious when a base is stolen after a game is apparently out of reach. Particularly the manager. The theory seems to be that the stolen base is somehow extraneous to the game, that it is an extra effort, a thumbing of the nose. Not on our team it isn't. Stealing bases is Maury's game, and—to a sometimes alarming extent—it was the Dodgers' offense. Maury's game is to get the other team upset, to get them into a frame of mind where they are so eager not to let him show them up that the catcher throws the ball too hastily and the fielder rushes his tag. Result: the hasty throw is off the mark and the infielder neglects to wait for the ball. Maury's game is called Panic!
 * In Koufax (1966), p. 246

 * Maury had been made captain in the first week of spring training, a title which usually entitles its bearer to carry the lineup card to the umpires and draw an extra $500 on his salary. Maury took it seriously, and his leadership had a strong, cohesive effect. [...] Maury has become a dominant figure in our locker room. He has come to believe that there is nothing he cannot do if he sets his mind to it. There is something almost mystical in his belief in himself, especially when you remember that he came to us after nine full years in the minors with all the uncertainties of the fringe player hoping to hold on.
 * In Koufax (1966), p. 246

 * I don't regret one minute of the twelve years I've spent in baseball, but I could regret one season too many. [...] I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with complete use of my body.
 * 1966 press conference announcing retirement, as quoted by UPI, in "Sandy Koufax Announces Retirement from Baseball at News Meeting" by Alex Kahn (UPI), in The Pittsfield Berkshire Eagle (November 19, 1966)

 * I don’t know if cortisone is good for you or not. But to take a shot every other ball game is more than I wanted to do and to walk around with a constant upset stomach because of the pills and to be high half the time during a ball game because you’re taking painkillers … I don’t want to have to do that [...] I don't regret one minute of the last 12 years but I think I would regret the one year that was too many.
 * Excerpts from 1966 press conference, in Baseball: 8th Inning – A Whole New Ballgame (1994) by Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward

 * Mays always told me how hard it was to get a hit off me and every time I looked up, he was on second base. Yet, even with Mays, I had an idea what to do. When I pitched to Clemente and Aaron, I had no idea. They seemed to hit everything.
 * As quoted in "Koufax Still a Champion" by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (May 8, 1967)

 * If I could straighten it out, I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight instead of playing golf.
 * After being admonished to "get that left arm all the way round [and] straighten it out" by La Costa Resort's golf pro; as quoted in "How Red the Rose" by John Hall, in "The Los Angeles Times" (May 15, 1968)

 * The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts — outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.
 * As quoted by Jack Orr (former  sportswriter who had since become managing editor at Billboard), in My Greatest Day in Baseball (1968) by John P. Carmichael, and Baseball's Greatest Quotations : An Illustrated Treasury (2008) by Paul Dickson, p. 302

 * Last year wasn't Seaver's kind of year, but he's still an impressive pitcher, still strong. Like McLain, Marichal and Gibson, he has the good stuff and control. I mean he can make an excellent fastball or curve and throw it in good spots. A guy who throws what he intends to throw—that's the definition of a good pitcher.
 * As quoted in "Gibson, Marichal Top Koufax's Dream Team; Koufax Picks 11" by Bob Oates, Los Angeles Times (March 31, 1971), Pt. III, pp. 1, 6

 * Pitching is the art of instilling fear, making the man flinch by making him look for the wrong pitch. You're trying to control his instincts. But if your control is suspect like Ryan's is, and the thought of being hit is in the batter's mind, you'll go a long way.
 * As quoted in "Baseball's Exorcist Striking Out to New Horizons; Batter's Fear Helps Ryan Blaze Lay [sic] to Major League Record" by Jackie Lapin, in The Washington Post (September 1, 1974)

 * I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
 * As quote in "Quote... : Father knows best; Soviet hindsight; Life in the NBA: Koufax strategy," The Christian Science Monitor (June 24, 1976), p. 11

 * The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.
 * As quoted in "Koufax: Hall of Famer Back in Baseball After Years of 'Wandering'" by Thomas Boswell, in The Washington Post (March 21, 1979)

 * Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.
 * As quoted in "One Hard Way to Make a Living" by Roger Angell, in The New Yorker (May 4, 1981), p. 96; reprinted in Late Innings (1982) by Roger Angell, p. 358

