Foregone Conclusion/Quotes

Phoebe: I thought I was gonna see a film about, y'know, Yankee pride! And then — boom! — the guy gets Lou Gehrig's disease.

Richard: Uh... the guy was Lou Gehrig. Didn't you kinda see it coming?

—Friends

"Now we spend the next hour and a half playing the bloody waiting game!"

—Film Brain on Seven Pounds

"Shhh. Haven't seen it yet. Don't. Ruin. The. Ending."

—Brad Shoup on Titanic, Stylus Magazine

"Have you seen the The Passion yet? Here's a spoiler for you: Jesus dies."

—Gabe from Penny Arcade Hilariously, he's wrong.

Trust me, Clark. Our friendship will be the stuff of legends.

—Lex Luthor, Smallville.

"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parents' strife"

—Lines 5-8 of the prologue to Romeo and Juliet

Any movie about Christ is gonna end the same way. Jesus is gonna hit the iceberg.

—Kevin Smith

"So the kids enter the sewer to fight the clown. This is really suspenseful because I have no idea who's going to make it out alive except for all of them."

—The Nostalgia Critic discussing a flashback in Stephen King's IT.

Although the author tries to avoid spoilers when progressing through the ~45 battles, there is no suspense in the book: outcome is known. If something in Paris is named after it, (Jena, Austerlitz, Rivoli, Wagram, Castiglione), Napoleon won. Otherwise, he lost.

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Twitter, reviewing Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts