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Behind Enemy Lines (2001 film)

Behind Enemy Lines a 2001 film is about a Navy navigator who is shot down over enemy territory and is ruthlessly pursued by a secret police enforcer and the opposing troops. Meanwhile his commanding officer goes against orders in an attempt to rescue him.
 * Directed by John Moore. Written by Zak Penn and David Veloz.

In War There Are Some Lines You Should Never Cross. taglines

Admiral Reigart

 * [on the radio] Burnett!! [Pauses due to no names over the airwaves] Zero-six, you’re a combat naval aviator, start acting like one. You've been shot down. Life is tough. I am very sorry. You pull yourself together. You do whatever it takes. Create some angles between you and your pursuers. Use your training, use your head. Evade and survive, and we will bring you home. Do you understand? We will bring you home.
 * [addressing Marines he will lead in his own rescue mission for Burnett] Gentlemen, I want to make one thing clear before we leave - I intend to put you in harm's way. Any man who doesn't wish to join this mission, step away right now. [the men are silent] All right, then, lets go get our boy back.

Dialogue

 * [Admiral Reigart receives Chris Burnett's resignation letter, with reservations]
 * Admiral Reigart: Are you gonna fly commercial jets? Troll the friendly skies in a bus? You've had an interesting career, Lieutenant. I remember when you came on board. Smart as a whip, tons of potential.
 * Chris Burnett: Thank you, sir.
 * Reigart: And then, on September 23rd, you received a non-punitive letter of caution for disorderly behavior at the China Fleet Club in Hong Kong. Another letter a month later for something involving Chinese New Year at Pattaya Beach in Thailand. One can only imagine what that was. Just out of curiosity, Lieutenant, what happened to you?
 * Burnett: Sir, I signed up to be a fighter pilot. I didn't wanna be a cop. I certainly didn't wanna be a cop walkin' the beat in a neighborhood no one cares about. That and the routine on the ship kinda wore me out.
 * Reigart: The routine?
 * Burnett: The routine.
 * Reigart: What you don't know from experience is that the routine, the systems checks, the drills, the maintaining of discipline, that's what you do to prepare for war.
 * Burnett: We're not at war, sir.
 * Reigart: Yes, we are. Unless we're parked in San Diego Bay, you're at war every time you step on this boat. You understand that?
 * Burnett: No, sir, I do not understand. If we're at war, why don't we act like it? 'Cos as far as I can tell, we go out, we fly around and we come back. Maybe we're pretending we're in the middle of the fight, but we're not fighting, we're watching.
 * Reigart: You should be glad you're not in a fight, Lieutenant. Because with your attitude, you wouldn't last long.
 * Burnett: Sir, with all due respect, I've given the Navy seven good years. I think I've served my country.
 * Reigart: You wouldn't know the FIRST thing about serving your country!!! You have two weeks remaining on this tour. You will serve them in a manner befitting a naval officer. I'll keep your letter in my pocket. At the end of those two weeks, you be on your way. [shuffles papers and stashes them away. looks back at Burnett] You're dismissed, mister.

 * Burnett: Son of a bitch! Did you see this? He puts us on a holiday mission, god damn it!
 * Stackhouse: Yeah, but look at the bright side, at least we get to fly, right?
 * Burnett: Yeah, during the one good meal of the year, it's almost as if he doesn't like us.
 * Stackhouse: No, no. You! Not me. You!

 * Rodway: Don't you forget what you are doing.
 * Burnett: What are we doing here? Are you kidding me? Well, I am eating Jello, and he is wiping his hands.
 * Rodway: You don't get to pick a fight. It comes to you.
 * Burnett: Yeah, I get it. But at least give me a fight that I can understand.

 * Babic: It's not safe here. We keep moving.
 * Burnett: No, you go. They killed my pilot because we took pictures of the graves, and I know where they are. And I am gonna get them, so he didn't die for no reason. Don't follow me, it's safer here.

 * Admiral Reigart: Our man is down behind enemy lines, now what the fuck is the problem?
 * Admiral Piquet: Do you have any idea how much damage this incident may cause to the peace process??!?
 * Admiral Reigart: All I know, Admiral, is that the American people want their pilot back.
 * Admiral Piquet: Exactly! Americans, all you care about is your own damn pilots! What happens when the fighting starts again? Will America recommit its forces to stop a major war? No, you don't have any control over that little detail, do you? You might have helped save your man today, Reigart, and I emphasize 'might', but you risk the lives of thousands tomorrow.

 * O'Malley: You will lose your command for this.
 * Admiral Reigart: So be it! I'm not gonna let that kid die out there while we sit around on this ship!

Taglines

 * In War There Are Some Lines You Should Never Cross.

 * Prepare to cross the line.

 * Mission: to evade and survive.

 * His only weapon is his will to survive.

Cast

 * Owen Wilson — Lt. Chris Burnett
 * Gene Hackman — RADM Leslie McMahon Reigart
 * Gabriel Macht — Stackhouse
 * Charles Malik Whitfield — Capt. Rodway, USMC
 * David Keith — Master Chief Tom O'Malley
 * Olek Krupa — Miroslav Lokar

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Deliverance

Deliverance is a 1972 film about four suburban professional men from Atlanta, Georgia on a weekend canoe and camping trip into the dangerous Appalachian back-country.
 * Directed by John Boorman. Written by James Dickey, based on his novel of the same name.

This is the weekend they didn't play golf. taglines

Lewis Medlock

 * Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything...A couple more months, she'll all be gone...from Aintry on up. One big dead lake.
 * I sleep at night. I have no worries. I am becoming myself, as inconsequential as that may be. I am not something that somebody shoved off on me. I am what I chose to be, and I am it.

Mountain Man

 * He was the tightest and damndest pig I ever did screw.

Dialogue

 * Griner: Canoe trip?
 * Lewis: That's right, a canoe trip.
 * Griner: What the hell you wanna go fuck around with that river for?
 * Lewis: Because it's there.
 * Griner: It's there all right. You get in there and can't get out, you're gonna wish it wasn't.

 * [Lewis and Ed take a wrong turn looking for the river]
 * Lewis: Well, we fucked up.
 * Griner: Where you goin' city boy?
 * Lewis: We'll find it. We'll find it.
 * Griner: It ain't nothin' but the biggest fuckin' river in the state.

 * Lewis: The first explorers saw this country, saw it just like us.
 * Drew: I can imagine how they felt.
 * Bobby: [about the rapids] Yeah, we beat it, didn't we? Did we beat that?
 * Lewis: You don't beat it. You never beat the river chubby.

 * Lewis: Machines are gonna fail and the system's gonna fail...then, survival. Who has the ability to survive? That's the game - survive.
 * Ed: Well, the system's done all right by me.
 * Lewis: Oh yeah. You gotta nice job, you gotta a nice house, a nice wife, a nice kid.
 * Ed: You make that sound rather shitty, Lewis.
 * Lewis: Why do you go on these trips with me, Ed?
 * Ed: I like my life, Lewis.
 * Lewis: Yeah, but why do you go on these trips with me?
 * Ed: You know, sometimes I wonder about that.

 * Ed: [to Bobby] I'm glad we came here.
 * Bobby: [offers Lewis a drink] Lewis?
 * Ed: Lewis does not drink.
 * Bobby: It's true Lewis, what you said. There's something in the woods and the water that we have lost in the city.
 * Lewis: We didn't lose it. We sold it.
 * Bobby: Well I'll say one thing for the system. System did produce the air mattress, or as is better known among we camping types, the instant broad. [The other three laugh and continue laughing.] And if you fellas will excuse me, I'm gonna go be mean to my air mattress. [He starts spraying bug spray on himself.] I do baptize thee, now in the name of modern technology - [Drew cheers.] How sweet. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. [He laughs. Lewis motions for them to be quiet, and they fall silent. Lewis goes into the woods and disappears.]
 * Ed: Lewis?
 * Bobby: Does he think he is Tarzan or what?
 * Ed: He knows the woods though. He really does. He does.
 * Drew: Not really. He learn 'em. He doesn't feel 'em. That's Lewis's problem. He wants to be one with nature, and he can't hack it.
 * Bobby: That's a hell of a time to be telling us that! [He and Ed laugh. Drew motions to be quiet, and they fall silent. The three go in the direction that Lewis went while Lewis appears behind them. Bobby turns around and is surprised.] Jesus! Lewis, you scared the shit outta me!
 * Ed: Oh, what was it, Lewis?
 * Lewis: I don't know. I thought I heard something.
 * Bobby: Something or someone?
 * Lewis: I don't know. [He laughs and goes into his tent.]
 * Drew: Good night, Lewis.
 * Lewis: Good night, Drew.
 * Bobby: I'm going to sleep.
 * Ed: The night has fallen, and there's nothin' we can do about it.
 * Bobby: I had my first wet dream in a sleeping bag.
 * Ed: How was it?
 * Bobby: Great. There was no repeatin' it.
 * Drew: Never mind. [He and Bobby get in their tent.]
 * Ed: [to Lewis] No matter what disaster that may occur in other parts of the world, or what petty little problems arise in Atlanta, no one can find us up here. Good night, Lewis.

 * Mountain Man: What the hell you think you're doin'?
 * Ed: Headin' down river. A little canoe trip, headin' for Aintry.
 * Mountain Man: Aintry?
 * Bobby: Sure, this river only runs one way, captain, haven't you heard?
 * Mountain Man: You ain't never gonna get down to Ain-.
 * Ed: Well, why not?
 * Mountain Man: 'Cause. This river don't go to Aintry. You done taken a wrong turn. See uh, this here river don't go nowhere near Aintry.
 * Bobby: Where does it go, then?
 * Mountain Man: Boy, you are a lost one, ain't ya?
 * Bobby: Well, hell, I guess this river comes out somewhere, don't it? That's where we're goin'. Somewhere. Look, we don't want any trouble here.
 * Ed: If you gentlemen have a still near here, hell, that's fine with us.
 * Bobby: Why sure. We'd never tell anybody where it is. You know somethin', you're right, we're lost. We don't know where in the hell we are.
 * Toothless Man: A still?
 * Bobby: Right, yeah. You're makin' some whiskey up here. We'll buy some from ya, we could use it, couldn't we?
 * Mountain Man: Do you know what you're talkin' about?
 * Ed: We don't know what we're talkin' about, honestly we don't.
 * Mountain Man: No, no. You said somethin' about makin' whiskey, right? Isn't that what you said?
 * Ed: We don't know what you're doin' and we don't care. That's none of our business.
 * Mountain Man: That's right. It's none of your god-damned business, right.
 * Ed: We got quite a long journey ahead of us, gentlemen.
 * Toothless Man: Hold it. You ain't goin' no damn wheres.
 * Ed: This is ridiculous.
 * Toothless Man: Hold it, or I'll blow your guts out all over these woods.
 * Ed: Gentlemen, we can talk this thing over. What is it you require of us?
 * Mountain Man: What we, uh, "re-quire" is that you get your god-damn asses up in them woods.

 * Mountain Man: Now, let's you just drop them pants.
 * Bobby: Drop?
 * Mountain Man: Just take 'em right off.
 * Bobby: I-I mean, what's this all about?
 * Toothless Man: Don't say anything, just do it.
 * Mountain Man: Just drop 'em, boy! [To Ed - at knifepoint] You ever had your balls cut off, you fuckin' ape?
 * Bobby: Lord.
 * Mountain Man: Look at there, that's sharp. I bet it'd shave a hair.
 * Toothless Man: Why don't ya try it and see?
 * Bobby: Lord, lord. Deliver us from all.
 * Toothless Man: [To Bobby] Pull off that little ol' bitty shirt there, too. [To Mountain Man] Did he bleed?
 * Mountain Man: He bled. [To Bobby] Them panties, take 'em off. [After attacking and spanking him as Bobby tries to scramble up the bank] Get up, boy. Come on, get on up there. [Slaps Bobby's ass, Bobby eventually reaches the top of the bank before Mountain Man pulls him down, who joins him on the floor before lustfully groping his naked chest, with utter hunger and lust in his eyes]
 * Bobby: No, no, no. Oh, no. No. Don't.
 * Mountain Man: Hey boy. You look just like a hog.
 * Bobby: Don't, don't.
 * Mountain Man: Just like a hog. Come here, piggy, piggy, piggy. [Holding Bobby's nose as he straddles him from behind] Come on, piggy, come on, piggy, come on, piggy, give me a ride, a ride. Hey, boy. Get up and give me a ride. [Punches Bobby in the back after he is unable to handle the Mountain man's weight and collapses]
 * Bobby: All right.
 * Mountain Man: Get up and give me a ride, boy.
 * Bobby: All right. All right.
 * Mountain Man: Get up! Get up there!
 * Bobby: All right. [His underwear is pulled off, and the Mountain man once again spanks him] Oh no, no! [The Mountain Man keeps lunging for Bobby, slapping at him while Bobby whimpers and cowers away, eventually getting up and pulling his pants up while the Mountain Man just laughs]
 * Mountain Man: Looks like we got us a sow here, instead of a boar.
 * Bobby: Don't. Don't.
 * Mountain Man: What's the matter, boy? I bet you can squeal. I bet you can squeal like a pig. [Undoes his braces, causing his trousers to slowly lower] Let's squeal. Squeal now. Squeal. [Bobby's ear is pulled]
 * Bobby: Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
 * Mountain Man: Squeal. Squeal louder. Louder. Louder, louder. Louder! Louder! Louder! Get down now, boy. There, get them britches down. [The Mountain Man pulls down Bobby's pants, who is now prostrate over a rotting log] That's that. [The Mountain Man begins preparing his own erection while slapping Bobby's ass one more time] You can do better than that, boy. You can do better than that. Come on, squeal. Squeal.
 * [The Mountain Man forcibly sodomizes Bobby.]

 * Mountain Man: Whatcha wanna do with him?
 * Toothless Man: [grinning] He got a real pretty mouth, ain't he?
 * Mountain Man: That's the truth.
 * Toothless Man: [to Ed] You're gonna do some prayin' for me, boy. And you better pray good.

 * Lewis: What are we gonna do with him?
 * Drew: There's not but one thing to do. Take the body down to Aintry. Turn it over to the Highway Patrol. Tell 'em what happened.
 * Lewis: Tell 'em what exactly?
 * Drew: Just what happened. This is justifiable homicide if anything is. They were sexually assaulting two members of our party at gunpoint. Like you said, there was nothin' else we could do.
 * Ed: Is he alive?
 * Lewis: Not now. Well, let's get our heads together. [To vengeful Bobby] Come on now, let's not do anything foolish. Does anybody know anything about the law?
 * Drew: Look, I-I was on jury duty once. It wasn't a murder trial.
 * Lewis: A murder trial? Well, I don't know the technical word for it, Drew, but I know this. You take this man down out of the mountains and turn him over to the Sheriff, there's gonna be a trial all right, a trial by jury.
 * Drew: So what?
 * Lewis: We killed a man, Drew. Shot him in the back - a mountain man, a cracker. Not a nigger, a cracker. It gives us somethin' to consider.
 * Drew: All right, consider it, we're listenin'.
 * Lewis: Shit, all these people are related. I'd be god-damned if I'm gonna come back up here and stand trial with this man's aunt and his uncle, maybe his momma and his daddy sittin' in the jury box. What do you think, Bobby? [Bobby rushes at the corpse, but is restrained] How about you, Ed?
 * Ed: I don't know. I really don't know.
 * Drew: Now you listen, Lewis. I don't know what you got in mind, but if you try to conceal this body, you're settin' yourself up for a murder charge. Now that much law I do know! This ain't one of your fuckin' games. You killed somebody. There he is!
 * Lewis: I see him, Drew. That's right, I killed somebody. But you're wrong if you don't see this as a game...Dammit, we can get out of this thing without any questions asked. We get connected up with that body and the law, this thing gonna be hangin' over us the rest of our lives. We gotta get rid of that guy!...Anywhere, everywhere, nowhere.
 * Drew: How do you know that other guy hasn't already gone for the police?
 * Lewis: And what in the hell is he gonna tell 'em, Drew, what he did to Bobby?
 * Drew: Now why couldn't he go get some other mountain men? Now why isn't he gonna do that? You look around you, Lewis. He could be out there anywhere, watchin' us right now. We ain't gonna be so god-damned hard to follow draggin' a corpse.
 * Lewis: You let me worry about that, Drew. You let me take care of that. You know what's gonna be here? Right here? A lake - as far as you can see hundreds of feet deep. Hundreds of feet deep. Did you ever look out over a lake, think about something buried underneath it? Buried underneath it. Man, that's about as buried as you can get.
 * Drew: Well, I am tellin' you, Lewis, I don't want any part of it.
 * Lewis: Well, you are part of it!
 * Drew: IT IS A MATTER OF THE LAW!
 * Lewis: The law? Ha! The law?! What law?! Where's the law, Drew? Huh? You believe in democracy, don't ya?
 * Drew: Yes, I do.
 * Lewis: Well then, we'll take a vote. I'll stand by it and so will you.

 * Ed: What are we gonna do, Lewis? You're the guy with the answers. What the hell do we do now?
 * Lewis: Now you get to play the game.
 * Ed: Lewis, you're wrong.

 * Bobby: What are you going to do with Drew?
 * Ed: If a bullet made this, there are people who can tell.
 * Bobby: Oh God, there's no end to it. I didn't really know him.
 * Ed: Drew was a good husband to his wife Linda and you were a wonderful father to your boys, Drew - Jimmie and Billie Ray. And if we come through this, I promise to do all I can for 'em. He was the best of us.
 * Bobby: Amen.

 * Ed: Everything happened right here. Lewis broke his leg in those rapids there, and Drew drowned here.
 * Bobby: No, nothin' happened here.
 * Ed: Bobby, listen to me. We got to stop them from lookin' up river. It's important that we get together on this thing. Do you understand?...We're not out of this yet.

 * Sheriff: How come you all end up with four life jackets?
 * Bobby: Didn't we have an extra one?
 * Ed: No, Drew wasn't wearin' his.
 * Sheriff: Well, how come he wasn't wearin' it?
 * Ed: I don't know.
 * Sheriff: Don't ever do nothin' like this again. Don't come back up here.
 * Bobby: You don't have to worry about that, Sheriff.
 * Sheriff: I'd kinda like to see this town die peaceful.

Taglines

 * This is the weekend they didn't play golf.
 * What did happen on the Cahulawassee River?
 * Four men ride a wild river. A weekend turns into a nightmare.

Cast

 * Jon Voight - Ed Gentry
 * Burt Reynolds - Lewis Medlock
 * Ned Beatty - Bobby Trippe
 * Ronny Cox - Drew Ballinger
 * Bill McKinney - Mountain Man
 * Herbert "Cowboy" Coward - Toothless Man
 * James Dickey - Sheriff Bullard
 * Billy Redden - Lonnie, the banjo boy
 * Macon McCalman - Deputy Queen

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Franklin Lashley

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: Delete.  Cbrown1023  talk  15:19, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Franklin Lashley
Another wrestler page with unmemorable, inane quotes. ~ UDScott 14:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closed: 15:00, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete, unless sourced, pithy quotes are added to replace those on the page. ~ UDScott 14:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Koweja 15:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 13:51, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete because unsourced, but I rather like the burlesque nature of the quotes. Tyrenius 23:44, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Can we have a policy that wrestler articles can be speedy deleted on sight? And did he really invent the saying "A picture is worth a thousand words"?--Poetlister 20:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless sourced. I am against a policy that wrestler articles can be speedy deleted on sight.--Jusjih 15:46, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Worthless in its present form.--Cato 19:57, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless original, pithy, sourced quotes replace the current material. Speedy deletion, however, is not appropriate. Even though unsourced inanity is (so far) the only kind of wrestler quote article we get, we should still give each an opportunity to become something useful and meaningful, as we would any other article about a notable person with potentially sourceable quotes. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:55, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
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Chris Pontius

Chris Pontius (born Christopher Andrew Pontius on July 16, 1974) is an American television personality and stunt performer. He is a member of Jackass and, with Steve-O, co-host of Wildboyz.

Quotes
awake, I wished that he is asleep
 * That was intense. REALLY intense. Well, not really intense. But pretty intense.
 * Jackass 2
 * Today's debate: Is it wrong to be strong? You be the judge.
 * Jackass 2
 * Water-based lube: Friend or Foe?
 * Jackass 2
 * With a simple shave of the razor Steve-O easily disguises himself in fooling the whale shark in thinking he's a harmless young boy.
 * Jackass: The Movie
 * Some people just don't know how to party.
 * Jackass: The Movie
 * Hi I'm Bunny the Lifeguard and if any of these alligators try to ruin our swimming, I'm gonna wrestle 'em to the ground and probably have my way with them.
 * Jackass: The Movie
 * Wait a minute. I already know my fortune, it's partying!
 * Jackass: The Movie
 * I guess I don't have any last words. I'm just gonna kill myself once I lose my wiener.
 * Jackass: The Movie
 * I'm gonna be so bummed when they announce my sexually transmitted diseases.
 * [Spermathon- Jackass Episodes]
 * You look cool, Steve-0.
 * [Butt Piercing- Jackass Episodes]
 * For one thing, God didn't invent the circumcision, I did.
 * Satan vs. God- Jackass Episodes]
 * I gotta get in term with my sexuality, I gotta know what I'm all about.
 * [Spermathon- Jackass Episodes]
 * Pedal faster! Come on, there are crocodiles in this water and I hear they'll eat anything - even plastic!
 * [Prostitute Boatrace- Jackass Episodes]
 * They say Poland is the Mexico of Europe. I don't know what that means, but I like it.
 * [Gumball 3000- Jackass Episodes]
 * There's a very good chance we could be riding each other to Russia.
 * [Gumball 3000- Jackass Episodes]
 * Hi, I'm bunny the life guard and if there's any life-saving to do I'm the man to do it
 * [The Loop- Jackass Episodes]
 * When he's asleep, I wish he was awake, when he is
 * [Gumball 3000- Jackass Episodes]
 * Russian police. Stern, stern but fair
 * [Gumball 3000- Jackass Episodes]
 * Latvia gangsters. cool. I want to join them.
 * [Gumball 3000- Jackass Episodes]
 * I gotta come to term with my sexuality. I gotta know what I'm all about.
 * [Spermathon- Jackass Episodes]
 * My job on this show is to be naked, not kill myself."
 * [Tandem biking- Jackass Episodes]
 * Baby's cold.
 * [Rugby- Jackass Episodes]
 * Fire doesn't burn if you're already dead!"
 * [Satan vs. God- Jackass Episodes]
 * From my experiments with sexiness, seems like a lot of people are afraid at first, and fear usually equals violence. But eventually I'll win their hearts and instead of fighting they'll want to make love to me.
 * [Directions- Jackass Episodes]
 * Sir, could I trouble you for a kiss?
 * [Renaissance Fair- Jackass Episodes]
 * You're not even Mexican!
 * [Mexican snowboarding- Jackass Episodes]

 * That guy right there is the best damn roller skater ever. Maybe even in the whole town.
 * [Roller jump- Jackass Episodes]
 * I'm not into bestiality, but that's a good-looking animal.
 * [Alligatoramma- Jackass Episodes]
 * That's not Christian!
 * [Satan vs. God- Jackass Episodes]
 * Steve-O, I don't like the man... he lost!
 * [Stilt boxing- Jackass Episodes]

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Uncle Buck

Uncle Buck is a 1989 film about a bachelor and all around slob who babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.
 * Written and directed by John Hughes.

He's crude. He's crass. He's family.

Buck Russell

 * [On the way to his brother's] Oh boy, those kids. I haven't seen those kids in a while. Tia's gotta be nine. Nine, maybe ten. Oh boy. And the two new ones. They're uh... Larry and... uh... Larry and, uh... Uh... Betsy. Betsy, uh... Jennifer. Jennifer. Larry and Jennifer. Nice kids.
 * [serving gigantic pancakes to Miles for his birthday] You should see the toast. I couldn't even get it through the door!
 * [struggling to open the washing machine] Do I have to talk dirty to you? Come on! Open up for daddy! I'm gonna shove a load into you! Here we go! Come on, it's nice and easy. Aaah! Come on, here we go! Ah! Take that! Take that! Come on! You don't want the crowbar, do you? Come on! OPEN UP! UUGGHH! I'm gonna shove my load into you whether you like it or not!
 * [to Maizy's principal] I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're ALL good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good. You so much as scowl at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, I'm coming looking for you! Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.

Tia Russell

 * [They're eating Chinese take-out] This is such a wonderful dinner, Mother. How DO you find the time?
 * [to her mother] If my whole family moved away from me, I'd have a heart attack too.
 * Hey, Mom. Next time you take off in the middle of the night, why don't you hire a murderer to watch the house?

Others

 * Marcie Dahlgren-Frost: Marcie Dahlgren-Frost. Dahlgren is my maiden name, Frost is my married name. I'm single again, but I never bothered to remove the frost. And I get compliments on the hyphen.
 * E. Roger Cogswell: [to Buck] You gotta let somebody know where you are. I've been checking car trunks for your corpse.

Dialogue

 * Cindy Russell: When Dad goes to New York, I'm going to take a week off work.
 * Tia: So you can interview new housekeepers?
 * Cindy Russell: I've had enough of your ugliness.
 * Tia: Oh really?
 * Cindy Russell: Mm-hmm. We're all just a little tired of the act

 * Maizy: I don't know why we need boys at all. They're so loud.
 * Miles: [off-screen] Shut up!
 * Maizy: Shut up, yourself!
 * Tia: We need boys so they can grow up, get married, and turn into shadows.

 * [Buck and Chanice are sitting at a table in a bar]
 * Chanice: How’s that pie?
 * Buck: It’s not bad!
 * Chanice: You gonna be at work in the morning?
 * Buck: I don’t see how I can avoid it.
 * Chanice: You don’t seem very happy about it.
 * Buck: All right, if you gotta know, I’m really not that excited about going to work for my girlfriend. There, I said it. It’s out of the way.
 * Chanice: Okay, Buck, I love you, I can’t help myself, I wanna get married, I wanna have a family, I wanna do it with you! Well, you know, the clock is ticking away here. I would just like to hear the pitter-patter of tiny feet before I die.
 * Buck: I’ll get ya a mouse and a piece of sheet metal. [chuckles]
 * [Chanice gives him an unimpressed look]
 * Buck: Come on. Lighten up, will ya?
 * Chanice: Don’t push my button. I’m not gonna get into this.
 * Buck: I’m not pushing your buttons. I know me. I know what I like. All right? I like my friends. I like my freedom. I like knowing I can throw my sticks in the truck of my car and go golfing any time I want. I don’t hurt anybody, I don’t see what the problem is.
 * Chanice: That is the best formula for loneliness I ever heard.
 * Buck: Why are we arguing?
 * Chanice: We’re talking.
 * Buck: I said I’d be at working in the morning, I’ll be there.
 * Chanice: Okay. [pauses] I…I just gotta get this out. I mean I know I’m like harping on something here, but, you know, just let me say it, I’m working on history, I’m working on the past, you’re gonna show up for work, you swear to God? In the A.M.? Promise?
 * Buck: Chanice, I’ll be honest with you; if I could think of an excuse that you would buy, I’d use it.

 * [Buck knocks on the door of a house and there is no answer]
 * Buck: Bob. Bob? This isn’t funny! C’mon! Wake up! I’m freezing my ass off out here!
 * Bob: [watching from the front window as Buck yells at the house across the street] Oh shit…
 * Buck: C’mon I’m getting mad Bob. Yo Bobby!!
 * Bob:  [steps out the front door] Buck?
 * Buck: Bob?
 * Bob: Buck!
 * Buck: Bob?
 * Bob: Buck!
 * Buck: Bob?
 * Bob: Over here!
 * Buck: [pauses, realizing he’s shown up to the wrong house] Do you have any idea how many big white houses there are on this street?
 * [Dogs on the street begin barking at the commotion]
 * Bob: Shh!
 * Buck: What?
 * Bob: Keep it down.
 * Buck: What? What do you want me to do with my car?
 * Neighbour: [off-screen] For crying out loud!
 * Bob: Oh, uh, sorry Mr. Hatfield!
 * Mr. Hatfield: It's 2 A.M.!
 * Buck: [to Bob as he walks up to the front door] How ya doin'? Hey sorry I'm late.
 * Bob: Oh no, thats ok. Thanks for coming.
 * Buck: Hey, what happened to the moustache?
 * Bob: Oh. I had to shave it off
 * Buck: How's Cindy?
 * Bob: Not well. Not well.
 * Buck: Her dad?
 * Bob: Hard to say.
 * Buck: All those medical terms huh? What is it, an infarction or something like that?

 * Buck: Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes.
 * Cindy Russell: Oh, good.
 * Buck: Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I'm on to that nicotine gum.