 * You've got to be lucky to pitch a no-hitter, and if you have good stuff, it's easier to be lucky.
 * Speaking on July 1, 1990, at Chavez Ravine, in reference to a no-hitter thrown there just two days before by the Dodgers' (and, coincidentally, just hours before the Yankees'  would, thanks to three 8th-inning Bomber miscues, famously record a 4-0, complete-game loss to Chicago, despite giving up no hits ); as quoted in "Notes on a Scorecard" by Allan Malamud, in The Los Angeles Times (July 2, 1990)

 * I was known for my fastball and curve and did well with just those two pitches, but people don't know that I tried to add a third pitch, any third pitch. For a long time, I tried to learn the changeup. The Dodgers taught the changeup in a certain way - it was the Dodgers' changeup - and I tried to learn it for ten years but never got the hang of it. I never liked my changeup, and I never wanted to throw it. One day, I was playing catch and started to fool around with the forkball, and it felt more comfortable to me. I said, "Well, I'm gonna try this instead of the changeup." So I started to throw it, but I only used it occasionally in games, because I didn't throw it hard enough.I also threw the slider a couple of times. I threw the slider to Henry Aaron and Roberto Clemente, because I figured if it worked on those two great hitters, then I had something there. So I threw it to Aaron and almost hit him in the face. He reached out to get it, and it came right at him. And I threw it to Clemente. You may remember that in Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, there was a light tower by where they used to park the batting cage. Halfway up. there was a bunch of transformers. Well, Clemente hit it off a transformer. I said, "Well, maybe I don't have a slider," and I gave it up. So, I never came up with a third pitch.
 * Interview on The Tim McCarver Show, talking about on his efforts to find a third pitch; as quoted in Tim McCarver's Diamond Gems (2006), pp. 224-225

Quotes about Koufax

 * Sandy Koufax. Sandy was a special problem for me because he possessed exceptional control, speed and a great curve ball. He was highly disciplined, extremely committed and a very private person. These qualities enabled him to concentrate on his profession without a lot of unnecessary distractions.
 * Ernie Banks, responding to the question, "Who was the toughest pitcher you faced during your career, and why was he a special problem for you?"; as quoted in "Hall of Famers Name Their Toughest Diamond Foes" by William Guilfoile, in The 1991 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Yearbook; reprinted in Baseball Digest (August 1992), p. 28

 * He's the greatest pitcher I ever saw. I can still see that big curveball. It had a great arc on it, and he never bounced it in the dirt. Sandy's curve had a lot more spin than anybody else's -- it spun like a fastball coming out of his hand -- and he had the fastball of a pure strikeout pitcher. It jumped up at the end. The batter would swing half a foot under it. Most of the time we knew what was coming, because he held his hands closer to his head when he threw a curveball, but it didn't matter. Even though he was tipping off his pitches, you still couldn't hit him.
 * Ernie Banks, as quoted in "The Left Arm of God: Sandy Koufax was more than just a perfect pitcher" by Tom Verducci, in Sports Illustrated (July 12, 1999)

 * I'll always remember that first pitch. It was a fastball that looked like it would hit the dirt in front of the plate. Then, all of a sudden, it rose for a knee-high strike. As soon as I saw that fastball, the hair raised up on my arms. The only other time the hair on my arms ever raised up was in Rome when I saw Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
 * Al Campanis, speaking with reporters in January 1979, regarding Koufax's first tryout with the Dodgers, in which Campanis served as a simulated batter, with coach Rube Walker catching; as quoted in "There Are Players, And Stars--and Koufax" by Ray Didinger (Knight-Ridder), in The Chicago Tribune (August 17, 1986); and paraphrased and quoted in "Sandy Koufax and the Sistine Chapel" by Dave Anderson in The New York Times (January 28, 1979)

 * It's no disgrace to get beat by class.
 * Bob Hendley, the losing Chicago Cubs pitcher in Koufax's perfect game, after Koufax sent him a gift to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the game — a 1965 NL baseball signed, "What a game!" plus a small handwritten note: "We had a moment, a night, a career. I hope life has been good to you. Sandy." Hendley himself pitched a one-hitter in the game, allowing one unearned run. American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball, p. 17

