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Signature Line
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Signature Line (trope)
Don't you dare finish that sentence!
Don't do it! I'm sick of it!

"And now, here it comes, the line you've all been waiting for..." (Also sprach Zarathustra plays in the background)
— Phelous in his Troll 2 review

Related to Signature Scene, a Signature Line is a quote of dialogue that everyone remembers from a work of fiction, and has become synonymous with it. When the general public thinks of the work, this is the one quote that immediately springs to mind, and may be the only reason to remember the work at all.

There are many reasons that the line may stand out. It may be...

  • A major centerpiece of the marketing for the work, possibly the tagline,
  • The opening line or monologue of a famous work,
  • A line that evoked major controversy,
  • A line that is incredibly ridiculous or narmful in what is supposed to be a serious work, and/or
  • The major twist in the work.

No matter the reason, the Signature Line is cemented in the minds of the general public. If you have actually seen the work yourself and are familiar with it, there may be lines that stick out more for you.

For game shows, the Elimination Catchphrase usually becomes the show's signature line as well.

A Signature Line is a line of dialogue that actually appears in the work. If the line is never actually spoken in the work, it's an example of Beam Me Up, Scotty!.

Signature Lines are likely to succumb to Memetic Mutation (usually, Memetic Mutation is how they become the Signature Line), and thereby result in viewers Watching It For The Meme.

Don't confuse this with a Catchphrase; a signature line is something viewers might watch the entire show simply to hear, not just something that gets said a lot. If many different people in the show say it, it's the show's Arc Words. Sometimes, of course, a catchphrase or arc words can catch on and come to define the show in popular imagination, but it's rarer than you'd think — the vast majority of signature lines are only spoken once in the work where they appear. Also not to be confused with Tagline or Wham Line.

NOTE: Since these are signature lines, spoilers won't be marked. You Have Been Warned!

Examples

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    Advertising 
  • Alka-Seltzer:
    • "Mama mia! That's a spicy meatball!"
    • "I can't believe I ate that whole thing!"
  • "FUCK YOU, BALTIMORE!" (Big Bill Hell's)
    • "Take a hike to Big Bill Hell's, home of CHALLENGE PISSING! That's right, challenge pissing."
  • "HI, BILLY MAYS HERE!"
  • "Hey kid... catch." "Wow, thanks, Mean Joe!" (Coca-Cola)
  • Flex Seal:
    • "To show you the power of Flex Tape, I sawed this boat in half!"
    • "Now that's a lotta damage!"
  • "You're my present this year." (Folgers, "Coming Home")
  • "Oh no, Mrs. Burke! I thought you were Dale!" (Grape-Nuts)
  • "I'm not only the Hair Club president, but I'm also a client." (Sy Sperling, Hair Club For Men)
  • "Many of you feel bad for this lamp. That is because you crazy. It has no feelings, and the new one is much better." (IKEA, "Lamp")
  • "Uh...khakis?" (Jake from State Farm)
  • "OH YEAH!" (Kool-Aid)
  • "HEY!" (LEGO City commercials)
  • "I've fallen! And I can't get up!" (Life Alert)
  • "Long long maaaaaaaan!" (Long Long Man)
  • "Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady. I'm on a horse." (The Man Your Man Could Smell Like)
  • "You're gonna like the way you look. I guarantee it." (Men's Warehouse)
  • "...make the bad guys cry like an anime fan on prom night." (Mighty No. 9 Masterclass trailer)
  • "I don't always drink beer...but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis. Stay thirsty, my friends." (The Most Interesting Man in the World)
  • Partnership to End Addiction:
    • "This is your brain. This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?"
    • "You, alright? I learned it by watching you!"
  • "I was so impressed, I bought the company." (Remington Shavers)
  • Sega Genesis U.S. commercials:
  • "Is it the shoes?" (Spike And Mike)
    • "Money, it's gotta be the shoes!"
    • "No, Mars."
    • "Do you know? Do you know? Do you know?"
  • "You're a kid now! You're a squid now!" (Splatoon 1 commercials)
  • "Silly rabbit! Trix are for kids!" (Trix)
  • "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV." (Chris Robinson, Vicks Formula 44)
  • Vince Offer:
    • "You followin' me, camera guy?"
    • "You're gonna love my nuts."

    Comic Books 

    Comic Strips 

    Fan Works 

    Fairy Tale 

    Films — Animation 

    Franchise 
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks: "ALVINNN!", so much so that the 2015 revival is stylised as ALVINNN!!! And The Chipmunks.

