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The Longest Day

The Longest Day is a 1962 film about the Allied invasion in Normandy — D-Day — on 6 June 1944.
 * Directed by Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Gerd Oswald and Darryl F. Zanuck. Written by Cornelius Ryan, Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall and Jack Seddon. Based from a book by Cornelius Ryan.

This is the day that changed the world... When history held its breath.

 * NOTE: The German/French dialogue are translations of the spoken text

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

 * [sees wisdom of deploying the invasion fleet in bad weather] I don't like it, but there it is.

Other dialogue

 * Lt-Col Benjamin Vandervoort: [addressing soldiers before embarkation] You can't give the enemy a break. Send him to hell.
 * Father Louis Rolland: [addressing congregation] In the heart of the darkness, in the deepest of the night, we must never lose hope. Let us keep our faith intact, steadfast! For each of us, deliverance is coming.
 * Gen. Günther Blumentritt: [to aide about a lack of response on the release of panzer reserves to counter the impending invasion] We are living an historical moment. We are going to lose the war because the glorious Fuhrer has taken a sleeping pill... [smirks and raises a finger]... and is not to be awakened. It's unbelievable. Think of it Kurt, don't ever forget it. We are witnessing something which historians will always say is completely improbable... and yet it is true. [fumes] The Fuhrer is not to be awakened!!! I sometimes wonder which side God is on.
 * Flight Officer David Campbell: He's dead. I'm crippled. You're lost. Suppose it's always like that? I mean war.

Dialogue

 * [Field Marshal Rommel addresses his commanding officers at the Atlantic Wall in Normandy]
 * Feldmarschall Erwin Rommel: We need mines and obstacles along the whole coast. On every beach, in every dune, on every cliff. How many have been installed so far? Adjutant Lang: Approximately four million, Herr Feldmarschall. Rommel: Until May it must be six! Six million! Oberstleutnant Hans von Salmuth: Our men have been operating without a pause, Herr Feldmarschall. There can be no talk about training or rest. The troop is completely exhausted. Rommel: My dear Herr von Salmuth, what would your men rather like to be: exhausted or dead? [marches in front of the coastline] Just have a look at this, gentlemen ... how calm, how peaceful this is. A small strip of water between England and the continent, between the Allies and us. - But behind that peaceful horizon ... a monster! A solid mass of men, ships and planes which is lying in wait to be released upon us. But gentlemen, not one man of the Allies shall set foot upon the beach. Not one soldier of the Allies will ever reach the shore. This invasion, gentlemen, wherever and whenever it may come, there! - right at the water's edge - right there I will break it up! Believe me, gentlemen, the first twenty-four hours of the invasion will be decisive! For the Allies, but also for the Germans, it will be the longest day ... the longest day.

 * [General Erich Marcks, commander of the 84th Army Corps, prepares to leave for war games]
 * Adjutant: Have you finished the plan, Herr General?
 * Gen. Erich Marcks: Yes, quite. Quite finished. [puts compass on map] War games! Theoretical invasions! To go all the way to Rennes, just to push little flags around a table with other generals. The invasion in a sandbox!
 * Adjutant: Winning or losing, Herr General?
 * Marcks: Have I ever lost?
 * Adjutant: It's just that Herr General will be playing the role of Eisenhower this time.
 * Marcks: I will win because I go against the rules, Schiller! [shines light at map] We expect them to attack at Pas-de-Calais, at the narrowest point of the Channel, don't we! And in good weather, too! But that's too simple, my dear. It's far too obvious. I choose the farthest distance, and when the weather is at its worst! I'll attack here!... In Normandy. And in bad weather! Like now... In bad weather!

 * Adjutant: A brilliant plan, Herr General. Unorthodox, but brilliant.
 * Gen. Erich Marcks: Well, fortunately it's just a game. I don't think we need to worry too much. Eisenhower would never risk such a gambit. Never!

 * [Maj-Gen Raymond Barton, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, argues with assistant division chief Brig-Gen Theodore Roosevelt Jr. over the latter insisting on landing ashore with the division at Utah Beach]
 * MG Raymond Barton: You're putting me on the spot.
 * BG Teddy Roosevelt Jr: I didn't mean to, Tubby.
 * Barton: The hell you didn't. You put that request in writing, made it official. You're the assistant division commander.
 * Roosevelt: And that's why I'm supposed to go ashore in the first wave. That's where I'm supposed to be. You know that.
 * Barton: You're important to this operation. We can't have you knocked off on the first day.
 * Roosevelt: But that's not the real reason. Isn't it because my father was president of the United States?
 * Barton: And a great president. And a great soldier. He led the charge of the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill. So now you've got to be the first man ashore on Utah Beach.
 * Roosevelt: But that's where I'm supposed to be, Tubby. That's my job. Also, I've been there side by side with the men all through training. They're used to seeing where I belong. They have a right to expect me there. President's son or not. Is my request denied?
 * Barton: No, you know it's not. Request reluctantly approved.
 * Roosevelt: Thanks, Tubby. Thanks a lot.

 * Adjutant: [to the phone] Just a moment, Herr Oberst. [to his superior] I wonder why he hasn't been court-martialled yet. General Wolfgang Häger: First of all, he has shot down 132 planes. [into the phone, jovially] Hello, Pips, my old boy! Oberst Josef Priller: [sarcastically, irritably] Now don't try to get me this way: "Pips, my old boy!" My dear Hart, you were an abysmal pilot when we were in Russia together. Now you're directing from a desk - BUT YOU'RE STILL AN ABYSMAL PILOT! Häger: [with strained amusement] Excuse me? What are you talking about? Priller: I'm just talking about me sitting on this empty, God-forsaken airfield near Lille, with only two planes left ... two pathetic bangers! - [takes a drink; sarcastically] Yes, yes - your orders were followed to the letter, that means that my three squadrons are flitting around God-knows-where! Ground crews, supplies, everything is ferried around by truck. So can you tell me what I'm still supposed to do here?! Häger: [irritably] Now listen up, Pips! We had to spread out our combat squadrons - we had to! Just look at what's been happening at the airfields near Pas-de-Calais for the past two nights now! Priller: But this whole idea is pure madness! Madness, I'm telling you!! You're placing all the detachments to the rear instead of the front! - Yeah, yeah, I know myself that the weather is dreadful and that they will hardly come over here with their invasion in all this muck ... but what happens if they do? Will we relocate then, eh? - You know damn well that I can't contact my supply units within the space of tomorrow or the day after! Oh man, you're all just crazy. YOU'RE TOTALLY NUTS, MAN!! [slams down the receiver]

 * [Taking one last look at the horizon before going for breakfast, Major Werner Pluskat is stunned to see the Allied invasion fleet appearing]
 * Major Pluskat: My God! [focuses binoculars and looks back at his men] The invasion! They're coming!
 * Wehrmacht Officer: [to soldiers] Alarm!!!
 * Pluskat: [calls higher command in a panic] Herr Oberstleutnant! The invasion has come! Five thousand ships, there - there must be over five thousand ships out there!! Oberstleutnant Ocker: [ignorantly confident] Now get a hold of yourself, Pluskat. [sips coffee] The Americans and the British don't have half as that many ships all together. Pluskat: DAMMIT, YOU FOOL, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, COME UP HERE AND SEE FOR YOURSELF!! - That's fantastic! That's unbelievable! I-I just can't believe it! Ocker: [chuckles] My dear Pluskat, what course are these ships heading for? Pluskat: STRAIGHT FOR ME!!!

 * [Aboard the Free French Navy battleship Richelieu]
 * Bridge Officer: Attention, attention. Admiral Jaujard.
 * RADM Robert Jaujard: [addressing Free French forces] Soon we shall engage in combat. In order to defeat the enemy, we must fire on our homeland. This is the price of liberty. Vive le France!

 * [the Overlord invasion forces begin a heavy bombardment]
 * Oberstleutnant Ocker: Pluskat? Pluskat, can you hear me?! What's the matter with you?? Pluskat, what's going on there?? Major Pluskat: Are you deaf?! Can't you - [a blast holes the bunker roof] - Dammit, can't you hear for yourself?!? Yes! We're under fire! Yeah - under fire!! Those five thousand ships the Allies couldn't possibly have, as you say - they've got 'em! Yeah, they've got 'em!!

 * [the 29th Infantry Division is trapped at Omaha Beach and Brig-Gen. Norm Cota has briefed his deputy about marshalling engineers to blast a certain section of the wall]
 * BG Norm Cota: [walks alongside troopers] Now listen to me, all of you. You guys got to snap out of it. We're getting off of here, we're going inland.
 * Soldier: What about weapons, General? Most of my men lost everything they had. They're not afraid to fight, but they gotta have something to fight with!
 * Cota: Strip the dead and the wounded. Pick up anything that'll shoot. I don't have to tell you the score, you all know it. Only two kinds of people are gonna stay on this beach: Those that are already dead and those that are gonna die, now get off your butts! You guys are the Fighting 29th!

 * [LTC Benjamin Vandervoort arrives at Ste Mere Eglise with his men, but he is shocked at the paratroopers still hanging from various places, killed during the drop]
 * Major Waltz: Colonel am I glad to see you!
 * LTC Benjamin Vandervoort: [points to the dead paratroopers] Those bodies. Get those bodies down. What are you doing leaving them up there like that? Get them down!
 * Waltz: Of course, sir but we were under fire -
 * Vandervoort: I know you have, but I don't care, get them down!! Down! I don't want those boys left up there!
 * Waltz: [to soldier] Take a detail, cut those bodies down, at once.
 * Soldier: Yes sir. [leaves]

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Siblings

A sibling is one of two or more individuals having one or both parents in common. A male sibling is a brother and a female sibling is a sister. In most societies throughout the world, siblings often grow up together, thereby facilitating the development of strong emotional bonds.

Quotes

 * This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered, We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother
 * William Shakespeare, the play Henry V

 * A younger brother should honour an older brother. He should treat him with human dignity.
 * Sumerian proverb from Urim, Text online at,.

Bible

 * The Bible at Wikisource.

 * Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.9Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
 * Genesis 4: 8-10, New American Standard Bible.

 * Abraham said, "Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. "Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife; and it came about, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is the kindness which you will show to me: everywhere we go, say of me, "He is my brother."
 * Genesis 20:11-13

 * You have heard that men were told long ago, ‘You must not kill another person. If someone does kill, he will be guilty and will be punished for his wrong-doing.’ But I tell you that whoever is angry with his brother will be guilty and have to suffer for his wrong-doing. Whoever says to his brother, ‘You have no brains,’ will have to stand in front of the court. Whoever says, ‘You fool,’ will be sent to the fire of hell. If you take your gift to the altar and remember your brother has something against you, leave your gift on the altar. Go and make right what is wrong between you and him. Then come back and give your gift.
 * Jesus, Matthew 5: 21-24, New Life Version

 * So someone said to him: “Look! Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak to you.” 48 In reply he said to the one who spoke to him: “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 And extending his hand toward his disciples, he said: “Look! My mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, that one is my brother and sister and mother.”
 * Jesus, Matthew 12: 47-50, New World Translation

 * But whoever has this world’s means for supporting life and beholds his brother having need and yet shuts the door of his tender compassions upon him, in what way does the love of God remain in him?
 * First Epistle of John 3:17

 * If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
 * First Epistle of John 4:20

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Brian K. Vaughan

Brian K. Vaughan (born 1976 in Cleveland, Ohio) is the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated co-creator of many critically acclaimed comic books.

Quotes

 * I really like Colossus, actually, especially because only Ultimate writers get to use him. Eat it, Whedon!
 * Interview

 * I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
 * DC Comics interview

 * I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.
 * Ain't It Cool News interview

 * If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.
 * Ain't It Cool News interview

 * I just make crap up more than anything else.
 * Ain't It Cool News interview

 * It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
 * Ain't It Cool News interview

 * Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.
 * Ain't It Cool News interview

 * Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.
 * TALKING "Y" WITH BKV: THE BRIAN K. VAUGHN INTERVIEW conducted by Nolan Reese May 21, 2003

 * I think it was born out of that grade school fantasy that a lot of nerds like me had, which was "I could probably get the cute red-headed girl that sits across from me, if only every other boy in the entire school dies."
 * TALKING "Y" WITH BKV: THE BRIAN K. VAUGHN INTERVIEW conducted by Nolan Reese May 21, 2003

 * Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you’ll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.
 * TALKING "Y" WITH BKV: THE BRIAN K. VAUGHN INTERVIEW conducted by Nolan Reese May 21, 2003

 * But Cruise is really good!

 * The man is a complete wackadoo, but so is every great actor who ever lived. You gotta separate the artist from his/her art, or you won't be able to enjoy anything.

 * I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!
 * BKV on War of the Worlds

 * "Writer's block" is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.
 * MySpace blog, 09 April 2007

 * When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.
 * Comic Book Resources interview

 * "It's about how boys become men — and why it takes women to make that transformation possible."
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X-Men

The X-Men are a fictional team in the Marvel-Comics universe.

Comics

 * Astonishing X-Men
 * Ultimate X-Men
 * Uncanny X-Men
 * X-Men (comics)
 * Misc X-titles and Limited Series

Films

 * X-Men (movie)
 * X-Men 2
 * X-Men 3
 * X-Men Origins: Wolverine
 * X-Men: First Class
 * X-Men: Days of Future Past
 * X-Men: Apocalypse
 * X-Men: Dark Phoenix

TV shows

 * X-Men: Animated Series
 * X-Men: Evolution

About

 * Q: The X-Men comics and films have become a parable for any member of minority groups in the world. Bryan Singer and Ian McKellen have already talked about how they related to the project based on their backgrounds, so how did that apply to you?
 * A: Well I certainly have felt it being a woman, firstly, and a woman of colour too. I’ve often felt like an outcast and an outsider and I’ve felt discriminated against because of my gender or because of my nationality or the colour of my skin. So of course I can relate. But the beauty of X-Men is that everybody can relate. You don’t have to be black or be gay. All people have been discriminated against in some way. We all struggle with issues like “are we too thin, are we too fat? Is our nose too big or our boobs too small? Shall we cover our grey hair or should we not?” We all struggle throughout life to make these decisions for ourselves and the question we’re always asking is: “Are we okay exactly the way we are?” So not only do I relate, or Ian or Bryan, but I think everyone relates because we’ve all asked ourselves these tough questions.
 * Halle Berry in Rob Carnevale, "X-Men: The Last Stand - Halle Berry interview" Indie London.

 * Mutants are all around us. They could be your neighbors. They could be your co-workers They could be related to you. Gifted with extraordinary powers, they are the next step on the evolutionary ladder. Some use their powers for good; some, for unspeakable evil. One group had dedicated its wondrous abilities to protect mankind, even those who hate and fear them. Known to the world at large as outlaws, they are the X-Men.
 * Chris Claremont, X-Men, The Dark Phoenix Saga, back cover.

 * Only hours ago, it had seemed like just another ordinary day in the life of a kid whose world was falling apart. Her parents were splitting up, and Kitty Pryde herself was being plagued by a series of steadily worsening, skull crushing headaches.
 * She came home from dance class in time to be introduced to Emma Frost -- It was dislike at first sight.
 * Her reaction to the X-Men -- when Professor Xavier arrived to try to recruit her for his school for gifted youngsters -- was quite the opposite, Wolverine was spooky, Colossus a real hunk...
 * And she and Storm became instant friends.
 * Chris Claremont The Uncanny X-Men #130, p.7

 * It was too close. It had only been a few years since the assassinations. In a way, it seemed like that would be too raw. My resonance to Magneto and Xavier was borne more out of the Holocaust. It was coming face to face with evil, and how do you respond to it? In Magneto's case it was violence begets violence. In Xavier's it was the constant attempt to find a better way.
 * Chris Claremont The Secret to X-Men's Success The secret to 'X-Men's' success, CNN. (3 June 2011).

 * If you wanted one book to summarize all that the X-Men is about in terms of character and conflict and theme, I’d have to say that –God Loves, Man Kills- was it. If you could only read one X-Men graphic novel start with that. Because for me the X-Men is not about super heroe’s and super villains it is about people, and how you deal with the challenge of life and the choices you have to make every day...That for me is why Magneto is so important. Xavier is spoke for. He already....he has made his choices. He is a hero. Magneto is a work in progress. He is not evil. He is defined by his past. But that definition drives him to disaster. The question for him is..is he the victim of his destiny or can he change it. Can he grow? I'm not sure, I'd like to think he can.
 * Chris Claremont Ages of the X-Men: Essays on the Children of the Atom in Changing Times, (July 6, 2011), p. 100.

 * The actual story line was that Xavier would die in issue #200...and that Magneto would become head of the school [pause] permanently.....But the idea, that goal was built from the death of Phoenix. The hope was to show that this is ... their lives as X-Men have a real risk. This isn't superhero games. This is reality. In reality good guys sometimes do not win and people die. And that has to be part of their lives otherwise it just becomes a video game ... life isn't like that. . And I always thought, my thought was the stories we tell in comics shouldn't be like that either. If there is risk for the reader, then the victory is that much sweeter. And you can, something can happen that can catch you by surprise and can have that much power and heart.
 * Chris Claremont Ages of the X-Men: Essays on the Children of the Atom in Changing Times, (July 6, 2011), p. 101

 * [X-Men] is a story about downtrodden, repressed people fighting to change their situation, which I think anybody can empathize with. […] The Jewish situation is the most obvious genocidal example in the human experience. Cambodia is probably the second. It’s something that all of us can relate to and that all of us should relate to.
 * Chris Claremont, “Interview with Chris Claremont (part Two).” X-Men Companion II. Ed. Peter Sanderson. Stamford: Fantagraphics Books, Inc., 1982; qtd. in "The Mutant Problem: X-Men, Confirmation Bias, and the Methodology of Comics and Identity", by Martin Lund, European Journal of American Studies, (Summer, 2015).

 * The X-Men, created by Jewish American comics legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, is a team of mutants, a class of human being first introduced as people that “possess an extrapower…one which ordinary humans do not!!” (EUX1 #1: 8ii). Especially after the introduction of the mutant-hunting robot Sentinels in X-Men #14 (Nov. 1965, EUX1), Marvel Comics’ mutants have been increasingly inscribed with allegorical Otherness. They have been subject to many of the prejudices that have historically plagued marginalized minorities, including, among other things, forced and voluntary segregation, slurs, persecution, and genocidal campaigns, and, conspiracy theories about their aims as a group.
 * Martin Lund, "The Mutant Problem: X-Men, Confirmation Bias, and the Methodology of Comics and Identity", European Journal of American Studies, (Summer, 2015).

 * In our May 23 issue, Ami Eden argued that the opposing forces in the blockbuster film, “X2: X-Men United,” could be interpreted as metaphor for two radical theological responses to the Holocaust — one belonging to Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, the other to the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. The good-guy mutants, Eden noted, are led by the wheelchair-bound Professor X (played by Patrick Stewart), a powerful psychic with an ideological — and physical — resemblance to Greenberg. Professor X remains dedicated to coexistence between mutants and non-mutants, while his nemesis and lifelong friend Erik Magnus Lehnsherr, aka Magneto (Ian McKellen), is convinced that a war between the two groups is inevitable. Apparently, the analogy was closer than we thought.
 * Irving Greenberg, "(Orthodo)X-Men, On Screen and Off", Forward, (June 13, 2003).

 * Ami Eden’s article was creative, insightful, clever and funny. I enjoyed and agreed with it even before he made me as handsome as Patrick Stewart. Readers might be interested to learn that the article cut much closer to the bone than even Eden may have realized. Like Professor X and Magneto, Meir Kahane and I started out as good friends. During our high school years we were classmates and joint performers in weekly skits that we often wrote together. We both sensed that Jewish history was undergoing one of its great transformations (although, I confess, I do not remember if we both had zeroed in on the significance of the Holocaust as fully as we were to do later). We debated frequently, often over the use of force by the Jewish underground in Palestine during the 1940s.
 * Irving Greenberg, "(Orthodo)X-Men, On Screen and Off", Forward, (June 13, 2003).