 * Miles: Where do you live?
 * Buck: In the city.
 * Miles: You have a house?
 * Buck: Apartment.
 * Miles: Own or rent?
 * Buck: Rent.
 * Miles: What do you do for a living?
 * Buck: Lots of things.
 * Miles: Where's your office?
 * Buck: I don't have one.
 * Miles: How come?
 * Buck: I don't need one.
 * Miles: Where's your wife?
 * Buck: Don't have one.
 * Miles: How come?
 * Buck: It's a long story.
 * Miles: You have kids?
 * Buck: No I don't.
 * Miles: How come?
 * Buck: It's an even longer story.
 * Miles: Are you my Dad's brother?
 * Buck: What's your record for consecutive questions asked?
 * Miles: 38.
 * Buck: I'm your Dad's brother alright.
 * Miles: You have much more hair in your nose than my Dad.
 * Buck: How nice of you to notice.
 * Miles: I'm a kid - that's my job.

 * Buck: What time do you want me to pick you up after school?
 * Tia: Don't bother! I'll get a ride with friends.
 * Buck: No, I have my orders. What time?
 * Tia: Are you really this stupid? I said I would get a ride. I always get a ride.
 * Buck: Hey, I'll just call the school, find out what time, and meet you right here.
 * Tia: Go ahead, call the school. I won't be here.
 * Buck: Stand me up today and tomorrow I'll drive you to school in my robe and pajamas and WALK you to your first class. 4:00 okay?
 * Tia: I'm stunned that I'm related to you.
 * Buck: You get the pole out of your keister, we're gonna get along just fine.
 * Tia: Did you ever have anyone embarrass you like this?
 * Buck: ...No.
 * [After Tia gets out of the car]
 * Buck: Do you think she hates me?
 * Maizy: With a passion.
 * Buck: Really? Do you think it's the hat?
 * Maizy: No.
 * Buck: No? A lot of people hate this hat. It angers a lot of people, just the sight of it. Ah, I'll tell you a story about that on the way to school.

 * [Buck's beat-up old car pulls up]
 * Bug: Ever hear of a tune-up? Hee hee hee hee hee.
 * Buck: [Mockingly] Ah-hee-hee-hee! Ever hear of a ritual killing? Ah-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee!
 * Bug: I don't get it.
 * Buck: You gnaw on her face in public like that again and you'll be one. Ah-hee-hee-hee-hee.
 * [Bug leans in to kiss Tia when Buck drives off suddenly, barely missing Bug’s head]
 * Tia: Are you crazy?
 * Buck: I can be.
 * Tia: You could have taken his head off!
 * Buck: Yeah, but would he notice?
 * Tia: Can we get something straight?
 * Buck: The guy's a predator and you're his prey.
 * Tia: Really?
 * Buck: You bet.
 * Tia: And how would you know?
 * Buck: When I was his age, I was a guy zooming girls like you. Pretty face, good chip on your shoulder.
 * Tia: I recommend you stay out of my personal life!
 * Buck: Do your parents stay out of your personal life?
 * Tia: They don't know my personal life.
 * Buck: Have they met twiddle-dink?
 * Tia: His name is Bug.
 * Buck: [chuckles] First or last?
 * Tia: First!
 * Buck: What's his last name, Spray?
 * Tia: You should talk, "Buck."

 * [Chanice is listening to an answering machine message from Buck]
 * Buck: Chanice? Buck. [to himself] I hate these machines. Look I’m just calling to say I miss you. I know you probably don’t believe it but it’s true, no I haven’t been drinking. I’ve been thinking a lot about you and what we talked about in the past few weeks. I think about you all the time, I think about those two little dimples on your buns. Hahaha.
 * Chanice: Dimples!
 * Buck: What do we call them? One... one was on the right, 'was Lyndon and left was...
 * Chanice: It's Johnson.
 * Buck: Johnson.
 * [Chanice laughs]
 * Buck: And then there was your boobs we did. Now, your boobs were Minnie and Mickey, I remember that because of Disney World. And Felix! Felix is what we called your...
 * [cut to the next scene, where a cat meows loudly]

 * Buck: Did you brush your teeth?
 * Miles: Yeah. You can even feel my toothbrush.
 * Buck: You know, I have a friend who works at the crime lab at the police station. I could give him your toothbrush and he could run a test on it... to see if you actually brushed your teeth... or just ran your toothbrush under the faucet.
 * [Buck leaves, as Miles gawks]
 * Maizy: If that's true, we're gonna REALLY have to start brushing our teeth.

 * Buck: What, did you have a few drinks this morning? Huh? Yeah, I think you did.
 * Pooter-the-clown: What are you? Mother Cabrini? You never touch the stuff?
 * Buck: No, no. It's just that I wouldn't be drinking if I was going to entertain some kids. You know?
 * Pooter-the-clown: I don't have to take any stuff from you! You know who I am? In the field of local-live-home entertainment, I'm a GOD!
 * Buck: Get in your mouse, and get out of here.
 * Pooter-the-clown: Hey, you, let me tell you something you low-life, lying, four-flushing, sack-of-sh...
 * [Buck punches him in the face, Pooter drops, then gets back up like an inflatable clown and shakes the pain off]
 * Pooter-the-clown: [growls]
 * [Buck punches him again, knocking him out]

 * [at a meeting with the assistant principal, who has a large unsightly growth on her face]
 * Anita: I'm Anita Hoargarth.
 * Buck Russell: [Staring at it] Buck Melanoma, Moley Russell's wart. [she gives him a look] Not her wart, not her wart. I'm... I'm the wart. She's my tumor. My... my growth. My... uh, my pimple. I'm Uncle Wart. Just old Buckwart Russell. That's what they call me, or Melanoma Head. They'll call me that. "Melanoma Head's coming!" I'm s... uncle! Maisy Russell's uncle!

 * Maizy's Teacher: Does anybody have a special story to tell the class about something that happened this week?
 * [Maizy raises her hand]
 * Maizy's Teacher: Maizy?
 * Maizy: My uncle was microwaving our socks and the dog threw up on the couch for about an hour.
 * Maizy's Teacher: Honest?
 * Maizy: Yes
 * Maizy's Teacher: Why was your uncle microwaving your socks?
 * Maizy: He can't get the Goddamn washing machine to work.
 * Maizy's Teacher: [picks up a ruler] BLASPHEMER!

 * [Tia is sitting in the front room, looking out the window. Miles and Maizy walk in]
 * Miles: Waiting for your sex?
 * Tia: Shut up.
 * [Buck walks down the stairs and into the front room where Tia, Miles and Maizy are]
 * Buck: Tia? What’d you blow all that make-up for? We’re just going bowling.
 * Tia: I’m not going bowling.
 * Buck: C’mon it’s a great sport and it’s virtually impossible to get pregnant while doing it. If you catch my drift.
 * Tia: You’re disgusting! I’ll die before I go anywhere with you.
 * Miles: It’s gonna be fun!
 * Maizy: They have rent-a-shoes!
 * Tia: And rent-a-foot disease!
 * Buck: We've done the battle of the wills. The deck's stacked in my favor. You're just gonna lose again.
 * Tia: Try me.
 * Buck: How would you like to spend the next several nights wondering if your crazy, out-of-work, bum uncle will shave your head while you sleep? See you in the car. [Smiles and mimes electric clippers, making a buzzing sound]

 * Tia: [after over-hearing Roger talk about Chanice] What’s a “Chanice”?
 * Buck: That’s someone who’s sometimes seen around a Buck.
 * Tia: Your girlfriend?
 * Buck: A friend. And, yes, she is a girl.
 * Tia: Are you supposed to marry her or something?
 * Buck: The subject has come up, yes, but nothing serious.
 * Tia: Maybe if you got married, you’d stop being such an asshole. [she gives Buck a sly look]
 * Buck: [while smoking a cigar] Cigar?
 * Tia: No. Thanks.
 * Buck: Let me know if you change your mind.
 * Tia: [sarcastically] I will.
 * Buck: I’ll get it nice and juicy for ya.

 * Buck: Well, well, well, they certainly are scraping the bottom of the barrel for cheerleaders these days.
 * Tia: What are you doing here?
 * Buck: We were just driving by to get some ice cream. Thought you might like to join us.
 * Tia: I said I would be home at 10. It's not even 9!
 * Buck: Who said anything about that? I thought you might like to join us for some ice cream. Maybe your Bug here can join us. We can talk about burying the hatchet. You know what a hatchet is, don't you, Bug?
 * Bug: It's an ax?
 * Buck: Sort of, yeah, yeah. I got one in my car if you'd like to see it.
 * Bug: I'll pass.
 * Buck: Fair enough. I like to carry it, you never know when you're going to need it. A situation may come up, say, for example, someone has been drinking, and about to drive a loved one home, then I'd like to know I have it. Not to kill, no. Just to maim. Take a little off the shoulder. Swish! The elbow. Slash! Shave a little meat off the old kneecap. Fowap! Ooooo! You got both kneecaps? I like to keep mine razor sharp. Sharp enough you can shave with it. Why, I've been known to circumcise a gnat. You're not a gnat, are you, Bug? Wait a minute, bug, gnat. Is there a little similarity? Whoaaa, I think there is! Ha ha ha. You understand what I'm talking about? I don't think you do. I'll be right back. Heh heh heh heh.
 * [walks away]
 * Tia: I'm sorry.
 * Bug: Look, I think you'd better split. I don't exactly want him to go berserk with an ax on me.
 * Tia: He's all talk.
 * [Buck pulls out a small hatchet from his car]
 * Buck: Here it is! Come over, come on, I want to show it to you. Maybe later. Okay.

 * [Miles and Maisey watch Tia make out with her boyfriend]
 * Miles: That's a pretty stupid thing to do during flu season.
 * Maisey: I'll bet she's getting the tongue!