    Let's Play 

    Literature 
  • "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • "All right, I'll go to hell, then."
    • "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."
  • "So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians." (Alcatraz Series, the opening line)
  • Alice in Wonderland
    • "Curiouser and curiouser."
    • "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
    • "But I don't want to Go Among Mad People." "Oh, you can't help that, we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
    • "Off with His Head!"
    • "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
  • Animal Farm
    • "All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others."
    • "Four legs good, two legs bad." Which eventually morphs into "Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better."
  • "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." (Anna Karenina)
  • Atlas Shrugged
    • "I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
    • "Who is John Galt?"
      • Both leading to one of the more memorable quotes of literary critique: "Eventually, the question you ask stops being 'Who is John Galt?' and becomes 'When will John Galt shut up?'"
  • "Finished? You and I? How can you even begin to understand what I've had to do to bring you to this world? You've been my only care for over a thousand years. I've endured anguish and loss and pain beyond your ability to understand what the words mean - all for you. I've lived in poverty and squalor for hundreds of years at a time - all for you. I gave up a sister I loved more than my life itself - all for you. I've gone through fire and despair worse than fire a dozen times over - all for you. And you think this has all been an entertainment for me? - some idle amusement? You think the kind of care I've devoted to you for a thousand years and more comes cheaply? You and I will never be finished, Belgarion. Never! We will go on together until the end of days if necessary. We will never be finished. You owe me too much for that!" (The Belgariad)
  • The Bell Jar
    • "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
    • "To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."
  • "If you don't come to Lagardère, Lagardère will come to you!" (Le Bossu, also counts for the film adaptations)
  • Bridge to Terabithia
    • "Your friend Leslie is dead."
      • "You're lying. It's not true!"
  • "I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn’t like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I’m wondering if without our memories, there’s nothing for it but for our love to fade and die." (The Buried Giant)
  • "Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood." (Carmilla)
  • "For the love of God, Montresor!" (The Cask of Amontillado)
  • "The bitch is dead now." (Casino Royale)
  • "Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo."note  (Catulli Carmen 16)
  • A Christmas Carol:
    • "Bah, humbug!"
    • "God bless us, every one of us!"
    • "Come in! And know me better, man!"
  • "Wait, and hope." (The Count of Monte Cristo)
  • Crime and Punishment
    • "Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."
    • "We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bathhouse in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is?"
  • Some of the books for children by Roald Dahl have a very memorable opening line, to make the reader want to read on.
    • "What a lot of hairy-faced men there are nowadays." (The Twits)
    • "In fairy tales, witches always wear silly black hats and cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale: this is about REAL witches." (The Witches)
    • "It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their son or daughter is the most disgusting little blister you can imagine, they still think he or she is wonderful." (Matilda)
    • "Ernie had been given a .22 rifle for his birthday." (The Swan, from The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar)
  • "The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas." (Demian)
  • The Devils (2025):
    • "Happy endings are just stories that aren’t finished yet."
    • "Show me a man who regrets nothing and I’ll show you a man who’s achieved nothing."
    • "God has deep pockets."
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    • "First of all, let me get something straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary."
    • "Zoo-Wee Mama!"
    • "Bubby!"
    • "Ploopy!"
  • "Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate" ("Abandon all hope, ye who enter.") (The Divine Comedy)
  • "Somewhere in La Mancha, in a name whose place I don't care to remember..." (Don Quixote)
  • Dracula
    • "The blood is the life!"
    • "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
  • The Dresden Files
    • "My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk."
    • "I'm in the book."
    • "The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault." (Blood Rites)
  • "Fear is the mind-killer." (Dune)
  • East of Eden
    • "Timshel."
    • "And just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born?"
  • Emma
    • "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
    • "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
  • "Heaven creates neither man above man nor man below man." (An Encouragement of Learning by Fukuzawa Yukichi)
  • "It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window." (Farewell, My Lovely)
  • The Fault in Our Stars
    • "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."
    • "Ok?" "Ok."
    • "It's a metaphor see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."
  • "The first rule of Fight Club is 'You do not talk about Fight Club.' The second rule of Fight Club is 'YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB.' (Fight Club)
  • The First Law
  • The Fountainhead
    • "The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me."
    • "Before you can do things for people, you must be the type of man who can get things done."
  • "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there." (The Go-Between)
  • Harry Potter:
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • "DON'T PANIC."
    • "The answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is... forty-two."
    • "Mostly harmless."
    • "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
  • "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper." ("The Hollow Men")
  • Honor Harrington
    • "Goodbye, Citizen Chairman." (Ashes of Victory)
      • "Oops."
    • "What the hell. I've always liked a good challenge." (Mission of Honor)
    • "Why is it that people like you always think you're more ruthless than people like me?" (Shadow of Victory)
  • The Hunger Games
    • "... and may the odds be ever in your favor."
    • "Because she came here with me."
    • "There is no District 12."
    • "I tell him: Real."Context
  • "I Am a Cat. As of yet I have no name."
  • "I have no mouth, And I Must Scream" (I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream)
  • "The rosy fingers of dawn." (The Iliad)
  • "Reader, I married him." (Jane Eyre)
  • Stephen King
    • "Sin never dies." (Carrie)
    • “His single-minded purpose. His unending fury.” (Christine)
    • The Dark Tower
      • "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
      • "I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart."
      • "Go then, there are other worlds than these."
    • "I win, you win." (Duma Key)
    • It
      • "He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts."
      • "They all float down here. 'THEY ALLL FLOAT."'
    • Pet Sematary
    • "Redrum". (The Shining)
    • "M.O.O.N. That spells _____." (The Stand)
    • "Late last night and the night before, Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at the door. I want to go out, don't know if I can, because I'm so afraid of the Tommyknocker man." (The Tommyknockers)
  • "Until recently, I didn’t think that humans could choose loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness." (Klara and the Sun)
  • Kull: The "By this axe, I rule!" speech is almost certainly the first thing anyone remembers about Kull.
  • "Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well." ("Lady Lazarus")
  • "It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." (The Left Hand of Darkness)
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    • "Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good."
    • "Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight."
    • "Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written."
    • "Always winter and never Christmas."
  • Lolita
    • "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins."
    • "And this is the only immortality you and I may share, Lolita."
  • Lord of the Flies: Ralph's Catchphrase "Sucks to your ass-mar" is easily the most quoted line of the book.
  • Mansfield Park
  • "Manuscripts don't burn." (The Master and Margarita)
  • "'No!' Jimmy protested..." (Meltdown)
  • "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." (The Metamorphosis)
  • Moby-Dick
    • Opening line: "Call me Ishmael."
    • "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee!"
  • Mort
    • "Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten."
    • There is no justice. There's just me.
  • "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." (Mother Night)
  • "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." (Neuromancer)
  • "Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being." (No Longer Human)
  • "Please, sir, I want some more." (Oliver Twist)
  • "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; / Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" ("Ozymandias")
  • "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." (Paradise Lost)
  • The Parasites
  • "Look, I didn't want to be a Half-Blood." (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
  • "You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope." (Persuasion)
  • "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
  • Pride and Prejudice
    • "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
    • "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
  • "Quoth the raven, nevermore." ("The Raven")
  • "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." (Rebecca)
  • "I- am that is, my sword shall wield for me." (Redwall)
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    • "Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink."
    • "As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean."
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
    • "So it goes."
    • "I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
  • The Song of Achilles:
    • "I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    • “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
  • A Song of Ice and Fire
    • "The things I do for love."
    • "The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace. They never are."
    • "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."
    • "Valar Morghulis."
    • "Ramsay. Snow, my wife called me before she ate her fingers, but I say Bolton."
  • "I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy." (Steppenwolf)
  • "Mother died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know." (The Stranger)
  • A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. To the point where far more people know these words than they know what the book is even about (or even which book they are from).
  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    • "No one can be happy in eternal solitude."
    • "There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it."
    • "Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor."
    • "Where hope rises fear must lurk behind."
    • "Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result."
  • "All for one and one for all!" (The Three Musketeers)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
    • "Stand up, Miss Jean Louise. Your father's passing."
    • "...it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
    • "In the name of God, do your duty."
  • Tolkien's Legendarium:
    • The Hobbit:
    • The Lord of the Rings
      • "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, / One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
      • "Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens."
      • "Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live diserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
      • "You cannot pass. I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass."
      • "Fly, you fools!"
      • “You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours – closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo."
      • "Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey!"
      • "But no living man am I! You look upon a woman."
      • "The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so the rightful king shall be known."
      • "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well."
      • "I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam."
      • "I will not say, do not weep. For not all tears are evil."
      • "Well, I'm back."
  • "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning." (The Trial)
  • Valley of the Dolls
    • "When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top."
    • "Thank God for the dolls."
  • The War of the Worlds:
    • "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's."
    • "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one."
  • "April is the cruelest month..." (The Waste Land)
  • Watership Down
    • "The field is covered in blood."
    • "You are closer to death than I."
    • "All the world will be your enemy, O Prince with a Thousand Enemies. And if they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed."
  • The Wind in the Willows
    • "There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
    • "The mole had been working very hard all morning at spring cleaning."
  • "Nelly, I am Heathcliff!" (Wuthering Heights)