 * Q: How did you decide Wolverine would be the star of the piece even more so than Xavier or Magneto?
 * A: He is the fulcrum of X-Men. The earlier X-Men group was a brilliant creation of Stan Lee's, but when Len Wein created Wolverine and they brought him into the X-Men, it was the perfect fulcrum between Professor X's philosophy and Magneto's philosophy. The fact that the wasn't bound by either gave him such a wild, attractive freedom that it was obvious that was the character that the series needed to revolve around.
 * David Hayter, "'X-Men' Screenwriter on Michael Jackson Lobbying for Prof. X and Hugh Jackman Casting Drama" Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, (March 02, 2017).

 * Magneto: Doesn't it ever wake you in the middle of the night? The feeling that someday they will pass that foolish law, or one just like it, and come for you and your children?
 * Professor Xavier: It does, indeed.
 * Magneto: What do you do when you wake up to that?
 * Professor Xavier: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul who comes to that school looking for trouble.
 * X-Men, screenplay by David Hayter; written by Tom DeSanto and Bryan Singer, (2000)

 * No matter what genres or gimmicks were tried sales kept contracting and contracting [...] Comics needed a miracle and it didn't look like anyone in charge was capable of producing one. Marvel President Arthur Landaus idea of a money making idea was this: create a team of international superheroes representing all the major foreign markets in which he would sell Marvel products.
 * Gerard Jones and Will Jacobs as quoted in Ages of the X-Men: Essays on the Children of the Atom in Changing Times, (July 6, 2011), p.39.

 * With Magneto, whose people were hounded and hunted and almost tortured, he had every right to feel, 'We're trying to help mankind, and they're making us outlaws, and they're persecuting us, we've got to strike back.
 * They were meant to emphasize the conflict between people who felt that we've got to all work together and find a way to get along, and people who feel, 'We're not treated well, therefore we're going to strike back with force!
 * Stan Lee, How to succeed in comics: Why Stan is 'The Man', CNN, (9 September 2010).

 * I wanted to spotlight a group of innocent people who were feared and shunned and later hunted and persecuted. I wanted to show how anyone, no matter how blameless, can be victimized if the fates so decree.
 * Stan Lee in Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones, The Comic Book Heroes. New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1985; qtd. in P. Andrew Miller, "Mutants, Metaphor, and Marginalism: What X-actly Do the X-Men Stand For?", Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 13, No. 3 (51) (2003), pp. 283.

 * The 1960s X-Men book was discontinued in 1970 for a reason – it was an interesting idea that wasn’t right yet. When Len was entrusted with reinventing the book in 1975, he and Dave Cockrum and Chris Claremont and the others made it what it is today: international cast, serious, adult.
 * Eric Lewald in “INTERVIEW: X-Men: TAS story editor & writer Eric Lewald on X-Men:TAS Book” by Taimur Dar, The Beat (10/02/2017).

 * One of the most significant features of the X-Men comic books is that difference is outward and inward, both voluntary and involuntary. By eluding easy classification, mutants resemble Jews. Looking like everyone else, yet perceived as different, they are easily misunderstood. They experience only provisional acceptance and a precarious sense of belonging. The language of those who persecute them is comparable to Nazi rhetoric against Jews.
 * Cheryl Alexander Malcolm as quoted in "The Mutant Problem: X-Men, Confirmation Bias, and the Methodology of Comics and Identity", by Martin Lund, European Journal of American Studies, (Summer, 2015).

 * Q: Why has the character of Magneto struck such a chord with audiences?
 * A: The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that’s why X-Men chimes with them – it’s certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.
 * Ian McKellen, "X-Men: The Last Stand - Sir Ian McKellen interview", Indie London, Rob Carnevale.

 * As the X-Men flourished and branched out into other titles, the same things occurred. Non-European characters were introduced but then were either Europeanized or written out of the series. The first spin-off, The New Mutants, is a prime example. Of the five original members, three were non Europeans: Karma, a Viernamese refugee; Mirage, a Cheyenne, and Sunspot, a black Brazilian. But once again, the title became more European. Karma disappears during a mission (she later reappears but again is written out), Mirage is Europeanized when the team travels to Asgard and she is made a Valkyrie. Sunspot, though himself black, has a white American mother. Later additions to the X-Men are no better. Forge is also Cheyenne but he is likewise a cyborg and works, at least initially, as a weapons designer for the US Government. Jubilee, a young girl, is supposedly Asian American, but she is so immersed in American mall culture and drawn as a Caucasian, that is surprised many to find out about her Asian roots.
 * P. Andrew Miller, "Mutants, Metaphor, and Marginalism: What X-actly Do the X-Men Stand For?", Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 13, No. 3 (51) (2003), p. 287.

 * The X-Men, through bonding of their supposedly multi-cultural characters, is a reinforcement of the myth of the melting pot. These characters give up parts of their individual ethnic traits, converting to the more Eurocentric ideals of American society. Those who cannot let go of their ethnicity have no place on the team.
 * P. Andrew Miller, "Mutants, Metaphor, and Marginalism: What X-actly Do the X-Men Stand For?", Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 13, No. 3 (51) (2003), p. 288.

 * The X-men are frequently referred to as the “next step” in human evolution (X-Men: First Class 2011; Gresh and Weinberg 2002, 133). According to Darwin, in order for evolution to occur, an individual must exhibit a variation that makes it better suited to its environment and then that variation must be selected for and passed down to future generations. When that variation has accumulated throughout the species, the species is considered to have evolved. Playing by Darwin’s rules, then, in order for the X-men to be the “next step” in human evolution, they must have a variation, that variation must prove useful in their environment, and that variation must be passed down to offspring. The genetic variation that the X-men have is called the x-gene; presumably the same gene, shared among the X-men but not among normal humans. There are huge problems with this, not the least of which is that an identical gene has appeared simultaneously in individuals who otherwise share very few genes. Furthermore, while Richard Dawkins, celebrated author of The Selfish Gene and authority on genetics, talks at length in about genes for various physical traits and sets of genes for various behaviors, he never once in his body of work mentions the possibility of a gene that has the same protein structure in each individual, but manifests itself in each individual in a radically different way. There is a gene for blue eyes and a gene for brown eyes, but the blue-eye gene will never produce brown eyes. Yet the x-gene is capable of producing invisibility, scales, telepathy, and wings, all with the same protein structure. Even epigenetics, which can account for different physiological manifestations of the same genetic code, cannot produce such a wide variety of traits.
 * Jocelyn D. Pickreign, “Science Fiction and the Myth of Trajectory Evolution”, The Macalester Review, Vol. 3 [2013], Iss. 2, Art. 1, (6-2-2013), pp. 8-9.

 * Assuming that the X-Men survive long enough to reproduce and care for offspring, very few potential mates are going to be willing to take the genetic risk of mating and producing offspring with them. The comics themselves support this, when the XMen are ostracized from society as “dangerous.” Thus, the X-Men cannot possibly be the next stage of human evolution because their adaptations are neither advantageous, nor likely to be passed down to future generations. However, we buy into the notion that the X-Men are the logical progression of our species because they conform to our notions of evolution as something that follows a progression from simple-structured and simple-minded to physical and mental complexity. Because the variations that the X-Men exhibit are flashy, complex, and, very often, associated with some mystical higher functioning of the brain (such as Xavier’s telepathy and Magneto’s ability to move metal with his mind), they are embraced as the next phase, regardless of environmental pressures or sexual selection. This is where, once again, the idea of a pre-designed evolutionary blueprint for each species comes into play. By discounting factors that influence natural selection, the X-Men comics are presenting a version of “evolution” that is not dependent on natural selection. Rather, evolution will continue creating creatures that are more and more complicated, with more and more interesting brains, because that is the natural trajectory for evolution to follow. Factors such as what is advantageous in their environment or the number of offspring they are able to rear to reproductive capacity are disregarded.
 * Jocelyn D. Pickreign, “Science Fiction and the Myth of Trajectory Evolution”, The Macalester Review, Vol. 3 [2013], Iss. 2, Art. 1, (6-2-2013), pp. 9-10.

 * Female comic book characters are often treated as secondary to the main male character whom they assist in their current endeavour. They are often transformed into the Other, objects acted upon by the male character for his own ends through sub-par plot writing, as evidenced by such tropes as the ‘damsel-in-distress’. There have been a few characters treated as active subjects capable of continued growth. X-Men featured both Kitty Pryde and Jubilee as young female characters with complex emotions and desires. Kitty’s desire to be treated as an adult is blatantly expressive of Levinas’ concept of recognition. Their costumes, while occasionally sexualized, are overall more expected with elements that can be loose fitting and functional over showing off their sexuality. The interesting problem is that both of these characters are very young; teenagers in fact. By placing them below the legal and moral age of consent, the publishers essentially free themselves from the expectation of sexualizing them for their readers. They fit into an Otherness that shields them in a way similar to Haraway’s cyborg.
 * Jacqueline Rose, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Donna Haraway, and John Berger, CYBORGS, EMPATHS, & THE OTHER: IS THIS PHILOSOPHY OR STAR TREK?, (April 8, 2018), pp. 6-7

 * ...the idea of a revived "international" X-Men was my idea in 1974, after the company's president, Al Landau, suggested that it would be good to create a group of heroes from different countries we sold comic[s] to. I put writer Mike Fredrich and artist Dave Cockrum on it, with instructions to use a few old X-Men and create a few new ones, and left them to it. I quit the editor-in-chief job not long afterward, so had no further connection with it [...]
 * Thomas Roy, "Re: Follow Up Question." Message to Joseph Darowski.31 October 2013, E-Mail. Ages of the X-Men: Essays on the Children of the Atom in Changing Times, (July 6, 2011), p. 44.

 * I always wanted to get involved in science fiction fantasy, and the notion that Professor Xavier was Martin Luther King and Magneto was Malcolm X, and these were two men who had very strong, decent beliefs, but had taken different roads. And the irony of that, and the moral ambiguity of that, intrigued me. It was a step beyond simple crime-solving, superhero action. It was much more socio-political, and in that way exposed more truth.
 * Bryan Singer, "X-Men 2", by Stephen Applebaum, BBC, (2003/04/25).

