Author Topic: Famous Last Words (Read 1026 times)

Captain Maltese · « **on:** February 18, 2018, 06:17:01 AM »

"No harm ever came from reading a book."

Nico · « **Reply #1 on:** February 28, 2018, 12:14:44 AM »

"More light!" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kitteredge · « **Reply #2 on:** March 01, 2018, 02:11:17 AM »

"Me or the curtains; one of us has got to go."
- Oscar Wilde (purportedly)

Dark Rez · « **Reply #3 on:** March 01, 2018, 04:05:04 AM »

“Tomorrow, at sunrise, I shall no longer be here.” -Nostradamus

Captain Maltese · « **Reply #4 on:** March 01, 2018, 07:05:16 AM »

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

- Crowfoot, Chief of the Blackfoot First Nation

Mr Quixotic · « **Reply #5 on:** March 01, 2018, 08:24:32 PM »

"It's just a flesh wound."

The Black Knight; Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Deamonbane · « **Reply #6 on:** March 01, 2018, 08:28:22 PM »

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. - Roy Batty.

Never liked the film, but this monologue always gets me.

Endorphin · « **Reply #7 on:** March 03, 2018, 01:44:26 AM »

“I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” - Leonardo da Vinci

By that standard, nobody is worthy.

Captain Maltese · « **Reply #8 on:** March 03, 2018, 10:40:37 AM »

"Don't worry, I know what I am doing."

Phoenixrisen · « **Reply #9 on:** March 03, 2018, 10:45:59 AM »

"This won't hurt a bit."

Captain Maltese · « **Reply #10 on:** March 03, 2018, 10:50:18 AM »

"There were peanuts in this cake?"

Endorphin · « **Reply #11 on:** March 03, 2018, 04:08:04 PM »

“This is no way to live!” - Groucho Marx

Lady Shadow · « **Reply #12 on:** March 10, 2019, 08:39:06 AM »

"Don't eat the yellow snow."

Captain Maltese · « **Reply #13 on:** July 29, 2019, 07:11:46 AM »

"Death is just the beginning."

Lady Shadow · « **Reply #14 on:** July 29, 2019, 09:52:53 AM »

"What's the worst that could happen"

Nico · « **Reply #15 on:** July 29, 2019, 01:06:54 PM »

"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have." - Leonardo da Vinci

Lady Shadow · « **Reply #16 on:** July 29, 2019, 11:37:19 PM »

"This is the Red Room"

Janeilbennett · « **Reply #17 on:** July 30, 2019, 02:32:26 PM »

"Where the hell did that carrier come from?!"

Captain Maltese · « **Reply #18 on:** July 31, 2019, 06:13:49 PM »

"I only regret that I have only one life to give for my country."

Lady Shadow · « **Reply #19 on:** August 02, 2019, 08:32:29 PM »

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

AngelicFaith · « **Reply #20 on:** August 03, 2019, 03:27:25 AM »

Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you'll live -- at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!!

Braveheart film

Captain Maltese · « **Reply #21 on:** August 17, 2019, 09:59:26 AM »

Hold my beer and watch this!

Love And Submission · « **Reply #22 on:** August 17, 2019, 08:34:50 PM »

Daly is said to have yelled, "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" to the men in his company prior to charging the Germans during the Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I.

Jack of Jacks · « **Reply #23 on:** August 19, 2019, 10:21:23 AM »

“I must go in; the fog is rising.” -Emily Dickinson

jstraight52 · « **Reply #24 on:** August 24, 2019, 04:57:42 AM »

"The Spanish bullet that will kill me is not yet moulded"

-Buckey O'Neill, July 1, 1898.
Shot in the mouth and killed a few minutes later at the battle of San Juan Hill during the Spanish American War.