 * Tia: Uncle Buck?
 * Buck: Yeah?
 * Tia: Got a minute?
 * Buck: I got lots of minutes.
 * Tia: Now that everything's okay with my grandfather, I want to go out tomorrow night.
 * Buck: You can go crazy after I leave. Until then, I'm not letting you out of my sight.
 * Tia: You just can't find any way to be cool, can you?
 * Buck: You mean easy? No.
 * Tia: I mean decent!
 * Buck: You mean blind!
 * Tia: Who are you trying to score points with? My parents? How many times have they had you over here since we moved? Try none until they went up shit-creek and got stuck!
 * Buck: Get used on your parent's time.
 * Tia: Hey, Buck?
 * Buck: Yeah?
 * Tia: Have a bad day today? It hurts when someone else messes with your life, doesn't it?

 * [Buck is stopped at a red light on his way to pick up Tia from a party. A couple in another car pulls up beside him]
 * Man and woman in other car: [in unison] Your car’s on fire!
 * Buck: No, no, no it’s just a little oil. I’m looking for a party somewhere around here.
 * Woman: Oh that’s on Toadawa Lane.
 * Buck: My niece is there.
 * Woman: Our son is there.
 * Buck: Ah, kids.
 * Man: I don’t think you oughta go in there with that hat on, they’ll kill ya
 * Buck: Really?
 * Man: Yeah.
 * Buck: Thanks for the tip.

 * Buck: You know there's uh, one family charity case who loves you very much.
 * Tia: [crying] I'm sorry.
 * Buck: Hey, come on. Nothing to be sorry about. I'm just glad I got a chance to know you again.

 * [Buck has shown Tia, her ex-boyfriend, Bug who is gagged and tied up in the trunk of his car. He undoes the duct tape]
 * Bug: You shithead! I could've suffocated in here!
 * Buck: You know what I'd like you to do. You could be doing both of us a favor. I'd like you to apologize to this lady, please.
 * Bug: I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! OK, ASSHOLE! I'M SORRY!
 * Buck:[Nowhere near satisfied with Bug's screaming apology] You may not know this, but I'm an amateur dentist.
 * Tia: Oh yes, he is.
 * [She laughs raising the drill in front of Bug, who is scared straight]
 * Bug:[Being serious] I'm sorry.

Cast

 * John Candy - Buck Russell
 * Jean Louisa Kelly - Tia Russell
 * Gaby Hoffmann - Maizy Russell
 * Macaulay Culkin - Miles Russell
 * Amy Madigan - Chanice Kobolowski
 * Elaine Bromka - Cindy Russell
 * Garrett M. Brown - Bob Russell
 * Laurie Metcalf - Marcie Dahlgren-Frost
 * Jay Underwood - Bug

title: Uncle Buck


text:
Charles Foster Johnson

Charles Foster "Icarus" Johnson (born April 13, 1953) is an American blogger who runs the weblog Little Green Footballs and former jazz guitarist.

Quotes

 * We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won’t even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.
 * July 23, 2002

 * Hamas is an openly genocidal, disgustingly bloodthirsty, racist Islamic death cult that brainwashes Palestinian children to be mindless Jew-killing jihadi suicide missiles. Is there something else we need to know about them? Oh yeah, they also run some hospitals.
 * December 23, 2002

 * President Bush did nothing of the sort; he declared an end to major hostilities.
 * June 13, 2004

 * Zuniga Hides the Evidence … Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote “Screw them” about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.
 * July 27, 2004

 * Yesterday the Soros-funded far left group Media Matters made a big issue of Pat Robertson’s idiotic statement that the US should assassinate Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Today Robertson’s comment is all over mainstream media. Are we supposed to think it’s news that Robertson has a few screws loose?
 * August 23, 2005

 * On the subject of the left’s latest cause du jour, the “white phosphorus” fairy tale, Michael Moynihan asks a question to which LGF readers probably already know the answer: How Credible is Jeff Englehart?
 * November 9, 2005

 * Allahpundit says Stephen Colbert bombed. (Angry lefties think he was brilliant, of course.)
 * Sunday, April 30, 2006

 * In a lifetime filled with despicable statements and support for history’s worst regimes, MIT professor Noam Chomsky has finally hit absolute bottom as he visits the leader of the Hizballah terror gang, calls the United States a “leading terrorist state,” and supports Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons—to deter “Israeli aggression.”
 * May 11, 2006

 * Inevitably, whenever Israel takes action to protect themselves against openly genocidal Arab terror gangs, the accusations start bubbling up from antisemitic sewers that Israel is using diabolical weapons never seen before by mankind, evil chemicals that cause bizarre mutations and/or mysterious wounds.
 * July 27, 2006

 * I’d just like to say “thank you” to President Bush and to the men and women of the US military, who—by the New York Times’ own admission—took out a terror-sponsoring regime in Iraq that could have constructed a nuclear weapon within months, as soon as sanctions were lifted enough for them to obtain sufficient fissile material.
 * November 03, 2006

 * I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn’t need to be given “permission” to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.
 * January 26, 2007

 * The man who saw his fellow US citizens burned alive, torn apart by a mob, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah, and responded by writing “Screw Them,” is now claiming to be the messenger of truth to the citizens of the US.
 * May 1, 2007

 * The Diggbats didn’t like it one bit that they were being prevented from stealing copyrighted material … Kevin Rose has surrendered to the mob, and posted the code at his own blog, with a ludicrous explanation that amounts to endorsing the thugs … You either respect the concept of intellectual property, or you don’t."
 * May 2, 2007

 * Good news from France, where the man picked by Nicolas Sarkozy as his foreign minister is not the execrable Hubert Védrine, but Bernard Kouchner - a socialist who supports Israel and the invasion of Iraq.
 * May 18, 2007

 * “Go after” Osama bin Laden. (I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean.)
 * July 01, 2007

 * Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists.
 * July 10, 2007

 * The British Parliament is now in the hands of the worst kind of terror-appeasing moonbats... We’re about to witness what happens when a country is governed by the “progressive” Kos mentality. And it’s going to be ugly.
 * August 13, 2007

 * Marxism has only killed 100 million people, so naturally at the new voice of the mainstream center Democratic Party, they’re ready to give it another chance.
 * August 26, 2007

 * On Fox News, the Geraldo-thing is at Columbia University, interviewing students — fresh-faced, naïve fools, fetishizing “debate” with a beast who will celebrate their deaths, and use their idiocy to bring it about.
 * September 23, 2007

 * In one of the most outrageous appeasement gestures in a year full of them, the Empire State Building was illuminated in green to celebrate the Islamic holiday of Eid... New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg … apparently believes that the best response to terrorists is to celebrate diversity.
 * December 8, 2007

 * Iran’s thug-in-chief is visiting Iraq, where he told reporters that Iraqis despise America.
 * March 2, 2008

 * Barack Obama’s campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming...
 * March 8, 2008

 * This is what “speaking truth to power” really means.
 * March 9, 2008

 * I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here’s another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America.
 * March 14, 2008

 * ...please note that Obama admits he was lying when he said he never heard Rev. Wright utter these “fierce criticisms.” Are we supposed to just glide right past that?
 * March 14, 2008

 * Another Palestinian Mass Murder Attack... An attempted kidnapping and mass murder attack by Palestinian terrorists — killing civilians in cold blood... Two Israeli civilians and seven Palestinians were killed...
 * April 9, 2008

 * After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously.
 * April 12, 2008

 * What the Hell is Wrong with the Washington Post? Another unrepentant, genocidal terrorist is given op-ed column space in the Washington Post... The Washington Post has truly hit bottom now. They owe the United States an apology for publishing this disgusting terrorist propaganda...
 * April 17, 2008

 * Jimmy Carter is not only a terrorist sympathizer and an Israel hater—he’s also awesomely, mind-bogglingly stupid...
 * April 21, 2008

 * Jimmy Carter Calls Condi Rice a Liar … Jimmy Carter continues to plumb new depths of disgraceful behavior: Carter says Secretary Rice ‘not telling truth’.
 * April 23, 2008

 * Come on, world. You can do it. Say, “Thank you, Israel.”
 * April 28, 2008

 * Barack Obama’s repudiation of Jeremiah Wright didn’t go over well with many of the Kos Kids. To say the least. Daily Kos: “Uncle Tom” Obama.
 * April 29, 2008

 * Pathetic Ron Paulian Jew-Hating Post of the Day... So who’s responsible for letting this Ron Paulian post insane antisemitic garbage like this... UPDATE... This freak actually has a page at the official Barack Obama campaign web site...
 * May 18, 2008

 * ...I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of [Obama's] historical ignorance.
 * May 25, 2008

 * It’s clear that the Democratic Party believes a radical left candidate is their best chance to win the White House this year. Hillary’s just a little bit too sane. Under the bus with her.
 * May 31, 2008

 * [...] ironically, the jihadis are just as opposed to the theory of evolution as creationists. So they have that in common [...] This is an area in which Islamists agree 100% with the Discovery Institute and creationists. If that makes you uncomfortable … well, it should. [...] I'm making a very narrowly defined point. The proponents of "intelligent design" are on the same page with radical Islamists, on that issue. And the devaluation of science by Islam, in favor of religion, is largely responsible for the appalling state of the Islamic world today. Western civilization has advanced to its current point because we DO have a strict division between these two disciplines. Science is not religion, and religion is not science. If we lose that clarity, we're in danger of losing everything. As I've tried to say at least 20 different ways, this is not a put down of religion. Religion is a civilizing force, as long it's not allowed to rule people's lives. The intelligent design movement is trying to erase these lines and bring us back into the Dark Ages. We should learn from the failure of Islam, but this is an issue that is obviously not going to rest easy.
 * June 16, 2008

 * I know I said I was boycotting the Associated Press, but their take on Independence Day has to be seen to be believed.
 * July 5, 2008