    Music 
  • ABBA
    • "Mamma Mia! Here I go again!" ("Mamma Mia")
    • "Money, money, money, must be funny, in the rich men's world." ("Money, Money, Money")
    • "When you're gone, how can I even try to go on?" ("S.O.S.")
    • "You can dance, you can die having the time of your life. See that girl, watch that scene. Digging the Dancing Queen." ("Dancing Queen")
    • "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme a man after midnight!" ("Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!")
  • AC/DC
    • "Back in black! I hit the sack!" ("Back In Black")
    • "Thunder!" ("Thunderstruck")
    • "I'm on a highway to hell!" ("Highway To Hell")
    • "Shoot to thrill, play to kill!" ("Shoot to Thrill")
  • Adele
    • "Hello, it's me." ("Hello")
    • "There's a fire starting in my heart." ("Rolling In The Deep")
  • Aerosmith:
    • "Sing with me, sing for the year, sing for the laughter, sing for the tear." ("Dream On")
    • "You ain't seen nothin' 'til you're down on a muffin. Then you're sure to be a-changin' your ways." ("Walk This Way")
    • "I'm back in the saddle again!" ("Back in the Saddle")
    • "That, that dude looks like a lady!" ("Dude (Looks Like a Lady)")
    • "I still miss you, babe, and I don't want to miss a thing." ("I Don't Want to Miss a Thing")
  • ArcadeFire:
    • “My body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one I love, but my mind holds the key.” (“My Body Is a Cage”)
    • “Our song escapes. On neon silver discs.” (“Reflektor”)
    • “In the suburbs I, I learned how to drive. And you told me we’d never survive.”
  • Aurora (Singer):
    • "You cannot eat money, oh no." ("The Seed")
    • "You can drink, you can feast, there's beauty in your beast." ("Blood in the Wine")
    • "My God, it's a lot!" ("Some Type of Skin")
    • "You speak of the devil like he's not your friend." ("A Soul With No King")
  • "Tin roof! Rusted." (The B-52s, "Love Shack")
  • "The sickening taste. Homophobic jokes. Images of fascist votes. Beam me up, 'cause I can't breathe" (Babylon Zoo, "Spaceman")
  • "Who let the dogs out?" (Baha Men, "Who Let The Dogs Out?")
  • The Beatles:
    • "I read the news today, oh boy." ("A Day In The Life")
    • "I got blisters on my fingers!" ("Helter Skelter")
    • "...And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." ("The End")
    • "When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me." ("Let It Be")
    • "Na na na na na na." ("Hey Jude")
  • "If you like it then you should have put a ring on it." (Beyoncé, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)")
  • Black Sabbath:
    • "Generals gathered in their masses, just like witches at black masses." ("War Pigs")
    • "Finished with my woman, 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind." ("Paranoid")
    • "I AM IRON MAN." ("Iron Man")
  • "Once had a love and it was a gas, it soon turned out I've had a heart of glass." (Blondie, "Heart of Glass")
  • "Ra-Ra-Rasputin! Tover of the Russian Queen! There was a cat that really was gone!" (Boney M, "Rasputin")
  • David Bowie
    • "Ground Control to Major Tom." ("Space Oddity")
    • "Is there life on Mars?" ("Life On Mars?")
    • "There's a Starman waiting in the sky." ("Starman")
    • "We can be heroes... just for one day." ("Heroes")
    • "I'm an alligator." ("Moonage Daydream")
    • "Ch-ch-ch-changes! Turn and face the strange!" ("Changes")
    • "Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress." ("Rebel Rebel")
    • "Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie." ("Ashes To Ashes")
  • Phoebe Bridgers
    • "I have emotional motion sickness." ("Motion Sickness")
    • "We'll watch TV while the lights on the street put all the stars to death." ("Smoke Signals")
    • "Said she knows she lived through it to get to this moment." ("Graceland Too")
  • "And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God, and I'd get him to swap our places." (Kate Bush, "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)")
  • "But I still believe, I still believe. Through the cold, through the heat. Through the rain, and through the tears. Through the crowds, and through the cheers. Oh, I still believe!" (The Call, "I Still Believe")
  • "Yo, pretty ladies around the world? Got a weird thing to show ya, so tell all the boys and girls." (Cameo, "Word Up")
  • Belinda Carlisle:
    • "Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth." ("Heaven is a Place on Earth")
    • "Oh, my love, it's you that I dream of. Oh, my love, since that day. Somewhere in my heart, I'm always dancing with you in the summer rain." ("Summer Rain")
  • Sabrina Carpenter
    • "You'll just have to taste me when he's kissing you." ("Taste")
    • "Is it that sweet? I guess so." ("Espresso")
  • Johnny Cash
    • "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die." ("Folsom Prison Blues")
    • "I've hurt myself today, to see if I still feel." ("Hurt", originally by Nine Inch Nails)
  • "People like us, we gotta stick together. Keep your head up, nothing lasts forever." (Kelly Clarkson, "People like us")
  • The Clash:
    • "You're my guitar hero!" ("Complete Control")
    • "A nuclear error, but I have no fear, 'cause London is drowning and I live by the river." ("London Calling")
    • "Should I stay or should I go?" ("Should I Stay or Should I Go")
    • "Rocking the casbah, the sharif don't like it." ("Rock the Casbah")
  • "I get knocked down, but I get up again!" (Chumbawamba, "Tubthumping")
  • "Just another day. The shame is gone. Hard to believe that I have let it go." (Lacuna Coil, "Swamped")
  • The Corrs:
    • "I would run away...I would run away with you, 'Cause I'm never gonna stop falling in love with you..." ("Runaway")
    • "So go on go on, Come on leave me breathless, Tempt me tease me, Until I can't deny this loving feeling, Make me long for your kiss." ("Breathless")
  • The Cranberries:
    • "You know I'm such a fool for you, you've got me wrapped around your finger." ("Linger")
    • "In your head, in your head." ("Zombie")
  • "I am the God of Hellfire! And I bring you..." (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, "Fire")
  • Crush 40:
    • "Live and Learn! Hanging on the edge of tomorrow! ("Live and Learn")
    • "Try to reach inside of me, Try to drain my energy? Let me show you just What. I'm. Made. Of!" ("What I'm Made Of")
    • "Can you see all of me? Walk into my mystery, Step inside and hold on for dear life" ("I Am...All of Me")
    • "Now don't you worry, It's a never-ending story!" ("Sonic Youth")
  • The Cure:
    • "I don't care if Monday's blue." ("Friday I'm In Love")
    • "Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick." ("Just Like Heaven")
    • "The Spiderman is having me for dinner tonight." ("Lullaby")
  • "I came in like a wrecking ball." (Miley Cyrus, "Wrecking Ball")
  • Def Leppard:
  • "Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm." (Depeche Mode, "Enjoy The Silence")
  • "'Cause I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best." (Marina Diamandis, "Oh No!")
  • "I want my MTV." (Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing")
  • Divinyls:
    • "I don't want anybody else, When I think about you, I touch myself." ("I Touch Myself")
    • "I must have been desperate, I must have been pretty low" x2 ("Boys in Town")
    • "It's a fine line between pleasure and pain. You've done it once, you could do it again. Whatever you done, don't try to explain. It's a fine, fine line between pleasure and pain."
  • "Mr. Mojo Risin'!" (The Doors, "L.A. Woman")
  • Bob Dylan
    • "Well, the times, they are a-changin'." ("The Times They Are a-Changin'")
    • "Everybody must get stoned." ("Rainy Day Women #12 & 35")
    • "Feel like I'm knockin' on Heaven's door." ("Knockin' On Heaven's Door")
    • “How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?” (“Blowin’ in the Wind”)
    • “Oh where have you been, my blue-eyed son? (“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”)
  • Eagles:
    • "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave." ("Hotel California")
    • "Standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona..." ("Take It Easy")
  • Billie Eilish
    • "I'm a bad guy... Duh!" ("bad guy")
    • "Isn't it lovely? All alone, heart made of glass, my mind of stone." ("lovely")
    • "When I'm away from you, I'm happier than ever." ("Happier Than Ever")
    • "I used to float, now I just fall down." ("What Was I Made For?")
  • Eminem
    • "And come to think about it, his name was...it was you." ("Stan")
    • "Mom's spaghetti..." ("Lose Yourself")
    • "Now this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me! 'Cause we need a little controversy, 'cause it feels so empty without me!" ("Without Me")
  • "Sweet dreams are made of this, who am I to disagree?" (Eurythmics, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)")
  • "Now you feel like Number One! Shining bright for everyone! Living out your fantasy! The brightest star for all to see!" (Hazel Fernandez, "Number One")
  • Fleetwood Mac
    • "Well, I've been afraid of changin', 'cause I've built my life around you, but time makes you bolder, even children get older and I'm getting older too." ("Landslide")
    • "You can go your own way." ("Go Your Own Way")
    • "Oh, thunder only happens when it's raining." ("Dreams")
    • "You would never break the chain." ("The Chain")
    • "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies." ("Lies")
  • Florence + the Machine
    • "Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father!" ("Dog Days Are Over")
    • "And it's hard to dance with the devil on your back, so shake it off!" ("Shake It Out")
    • "And the arms of the ocean are carrying me..." ("Never Let Me Go")
    • "Too feminine to function." ("One of The Greats")
  • "What are you waiting for?" (Ellie Goulding, "Love Me Like You Do")
  • Garbage
    • "I'm only happy when it rains." ("Only Happy When It Rains")
    • "This is the noise that keeps me awake! My head explodes and my body aches!" ("Push It")
    • "Go baby, go-go" ("Cherry Lips")
    • "I don't know why they are calling on the radio.They know I'm here, just out of sight." ("Blood for Poppies")
    • "There will be no cops, just men with guns." ("No Horses")
    • "The future is mine just the same! No master or gods to obey!" ("No Gods, No Masters")
  • Ariana Grande
    • "One taught me love, one taught me patience and one taught me pain." ("thank u, next")
    • "I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it." ("7 rings")
  • "Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge." (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, "The Message")
  • Green Day
    • "I went to a whore. He said my life's a bore." ("Basket Case")
    • "My shadow's the only one that walks beside me." ("Boulevard Of Broken Dreams")
  • Guns N' Roses:
    • "Welcome to the jungle. We got fun and games." ("Welcome to the Jungle")
    • "Where do we go now?" ("Sweet Child 'o Mine")
    • "Take me down to the paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty." ("Paradise City")
    • "Do you need some time on your own? Do you need some time all alone?" ("November Rain")
  • "You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant." (Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree")
  • "I turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole." (Merle Haggard, "Mama Tried")
  • Halsey
    • "Everything is blue." ("Colors")
      • "You were red and you liked me 'cause I was blue. But you've touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky, and you've decided they purple just wasn't for you."
    • "Do you call yourself a fucking hurricane like me?" ("Gasoline")
    • "No, I won't smile, but I'll show you my teeth." ("Nightmare")