 * You look at the X-Men movies and it's an allegory for what it's like to be gay, like, if you take the word mutant out of that movie and stick gay in, the movie still works.
 * Kevin Smith, A Complete History of American Comic Books by Shirrel Rhoades p. 66.

 * It is as important a serious piece of work as Strindberg or Ibsen. You don’t shortchange the work because it is a comic book franchise for a studio. I think entertaining is a serious business and shouldn’t be taken half-heartedly.
 * Patrick Stewart, X2 (X-Men United) : An Interview with Patrick Stewart, Blackfilm, (May 2003).

title: X-Men


text:
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) is a comic novel by the British writer Douglas Adams.

Quotations here are cited from the 1991 Pocket Books reprint ISBN 0671746723

Chapter 1

 * This time there would be no witnesses.
 * Chapter 1, p. 1

 * And time began seriously to pass.
 * Chapter 1, p. 3

 * It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.
 * On sentient horses, in Chapter 1, p. 6 jib head

Chapter 2

 * The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.
 * Chapter 2, p. 4

 * Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. It had never heard of Salt Lake City, of course. Nor had it ever heard of a quingigillion, which was roughly the number of miles between this valley and the Great Salt Lake of Utah.
 * Chapter 2, p. 5

Chapter 4

 * He instituted this, er, Chair of Chronology to see if there was any particular reason why one thing happened after another and if there was any way of stopping it. Since the answers to the three questions were, I knew immediately, yes, no, and maybe, I realised I could then take the rest of my career off.

title: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency


text:
Unbreakable (film)

Unbreakable is a 2000 film that explores the role that myth has in our civilization, and specifically explores the way that humans use comic books to explore mythic dimensions of the real world. It became the first film in the Unbreakable trilogy, when eventually followed by the films Split in 2016, and Glass in 2019.
 * Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Are You Ready For The Truth? (taglines)

David Dunn

 * I see guys like you all the time in my work, you find someone you want to take advantage of, you tell them a fantastic story, and somewhere in there you say it, I just need your credit card number. A small down payment.
 * Friends listen to each other! And they don't shoot each other, do they Audrey?
 * You are like me. We can both get hurt. I'm just an ordinary man.
 * You forgot the "Now I'm going to tell you what the hell is going on" step. See, that usually that comes before the, "It's over" Step. And it always, always comes before the "You can go" Step.

Elijah Price

 * Do you see any Teletubbies in here? Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it? Do you see a little Asian child with a blank expression on his face sitting outside on a mechanical helicopter that shakes when you put quarters in it? No? Well, that's what you see at a toy store. And you must think you're in a toy store, because you're here shopping for an infant named Jeb.
 * You could have been a tax accountant. You could have owned your own gym. You could have opened a chain of restaurants. You could've done of a thousand things, but in the end, you chose to protect people. You made that decision, and I find that very, very interesting.
 * I almost gave up hope. There were so many times I questioned myself, but I found you. So many sacrifices, just to find you.
 * Your bones don't break, mine do. That's clear. Your cells react to bacteria and viruses differently than mine. You don't get sick, I do. That's also clear. But for some reason, you and I react the exact same way to water. We swallow it too fast, we choke. We get some in our lungs, we drown. However unreal it may seem, we are connected, you and I. We're on the same curve, just on opposite ends.
 * [After proving Dunn's superhuman abilities]...Now all I need is a credit card number. [Dunn stares at him, pauses] The last one was a joke.
 * Now that we know who you are, I know who I am.
 * They called me Mr. Glass.
 * I have something called Osteogenesis Imperfecta. It's a genetic disorder. I don't make a particular protein very well and it makes my bones very low in density, very easy to break. I've had fifty-four breaks in my life. And I have the tamest version of this disorder... Type one. There are type two, type three, and type four. Type four's don't last very long.
 * It's alright to be afraid, David, because this part won't be like a comic book. Real life doesn't fit into little boxes that were drawn for it.
 * This is an art gallery my friend, and this, is a piece of art.
 * It's hard for many people to believe that there are extraordinary things inside themselves, as well as others. I hope you can keep an open mind.
 * Go to where people are, you won't have to look very long. It's alright to be afraid, David, because this part won't be like a comic book. Real life doesn't fit into little boxes that were drawn for it.
 * Do you know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world, to not know why you're here. That's - that's just an awful feeling.
 * Now that we know who you are, I know who I am. I'm not a mistake! It all makes sense! In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the exact opposite of the hero. And most times they're friends, like you and me! I should've known way back when... You know why, David? Because of the kids. They called me Mr Glass.
 * (from deleted scene) Can I tell you a secret? I'm going to be very, very sad if this doesn't work out the way I think.

Dialogue

 * Elijah Price: [Regarding an illustration at Price's art gallery] This is from Fritz Champion's own library. This is before the first issue of the comic book hit the stands in 1968. It's a classic depiction of good versus evil. Notice the square jaw of Slayer - common in most comic book heroes. And the slightly disproportionate size of Jaguaro's body to his head. This again is common, but only in villains... The thing to notice about this piece... The thing that makes it very, very special... is its realistic depiction of its figures. When the characters eventually made it into the magazine they were exaggerated... as always happens. This is vintage.
 * Customer: Wrap it up.
 * Elijah Price: You've made a considerably wise decision.
 * Customer: My kid's gonna go beserk.
 * Elijah Price: [Visibly concerned] Once again, please?
 * Customer: My son, Jeb. It's a gift for him.
 * Elijah Price: How old is Jeb?
 * Customer: He's four.
 * Elijah Price: No. No, no, no, no, no. You need to go. Now.
 * Customer: What did I say?
 * Elijah Price: Do you see any Teletubbies in here? Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it? Do you see a little Asian child with a blank expression on his face sitting outside on a mechanical helicopter that shakes when you put quarters in it? No? Well, that's what you see at a toy store. And you must think you're in a toy store, because you're here shopping for an infant named Jeb. Now, one of us has made a gross error and wasted the other person's valuable time. This is an art gallery, my friend. And this is a piece of art.

 * Joseph Dunn: Do you think you could've beaten up Bruce Lee?
 * David Dunn: No.
 * Joseph Dunn: I mean if you knew karate.
 * David Dunn: No.
 * Joseph Dunn: Well, what if he wasn't allowed to kick and you were really mad at him?
 * David Dunn: No, Joseph.

 * David Dunn: I wanted to ask you a question. It's gonna sound a little strange, just think about it for a second, okay?
 * Audrey Dunn: Okay.
 * David Dunn: When's the last time I was sick? Do you remember?
 * Audrey Dunn: Um, I don't know. It's been a while.
 * David Dunn: I haven't been sick this year, I know that.
 * Audrey Dunn: Okay.
 * David Dunn: Do you remember me getting sick?
 * Audrey Dunn: Um... not a specific day. What - what's this about?
 * David Dunn: Audrey, do you remember me ever getting sick? In the three years we lived in this house? In the old apartment? Before Joseph was born? Before we ever got married?
 * Audrey Dunn: I - I can't remember.
 * David Dunn: Don't you think that's kind of weird, not remembering one cold or a fever or a sore throat? What do you think it means?
 * Audrey Dunn: Um... I think it means probably too tired to remember.

 * Mrs. Price: This is one of Johann Davis's earliest drawings. See the villain's eyes? They're larger than the other characters'. They — insinuate a slightly skewed perspective on how they see the world. Just off normal.
 * David Dunn: Doesn't look scary.
 * Mrs. Price: Mm-hmm. That's what I said to my son. But he says there's always two kinds; there's the soldier villain — who fights the hero with his hands; and then there's the real threat — the brilliant and evil archenemy — who fights the hero with his mind.

 * Elijah Price: It has begun. Tell me something, David. When you woke up this morning... Was it still there? The sadness?
 * David Dunn: No.
 * Elijah Price: I think this is where we shake hands. [handshake]
 * [flashback occurs upon shaking]
 * Bar Patron: I worked in that building 25 years, I know all its secrets.
 * Elijah Price: Secrets?
 * Bar Patron: Like, if there ever was a fire on floors 1, 2 or 3, everyone in that hotel would be burned alive.
 * Train Conductor: Passengers aren't allowed in there!
 * [flashbacks end]
 * Elijah Price: You know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world. To not know why you're here... That's... That's just an awful feeling.
 * David Dunn: What have you done...?
 * Elijah Price: I almost gave up hope. There were so many times I questioned myself...
 * David Dunn: You killed all those people...
 * Elijah Price: But I found you. So many sacrifices, just to find you.
 * David Dunn: Jesus Christ...
 * Elijah Price: Now that we know who you are, I know who I am. I'm not a mistake! It all makes sense! In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the exact opposite of the hero. And most times they're friends, like you and me! I should've known way back when... You know why, David? Because of the kids. They called me Mr Glass.

 * Joseph Dunn: I thought maybe because you're my dad... I thought I might be like you... I'm not like you...
 * David Dunn: You are like me. We can both get hurt. I'm just an ordinary man.
 * Joseph Dunn: No, you're not... Why do you keep saying that?

 * Elijah Price: Why is it, do you think, that of all the professions in the world you chose protection?
 * David Dunn: You are a very strange man.
 * Elijah Price: You could have been a tax accountant. You could have owned your own gym. You could have opened a chain of restaurants. You could've done of ten thousand things, but in the end, you chose to protect people. You made that decision, and I find that very, very interesting.

About Unbreakable (film)

 * I love those characters and I love that world. Of course, the whole world makes comic book movies now.  At the time, it was completely novel.  I remember when I made it, Disney was literally like, “Comic books?!  There’s no market for comic books!”  That’s all they make now!  It was a hilarious conversation.  I remember it.  I was like, “Maybe you’re right.  Maybe nobody will come see comic book movies.”  They were like, “Those are people in little conventions who like comic books.”  And I was like, “But, I like comic books!”
 * But the beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you’re playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie.  It feels like a straight-up drama.  It’s real.  You’re confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.  That’s the premise, so the tone has to be super grounded.  It would be cool.
 * M. Night Syamalan

Taglines

 * Shattering cinemas soon.
 * Are You Ready For The Truth?
 * Are You Unbreakable?
 * Some things are only revealed by accident

Cast

 * Bruce Willis as David Dunn
 * Davis Duffield as David Dunn (age 20)
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price
 * Robin Wright as Audrey Dunn
 * Laura Regan as Audrey Inverso (age 20)
 * Spencer Treat Clark as Joseph Dunn
 * Charlayne Woodard as Mrs. Price
 * Eamonn Walker as Dr. Mathison
 * M. Night Shyamalan as Suspected Stadium drug dealer
 * Richard E. Council as Noel
 * Michael Kelly as Dr. Dubin

title: Unbreakable (film)


text:
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men is a 1957 film about a dissenting juror in a murder trial who slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.
 * ''Directed by Sidney Lumet. Written by Reginald Rose.