 * Barack Obama’s naïve, almost schoolyard-level attitude toward international politics is on display again today, as he says the US needs to set a better example for Russia: Obama: Russia, U.S. should not ‘charge into’ other countries. This is normal "progressive" thinking, and you find these bizarre assumptions everywhere in leftist circles: if we just achieve some noble ideal of behavior, that alone will be enough to usher in a new era of peace and global good will — and in the meantime, it’s important to let our adversaries know that we’re not perfect and we understand their feelings.
 * August 21, 2008

 * ...the lunatic fringe group called Neturei Karta, whose total world membership is about 10...
 * September 25, 2008

 * Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn’t endorse Barack Obama, but that’s just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama.
 * October 15, 2008

 * War's Over, We Won (No Thanks to Barack Obama) … If Barack Obama had gotten his way, Iraq would now be in the hands of Islamists, and America’s image would have suffered a crushing blow. He voted to cut off funding for the troops, just when they needed it most, and still refuses to admit he was wrong. Well, he was wrong, and George W. Bush deserves credit for refusing to back down when all around him were losing heart.
 * November 14, 2008

 * Buried in this steaming pile of ugly, hateful drek, we find this: "Why the gently caress would you defend a full blown hate site like LGF. LGF is literally stormfront with “jew” crossed out and “muslim” written in."
 * January 4, 2009

 * It’s bizarre and disgusting to see much of America’s media making excuses for a bloodthirsty, openly genocidal death cult. Something is deeply wrong with journalism in this country.
 * January 6, 2009

 * The UN and the mainstream media are wailing and accusing Israel of war crimes (yes, again) after the IDF returned fire at a UN school from which Palestinians were firing mortars. The explosives and booby traps installed in the school by Hamas then blew up, killing dozens of people. And the world blames Israel.
 * January 6, 2009

 * “Judge” Andrew Napolitano is at it again, legitimizing some of the worst people in American politics on his Fox News online show. This time around, he’s pimping for Ron Paul and racialist paleocon Lew Rockwell... [ Ron Paul is ] a kook with weird unworkable ideas about the economy (return to the gold standard? you've gotta be kidding) and unsavory racist connections.
 * April 16, 2009

 * Absolutist statements about Islam being "fundamentally violent" are deceptive, because Muslims can and do choose to ignore or renounce the more violent aspects of their dogma -- just as Christians do. [...] in the modern world, there are many, many Muslims who do not follow this version of Islam, who are decent human beings who want the same things other human beings want - peace, security, and a chance to succeed.
 * July 11, 2009

 * There are no guidelines for posting quotes from the Declaration of Independence. There don't need to be any guidelines... If you post a quote like that for the specific purpose of promoting the idea of revolution, you're going to lose your LGF account. I won't put up with that crap at my site.
 * August 28, 2009

 * Glenn Beck: Frog Killer … Glenn Beck Lies About LGF … Beck portrayed this as if I accused him — literally — of killing a frog.
 * September 24, 2009

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Joe Versus the Volcano

Joe Versus the Volcano is a 1990 film about a hypochondriac who learns that he is dying and accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island so that an industrialist can get a mining concession from the superstitious natives. Along the way, he finds love and learns to truly live.
 * Directed and written by John Patrick Shanley.

An Average Joe. An Adventurous Comedy. taglines

Joe Banks

 * [watching the moon rise] Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how big... thank you. Thank you for my life.

 * I have no people of my own, Chief. I'm my only hope for a hero.

Patricia Graynamore

 * [to Joe] I've always kept clear of my father's stuff ever since I got out on my own. And now he's pulling me back in. He knew I wanted this boat and he used it and he got me working for him, which I swore I would never do. I feel ashamed because I had a price. He named it and now I know that about myself. And I could treat you like I did back out on the dock, but that would be me kicking myself for selling out, which isn't fair to you. Doesn't make me feel any better. I don't know what your situation is but I wanted you to know what mine is not just to explain some rude behavior, but because we're on a little boat for a while and... I'm soul sick. And you're going to see that.

 * Marry me...Marry me and then jump in the volcano. What is the problem? You're afraid of the commitment? You're gonna have to love and honor me for about 30 seconds. You can't handle that?

Frank Waturi

 * [to Joe] Do you think I feel good? Nobody feels good. After childhood, it's a fact of life. I feel rotten. So what? I don't let it bother me. I don't let it interfere with my job.

 * [On the phone] I know he can get the job. But can he do the job? Harry. Yeah, Harry. But can he do the job? I know he can get the job. But can he do the job? I'm not arguing that with you. I'm not arguing that with you. I'm not arguing that with you. I'm not arguing that with you' Harry! Harry, Harry. Yeah, Harry, but can he do the job? I know he can get the job. But can he do the job? I'm not arguing that with you. Harry, I am not arguing that with you! Who said that? I didn't say that. If I said that, I would have been wrong. Maybe. Maybe. I'm not arguing that with you! Yeah, Harry, I know he can get the job. But can he do the job? I'm not arguing that with you! I am not arguing that with you! I am not arguing that with you! Who told you that? No! I told you that! Me! What? Maybe. Maybe, maybe. Maybe!

Samuel Harvey Graynamore

 * [to Joe] Well, does it take more guts to twice traverse a staircase in a burning building, or to make a one-time leap into the mouth of a smoking volcano? Damned if I know, Kimosabe. All I know is when you're making those kind of calls, you're up in the high country.

 * I see it as a sign of tremendous sophistication that you haven't demanded my name or asked me what I'm doing here.

 * Ninety percent of people are asleep, and those of us who are awake look around in wonder.

Dr. Ellison

 * You have some time left, Mr. Banks. You have some life left. My advice to you is: live it well.

Dialogue

 * Joe: So I'm not sick except for this terminal disease?
 * Dr. Ellison: Which has no symptoms. That's right.

 * Joe: This life. Life, what a joke. This situation, this room.
 * Mr. Waturi: Uh, Joe. Maybe you should just go.
 * Joe: You look terrible, Mr. Waturi. You look like a bag of shit stuffed in a cheap suit. Not that anyone could look good under these zombie lights. I, I, I, I can feel them sucking the juice out of my eyeball. Suck, suck, suck, SUCK... [makes a sucking noise] For 300 bucks a week, that's the news. For 300 bucks a week, I've lived in this sink, this used rubber.
 * Mr. Waturi: You watch it, mister! There's a woman here!
 * Joe: Don't you think I know that, Frank? Don't you think I am aware there is a woman here? I can smell her, like, like a flower. I can taste her, like sugar on my tongue. When I'm 20 feet away I can hear the fabric of her dress when she moves in her chair. Not that I've done anything about it. I've gone all day, every day, not doing, not saying, not taking the chance for 300 dollars a week, and Frank, the coffee, it stinks, it's like arsenic. The lights give me a headache. If the lights don't give you a headache, you must be dead; let's arrange the funeral.
 * Mr. Waturi: You better get outta here right now! I'm telling you!
 * Joe: You're telling me nothing. And why, I ask myself, why have I put up with you? I can't imagine, but now I know. Fear. Yellow freakin' fear. I've been too chicken shit afraid to live my life so I sold it to you for 300 freakin' dollars a week! You're lucky I don't kill you! You're lucky I don't rip your freakin' throat out! But I'm not going to! And maybe you're not so lucky at that. 'Cause I'm gonna leave you here, Mr. Wahoo Waturi, and what could be worse than that?

 * Marshall: They just pay me to drive the limo, sir. I'm not here to tell you who you are.
 * Joe: I didn't ask you to tell me who I am.
 * Marshall: You were hinting around about clothes. That happens to be a very important topic to me, sir. Clothes, Mr...
 * Joe: Banks.
 * Marshall: Banks. Clothes make the man. I believe that. You say to me you want to go shopping, you want to buy clothes, but you don't know what kind. You leave that hanging in the air, like I'm going to fill in the blank. Now, that to me is like asking me who you are, and I don't know who you are. I don't want to know. It's taken me my whole life to find out who I am, and I'm tired now. You hear what I'm saying?
 * Marshall: What kinda clothes do you got now?
 * Joe: Well, I got the kinda clothes I'm wearing.
 * Marshall: So you got no clothes.
 * Marshall: So you got no clothes.

 * Luggage Salesman: Have you thought much about luggage, Mr. Banks?
 * Joe: No.
 * Luggage Salesman: It's the central preoccupation of my life. You travel the world, you're away from home, perhaps away from your family, all you have to depend on is yourself and your luggage.
 * Joe: Yes, I guess that's true.
 * Luggage Salesman: Are you traveling light or heavy?
 * Joe: Heavy.
 * Luggage Salesman: Flying?
 * Joe: Flying. And by ship.
 * Luggage Salesman: An ocean voyage?
 * Joe: Yes.
 * Luggage Salesman: Ah. Yes. So. A real journey.
 * Joe: And then I'll be staying on this island and I don't even really know if I'll be living in a hut or what.
 * Luggage Salesman: Very exciting. As a luggage problem. I believe I have just the thing.
 * [the Luggage Salesman opens doors to reveal a steamer trunk of dark, wine-colored leather and brass fittings]
 * Joe: Wow.
 * Luggage Salesman: This is our premier steamer trunk. All handmade, only the finest materials. It's even watertight, tight as a drum. If I had the need, and the wherewithal, Mr. Banks, this would be my trunk of choice.
 * Joe: I'll take four of them.
 * Luggage Salesman: May you live to be a thousand years old, sir.
 * Joe: Thanks...same to you.

 * Joe: Marshall?
 * Marshall: Yeah.
 * Joe: I was wondering if you want to have dinner with me tonight.
 * Marshall: I can't do that; I got the wife and kids at the end of the day.
 * Joe: Yeah...
 * Marshall: Listen, haven't you got anybody?
 * Joe: No. But there are certain times in your life when I guess you're not supposed to have anybody, you know? There are certain doors you have to go through alone.
 * Marshall: You're gonna be all right.