 * We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.
 * Whitey Herzog, critiquing the 1973 Texas Rangers prior to being replaced, in season, as Rangers manager by Billy Martin; as quoted in Total Baseball (2001) by John Thorn, p. 2468

 * It sounded like somebody firing a pistol in a canyon . . . pow, pow, pow. That was the sound of the fastball popping Rube's mitt in that empty ballpark. We all came in to watch this kid.
 * Tommy Lasorda, on Koufax's first tryout with the Dodgers, as witnessed by Lasorda and several other Dodger pitchers, who were jogging in the outfield at the time; as quoted in "There Are Players, And Stars--and Koufax" by Ray Didinger (Knight-Ridder), in The Chicago Tribune (August 17, 1986)

 * If there was one game I had to win and I could pick any pitcher in any era, I'd pick Sandy. I'd sit in the bullpen and watch him paint that outside corner with a 95 mile-per-hour fastball and throw curves that looked like they were dropping out of the third deck. I'd think, "I'm gonna relieve this guy? With my stuff?"
 * Ron Perranoski, as quoted in "There Are Players, And Stars--and Koufax" by Ray Didinger (Knight-Ridder), in The Chicago Tribune (August 17, 1986)

 * Getting a hit off Koufax is like trying to eat soup with a fork.
 * Willie Stargell as quoted in "Hit Koufax? Try Eating Soup With a Fork; Stargell Sums Up Defeat" by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (June 26, 1965)

 * Too bad about Koufax's arm. He can't shave. Or brush his hair. All he can do is pitch.
 * Harry Walker, manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, commenting on the Dodgers' 2-1 victory over St. Louis, which had reduced LA's magic number over the Pirates to two; as quoted in "The Press Box—Sad Music for Walker: St. Louis Blues" by Roy McHugh, in The Pittsburgh Press (September 30, 1966)

 * The Dodgers had us back for Jackie Robinson Day, and before the game started, we're up in the press box, and Rachel Robinson is there, and Jackie's son and daughter. The Dodgers were playing the Reds, and Sandy Koufax walks up and says "Jerry, this is amazing. There's not one player on the Dodgers that is African-American." He said that it was sad that we're up there celebrating Jackie Robinson, but not much has changed.
 * Jerry Royster on Koufax commenting about the decrease of African-American players in Major League Baseball back in 2019. Quoted in "Nine Questions with Former Las Vegas Manager Jerry Royster" by Ron Kantowski in MiLB.com (February 23, 2023).

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Lois and Clark (1993-1997) is a live-action television series about the adventures of Superman with a focus on the lives of Lois Lane and Clark Kent.

Pilot (1)

 * Lucy: I just hate to see you sitting at home.
 * Lois: I get out plenty. I have dates.
 * Lucy: You have interviews. It's not the same thing. Lois, I just want you to meet a super guy.

 * Lois: Kent is a hack from Smallville. I couldn't make that name up.
 * Perry: Kent or nobody.
 * Lois: Fine. Don't ever say that I'm not a team player.

 * Clark: [Trying on his Superman costume for the first time] What do you think?
 * Martha: Well, one thing's for sure, nobody's going to be looking at your face.
 * Clark: [Realizing what she means] MOM!
 * Martha: [Laughing] Well, they don't call them "tights" for nothing!

Pilot (2)

 * Superman: Like any other citizen of the planet, I must obey the law. I am not above it. You, it seems, believe you are.
 * Lex Luthor: I hold a certain position in this city.
 * Superman: Yes. And there is nothing that would please me more than to see you dethroned and behind bars like any common criminal. That day will come.
 * Lex Luthor: Well, I trust not. But, as they say, let the games begin.

Strange Visitor

 * Cop: Either the machine is broken again, or this reporter is so mild-mannered, he hasn't got a pulse!

 * Cat: Chief, it is horrible the way they're treating us. See that agent over there? He frisked me . . . twice!

 * Lois: Clark, you can do the horizontal rhumba with the entire Met-Net cheerleading squad for all I care, just keep your hands off my copy.

 * Clark: Look, somehow everybody thinks that we were hanging from the chandeliers wearing black leather the other night.
 * Cat: Ummm. Well, we were interrupted.

 * Lois: You are so weird. Works for you though.

 * Perry: Lois, Lois, what happened?
 * Lois: Before or after we were thrown out of the plane?
 * Perry: Air - airplane?