Life Is In Their Hands -- Death Is On Their Minds! (taglines)

Juror #6

 * Well, I'm not used to supposin'. I'm just a workin' man. My boss does all the supposin'-- but I'll try one. Supposin' you talk us all out of this and, uh, the kid really did knife his father?
 * [To #3 after he insults #9] What are you talkin' to him like that for? Guy talks like that to an old man really oughta get stepped on, you know. You oughta have more respect, mister. If you say stuff like that to him again... I'm gonna lay you out.

Juror #8 / Davis

 * It’s very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.

Juror #9 / McCardle

 * [Juror #7 has been throwing bits of paper at the fan. One of them bounces off it and hits #9 in the head.] That's a damn stupid thing to do.
 * [Revealing that he was the first to join #8 in voting not guilty] This gentleman has been standing alone against us. It's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others. So he gambled for support - and I gave it to him.

Juror #10

 * It's pretty tough to figure, isn't it? A kid kills his father. Bing! Just like that... It's the element... I'm telling ya, they let those kids run wild up there. Well, maybe it serves 'em right.
 * Oh, listen, I don't see what all this stuff about the knife has got to do with anything. Somebody saw the kid stab his Father, what more do we need? You guys can talk the ears right off my head you know what I mean? I got three garages of mine going to pot while you're talking! So let's get down and get out of here!

Others

 * Judge: If there's a reasonable doubt in your minds as to the guilt of the accused, a reasonable doubt, then you must bring me a verdict of not guilty. If however, there is no reasonable doubt, then you must in good conscience find the accused guilty. However you decide, your verdict must be unanimous. In the event that you find the accused guilty, the bench will not entertain a recommendation for mercy. The death sentence is mandatory in this case. You are faced with a grave responsibility. Thank you, gentlemen.

Dialogue

 * #7: You a Yankee fan?
 * #5: No, Baltimore.
 * #7: Baltimore? That's like being hit in the head with a crow bar once a day.

 * #8: This kid's been kicked around all of his life. You know, born in a slum. Mother dead since he was nine. He lived for a year and a half in an orphanage when his father was serving a jail term for forgery. That's not a very happy beginning. He's a wild, angry kid, and that's all he's ever been. And you know why because he's been hit on the head by somebody once a day, every day. He's had a pretty miserable eighteen years. I just think we owe him a few words, that's all.
 * #10: I don't mind telling you this, mister. We don't owe him a thing. He got a fair trial, didn't he? What do you think that trial cost? He's lucky he got it. You know what I mean? Now look, we're all grown-ups in here. We heard the facts, didn't we? You're not gonna tell me that we're supposed to believe this kid, knowing what he is. Listen, I've lived among them all my life. You can't believe a word they say. You know that. I mean, they're born liars.
 * #9: Only an ignorant man can believe that... Do you think you were born with a monopoly on the truth?

 * #2: It's hard to put into words. I just think he's guilty. I thought it was obvious from the word, 'Go'. Nobody proved otherwise.
 * #8: Nobody has to prove otherwise. The burden of proof is on the prosecution. The defendant doesn't even have to open his mouth. That's in the Constitution.

 * #8: [To #10] Let me ask you something. You don't believe the boy's story, how can you believe the woman's? She's "one of them" too, isn't she?
 * #10: ...You're a pretty smart fella, aren't you?

 * #8: There were two witnesses to the murder. What if they're wrong?
 * #12: What do you mean, what if they're wrong? What's the point of having witnesses at all?
 * #8: Could they be wrong?
 * #12: Well no, I don't think so.
 * #8: Do you 'know' so?
 * #12: Come on. Nobody can know something like that. This isn't an exact science.
 * #8: That's right, it isn't.

 * #3: You're talking about a matter of seconds! Nobody can be that accurate.
 * #8: Well, I think that testimony that can put a boy into the electric chair should be that accurate.

 * #8: There's another thing I'd like to talk about for a minute. I think we've proven that the old man couldn't have heard the boy say "I'm going to kill you," but supposing—
 * #10: You didn't prove it at all. What're you talking about?
 * #8: But supposing he really did hear it. This phrase, how many times has each of us used it? Probably hundreds. "I could kill you for that, darling." "If you do that once more, junior, I'm going to kill you." "Get in there, Rocky, and kill him!" We say it every day. It doesn't mean we're going to kill someone.
 * #3: Wait a minute. What are you trying to give us here? The phrase was "I'm going to kill you," and he screamed it out at the top of his lungs! Don't tell me he didn't mean it. Anybody says a thing like that the way he said it, they mean it.

 * #10: "Bright"? He's a common ignorant slob. He don't even speak good English.
 * #11: He doesn't even speak good English. [smiles at #10]

 * #8: ...But I'd like to find out if an old man who drags his foot when he walks, because he had a stroke last year, could get from his bedroom to the front door in 15 seconds.
 * #3: He said 20 seconds.
 * #8: He said 15!
 * #3: He said 20 seconds! What are you trying to distort–!
 * #11: He said 15.
 * #3: How does he know how long 15 seconds is?! You can't judge a thing like that!
 * #9: He said 15 seconds, he was very positive about that!
 * #3: He was an old man! Half the time, he was confused! How could he be positive about anything?!
 * [#3 then stops, realizing what he had just said.]

 * #3: What do you mean you want to try it? Why didn't his lawyer bring it up if it's so important?
 * #5: Well, maybe he just didn't think of it huh?
 * #10: What do you mean didn't think of it? Do you think the man's an idiot or something? It's an obvious thing.
 * #5: Did you think of it?
 * #10: Listen smart guy, it don't matter whether I thought of it. He didn't bring it up because he knew it would hurt his case. What do you think of that?
 * #8: Maybe he didn't bring it up because it would of meant bullying and badgering a helpless old man. You know that doesn't sit well with a jury, most lawyers avoid it if they can.
 * #7: So what kind of a bum is he then?
 * #8: That's what I've been asking, buddy.

 * #8: I think this is what happened: the old man had heard the fight between the boy and his father a few hours earlier. Then, while lying in bed, he heard a body hit the floor in the boy's apartment, and he heard the woman scream from across the street. He got up, he tried to get to the door, heard someone racing down the stairs and *assumed* it was the boy.
 * #3: Assumed? Brother, I've seen all kinds of dishonesty in my day, but this little display takes the cake. Y'all come in here with your hearts bleedin' all over the floor about slum kids and injustice, you listen to some fairy tales, suddenly you start gettin' through to some of these old ladies... well, you're not getting through to me, I've had enough! WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU GUYS?! YOU ALL KNOW HE'S GUILTY! HE'S GOT TO BURN! YOU'RE LETTING HIM SLIP THROUGH OUR FINGERS!
 * #8: Slip through our fingers? Are you his executioner?
 * #3: I'M ONE OF 'EM!
 * #8: Maybe you'd like to pull the switch?
 * #3: For this kid, you bet I would!
 * #8: I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch! Ever since we walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger! You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist!
 * [#3 lunges wildly at #8, who holds his ground. Several jurors hold #3 back]
 * #3: Let me go! I'll kill him! I'LL KILL HIM!
 * #8: ...You don't really mean you'll kill me, do you?

 * #11: I beg pardon.
 * #10: "I beg pardon?" What are you so polite about?
 * #11: For the same reason you are not: it's the way I was brought up.

 * #3: That business before when that tall guy, what's-his-name, was trying to bait me? That doesn't prove anything. I'm a pretty excitable person. I mean, where does he come off calling me a public avenger, sadist and everything? Anyone in his right mind would blow his stack. He was just trying to bait me.
 * #4: He did an excellent job.

 * #10: I don't understand you people! I mean all these picky little points you keep bringing up. They don't mean nothing! You saw this kid just like I did. You're not gonna tell me you believe that phony story about losing the knife, and that business about being at the movies. Look, you know how these people lie! It's born in them! I mean what the heck? I don't have to tell you. They don't know what the truth is! And lemme tell you, they don't need any real big reason to kill someone, either! No sir!
 * [#5 gets up from his seat]
 * #10: They get drunk. Oh, they're real big drinkers, all of 'em, you know that! And bang: someone's lying in the gutter. Well, nobody's blaming them for it. That's the way they are! By nature! You know what I mean? VIOLENT!
 * [#9 rises and crosses to the window]
 * #10: Where are you going? Human life don't mean as much to them as it does to us!
 * [#11 gets up and walks to the other window]
 * #10: [Beginning to sound desperate] Look, they're lushing it up and fighting all the time, and if somebody gets killed, so somebody gets killed! They don't care! Oh, sure, there's some good things about 'em, too! Look, I'm the first one to say that.
 * [#8 gets up and walks to the nearest wall]
 * #10: I've known a couple who were OK, but that's the exception, y'know what I mean?
 * [#2 and #6 get up from the table. Everybody's back is to #10]
 * #10: Most of 'em, it's like they have no feelings! They can do anything! What's goin' on here? I'm trying to tell you, you're making a big mistake, you people! This kid's a liar! I know it. I know all about them!
 * [#7 turns away, and the Foreman gets up and walks away]
 * #10: [Increasingly desperate] Listen to me...They're no good! There's not a one of 'em who's any good! I mean, what's happening in here? I'm speaking my piece, and you...
 * [#12 gets up and walks to the window]
 * #10: Listen to me...We're, we're...This kid on trial here, his type...Well, don't you know about them? There's a...There's a danger here. These people are dangerous. They're...wild. Listen to me...Listen.
 * #4: I have. Now sit down and don't open your mouth again.
 * [#10 sits in a corner table and does not speak for the rest of the film]