 * Joe: What's the matter?
 * Angelica: Did you ever think about killing yourself?
 * Joe: What... Why would you do that?
 * Angelica: Why shouldn't I?
 * Joe: Because some things take care of themselves. They're not your job; maybe they're not even your business. I like your poem.
 * Angelica: I'm a grown woman and I live on my father's money. That restaurant that had my painting up, that's my father's restaurant.
 * Joe: Why are you telling me?
 * Angelica: I don't know. I'll tell anybody who'll listen. No, that's not true. I don't know why I'm telling you.
 * Joe: Listen to me. If you have a choice between killing yourself and doing something you're scared of doing, why not take the leap and do the thing you're scared of doing?
 * Angelica: You mean stop taking money and leave L.A.?
 * Joe: You see? You know what you're afraid of doing. Why don't you do it? See what happens?
 * Angelica: You must be tired.
 * Joe: I don't mind talking.
 * Angelica: Well, I do! This is one of those typical conversations where we're all open and sharing our innermost thoughts and it's all bullshit and a lie and it doesn't cost you anything!
 * Joe: Look. I don't know you. I don't think I know anybody. You're angry, I can, I can see that. I'm very troubled. I'm not ready to... [sighs] There's only so much time. You wanna use it well. So I'm here, talking to you. I don't wanna throw that away.
 * Angelica: I have no response to that.
 * Joe: Then maybe you should take me back to the hotel.

 * Joe: Are you used to this?
 * Patricia: What?
 * Joe: The ocean, the stars.
 * Patricia: You never get used to it. Why do you think I want this boat? All I want to do is sail away.
 * Joe: Where would you go
 * Patricia: Away from the things of man.
 * Joe: Do you believe in God?
 * Patricia: I believe in myself.
 * Joe: What does that mean?
 * Patricia: I have confidence in myself.
 * Joe: I've done a lot of soul searching lately. I've been asking myself some tough questions. You know what I've found out?
 * Patricia: What?
 * Joe: I have no interest in myself. I think about myself, I get bored out of my mind.
 * Patricia: What does interest you?
 * Joe: I don't know. Courage. Courage interests me.
 * Patricia: So you're going to spend the rest of your life on a tiny island in the South Pacific?
 * Joe: Well, up till now I've lived on a tiny island called Staten Island, and I've commuted to a job in a shut up room with pumped in air, no sunshine, despicable people, and now that I've got some distance from that situation, that seems pretty unbelievable. Your life seems unbelievable to me. All this like life, seems unbelievable to me. Somewhat. At this moment.
 * Patricia: My father says almost the whole world's asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says only a few people are awake. And they live in a state of constant, total amazement.
 * [they nearly kiss]
 * Joe: I have less than six months to live. The Waponis believe they need a human sacrifice or their island's going to sink into the ocean. They have a mineral your father wants. He's hired me to jump in their volcano.
 * Patricia: What?
 * Joe: You're not going to make me say that again, are you?
 * Patricia: No.
 * Joe: Aren't you going to say anything?
 * Patricia: I don't know what to say. You tell me you're dying, you tell me you're jumping into a volcano, my mind is a blank.

 * Patricia: Wait, stop right there! I love you! I've fallen in love with you. I've never loved anybody. I don't know how it happened. I never even slept with him or anything. And now you're gonna kill yourself.
 * Joe: [to the Chief] Can you give us a minute?
 * [Chief nods]
 * Joe: You love me?
 * Patricia: Yes, I love you. I can feel my heart...I feel like I'm going crazy. You can't just die and leave me alone on this stinking earth without you.
 * Joe: I've gotta do it.
 * Patricia: Why? Why? The Chief doesn't even want you to do it. Do you, Chief?
 * Joe: 'Cause I've wasted my entire life and I'm gonna die. Now I have a chance to die like a man, and I'm gonna take it. I've gotta take it.
 * Patricia: I love you!
 * Joe: I love you, too! I've never been in love with anybody before, either. It's great. I'm glad. But the timing stinks. [kisses her on the cheek] I've gotta go.

 * Patricia: [as they are about to jump in the volcano] Joe - nobody knows anything. We'll take this leap, and we'll see. We'll jump, and we'll see. That's life.
 * Joe: I saw the moon when we were out there in the ocean, shining down on everything. I've been miserable so long, years of my life wasted, afraid. Been a long time coming here to meet you - a long time, on a crooked road. Did I ever tell you? The first time I saw you, I felt like I'd seen you before.

 * Patricia: Isn't this romantic? Who gets a honeymoon like this?
 * Joe: Yeah, but...
 * Patricia: What's the matter?
 * Joe: I still have a problem.
 * Patricia: What?
 * Joe: I have a brain cloud.
 * Patricia: A brain cloud... what is a brain cloud?
 * Joe: It's - well, maybe I should get a second opinion.
 * Patricia: You didn't get a second opinion on something called a brain cloud? I mean what are you, a hypochondriac?
 * Joe: I was. Oh not now.
 * Patricia: I don't think anything is wrong with you.
 * Joe: Dr. Ellison said-
 * Patricia: So some quack told you... Dr. Ellison?
 * Joe: Yeah.
 * Patricia: That's my father's doctor.
 * Joe: He is?
 * Patricia: Dr. Ellison doesn't have any other patients. My father owns Dr. Ellison.
 * Joe: Why would he...?
 * Patricia: He set you up.
 * Joe: Who?
 * Patricia: My father.
 * Joe: You mean, he set me up?
 * Patricia: Yeah.
 * Joe: No.
 * Patricia: Yeah.
 * Joe: I don't have a brain cloud?
 * Patricia: I mean, couldn't they think of anything better than a "brain cloud"?
 * Joe: My whole life I've been a victim. A dupe. A pawn. [coughs] My throat is closing up.
 * Patricia: No, Joe. Your whole life is ahead of you.
 * Joe: That's true.
 * Patricia: That's good news!
 * Joe: I suppose so.
 * Patricia: It's great!
 * Joe: Yeah, that's good. I', relieved. That's great. I'm saved! [pause] But...
 * Patricia: What is it now?
 * Joe: We're on a raft, no land in sight. I don't know.
 * Patricia: It'll always be something with you, won't it?
 * Joe: Yeah. [pause] I'll tell you one thing: wherever we go, whatever we do, we're taking this luggage with us.
 * Patricia: Deal.

 * Patricia: I wonder where we'll end up?
 * Joe: Away from the things of man, my love. Away from the things of man.

Taglines

 * An Average Joe. An Adventurous Comedy.

 * A story of love, lava and burning desire.

Cast

 * Tom Hanks - Joe Banks
 * Meg Ryan - DeDe/Angelica Graynamore/Patricia Graynamore
 * Lloyd Bridges - Samuel Harvey Graynamore
 * Robert Stack - Kenneth Hindmick/Dr. Ellison
 * Abe Vigoda - Waponi Chief
 * Dan Hedaya - Mr. Frank Waturi
 * Barry McGovern - Luggage Salesman
 * Amanda Plummer - Dagmar
 * Ossie Davis - Marshall

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Simon Amstell (born 29 November 1979) is an English comedian and television presenter. He is best known for presenting Popworld and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

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George Berkeley

George Berkeley (12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).

Quotes
The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.'''
 * '''Westward the course of empire takes its way;
 * On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America (written in 1726), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); comparable to: "Westward the star of empire takes its way", Epigraph to Bancroft's History of the United States; "What worlds in the yet unformed Occident / May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?", Samuel Daniel, Musophilus (1599), Stanza 163
 * According to W. Cleon Skousen, the first four empires are the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Macedonian Empire, and the (Western, Eastern, and Holy) Roman Empire (Gospel Diamond Dust, Volume Two, Verity Publishing, 1998)

We may always find time to grow old.
 * Our youth we can have but to-day,
 * Can Love be controlled by Advice?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

De Motu (1721)

 * As translated by A. A. Luce

 * In the pursuit of truth we must beware of being misled by terms which we do not rightly understand. That is the chief point. Almost all philosophers utter the caution; few observe it.
 * Paragraph 1

 * For no one's authority ought to rank so high as to set a value on his words and terms even though nothing clear and determinate lies behind them.
 * Paragraph 1

 * Solicitation and effort or conation belong properly to animate beings alone. When they are attributed to other things, they must be taken in a metaphorical sense; but a philosopher should abstain from metaphor.
 * Paragraph 3

 * Abstract terms (however useful they may be in argument) should be discarded in meditation, and the mind should be fixed on the particular and the concrete, that is, on the things themselves.
 * Paragraph 4

Siris (1744)

 * Siris, a chain of philosophical reflections and inquiries, concerning the virtues of tar-water (1744)

 * [Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.
 * Paragraph 217; comparable to: "Cups / That cheer but not inebriate", William Cowper, The Task, book iv, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.
 * Paragraph 368

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)

 * A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) at Wikisource

 * That we have first rais'd a Dust, and then complain, we cannot see.

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713)

 * Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713) at Wikisource

 * I entirely agree with you, as to the ill tendency of the affected doubts of some philosophers, and fantastical conceit of others. I am even so far gone of late in this way of think, that I have quitted several of the sublime notions I had got in their schools for vulgar opinions. And I give it you on my word, since this revolt from metaphysical notions to the plain dictates of nature and common sense, I find my understanding strangely enlightened, so that I can now easily comprehend a great many thing which before were all mystery and riddle.
 * Said by Philonous (Berkeley) to Hylas in the opening of dialog 1 with reference to the recent surge philosophic endeavors (Locke, Newton, et al) that seemed to lead to skepticism about the existence of the world.

 * That there is no such thing as what philosophers call material substance, I am seriously persuaded: but if I were made to see any thing absurd or skeptical in this, I should then have the same reason to renounce this, that I imagine I have now to reject the contrary opinion.
 * Philonous to Hylas

 * Doth the reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?
 * Philonous to Hylas

 * Seeing therefore they are both [heat and pain] immediately perceived at the same time, and the fire affects you only with one simple, or uncompounded idea, it follows that this same simple idea is both the intense heat immediately perceived, and the pain;and consequently, that the intense heat immediately perceived, is nothing distinct from a particular sort of pain.
 * Philonous to Hylas

 * Since therefore, as well those degrees of heat that are not painful, as those that are, can exist in a thinking substance; may we not conclude that external bodies are absolutely incapable of any degree of heat whatsoever?
 * Philonous to Hylas. Hylas replies with, "So it seems".

 * Few men think; yet all have opinions.
 * Philonous to Hylas. The Second Dialogue. This appears in a passage first added in the third edition, (1734)

 * We indeed, who are beings of finite powers, are forced to make use of instruments. And the use of an instrument sheweth the agent to be limited by rules of another’s prescription, and that he cannot obtain his end but in such a way, and by such conditions. Whence it seems a clear consequence, that the supreme unlimited agent useth no tool or instrument at all. The will of an Omnipotent Spirit is no sooner exerted than executed, without the application of means; which, if they are employed by inferior agents, it is not upon account of any real efficacy that is in them, or necessary aptitude to produce any effect, but merely in compliance with the laws of nature, or those conditions prescribed to them by the First Cause, who is Himself above all limitation or prescription whatsoever.
 * Philonous to Hylas. The Second Dialogue

Quotes about Berkeley

 * We stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus!"
 * James Boswell, anecdote of an event of 6 August 1763, in The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol. I

 * Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, James, Bergson all are united in one earnest attempt, the attempt to reinstate man with his high spiritual claims in a place of importance in the cosmic scheme.
 * Edwin Arthur Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1925)

And proved it—'twas no matter what he said.
 * When Bishop Berkeley said 'there was no matter,'
 * Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818–1824), Canto XI, stanza 1

 * When men follow this blind and powerful instinct of nature, they always suppose the very images, presented by the senses, to be the external objects, and never entertain any suspicion, that the one are nothing but representations of the other. ...This argument is drawn from Dr. Berkeley; and indeed most of the writings of that very ingenious author form the best lessons of scepticism which are to be found either among the ancient or modern philosophers, Bayle not excepted. He professes, however, in his title page (and undoubtedly with great truth) to have composed his book against the sceptics as well as against the atheists and free-thinkers. But that all his arguments, though otherwise intended, are, in reality, merely sceptical, appears from this, that they admit of no answer and produce no conviction. Their only effect is to cause that momentary amazement and irresolution and confusion, which is the result of scepticism.
 * David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Ch. XI

Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there's no one about in the Quad.'
 * There once was a man who said, 'God
 * Ronald Knox, quoted in The Complete Limerick Book (1924)

 * Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne was a man of first-rate talents, distinguished as a metaphysician, a philosopher, and a divine. His geometrical knowledge, however, which, for an attack on the, was more essential than all his other accomplishments, seems to have been little more than elementary. The motive which induced him to enter on discussions so remotely connected with his usual pursuits has been variously represented; but whatever it was, it gave rise to , in which the author professes to demonstrate, that the new analysis is inaccurate in its principles, and that, if it ever lead to true conclusions, it is from an accidental compensation of errors that cannot be supposed always to take place. The argument is ingeniously and plausibly conducted, and the author sometimes attempts ridicule with better success than could be expected from the subject; thus when he calls ultimate ratios the ghosts of departed quantities, it is not easy to conceive a witty saying more happily fastened on a mere mathematical abstraction.
 * , The Works of John Playfair Esq. Vol. 2, Dissertation, exhibiting a general view of the progress of mathematical and physical science since the revival of letters in Europe (1822) pp. 321-322

 * Berkeley, after abolishing matter, is only saved from complete subjectivism by a use of God which most subsequent philosophers have regarded as illegitimate.
 * Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book Three, "Modern Philosophy", Part I, "From the Renaissance to Hume", Ch. I: "General Characteristics", p. 494

 * George Berkeley … is important in philosophy through his denial of the existence of matter—a denial which he supported by a number of ingenious arguments. He maintained that material objects only exist through being perceived. To the objection that, in that case, a tree, for instance, would cease to exist if no one was looking at it, he replied that God always perceives everything; if there were no God, what we take to be material objects would have a jerky life, suddenly leaping into being when we look at them; but as it is, owing to God’s perceptions, trees and rocks and stones have an existence as continuous as common sense supposes. This is, in his opinion, a weighty argument for the existence of God.
 * Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), III, I., Ch. XVI: "Berkeley", p. 647

 * Berkeley advances valid arguments in favour of a certain important conclusion, though not quite in favour of the conclusion that he thinks he is proving. He thinks he is proving that all reality is mental; what he is proving is that we perceive qualities, not things, and that qualities are relative to the percipient.
 * Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), III, I., XVI, pp. 648-649

 * Berkeley’s argument consists of two parts. On the one hand, he argues that we do not perceive material things, but only colours, sounds, etc., and that these are “mental” or “in the mind.” His reasoning is completely cogent as to the first point, but as to the second it suffers from the absence of any definition of the word “mental.” He relies, in fact, upon the received view that everything must be either material or mental, and that nothing is both.
 * Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), III, I., XVI, p. 651

 * Berkeley discusses the view that we must distinguish the act of perceiving from the object perceived, and that the former is mental while the latter is not. His argument against this view is obscure, and necessarily so, since, for one who believes in mental substance, as Berkeley does, there is no valid means of refuting it. He says: “That any immediate object of the senses should exist in an unthinking substance, or exterior to all minds, is in itself an evident contradiction.” There is here a fallacy, analogous to the following: “It is impossible for a nephew to exist without an uncle; now Mr. A is a nephew; therefore it is logically necessary for Mr. A to have an uncle.” It is, of course, logically necessary given that Mr. A is a nephew, but not from anything to be discovered by analysis of Mr. A. So, if something is an object of the senses, some mind is concerned with it; but it does not follow that the same thing could not have existed without being an object of the senses.
 * Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), III, I., XVI, pp. 651-652

 * Schematically, the argument is as follows. Berkeley says: “Sensible objects must be sensible. A is a sensible object. Therefore A must be sensible.” But if “must” indicates logical necessity, the argument is only valid if A must be a sensible object. The argument does not prove that, from the properties of A other than its being sensible, it can be deduced that A is sensible. It does not prove, for example, that colours intrinsically indistinguishable from those that we see may not exist unseen. We may believe on physiological grounds that this does not occur, but such grounds are empirical; so far as logic is concerned, there is no reason why there should not be colours where there is no eye or brain.
 * Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), III, I., XVI, p. 653

 * I come now to Berkeley’s empirical arguments. To begin with, it is a sign of weakness to combine empirical and logical arguments, for the latter, if valid, make the former superfluous. [Footnote: E.g., "I was not drunk last night. I had only had two glasses; besides, it is well known that I am a teetotaller."] If I am contending that a square cannot be round, I shall not appeal to the fact that no Square in any known city is round. But as we have rejected the logical arguments, it becomes necessary to consider the empirical arguments on their merits.
 * Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), III, I., XVI, p. 653

 * In the second Dialogue Philonous sums up the discussion, so far as it has gone, in the words: “Besides spirits, all that we know or conceive are our own ideas.” He ought not, of course, to make an exception for spirits, since it is just as impossible to know spirit as to know matter. The arguments, in fact, are almost identical in both cases.
 * Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), III, I., XVI, p. 654

 * Berkeley, as we have seen, thinks that there are logical reasons proving that only minds and mental events can exist. This view, on other grounds, is also held by Hegel and his followers. I believe this to be a complete mistake. Such a statement as “there was a time before life existed on this planet,” whether true or false, cannot be condemned on grounds of logic, any more than “there are multiplication sums which no one will have ever worked out.” To be observed, or to be a percept, is merely to have effects of certain kinds, and there is no logical reason why all events should have effects of these kinds.
 * Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), III, I., XVI, p. 657

 * Berkeley was... the first to treat the subjective starting-point really seriously and to demonstrate irrefutably its absolute necessity. He is the father of idealism.
 * Arthur Schopenhauer, in Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. I, "Fragments for the History of Philosophy"

 * Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained after his time, but mind—which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume, in 1737.
 * Sydney Smith, Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1850), Introduction

That this pragmatical, preposterous pig of a world, its farrow that so solid seem, Must vanish on the instant if the mind but change its theme''';
 * '''And God-appointed Berkeley that proved all things a dream,
 * W.B. Yeats, from 'Blood and the Moon' in The Winding Stair (1929)

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Talk:George Berkeley

I just tossed a couple quotes up from the first dialogue between hyl. and phil.

Does anyone know whether the quote "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind", widely attributed to him in the net, is really his?

This quote seems to contain a typographical mistake:

"Berkeley’s argument consists of two parts. On the one hand, he argues that we do not perceive material things, but only colours, sounds, etc., and that these are “mental” or “in the mind.” His reasoning is completely cogent as to the first point, but as to the second it suffers from the absence of any definition of the word “mental.” He relics, in fact, upon the received view that everything must be either material or mental, and that nothing is both."

Isn't that suppose to say 'He relies, in fact, upon...' and not he 'He relics, in fact, upon...'?

I don't have the book it was taken from, but if anyone does then it would be good to check this word out.

 * ✅, thanks. ~ DanielTom (talk) 06:07, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Is there really a point in handing people a quote from Skousen as a key for interpreting Berkeley, as if that was some serious scholarship? Skousen was no Berkeleyologist nor an ANE scholar, and his opinion in that matter was a bit less relevant and informed than a cat's. There's no lack of actual academic writing on Berkeley, why not quote that instead? --Ehitaja (talk) 11:17, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

title: Talk:George Berkeley