Quotes of the Aughts

This is kind of depressing. It’s like, next week, I have to have an actual idea.

1. If you are fighting, stop fighting. If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me. Come back to me is my request.
Solved by Barbs (comment #7).

2. I feel like if someone were to touch me, I’d dissolve into molecules.
Solved by George (comment #5).

3. What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #1).

4. When you decide to be something, you can be it. That’s what they don’t tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I’m saying to you is this: when you’re facing a loaded gun, what’s the difference?
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #2).

5. Woman: There’s this huge space between us, and it just keeps filling up with everything that we don’t say to each other. What’s that called?
Marriage Counselor: Marriage.
Solved by Evn (comment #4).

6. No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.
Solved by Evn (comment #4).

7. Why in pluperfect hell would you pee on corpse?
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #3).

9 comments

  1. Tom Hilton says:

    3 is No Country for Old Men.

  2. Tom Hilton says:

    And 4 may be The Departed.

  3. Tom Hilton says:

    7 is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

  4. Evn says:

    Number 5 is, I believe, Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

    Number 6… The Incredibles? Or Fantastic Four. No, wait, let’s go with The Incredibles.

  5. George says:

    #2 is “Before Sunset”

    Ah, Ms. Delpy….

  6. Steve H. says:

    Although each of the last two films I saw in a theater used a coin toss as a plot device (guess the other one), I would have got number 3. Too slow.

  7. Barbs says:

    Is # 1 Cold Mountain?

  8. Tom Hilton says:

    Steve, I’d have to guess Dark Knight–partly because it’s the sort of thing the Joker would do, and partly because I happen to know Pam went to see it on her birthday.

  9. Melville says:

    ^Actually, it was Harvey Dent with the coin toss, not The Joker.

    *sigh* At least I got one partial answer. By the time I got here this morning, what answers I knew were already done. Just because my employers expect me to do my job instead of go online. The nerve! 🙂