    • "It's not a happy ending." ("Bells in Santa Fe")
  • "Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, 'cause it took so long to bake it and I'll never have that recipe again. Oh, no!" (Richard Harris (or Donna Summer), "Macarthur Park")
  • "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky." (Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Haze")
  • Hole
    • "Someday, you will ache like I ache." ("Doll Parts")
    • "When I wake up in my make-up..." ("Celebrity Skin")
  • Imagine Dragons
    • "This is my kingdom come." ("Demons")
    • "Oh, the misery, everybody wants to be my enemy!" ("Enemy")
  • "Fucking magnets, how do they work?" (Insane Clown Posse, "Miracles")
  • "I've been caught stealing once when I was five." (Jane's Addiction, "Been Caught Stealing")
  • "Let's go to Luckenbach, Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys." (Waylon Jennings, "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)")
  • Billy Joel
    • "Sing us a song, you're the piano man." ("Piano Man")
    • "We didn't start the fire." ("We Didn't Start The Fire")
    • "Uptown Girl, she's been living in her uptown world." ("Uptown Girl")
  • Elton John
    • "And I think it's gonna be a long, long time..." ("Rocket Man")
    • "How wonderful life is, when you're in the world." ("Your Song")
  • "Just a small-town girl, livin' in a lonely world. She took the midnight train goin' anywhere." (Journey, "Don't Stop Believin')
  • "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." (Kris Kristofferson note , "Me and Bobby McGee")
  • "We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way." (Toby Keith, "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)")
  • "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" (Labelle, "Lady Marmalade")
  • "Say, Drake, I hear you like 'em young." (Kendrick Lamar, "They Not Like Us")
    • "Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minor..."
  • Cyndi Lauper
    • "Oh, girls just wanna have fun! That's what they really want, is some fun!" ("Girls Just Want To Have Fun")
    • "And I see your true colors shining through, I see your true colors and that's why Iove you." ("True Colors ")
    • "If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting, time after time." ("Time After Time")
  • Avril Lavigne
    • "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?" ("Complicated")
    • "He was a boy, she was a girl. Can I make it any more obvious?" ("Sk8er Boi")
    • "Hey, hey, you, you! I don't like your girlfriend!" ("Girlfriend")
  • "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold, and she's buying her Stairway to Heaven." (Led Zeppelin, "Stairway To Heaven")
  • "Imagine there's no heaven." (John Lennon, "Imagine")
  • Linkin Park:
    • “Crawling in my skin! These wounds, they will not heal!” ("Crawling")
    • "I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter." ("In the End")
      • "It starts with..." "One thing! I don't know why."
  • "I feel it comin' back again. Like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind. Forces pullin' from the center of the earth again. I can feel it." (Live, "Lightning Crashes")
  • "The Devil Is a Loser and he's my bitch!" (Lordi, "The Devil is a Loser")
  • Madonna:
    • "Like a virgin, hey! Touched for the very first time!" ("Like a Virgin")
    • "When you call my name, it's like a little prayer, I'm down on my knees, I wanna take you there." ("Like a Prayer")
    • "'Cause we are living in a material world, and I am a material girl." ("Material Girl")
    • "If I'm smart, then I'll run away. But I'm not, so I guess I'll stay." ("Beautiful Stranger")
  • Matchbox Twenty:
    • "I want to push you around." ("Push")
    • "I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell." ("Unwell")
  • "Stop! Hammer time!" (MC Hammer, "U Can't Touch This")
  • "...the day the music died." (Don McLean, "American Pie")
  • Metallica
    • "Exit light, enter night." ("Enter Sandman")
    • "Master of puppets, I'm pulling your strings!" ("Master Of Puppets")
    • "...So I dub thee unforgiven." ("Unforgiven")
  • Tim Minchin:
    • "I'll be seeing my Dad, my brother and sisters, my gran and my Mum. They'll be drinking white wine in the sun." ("White Wine in the Sun")
    • "Yeah, I don't care about your colour or your creed. I will judge you for no reason...but your deeds!" ("Contnote ")
    • "Fuck you, motherfucker. This is language one employs when one is a little bit cross with motherfuckers fucking boys!" ("Pope")
    • "It's not perfect, but it's mine." ("Not Perfect")
    • "Cardinal Pell, if you don't feel compelled to come home by a sense of moral duty, perhaps you will come home and fricking sue me." ("Come Home")
    • "Maybe you should quit and get a job that you'd be better at, like killing yourself you fucking cunt!" ("Song for Phil Daoust")
  • "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." (Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi")
  • Alanis Morissette
  • My Chemical Romance
    • "When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city." ("Welcome To The Black Parade")
    • "Teenagers scare the living shit out of me!" ("Teenager")
    • "So long and goodnight." ("Helena")
  • "I was carried to Ohio in a swarm of bees." (The National, "Bloodbuzz Ohio")
  • "You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself." (Rick Nelson, "Garden Party")
  • "I want to fuck you like an animal." (Nine Inch Nails, "Closer")
  • Nirvana
    • "With the lights out, it's less dangerous, here we are now, entertain us, I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us, a mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido!" ("Smells Like Teen Spirit")
    • "Hey! Wait! I've got a new complaint!" ("Heart-Shaped Box")
    • No, I don't have a gun. ("Come As You Are")
      • "As an old memoria..."