 * #9: It's eleven to one.
 * #7: So, what do we do now?
 * #8: You're alone.
 * #3: I don't care if I'm alone or not! It's my right.
 * #8: It's your right.
 * #3: Well, what do you want from me?
 * #8: We want your arguments.
 * #3: I gave ya my arguments!
 * #8: We're not convinced! We want to hear them again. We have as much time as it takes.
 * #3: Everything... every single thing that came out in that courtroom, but I mean everything... says he's guilty. What d'ya think? I'm an idiot or somethin'? Why don't cha take that stuff about the old man; the old man who lived there and heard everything? Or the business about the knife! What, just because he found one exactly like it? The old man saw him. Right there on the stairs. What's the difference how many seconds it was? Every single thing. The knife falling through a hole in his pocket...you can't prove that he didn't get to the door! Sure, you can hobble around the room and take all the time you want, but you can't prove it! And that stuff with the El! And the movies! Now there's a phony deal if I ever saw one. I'd betcha five thousand dollars I'd remember the names of the movies I saw! I'm tellin' ya: every single thing that has went on has been twisted... and turned. This business with the glasses. How do you know she didn't have 'em on? This woman testified in open court! And that thing about hearin' the kid yell... huh? Listen, I've got all the facts here... [He struggles with his notebook, throws it on the table] Ah! Well, there it is! That's the whole case! [He turns towards the window as the other jurors stare at him] Well, SAY SOMETHING! ...You lousy bunch of bleedin' hearts. You're not goin' to intimidate me! I'm entitled to my own opinion! [Sees the picture of his son on the table] Rotten kids...you WORK YOUR LIFE OUT! [He lunges at the picture and tears it to pieces. He suddenly realizes what he's doing, stops, then breaks down] No. Not guilty. Not guilty!

 * [Last lines]
 * #9: Hey, what's your name?
 * #8: Davis.
 * #9: My name's McCardle. [pause] Well, so long.

Cast

 * Martin Balsam - Juror #1
 * John Fiedler - Juror #2
 * Lee J. Cobb - Juror #3
 * E.G. Marshall - Juror #4
 * Jack Klugman - Juror #5
 * Ed Binns - Juror #6
 * Jack Warden - Juror #7
 * Henry Fonda - Juror #8 (Davis)
 * Joseph Sweeney - Juror #9 (McCardle)
 * Ed Begley - Juror #10
 * George Voskovec - Juror #11
 * Robert Webber - Juror #12

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User:LordAmeth

What's to say here? My contributions to Wikiquote will probably consist mainly of comicbook quotes, from X-men and CrossGen in particular, as I have noticed that there is a severe lack of those quotes. I may also contribute meaningful or poignant quotes from Japanese sources.

For more, see my User page on Wikipedia.

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CrossGen

CrossGen was a short-lived American comic book publisher that published a number of series between 1998 and 2004. Most of their series centered on a single metaplot, which culminated in the crossover title Negation War. Unfortunately, that title was never completed, due to the company's bankruptcy, and so this grand metaplot remains unfinished.

General or Repeated Quotes

 * ''This conversation was a two-page spread at the beginning of Crossgen's first four series. It takes place between two mysterious and unnamed characters, dubbed Creator and Sidekick by the fanbase.

Creator: This place grows colder, my friend. Its energy wanes. I am seeking a solution, and eager welcome your thoughts. Sidekick: It is not like you to be so troubled. Creator: So long ago, when it was all set in motion, it was so... fascinating in its complexity. It surprised even me. Now things are static, worlds grow cold, and what were once glorious fields of battle lay still and barren. The problem is not simply lazy warriors. The vital energies on which we all depend are fading away... it shouldn't happen like this... Yet it is! It is dying and the First do nothing to prevent it! Sidekick: Because the First don't understand. They have no idea of the connection between their actions and the whole. Creator: Yes. They need... motivation. They must be forced to reignite the cycle... Yet... they know nothing of my existence. To do so would change them... Sidekick: Why look only to the First? There are many worlds open to you. So many people... If you were to step in quietly - walk among them. Then a gentle touch, to add just a small mark of your passage - a sign. Your sign. Imagine... each world, one soul, marked with the sigil, opened to the power. Creator: Why just one? Sidekick: I was thinking in terms of efficiency. The number is unimportant. A small number makes for a clear burden on each. Too many, and they let someone else do the work. Creator: As we have already seen with the First. Still... Sidekick: Come...

Issue 03
Caption (Narration Box): In Meridian, when people die, we light a pyre and gather... remembering their lives in thought or story until we're ready to let them go. Then we send their spirit to the stars as we scatter their ashes to the wind. Sephie: I have no ashes, Papa, so this isn't a proper farewell...

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Misc X-titles and Limited Series

This is a quote page for all the shorter-running or more minor X-men-related comic book series that do not have enough quotes to warrant devoting an entire page to them. Limited series, one-shots, and graphic novels can also fall into this category.

Giant-Size X-men 1

 * Xavier has traveled to Russia to recruit Peter Rasputin to join his new team of X-men.
 * Colossus: You want me to go with you... to America? But if I possess such power as you say - does it not belong to the state?
 * Xavier: Power such as yours belongs to the world, Peter - to be used for the good of all. And believe me - your powers are needed!
 * Colossus (to his parents): Then come, we will talk of this with my parents... and so this professor wants to take me with him - to teach me how to deal with me... my mutant powers. Th-there is wisdom in his words, Papa - but I am happy here. Tell me, Papa - what should I do?
 * Mr. Rasputin: Do as your heart tells you, my son. It will not betray you.
 * Colossus: My heart tells me to stay, Papa - but my conscience tells me otherwise. I must go, Papa.
 * Mr. Rasputin: Then it is right that you do.

X-men Graphic Novel - God Loves, Man Kills

 * Illyana Rasputin (quoting Peter Rasputin): If not for the depths of grief, how could we truly measure the heights of joy.

Marvel Age Issue 39

 * In a joke cartoon. A man has arrived at Xavier's School and Angel has answered the door.
 * Man: Good afternoon, sir. I am looking for a Miss Jean Grey.
 * Angel: She's dead. Come back next week.

Annual 2001

 * Shadowcat has been defending herself and the mutant community on an anti-mutant online bulletin board run by 'The Pride'.'
 * Shadowcat (reading computer screen): Your presence on this forum is disruptive and will no longer be tolerated.
 * Shadowcat: Give me a break! When did Professor Xavier's dream become such a nightmare? Maybe Magneto was right? Maybe we should learn to hate 'em back. Maybe it's time we accepted there really isn't room on this planet for us to share. Maybe it's time to do something about it.

Alpha Flight vol. 3 #1

 * Sasquatch: I offer you a place on my team, but you will have to protect a world that hates and fears you.
 * Yukon Jack: Why would I want to protect a world that hates and fears me?
 * Sasquatch: Well, ummm... Hey, where'd he go?
 * Sasquatch: Miss, I need your help to save a world that hates and fears us.
 * Zuzha Yu: Get out of here, eh? I have a bar to run.
 * Sasquatch:(monologue) I need to work on my sales pitch.
 * Sasquatch:(monologue) I need to work on my sales pitch.

Gambit, and the X-ternals

 * '''Jubilee: So, what's her power? Sides the ability to stick out her chest.

Juggernaut One-Shot

 * [D'Spayre has magically stripped away Juggernaut's flesh and internal organs, leaving nothing but a crimson skeleton]
 * Juggernaut: But I been feelin' despair my whole life. And I learned how to deal with it. I got mad!
 * D'Spayre: He still stands? He moves?
 * Juggernaut: Cause life is pain. Pain leads to despair. An' the only way to beat despair is through rage. And rage feeds the Juggernaut. Once the Juggernaut feels rage...nothing...of this or any world... NOTHING CAN STOP THE JUGGERNAUT!!
 * D'Spayre: Impossible! How are you even moving?!? There's nothing left-- nothing but--
 * Juggernaut: Nothing but hate.

X-Men Unlimited #11: 'Adrift'

 * Narrator: Eloise has lived her entire life in this town; drew her first paycheck and Jones' Hardware on 3rd; married Frank in the registrar's around the corner; delivered Stevie in Doctor Henshaw's across the street. The registrar's is still there - knock on wood - but Jones sold out to a chain store a few years back, and the Doctor's been buried three plots down from Frank for over five years now. But change is good, she tells herself. Unless and until it threatens Stevie.

 * Trask: Shoot... to kill.
 * (Helicopter launches rockets at Rogue and an amnesiac Magneto. Magneto catches the rockets in a magnetic field and prepares to throw them back)
 * Rogue: No. No, Mag - Joseph, don't. If you do this -it ain't worth the cost of your soul, and you know it.
 * Narrator: Time stops around Joseph and Trask. And two men, each fighting to escape the shadows of their past, each prepared to kill for their place in an even darker future, finally find the one thing they have in common. Fear.
 * (Magneto tears the warheads off the rockets and flies away)
 * Narrator: Fear of change.

X-Men:Schism Vol 1

 * Idie: It's because we're monsters.
 * : What?
 * Idie: That's why they want to kill us. You can't blame them. They have every right to be afraid.
 * Wolverine: Look at me, Idie....you are 'not a monster, you hear me?
 * Idie: It's okay. It doesn't bother me anymore. I've made my peace with what I am.
 * Aaron, Jason (w), Cho, Frank (a),X-Men Schism #2, (September, 2011), Marvel Comics.

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Green Wing (series 1)

 * For series 2 quotes, see Green Wing (series 2).
 * For the Special quotes, see Green Wing Special.

Green Wing (2004 – 2007) is a British television comedy broadcast on Channel 4. The first series was transmitted between 3 September and 29 October 2004. The Comic Relief sketches were shown on 11 March 2005. It was nominated for, and received a number of awards. A DVD of the series was released on 3 April 2006, but did not include the comic relief sketches.

Caroline's First Day [1.1]

 * Guy: Two things women want, ok? Money and protection.
 * Martin: Well, I've got a helmet and a credit card.