Neverending Battle

 * Clark: Nine hundred and fifty?
 * Landlord: You want cheap, go back to Iowa.
 * Clark: Kansas.

 * Landlord: Quietest building in Metropolis. You married?
 * Clark: No.
 * Landlord: Girlfriend?
 * Clark: No.
 * Landlord: Boyfriend?

I'm Looking Through You

 * Alan Morris/The Invisible Man: It's very simple, Ms. Lane. I became invisible... to become visible again.

 * Clark Kent: (to Lois) Superman? On TV? I don't think so.

 * Superman: You don't need to bid for my attention, Lois.
 * Lois: You saw me there? I didn't think you noticed. I thought I was just another face in the crowd.
 * Superman: You will always be special to me, Lois.
 * Lois: I will?
 * Superman: You're the first woman who ever . . . interviewed me.

Requiem for a Superhero

 * Lois: Partners?
 * Perry: You and Kent. The experience of the battle-scarred veteran paired with the hunger of the exciting, fresh talent.
 * Lois: I am not that scarred, and he is not that exciting.

I've Got a Crush on You

 * Lois: You rotten back-stabbing piece of slime! You know some people might be fooled by that innocent boyish exterior but not me, not anymore.
 * Clark: Tea, Lois? It's a calming, herbal blend.

 * Lois: You could've said that we were sharing some fleeting moment of passion, but no you couldn't think of that could you!
 * Clark: Well, I'll remember that the next time we're in a closet together.
 * Lois: He's a man. I'm a woman. Do you want me to draw you a diagram?

 * Perry: (To Clark) If you went up there to those windows and told me you could fly, I'd back you up. I'd miss you, but I'd back you up.

Smart Kids

 * Lois: Seems to me if your real parents don't care enough to raise you why give it a second thought?
 * Clark: Because if they gave you away they must have had a reason, and it's that not knowing that kills you.
 * Lois: Good . . . you stick to the touchy feely stuff and I'll concentrate on Superman.

 * Lois: I've seen that pig before.

 * Amy: Of course it's a pig. Haven't you ever seen a pig before? Not very smart is she?

 * Lois: You took advantage of our priviledged interview session to steal highly incriminating evidence from an unsuspecting subject. Oh! I love that! Mmmm!

 * Lois: Three more people are claiming to be the President's brother.
 * Perry: Boy, his father was a busy man.

The Green, Green Glow of Home

 * Lois: (On Clark's father) Betcha he's a crossdresser!

 * Clark: I don't know, Mom. Lois thinks he may be a cross-dresser.
 * Martha: Oh, honey! That's Clark's father. He won't buy 'me' a dress, let alone one for himself.

The Man of Steal Bars

 * Clark: I just wanted to say goodbye.
 * Lois: Goodbye?! We're partners.
 * Clark: You don't need a partner Lois, you never did.
 * Lois: Well, maybe not, but I was starting to like having one.

 * Clark: That's not how you spell 'aquifer'.
 * Lois: Easy Kent, you CAN be replaced . . . I was already starting to look.

 * Lois: Did you really think I hadn't figured out what it with you and Superman?
 * Clark: What do you mean?
 * Lois: You idolize the man.

 * Jonathan: Well, then, where are you gonna go?
 * Clark: I don't know yet. Just away from the people that I love the most.

Pheromone, My Lovely

 * Perry: What do you wanna lead off on, the counter-revolution in Russia?
 * Clark: I believe that's a counter-counter-revolution, chief.
 * Perry: Well, who can keep track these days.

 * Clark: Haven't you ever played hooky before, Lois?

 * [Lois sits at her desk, staring at Clark. Unconsciously, she starts unbuttoning the first two buttons of her blouse. Clark, hunched over his computer, fails to notice. Lois pulls out a compact, puts some lipstick on, then gets up, and very sexily strolls over to Clark's desk, sits on the edge of it, crosses her legs, hiking up her skirt in the process.]
 * Lois: [singsong] Clark. [Clark continues typing into his work processor.]
 * Clark: Just a sec, Lois. I... [Then, Clark sees the leg, looks slowly up to the unbuttoned blouse, the strange, dreamy-eyed expression on Lois's face.]
 * Lois: What'cha working on?
 * Clark: The dock strike. You know, the two sides really aren't that far apart.
 * Lois: [moving closer, huskily] How far apart are they, really?
 * Clark: Lois... are you feeling okay?
 * Lois: Never better. [moving even closer] I just... couldn't help noticing how very... handsome you look today.
 * Clark: Handsome?
 * Lois: Very.
 * Clark: [laughing] Oh. I get it. What do you want? Research? Your VCR fixed? A ride to the airport? A Blind date for your...
 * Lois: No. I don't want anything. Except... you.