    • "He's the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along, and he likes to shoot his gun." ("In Bloom")
  • "It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! magazine!" (The Notorious B.I.G., "Juicy")
  • "I wanna go home with the armadillo..." (Gary P Nunn, "London Homesick Blues")
  • "It's been seven hours and fifteen days since you took your love away." (Sinéad O'Connor, "Nothing Compares 2 U")
  • "Don't listen to a word I say, the screams all sound the same, cause though the truth may vary this ship will carry our bodies safe to shore." (Of Monsters and Men, "Little Talks")
  • The Offspring:
  • "I chimed in with 'Haven't you people ever heard of closing a goddamn door?'" (Panic! at the Disco, "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies")
  • Pearl Jam
    • "Jeremy spoke in class today." ("Jeremy")
    • "I'm still alive." ("Alive")
  • "I kissed a girl and I liked it!" (Katy Perry, "I Kissed a Girl")
  • "I am the man who arranges the blocks..." (Pig with the Face of a Boy, "A Complete History of the Soviet Union, Through the Eyes of a Humble Worker")
  • Pink Floyd
    • "We don't need no education." ("Another Brick In The Wall Part II")
    • "Hey, you, out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me?" ("Hey You")
    • "Money, it's a gas." ("Money")
    • "The grass was greener." ("High Hopes")
  • Queen:
    • "We will, we will rock you!" ("We Will Rock You")
    • "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?" ("Bohemian Rhapsody")
    • "Each morning I get up I die a little." ("Somebody To Love")
    • "She's a killer queen, gunpowder, gelatine." ("Killer Queen")
    • "We are the champions, my friends." ("We Are The Champions")
    • "All we hear is Radio Gaga! Radio Googoo! Radio Gaga!"
  • "Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses." (Rage Against the Machine, "Killing in the Name")
  • R.E.M.
  • "You gotta know when to hold 'em, Know When to Fold 'Em, know when to walk away, know when to run." (Kenny Rogers, "The Gambler")
  • The Rolling Stones
  • Roxette:
    • "Hello you fool, I love you!" ("Joyride")
    • "Walking like a man, hitting like a hammer. She's a juvenile scam, never was a quitter. Tasted like a raindrop. She's got the look." ("The Look")
    • "I don't know where you're going and I don't know why. But listen to your heart before you tell him goodbye." ("Listen to Your Heart")
    • "I love when you do that hocus pocus to me. The way that you touch, you've got the power to heal." ("Almost Unreal")
  • "You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you." (Carly Simon, "You're So Vain")
  • "Hello, darkness, my old friend." (Simon & Garfunkel, "The Sound of Silence")
  • "How could this happen to me?" (Simple Plan, "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)")
  • "I like big butts and I cannot lie!" (Sir Mix-A-Lot, "Baby Got Back")
  • Skillet
    • "I need a hero to save me now!" ("Hero")
    • "I must confess that I feel like a monster!" ("Monster")
  • "Despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage." (The Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings")
  • Britney Spears
    • "My loneliness is killin' me." ("Hit Me Baby One More Time")
    • "I'm not that innocent." ("Oops, I did it again")
    • "It's Britney, bitch." ("Gimme More")
  • "I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want." (Spice Girls, "Wannabe")
  • Taylor Swift
    • "I stay up too late, got nothing in my brain - at least that's what people say." ("Shake It Off")
    • "So it's gonna be forever, or is it gonna go down in flames?" ("Blank Space")
    • "I don't like your little games, I don't like your tilted stage." ("Look What You Made Me Do")
    • "You drew stars around my scars, but now I'm bleedin'." ("Cardigan")
  • Tenacious D:
    • "Tribute":
    • "To be the best, we got to pass the test, we gotta make it all the way to the top of the mountain! We can do it again!" ("To Be The Best")
    • "You are the Devil? We are the D!" ("Beelzeboss")
  • Third Eye Blind:
  • Bonnie Tyler
    • "I need a hero!" ("Holding Out For A Hero")
    • "And I need you now tonight, and I need you more than ever!" ("Total Eclipse Of The Heart")
  • Sharon Van Etten
    • "I know what you're gonna be." ("Seventeen")
    • "Everytime the Sun comes up, I'm in trouble." ("Everytime the Sun Comes Up")
  • Van Halen:
    • "Might as well jump. (Jump!)" ("Jump")
    • "I've got it bad, got it bad, got it bad. I'm hot for teacher!" ("Hot for Teacher")
  • "It's fun to stay at the YMCA!" (Village People, "YMCA")
  • Vixen:
    • "Not a minute too soon your love came through for me. You are the water in my desert." ("Not a Minute too Soon")
    • "Livin' a charmed life, everything's workin' out right. Livin' a charmed life, you know everything's workin' out right. You know she's livin', lovin', lovin', livin'. Yeah yeah yeah..." ("Charmed Life")
    • "Tell me how much love is it gonna take, to prove I'm not another heartache" ("How Much Love")
  • Wallows
    • “Scrawny motherfucker with a cool hairstyle.” (“Scrawny”)
    • “Cause we can stay at home or watch the sunset. But I can’t help from askin’ “Are you bored yet?” (“Are You Bored Yet?”)
  • "My Maserati does one-eighty-five." (Joe Walsh, "Life's Been Good")
  • Weezer:
    • "What's with these homies dissin' my girl?" ("Buddy Holly")
    • "God damn you half-Japanese girls!" ("El Scorcho")
    • “I’m dumb, she’s a lesbian! (I thought I had found the one.)” (“Pink Triangle”)
  • "Rock over London! Rock on, Chicago!" (Wesley Willis, every song)
  • The Who
    • "I hope I die before I get old." ("My Generation")
    • "It's only Teenage Wasteland." ("Baba O'Riley")
  • Amy Winehouse:
    • "They tried to make me go to rehab, but I said, 'No, no, no.'" ("Rehab")
    • "You go back to her, and I go back to black." ("Back To Black")
  • "It's better to burn out than to fade away." (Neil Young, "My My, Hey Hey")