 * Caroline: Sorry if I seem a bit stressed out, I didn't sleep very well last night. Although I did have a rather disturbing lesbian dream.
 * Guy: Bingo.
 * Mac: Would you like to talk about that, or...?
 * Caroline: I don't really remember it.
 * Mac: Make it up?
 * Guy: Positions, numbers?
 * Mac: Numbers, positions?
 * Guy: Were they shaved?
 * Mac: Yeah, were they shaved?
 * Caroline: [sarcastic] Perhaps I could try and have another one tonight, take a few notes, bring them in for you tomorrow.
 * Guy: Can you draw?
 * [Caroline's phone starts ringing in the operating theatre]
 * Guy: Your shoes are ringing.
 * Mac: [quietly] It might be a lesbian.
 * Guy: Or the mother ship.

 * Sue White: Well what can I do for you this time, Dr. Statham?
 * Alan Statham: I'd like a new badge please.
 * Sue White: May I ask what happened to the old one?
 * Alan Statham: I've still got it. I'm afraid to report it's been vandalised by some b-bloody bastards!
 * Sue White: In what way?
 * Alan Statham: Rather not talk about it.
 * Sue White: Well if you don't, I can't order you a new one.
 * Alan Statham: And where does it say that in the regulations?
 * [Sue picks up a large book from her desk, rapidly thumbs to a random page and points without looking]
 * Sue White: There. [puts the book down]
 * Alan Statham: Alright. Umm... someone has used a marker pen to make some alterations. The badge should read: "Dr. Alan Statham", next line: "Consultant Radiologist", and they have blacked out the letters O N S and L T A.
 * Sue White: I see, so that would in fact leave... [writes on a post-it note] A 'C', a 'U', an 'N'...
 * Alan Statham: Yes, yes, yes, exactly, yes.
 * Sue White: ...and an-- oh, I see. So, your badge now reads: "Alan Statham, Cu--"
 * Alan Statham: Yes, thank you, that's what it's been changed to.
 * Sue White: Again?
 * Alan Statham: Yes, again.
 * Sue White: Well, alright, I'll see what I can do. It's going to take a couple of weeks to order a new one, though.
 * Alan Statham: Well, what--what am I meant to do in the meantime?
 * Sue White: Well, I suggest you black-out the bits you don't want!
 * Alan Statham: Well, then right, I will.
 * Sue White: I'd lose the second line rather than the first.
 * Alan Statham: What?
 * Sue White: Just trying to help!

 * Guy: Guy Secretan - it's Swiss.
 * Caroline: Ah, cuckoo clocks, no beaches. Theft of Jewish gold after the fall of Nazi Germany. Sorry, I expect everyone says that.
 * Guy: No.

 * Mac: Martin, Martin, see this? Is that your - is this your signature?
 * Martin: Yeah, it is, yeah.
 * Mac: Yeah - can't really do smiley faces on death certificates, it does look a little bit insensitive, okay?

 * Guy: You... are a gingre.
 * Mac: I am a fraise-blonde.

Rumours [1.2]

 * [on whether things are going well with her "sort-of" boyfriend]
 * Karen: Thing is, he said I had a furry face. That can't be a good thing, can it?
 * Kim: No, I guess not.
 * Karen: [in tears] Damn my furry face!

 * Mac: What can I tell you? A few ground rules - no bombing, no running, no petting, no diving and no inflatables. In fact, probably best to leave all swimming related activities until later - this is, after all, an operating theatre.

 * Guy: I can do a surface dive in my pyjamas.
 * Mac: That's probably very handy for a bedwetter.

 * Caroline: Stop right there. Come back here.
 * Mac: Stop right there, come back here - which? I'm confused.

 * [Guy accidentally pushes too much air into a patient's chest during an operation]
 * Guy: I thought she was having a nightmare.
 * Mac: She is with you as her bloody anaesthetist.

Lodgers [1.3]

 * Martin: I'm thinking about getting an Adamantium helmet.
 * Mac: Yeah? That’s the stuff the Wolverine skeleton’s made out of, isn’t it?
 * Martin: Yep. Hardest metal in the world.
 * Mac: Indeed, indeed yeah. Sadly of course, a fictional metal. So that would probably reduce its effectiveness in a crash-style scenario.
 * Martin: Good point. Good point. Still the hardest metal in the world though. [Martin leaves.]
 * Mac: Fictional.

 * Alan: You’re probably thinking that in some bizarre way that my playing the recorder has caused, erm, an expansion down below.
 * Boyce: I wasn’t thinking that, but I am now.

 * [Caroline screams after she fails to light up a cigarette.]
 * Caroline: Aarrgh! I want nicotine! Then I’d like to meet a nice man and have a sexually charged, no-speaking affair.

 * [Sue comforts a crying Guy.]
 * Guy: Don’t be nice to me.
 * Sue: Oh, all right, pull yourself together you cretinous fuckwit! What sort of a man hides in other people’s coats, rocking and whinging to themselves? I’ll tell you what sort of a man – a self-centred, egotistical wankpot! Now unhook yourself and stop being so weak. Men don’t cry. They’re strong hunter-gatherers. So go hunt, go gather, go be a total cunt, because that’s what you do best!
 * Guy: Fuck you, you ugly bitch! Oh, that feels so much better. Do you fancy a quick fiddle now we're in here?
 * Sue: I am tempted, cos I’m all fired up. But no, thanks, I’d rather lick my own armpit.

 * [Guy is on the telephone to a former girlfriend.]
 * Guy: Suzy? Babe? [Puts on a bad Welsh accent.] Oh, hello. Oh, hello Frank. No, no, it's Geoff. Yeah. No, I'm an old school friend of Suzy's. I know she did, but I moved down when I was twelve. From... [Changes accent.] ...Derbyshire. Oh, do they? Which part? Which part? Which bit? Oh, I know I don’t, but because I’ve got a bit of a cold at the moment and I'm a bit sad... about... well, about my... hedgerows. Yeah. I've got to go now. I’ve got to go to the Vale. The Vale of Pewter. Near... Derby. OK, OK, bye. [Hangs up.] Think I got away with that.

Joanna's Birthday [1.4]

 * [Harriet and Karen buying a birthday cake.]
 * Harriet: Ooh, this one.
 * [Harriet picks out a cake in the shape of a pair of breasts.]
 * Karen: That's more Rachel. It's not really Joanna.
 * Harriet: We can put a candle on each nipple. I’ve always wanted to do that. Either that or run away and join the circus.

 * Guy: Buggering wank!
 * Mac: The Swiss water-polo team lost again?

 * Martin: Hello, Mum, it's me. Martin.  Martin Dear.  Martin.  M-A-R-T-I-N.  You know who it is!

 * Mac: Join me again next week on Let’s Make No Fucking Sense when I will be waxing an owl.

 * Karen: What’s that on your coat?
 * Rachel: What?
 * Karen: Silver lines, on there.
 * Rachel: Oh, snails. Yeah, I went to a party last night and, err…woke up in the garden.

Housewarming Party [1.5]

 * [Karen’s poem, "Ode to Martin," read by Kim.]
 * Kim: "There was a time I had not seen you, I don't know how I coped. Now every day I want to watch you and help you with your [pronounced phonetically] moped." "Help you with your moped?" What's that?

 * Harriet: I tell you what you could do, Karen. In the second line: coped—copèd. "I know how not I copèd." No. A bit florid perhaps.

 * [Caroline and Mac talk to some students about medicine.]
 * Mac: Any final thoughts, Dr. Todd?
 * Caroline: Don't get ill. We make you all sleepy and do terrible things.
 * Mac: Wise words indeed.

 * Guy: Martin, what do you think of when I say the word "Switzerland" to you?
 * Martin: I don't know, you've never said it to me before.
 * Guy: I'm saying it now. And don't say Phil Collins lives there.
 * Martin: Does he?
 * Guy: Shut your eyes, think of Switzerland—what do you see?
 * Martin: [Eyes shut] Nothing.
 * Guy: You must see something!
 * Martin: I don't have a visual memory, sorry.
 * Mac: I see something. I see a chocolate Phil Collins coming out of a clock every hour, to tidy up his Nazi gold.

 * Caroline: What are you wearing?
 * Angela: It's called a white coat. It's identical to the one you're wearing, only a tiny bit whiter.

Tests [1.6]

 * [Joanna brings a urine sample to the pathology lab for testing]
 * Technician: I need a name for the sample.
 * Joanna: Er, well, it's for a friend of mine who wishes to remain anonymous. Is that going to cause problems in your weird little technical brain?
 * Technician: No, it's just that usually we've got to go up on the roof and shout, "Pregnancy test results for the stupid lanky old bitch who's not learned to take basic precautions in her forty-odd years on this planet!" You know, assuming that your friend is quite lanky.

 * [Caroline tries to remember what happened at the party with Mac.]
 * Caroline: First you say you don't remember any kissing at all, and now you're saying there was kissing in the toilet. Which one is it?
 * Guy: [From the next room.] Kissing in the toilet?
 * Caroline: Yes, er, who sang "Kissing in the Toilet" in 1978?
 * Guy: Er, was it a young George Michael?
 * Caroline: Yes.
 * Guy: Fucking hell! That was a guess! [sings] "Kissing in the toilet. Don't flush, it's lush."

 * Martin: I know you pretend to be ashamed of me.
 * Joanna: No, it’s quite genuine.
 * Martin: Well, underneath I know you're got some mother's pride. And I don’t mean the bread.

 * Alan: Precisely. Gamma rays, which produce images of—I'm having a baby—and can be expressed in numerical form. Tiny, pink, little baby. Moving on to diagnostic preferences in, let's say soft-tissue trauma... Who's the daddy? I think you'll find that I am the daddy.

 * Caroline: How was the, erm, interview?
 * Mac: Not sure. I might have used the words "job", "stick", "up", and "arse" all in one sentence. Is that a bad thing?
 * Caroline: Well, I think tone of voice is very important.

 * Joanna: You and me are not an item. Never have been, never will be. What have you got to say to that then, eh?
 * Alan: I.
 * Joanna: What?
 * Alan: "You and I" are not an item, not "you and me."
 * Joanna: Listen to I. I'm not in a relationship with you no more.