 * Clark: Lois! Please! Get a grip!
 * Lois: Believe me, I'd love to!

 * Lois: Did I really do the dance of the seven veils?
 * Clark: All seven of them!

 * Clark: I guess I'm not attracted to you.
 * Lois: Liar, you are so attracted to me!

 * Lois: Lex wasn't quite himself last night.
 * Clark: Well that must have been a welcome change.

 * Jimmy: The name's Olsen, James Olsen.

 * Jimmy: You like what you see, I like what I see, so shall we say cocktails? Tomorrow? Your place?

Honeymoon in Metropolis

 * Clark: There's no such word as chumpy.
 * Lois: Sure there is. Someone's a chump, therefore he's chumpy!
 * Clark: Try again.
 * Lois: Are you challenging me?
 * Clark: You bet your sweet little chumpy I am!

 * Perry: Okay you guys . ..
 * Lois: Guys?
 * Perry: You and Clark.
 * Lois: Did you say Clark?
 * Clark: I heard him say Clark.
 * Jimmy: Definitely Clark.
 * Cat: Definitely.

 * Clark: We flip for the bed.
 * Lois: How about I get the bed, I lend you a pillow?
 * Clark: How about we alternate nights?
 * Lois: How about we don’t.
 * Clark: Well, it’s a big bed, how about we share?
 * Lois: How about we alternate nights?
 * Clark: Deal.

 * Jonathan: Well, uh . . . Clark, is there anything you'd like to tell us?
 * Clark: Not really, things are going pretty smoothly, assuming Lois keeps her end of the bargin and lets me have my turn in the bedroom tonight.

Madame Ex

 * Lois: A lot of people have tried to get me on a couch and after all this time, I don't think I'm going to start with a psychiatrist.

 * Lois: You still think I'm crazy?
 * Clark: I think you're brilliant. But there is a fine line between brilliance and lunacy.

Tempus Fugitive

 * Tempus: Um, Lois, did you know that in the future, you're revered at the same level as Superman? Why, there are books about you, statues, an interactive game. You're even a breakfast cereal.
 * Lois: Really?
 * Tempus: Yes. But as much as everbody loves you, there is one question that keeps coming up: HOW? DUMB? WAS SHE? Here. I'll show you what I mean.
 * [Tempus takes Welles' glasses off his face.]
 * Tempus: Look. [puts on the glasses] I'm Clark Kent. [takes glasses off, deeper voice] No. I'm Superman! [glasses on, soft voice] Mild manner reporter. [glasses off, deep voice] Super hero! [regular voice, mocking] Hello. Duh! Clark Kent is Superman! [laughs] Well, that was worth the whole trip. To actually meet the most galactically stupid woman who ever lived.

 * Clark: Superman is what I can do. Clark is who I am.

 * Tempus: Superman, before I go, I have to ask... Why tights? Why a cape? You're a grown man, don't you feel ridiculous?
 * Superman: [leaning in] My mother made it for me.

Whine, Whine, Whine

 * Lois Lane: He doesn't love you, Elise. You can tell when a man loves you by the way he treats you, by the way he looks at you, by the way...
 * Elise Carr: Look, Ms. Lane, if you've found the perfect man, then I'm happy for you.
 * Lois Lane: No, he's about as far from perfect as you get, but I'll tell you the difference between him and Calvin. I know that he wants my happiness more than his own.

The Dad Who Came in from the Cold
Lois: You won't believe what I got on the mail today - a flyer from the Winky-Tink pre-school. You see, this store where we're registered for wedding gifts sold our names, and now I'm getting bombarded with junk mail.

Clark: Huh. (casually dries a plate with his heat vision)

Lois: (sarcastically) Don't wear yourself out.

Clark: Pre-school? We don't even get married for three more weeks.

Lois: Well, Winky-Tink says now's the time: they've got a five-year waiting list and they require a two hundred dollar deposit.