    Pinballs 

    Podcasts 

    Pro Wrestling 

    Radio 
  • "...without hesitation, deviation or repetition." (Just a Minute)
  • "Who knows what evil lurks within the hearts of men? The Shadow knows... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
  • "Who was that masked man?" (The Lone Ranger)

    Tabletop Games 

    Theatre 
  • "You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops." (Arsenic and Old Lace)
  • "All the world's a stage." (As You Like It)
  • "Figaro, Figaro, Figarofigarofigaro!" (The Barber of Seville, and by extension Opera as a whole)
  • "Hasa Diga Ebowai!" ("The Book of Mormon")
  • "Dead! And never called me 'Mother'!" (East Lynne)
  • "I'm just a man..." (EPIC: The Musical)
    • "When does a man become a monster?"
    • "Six-hundred men. Six-hundred men under my command, with only one goal in mind." "Make it back alive to our homeland!"
    • "This life is amazing when you greet it with open arms."
    • "I'm the reigning king of Ithaca! I am neither man nor mythical! I am your darkest moment! I am the infamous...ODYSSEUS!"
    • "Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves."
    • "Gods, monsters, you know the roster, hostile creatures that we could resist. But this was a hell of a twist, 'cause we are weak to a power like this!" "What was it?" "A woman."
    • "Deep down, you know that we are the same."
    • "Never once has he cheated on his wife." "Release him."
    • "Six-hundred men. Six-hundred deaths under my command. 'Cause I had one goal in mind..."
    • "After everything you've done...how will you sleep at night?" "Next to my wife."
    • "We know these halls! The odds can be tilted!" "You don't think I know my own palace? I built it."
  • "Don't cry for me, Argentina." (Evita)
  • "Coffee's for closers only." (Glengarry Glen Ross)
  • "What's your name, man?" (Hamilton)
    • "I will not throw away my shot."
  • Hamlet
    • "To be or not to be: that is the question."
    • "Alas, Poor Yorick."
    • "What a piece of work is a man!"
    • "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
    • "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
  • Henry V
    • "Cry God for Harry, England and St. George!"
    • "Once more unto the breach, dear friends!"
  • "What, never?" "No, never!" "What, never?" "...hardly ever!" (H.M.S. Pinafore)
  • "A handbag?!" (The Importance of Being Earnest)
  • Julius Caesar
  • Macbeth
    • "Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble."
    • "Something wicked this way comes."
    • "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow."
    • "Out damned spot!"
    • "Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?"
  • "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
  • "Oh beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the Green-Eyed Monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on!" (Othello)
  • "I am the very model of a modern major-general." (The Pirates of Penzance)
  • "Not bloody likely!" (Pygmalion)
  • Richard III
    • "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"
    • "Off with his head. So much for Buckingham." (A line added to Shakespeare's play by Colley Cibber)
    • "Now is the winter of our discontent."note 
  • Romeo and Juliet
    • "Oh Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name."
    • "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun."
    • "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow."
    • "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet."
  • "The hills are alive with The Sound of Music."
    • "These are a few of my favourite things."
    • "Doe, a deer, a female deer."
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    • "STELLA!"
    • "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
  • "Villain, I have done thy mother!" (Titus Andronicus)
  • Twelfth Night
    • "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
    • "If music be the food of love, play on!"
    • "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage, and, for turning away, let summer bear it out."
  • Wicked
    • "I'm Defying Gravity..."
      • "Unlimited! Together we're... unlimited!"
      • "So if you care to find me— look to the western sky!"
      • "And nobody... in all of Oz. No wizard that there is or was... is ever GONNA BRING... ME... DOWN!"
      • "I hope you're happy..."
    • "There's nothing that can stop you, from becoming populer... [Beat] ...lar!"
    • "Because I knew you.... I have been changed... for good."
  • "[He exits, pursued by a bear]" (The Winter's Tale)

    Toys 
  • BIONICLE:
    • "In the time before time..." (various)
    • "Unity, duty, destiny" (Arc Words)
    • "Gathered friends...listen once again to the legend of the Bionicle" (BIONICLE: Mask of Light)
    • "There are a thousand ways I could destroy you right now. And 941 of them hurt." (BIONICLE Adventures #10: Time Trap)
    • "Turaga Nuju once said that the universe is a riddle. Today, I am the answer." (BIONICLE Ignition #11: Death of a Hero)
    • "No longer must I fight you to rule a universe. I AM the universe!"

    Web Animation 

    Webcomics 

    Web Original 
  • "Something has happened!" (Neopets)
  • "[REDACTED]" (SCP Foundation)
    • "[DATA EXPUNGED]"
    • “We die in the dark so you can live in the light.”