 * [Having been dumped by Joanna, Alan has commandeered a milk float, and is driving it down a street, while throwing empty milk bottles at nearby pedestrians]
 * Alan: Sod off, you... you Jezebel whores! Go on, you slutty tarts! Go on, with your slitty, slutty, slitty, slutty slots! Go on, sod off, you're... you're all the bloody same!

Tangled Webs [1.7]

 * Mac: Your reward will be in Devon.
 * Caroline: Devon?
 * Mac: Oh, no, sorry. It's heaven isn't it? Yeah, that's right. I used to get them confused as a kid. You know, when people die, they got to Devon.
 * Caroline: [Laughs] That's funny.
 * Mac: Well, not really, no. Ruined my summer holidays—I thought my whole family was dead.

 * Mac: That part of the day we’ve all been looking forward to. Nurse Richardson, perhaps you'd like to choose: movie genre, or regional accent?
 * Theatre Nurse: Regional accent, please.
 * Mac: Excellent choice. Dr. Todd, perhaps you'd like to pick today's regional accent.
 * Guy: Surrey. Buckinghamshire. Er, Swiss.
 * Caroline: Northeast, Newcastle.
 * Mac: Tricky, but always very funny. Good choice. [Geordie] All reet, then, shall we get on and start the operation?

Slave Auction [1.8]

 * [Boyce has stuck a Star of David on Alan's pointer.]
 * Boyce: I don't think you understand. That's soldered on. It's never gonna come off.
 * Alan: Yes, quite. Remarkable—all achieved in apparently under five minutes. [Alan hits Boyce under the chin with the point, knocking off the star and hurting him badly.] Right, moving on to the third upper metatarsal...

 * Teacher: Now... Robbie. Is there any history of mental illness in the family?
 * Harriet: No.
 * Teacher: Are you sure?
 * Harriet: Yeah, I think so.
 * Teacher: You know about the penguin with the chainsaw?
 * Harriet: Yes. Oh, but every child has an imaginary friend.

 * Teacher: Are there any major problems at home?
 * Harriet: Erm... He does like to eat bread straight from the freezer. "Bread lollies," he calls them. But we thought that was kind of sweet.

Emergency [1.9]

 * [Martin confronts Joanna in the car park.]
 * Martin: You let me down. You weren’t there for me, Mum.
 * Joanna: Shut up! Not here!
 * Martin: I needed you to make my packed lunches, I needed you to pick me up from swimming and I needed you to make me that Incredible Hulk costume for Halloween.
 * Joanna: Shut up! Shut up!
 * Martin: I've got an angry penis!

 * Martin: Can I ask your advice about something?
 * Caroline: Your shirt tucked into your pants doesn't really work for you, Martin.
 * [Martin pulls his shirt over his underpants.]
 * Martin: No, look, it's not about clothes, it's about something more serious.
 * Caroline: More serious than clothes? I don't understand.

 * [Mac commentates on Guy's attempt to chat-up Joanna, in the style of David Attenborough]
 * Mac: The hunter spots his prey. But there is a problem. The herd of tottie is sticking together, making it hard to target any one individual. [Joanna walks to the bar.] He's in luck. The herd has split, leaving one creature alone—
 * Joanna: Double vodka.
 * Mac: —and vulnerable. She's old, and weaker than the rest. This, surely, is his best chance.
 * Guy: Fuck off!
 * Mac: The hunter will tolerate no interruption to his meticulous preparations. He waits, like a coiled spring, and then... he strikes.

 * Alan: Oh my fucksy, there's a field in the road!

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Charles Bradlaugh

Charles Bradlaugh (26 September 1833 – 30 January 1891) was a political activist and one of the most famous English atheists of the 19th century.

Attributed

 * The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.
 * Charles Bradlaugh, in Paul Edwards, "Atheism." Paul Edwards, editor, The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. New York: Macmillan, 1967, vol. 1, p. 177.

 * Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked, and the nations no longer march forward towards the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.
 * Speech at Hall of Science c.1880 quoted in An Autobiography of Annie Besant; reported in Edmund Fuller, Thesaurus of Quotations (1941), p. 398; reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).

Quotes about Bradlaugh

 * On 24 March 1877 Annie (Besant) worked with Bradlaugh to republish Dr Charles Knowlton’s Fruits of Philosophy [1832] (a pamphlet that advocated the use of contraceptive practice); an act that led to the arrest of Besant and Bradlaugh on 6 April 1877 for transgressing the Obscene Publications Act 1857. The following ‘Obscenity trial’ was held on 18 June... both were proclaimed guilty. However, the sentence was overturned on a technicality so Besant and Bradlaugh were able to walk free. The arrest and trial were widely publicised across the country...the associated press coverage succeeded in propelling the pamphlet’s informative advice far beyond their initial reach...  1891 saw the death of Charles Bradlaugh who had become one of Annie’s closest and longest friends. Perhaps in recognition of this, this is the year in which Annie chose to bring her autobiography to an end when she was writing it in 1893, aged 46.
 * Chloe Wilson, Annie Besant: ‘A Stormy, Public, Much Attacked and Slandered Life', East End Women's Museum, (4 July 2020)

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Talk:Ageing

History of Old age, merged here: ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:15, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

* (cur) (last) 09:47, 25 August 2005 MosheZadka (merge -> Age) * (cur) (last) 12:18, 16 August 2005 MosheZadka (intro, wp, stub, fmt) * (cur) (last) 11:07, 9 May 2005 Aphaia m   * (cur) (last) 19:28, 10 October 2004 DW m

Possibly unnotable quotes
I've moved the following from the main page, because the quotees did not have a wikipedia or a wikiquote page. If there is evidence of notability, add it here, on a wp page or a wq page, and restore quote. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:36, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

 * "If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at 39?"
 * Jim Fiebig

 * "Old is when you're dead."
 * Sven Mattson

All quotees currently have a linked page on wikiquote. If you add quotes by people who do not have either an wq or a wikipedia page, please make sure to wikilink to the non-existing wq page (a redlink), and add some note on the quotee here, so notability will be evident. Alternatively, create the wq page. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 11:41, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

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 * Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.
 * Pietro Aretino.

 * Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things, —- old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
 * Francis Bacon.

 * I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
 * Rita Mae Brown.

 * A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
 * Groucho Marx

 * Growing old is no more than a bad habbit which a busy man has no time to form.
 * André Maurois, quoted in The Aging American.

 * An old man loved is winter with flowers.
 * German proverb.

 * I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
 * Tom Stoppard.

 * Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
 * Charles Dickens.

 * The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
 * Hume Cronyn.

 * There are only three ages for women in Hollywood — Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
 * Goldie Hawn.

 * Times go by: reputation increases, ability declines.
 * Dag Hammarskjold.

 * To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
 * Bernard Baruch.

 * We are always the same age inside.
 * Gertrude Stein.

 * When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
 * R. C. Sherriff.

 * When you become senile, you won't know it.
 * Bill Cosby

 * When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
 * Cyril Connolly

 * When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
 * Mark Twain.

 * You will become a hypocrite, you'll become a liar. You'll try and paper up your own cracks... and that's what being an adult is all about. Then you have babies and... that's it. Sorry!
 * Thom Yorke.

 * Your life only tips into old age if regrets begin to outnumber dreams.
 * Peter Baskerville

 * My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a reason to stay alive.
 * Johannes Heesters (Dutch-German actor, singer, entertainer and media-personality, worlds oldest living performer).

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 * Age before beauty.

 * Age brings wisdom, but pain brings understanding.

 * Age is a bad traveling companion.
 * English proverb.

 * To be mature is to accept imperfections
 * Fortune cookie

 * Age is nothing but a number
 * Dove Chocolate Promise Message

 * There are no charms or medicine against old age.
 * Anonymous, quoted in The Journal of Negro History, Edited by Carter G. Woodson, Volume 1 Number 1 (1916).

merging Growing old
I agree and support the merge of both the pages and would like to assist, given a consensus is reached. Lightbluerain (talk) 18:53, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

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Giant Sized X-Men should be merged with uncanny x-men, as it is consecutively numbered. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:30, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Alpha Flight isn't part of X-Men, it's a series all it's own.

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Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn (March 31 1732 – May 31 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio.

Quotes

 * Give Him thanks, all ye His works so wondrous! Sing His honor, sing His glory, bless and magnify His Name! Jehovah’s praise endures forevermore, Amen, Amen!.
 * The libretto of an 18th-century oratorio by Joseph Haydn states in praise of Jehovah. Source: The Watchtower magazine, article: Praise the King of Eternity!, 4/1, 1996.
 * Ich sage ihnen vor Gott, als ein ehrlicher Mann, ihr Sohn ist der größte Componist, den ich von Person und den Nahmen nach kenne: er hat geschmack, und über das die größte Compositionswissenschaft.
 * Before God and as an honest man I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name: He has taste, and, furthermore, the most profound knowledge of composition.
 * Quoted in a letter from Leopold Mozart to Maria Anna Mozart (1785-02-16)

 * If I could only impress on the soul of every friend of music, and on high personages in particular, how inimitable are Mozart's works, how profound, how musically intelligent, how extraordinarily sensitive! (for this is how I understand them, how I feel them) — why then the nations would vie with each other to possess such a jewel within their frontiers. Prague should hold him fast — but should reward him, too: for without this, the history of great geniuses is sad indeed, and gives but little encouragement to posterity to further exertions; and unfortunately this is why so many promising intellects fall by the wayside.
 * Letter to Franz Rott (December 1787), from The collected correspondence, and London notebooks of Joseph Haydn, ed. H.C. Robbins Landon (1959), p. 73

Quotes about Haydn

 * Dear Haydn, how I love you! But other pianists? They're rather lukewarm towards you. Which is a great shame.
 * Sviatoslav Richter, quoted in Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations (2002) by Bruno Monsaingeon

 * Haydn is, together with Schumann, probably the most neglected and misunderstood of the greatest composers. Some might argue with this statement by saying that Haydn's works are frequently performed and that he has long been recognised as the father figure of Viennese Classicism. Papa Haydn has become one of the worst clichés in classical music. It degrades one of history's most innovative composers into a lovable but minor figure.
 * András Schiff, liner notes to Joseph Haydn Piano Sonatas, Teldec 0630-17141-2 (1997)

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