Clark: Do they also require a child?

Lois: Just money.

Bud Collins: (gasping and close to death) Superman...did anybody tell you you look just like Clark Kent, only..without the...glasses? (dies)

Sweet Tart: (pointing a gun at Lois and Superman) OK, let's hold it right there.

Superman: New in town?

Trevanian: (sips wine and spits it out)

Sweet Tart: (sips wine and spits it out)

Trevanian: Swill!

Sweet Tart: Swill!

Trevanian: (offers wine to Jack Olsen)

Jack Olsen: No, that's all right. I'm sure it's swill.

Lois: Whatever's in here is locked in the computer's memory...and it's in code to boot.

Perry White: Well, you know they have a couple of those data-recovery outfits here in town...

Clark: Uh, Chief, this material's way too sensitive.

Lois: We need somebody we can trust...somebody who knows RAM chips from...

Jimmy Olsen: (with a box in hand) ...Strudel?

Perry White: Ask, and ye shall receive.

Tempus Anyone?
Alternate Clark: Are you always like this?

Lois: Sorry, I-I'm a little high-strung.

Alternate Clark: Lady, you're a Stradivarius.

Alternate Clark: One man can't really make a difference, no matter what kind of powers he has.

Lois: I know things are different here, I know you're different, but trust me, powers or no powers, one man can change any world.

H. G. Wells: The explosive device...

Tempus: One man is ready to lay down his life to save a world...and that man is me.

H. G. Wells: ...it's ticking. It's going to explode.

Tempus: What?!

H. G. Wells: The bomb is going to explode!!

Tempus: It's ticking?

H. G. Wells: Yes!

Tempus: It's gonna blow!

H. G. Wells: I said that!

H. G. Wells: I loathe this sort of behaviour, but you leave one little choice! (stamps on Tempus' foot and hits him on the back of the neck - the bomb starts beeping loudly) Oh, my God!!

H. G. Wells: I must say, my boy, I envy you.

Alternate Superman: Me? Why?

H. G. Wells: With every eye upon you, every breath held in anticipation, you hold in your hands a world waiting to be shaped.

Alternate Superman: I'm just not sure that I can...

H. G. Wells: ...that you can take on such great responsibility? What do you think Shakespeare meant when he wrote, "In apprehension, how like a god?" It's not that gods are anxious about their responsibilities. But with such great weight comes great understanding. Trust that, Clark, and trust that you've found your true destiny and that in you a once hopeless world has found its future. Good luck to you.

H. G. Wells: He's quite a man, the Clark Kent of this world.

Lois: I just wish he didn't have to be alone.

H. G. Wells: The hardest lesson is that love can be so fair to some, and so cruel to others, even those who would be gods.

I Now Pronounce You.....
Clark: (floating in mid-air, watching a football game) Yes!

(the 'phone rings - Clark drifts across and picks up)

Clark: Hello?

Lois: Oh, Clark, you're there. It's horrible. It's terrible...

Clark: Lois?!

(He flies off to Lois' apartment in a blur)

Clark/Superman: What's the matter?!

Lois: Oh! You scared me.

Clark/Superman: You said something horrible was happening.

Lois: (frantically babbling) Oh. No, uh, no it's just that, oh, well, we're getting marred in four days and I've never been happier in my life and every time that things are gong great between us, something happens, and I just know that something bad is going to happen to mess up our wedding. I just know it!

Clark/Superman: That's it?

Lois: Well...yeah.

Clark/Superman: Lois, nothing's going to happen. You're just nervous, that's all. So am I.

Lois: Really?

Clark/Superman: Well, not as nervous as you, but sure...

Soul Mates

 * Tempus: Don't tell me that's what the Saxons are wearing these days.

Meet John Doe

 * Barrett: Lets go over it one more time...
 * Tempus: Can we move this along, I'm breaking out this morning.
 * Barrett: Yes. You believe that a peace keeper from the future will arrive on this date to...
 * Tempus: Extradite me back to the future to face punishment for the crimes committed in various time zones.
 * Barrett: So I gather that you still believe you're from the future.
 * Tempus: Duh.

 * Barrett: Mr. Tempus, assuming that this is all true, why would you admit it to me.
 * Tempus: Because you are, in a word, "loony tunes".
 * Barrett: Loony tunes is two words.