    Western Animation 

    Real Life 
  • "That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind." — Neil Armstrong
  • "The doors are closing. Please stand clear of the doors." — Bay Area Rapid Transit
  • "You guys ready? Let's roll." — Todd Beamer
  • "I use up all my English." — Roberto Benigni
  • "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." — Lloyd Bentsen
  • Joe Biden:
    • "Come on, man!"
    • "If you won't vote for me, then you ain't Black."
    • "Will you shut up, man?"
  • Otto von Bismarck
    • "Not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of the time decided — that was the error of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood."
    • "Be assured, we shall not go to Canossa, either bodily or spiritually."
  • "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." — William Jennings Bryan
  • George H. W. Bush:
    • "Read my lips. No new taxes."
    • "We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like The Waltons and less like The Simpsons."
  • George W. Bush:
  • "Please clap." — Jeb Bush
  • Julius Caesar:
    • "Veni; vidi; vici." (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
    • "Alea jacta est." (The die is cast.)
    • "Et Tu, Brute?" (You too, Brutus?)
  • "I believe it is peace for our time." — Neville Chamberlain
  • "Je suis Charlie" — Charlie Hebdo.
  • "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." — G. K. Chesterton
  • Winston Churchill:
    • "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many, to so few."
    • "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
    • "If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say this was their finest hour."
    • "And you are ugly, but in the morning I will be sober, and you will still be ugly."
    • "We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them on the landing grounds, we will never surrender."
  • Bill Clinton:
  • "You can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables." — Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." — Johnny Cochran
  • "And that's the way it is." — Walter Cronkite
  • "We're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan!! And then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House!!! YEAH!!!!" — Howard Dean
  • "Cogito ergo sum." (I think therefore I am) — Descartes
  • Rodrigo Duterte:
    • "OBOSEN"
    • "My God, I hate drugs."
    • "Fuck you."note 
  • Roger Ebert:
    • "I hated this movie! Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie! Hated it!"
    • "Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner; Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks."
  • "I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a King, and of a King of England too." — Queen Elizabeth I
  • "E = mc2" — Albert Einstein
  • Reggie Fils-Aime:
  • "This is not peace treaty. It is an armistice for twenty years." — Ferdinand Foch
  • Benjamin Franklin:
    • "Time is money."
    • "Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults."
    • "God helps those that help themselves."
    • "Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
    • "Two things are certain in life: death and taxes."
  • "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." — Mahatma Gandhi
  • "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." — Barry Goldwater
  • "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." — Lillian Hellman
  • "When ordinary hands can possess such an extraordinary instrument, that symbolizes the full measure of human dignity and liberty. That's why those five words issue an irresistible call to us all, and we muster. So, as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those fighting words for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, Mr. Gore: 'From my cold, dead hands!'" — Charlton Heston
  • Adolf Hitler:
    • "I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few."
    • "If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed."
  • "We get off on your tears." — Atlus forum admin Aram Jabbari
  • "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" — Thomas Jefferson
  • Hideki Kamiya:
  • "Sapere aude." (Dare to know) — Immanuel Kant
  • John F. Kennedy:
    • "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
    • "Ich bin ein Berliner" (which could theoretically mean "I am a jelly donut", but it's highly unlikely any German actually interpreted it this way)
    • "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
    • "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
  • "Can we, can we all get along?" — Rodney King
  • "JUST DO IT!" — Shia LaBeouf (though it's Nike's slogan first)
  • Brie Larson:
    • "I don't care what a 40-year old White dude has to say about A Wrinkle in Time, it wasn't made for them."
    • "Is that a personal attack or something?"
    • "Thank you very much!
    • "Drop your taco!"
  • "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings." (Ursula K. Le Guin)
  • Vladimir Lenin
    • “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
    • "Sometimes, history just needs a little push."
    • "The people need peace; the people need bread; the people need land..."
  • "We're more popular than Jesus now." —- John Lennon
  • "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." — Abraham Lincoln
  • "Mind the gap." — The London Underground
  • "I have a dream..." — Martin Luther King Jr..
  • "The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!" — Karl Marx
  • "Strong and stable (leadership)." — Theresa May
  • "I shall return." — Douglas MacArthur
  • Marie-Antoinette
  • "soi soi soi soi" — Microsoft Sam
  • "(process) has stopped working" — Microsoft Windows
  • Leszek Miller:
  • "Oh, the Humanity!" — Herbert Morrison reporting on The Hindenburg crashing
  • "Let my people go." — Moses
  • "Good night, and good luck." — Edward R. Murrow
  • Horatio Nelson:
    • "England expects that every man will do his duty."
    • "Kiss me, Hardy."
  • Friedrich Nietzsche:
    • "God Is Dead!"
    • "What does not destroy me makes me stronger."
    • "And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."
  • Richard Nixon:
  • Barack Obama:
    • "There is not a liberal America. There is not a conservative America. There is the United States of America."
    • "Yes we can!"
    • "We are the change we seek."
    • "You're in the wrong side of history."
    • "Look..."
  • "I owe you an apology. I wasn't really familiar with your game." — Shaquille O'Neal
  • "I did not get on the bus to get arrested; I got on the bus to go home." — Rosa Parks
  • "Up yours, woke moralists. We'll see who cancels who." — Jordan Peterson
  • "You cannot conceive the many without the one" — Plato
  • Alexander Pope:
  • Ronald Reagan:
  • Bill Ritch:
  • "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
    • "Yesterday, December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy."
  • "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." — Theodore Roosevelt
  • "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains" — Rousseau
  • "We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know." — Donald Rumsfeld
  • "To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." — Carl Sagan
  • "If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver." — Ayrton Senna
  • "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." — Upton Sinclair
  • "Winning!" — Charlie Sheen
  • "Keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth!" — Will Smith
  • "The unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates
  • "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?" — Henry Morton Stanley
  • "The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes." — Ted Stevens
  • "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description, and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." — Potter Stewart
  • "... And those money were simply due to them!" — Beata Szydło
  • "The lady's not for turning." — Margaret Thatcher
  • Leon Trotsky
    • "All revolutions are impossible, until they become inevitable."
    • "You man not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you."
  • Donald Trump:
    • "Make America great again!"
    • "We'll build a wall on the border that Mexico will pay for!"
    • "A small loan of a million dollars..."
    • "Grab them by the pussy."
    • "Sad!"
    • "Many such cases"
    • "Yuge!" and "Bigly!" (actually a Memetic Mutation for "Big League")
    • "Despite the constant negative press covfefe"
    • "Very fine people — on both sides!"
    • "Why are we letting in people from shithole countries?"
    • "Fake news."
    • "Nasty question!"
    • "I take no responsibility at all."
    • "The Kung Flu, the China Virus..."
    • "Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV."
    • "Everything woke turns to shit."
    • "I have concepts of a plan."
    • "They're eating the dogs, the cats!"
  • "That. Is. A. Disgrace." — Liz Truss
  • "We are not amused." — Queen Victoria
  • "écrasez l'infâme" (crush the infamous thing) — Voltaire
  • Jack Wagner, "the Voice of Disneyland":
  • "Let's not assassinate this lad further, Senator, you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" — Joseph Welch
  • The Duke of Wellington:
    • "Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth." "It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterward."
    • "'Tis of no matter, Your Highness, I have seen their backs before!”
    • "Publish and be damned. There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake. The only thing I am afraid of is fear. I believe I forgot to tell you I was made a Duke."
  • Kanye West:
    • "Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you; Imma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!"
    • "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
  • "I have nothing to declare but my genius." — Oscar Wilde
  • "Nature never draws a line without smudging it." — Lorna Wing note 
  • Rachel Zegler
    • "Weird, weird."
    • "That's Hollywood, baby."

 
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The Brady boys play a game of football when Peter makes an inaccurate throw which hits Marcia right in the nose.

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Ooh, My Nose!

The Brady boys play a game of football when Peter makes an inaccurate throw which hits Marcia right in the nose.

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