 * Security Guard (Malcolm): Hey, this area is restricted.
 * Tempus: As well it should be. Do you realize that this satellite relay station is up linked to every long distance carrier in the country?

 * Tempus: Malcolm, you will go to the window. At exactly twelve-noon you will be overcome with the irresistible urge to take a flying leap out of that window.
 * Malcolm: Gotta go. Gonna jump to my death soon. Buh-bye.

 * Lane: Well, this year alone I have been shot at, strapped to explosives, and electrocuted. If anyone needs a will made out, its me.

 * Tempus: Attention all registered voters, John Doe is a darn nice guy.

 * White: I want an exclusive on this. I wanna find out what makes this man tick, what he stands for, and most of all, why is he such a darn nice guy.

 * Tempus: The Amish are not your friends. They are anti John Doe. Boycott their quilts, they're overpriced and the workmanship is shoddy anyway. Oh, and John Doe is a darn nice guy.

 * Lane: I know two things right now, Tempus is evil and has to be stopped and John Doe is a darn nice guy.

 * Lane: Mr. President, we have reason to believe that John Doe is...
 * The President: ... a darn nice guy. I can't disagree. Hell, even I voted for him.

AKA Superman
(Clark stops, realising something.)

Lois: There's a crisis. What is it? Bank robbery? Terrorist strike? Meteor headed for Earth?

Clark: Ribbon cutting.

Lois: Sorry?

__________________

Clark: Sorry I'm late.

Lois: Golf, huh?

Clark: Yeah... it was charity game, Lois. Superman could hardly say 'no'.

Lois: Doesn't seem to be in his vocabulary.

__________________

Paladin: Captain McBride was to take an outmoded weather satellite out of service. With six thousand manmade objects floating around out there, it's pretty crowded.

Clark: (to himself) Tell me about it.

Cast

 * Dean Cain - Clark Kent
 * Teri Hatcher - Lois Lane
 * Lane Smith - Perry White
 * Michael Landes - Jimmy Olson #1
 * Justin Whalin - Jimmy Olson #2
 * Eddie Jones - Jonathan Kent
 * K Callan - Martha Kent
 * John Shea - Lex Luthor
 * Tracy Scoggins - Catharine "Cat" Grant


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"'If this plan or this work is of men, it will come to nothing; but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it - lest you even be found to fight against God.'" -- Acts 5:38b-39

For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, and there you long to return. -- Leonardo da Vinci

If it can't kill you, it probably isn't fun. -- Jonathan Thorne

Flying gives you stories. [As a pilot] it is my job to make sure you can tell them to your friends. -- Jonathan Thorne

Necessity is the mother of invention; and war is the mother of necessity. -- Jonathan Thorne

A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid. -- Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Fly away, Stanley. Be free! -- Filmore in Cars

I'm a private pilot and a Colorado college student majoring in Aviation Technology with goals to fly with the airlines. I also enjoy hiking, photography, and movies.

My first experience with wikis was on wikiHow which I found on Google and have frequently edited. I am now an admin on that site and continue to help build the worlds largest, free how-to manual that anyone can edit. See my wikiHow profile.

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I'm afraid that I've nominated your article Kenneth for speedy deletion. Based on reviews of similar quote articles, and on the quick research that I did (described in the nomination), I suspect that these are not quotes of from someone with published references, which is what Wikiquote collects, but rather quotes from yourself or your friend or acquaintance. These are what we refer to as "vanity" quotes, much like Wikipedia's "vanity" articles. As is pointed out in FAQ and What Wikiquote is not, which are recommended reading, such quotes are perfectly acceptable on one's user page, but are not a proper subject for quotation in Wikiquote articles.

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 * My apologies, in regard to the page titled Kenneth . I should have taken more time to review procedures before creating the page.  Also, thank you for all of the information you   listed on my Talk page.  Regards,   Knssilm 21:28, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Don't worry too much about it. This is a not-uncommon mistake. I hope that you'll work with us to create and improve our articles in addition to posting your own quotes on your user page. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:49, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, I deffinetly intend on making such contributions! Again, thanks for your help. Knssilm 02:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

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We very much appreciate your contributions here. However, I cannot understand why you are creating talk pages with talkheader. If youdo have a good reason, please continue, but I am curious what it is.--Cato 19:02, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

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