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"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...

• The Crowning Moment of Awesome for the speaking character
• The Crowning Moment of Funny for the speaking character
• 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
• The major twist in the work

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

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, and thereby result in viewers Watching It For The Meme.

Don't confuse this with a character's Catch Phrase; 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.

Examples of Signature Line include:

Anime & Manga

• "Yours is the drill that will pierce the heavens!" (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
  • "JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!"
  • Hell, most of what Kamina says.
• "It's time to D-D-D-Duel!" (Yu-Gi-Oh)
• "We mages of Fairy Tail...are experts at property damage!" (Fairy Tail)
• "Omae wa mou shindeiru (You Are Already Dead)" (Fist of the North Star)
• "Kamikorosu (I'll bit you to death.)" (Katekyo Hitman Reborn)
• "USO DA!" (THAT'S A LIE!) (Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni)
  • "Repeat this in red..." (Umineko no Naku Koro Ni)
• "Mada Mada Dane... (You still have a ways to go)" (Prince of Tennis)
• "We're blasting off aaaggaaainnnn!" (Pokémon)
  • Also, "Wobbuffet!" and "Meowth, that's right!"
    • "Prepare for trouble!" "And make it double!"
• "Tsuki ni kawatte, oshiyoki yo!" (In the Name of The Moon, I will punish you!) (Sailor Moon)
• "Just as planned." (Death Note)
  • "I am JUSTICE!"
  • "I will be the God of this New World!"
  • "I'll take a potato chip...AND EAT IT!"
• "TETSUO!" "KANEDA!" (Akira)
• "Yaranaika?" ("Let's do it.") (Kuso Miso Technique)
• "I'm gonna be King of the Pirates!" (One Piece)
  • "YO HO HO HE TOOK A BITE OF GUM GUM"

Comic Books

• "I'm the goddamn Batman." (All Star Batman and Robin)
• "'Do it?' Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain.... I did it thirty-five minutes ago."
  • "And all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!'...And I'll look down and whisper 'no.'"(Watchmen)
• "With great power Comes Great Responsibility." (Spider-Man)
• "You crack me up, little buddy!" (Sam and Max Freelance Police)
• "Hulk...SMASH!!" (The Incredible Hulk)
• "Avengers Assemble!" (The Avengers)

Film

• "This one time, at band camp..." (American Pie)
• "They're eating her! And then they're going to eat me! OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!" (Troll 2)
• "I See Dead People..." (The Sixth Sense)
• "You talkin' to me?" (Taxi Driver)
• "Heeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!" (The Shining)
• "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!" (Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan)
• "Make him an offer he can't refuse." (The Godfather)
• "Never go against the family." (The Godfather Part II)
  • "I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart."
• "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." (The Godfather Part III)
• "May the force be with you." (Star Wars: A New Hope)
• "No, I am your father!" (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back)
• "Yippee ki yay, mother fucker." (Die Hard)
• "Don't mess with me, man. I'M A LAWYER!!!" (Hook)
• "This is Sparta!" (300)
• "Hello. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." (The Princess Bride)
  • "As You Wish..."
• "I take care of the place while the Master is away." (Manos the Hands of Fate)
• "You'll shoot your eye out." (A Christmas Story)
• "Bond. James Bond." (Dr. No)
  • "Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Bond! I expect you to die!" (Goldfinger)
• "SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!" (Soylent Green)
• "I'll be back." (Terminator)
  • "Come With Me If You Want to Live."
• "Hasta la vista, baby." (Terminator 2)
• "Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the the gun." (Evil Dead)
  • "Groovy."
• "Well, nobody's perfect." (Some Like It Hot)
• "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!" (All About Eve)
• "I never drink... wine." (Dracula)
  • "Listen to them. The children of the night! What music they make!"
• "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." (Gone With the Wind)
• "I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!" (Snakes On a Plane)
• "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch." (X Men Last Stand)
• "Hey you guys!" (The Goonies)
• "There is no spoon." (The Matrix)
• "I wish I knew how to quit you." (Brokeback Mountain)
• "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!" (Planet of the Apes)
  • "They blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!"
• "There Can Be Only One!" (Highlander)
• "Are you not entertained?!" (Gladiator)
• "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." (The Wizard of Oz)
  • "I'll get you, my pretty, And Your Little Dog, Too!"
  • "Pay no attention to The Man Behind the Curtain!"
  • "There's no place like home."
  • "Lions, and Tigers, and Bears. Oh my!"
  • "I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world!"
• "Here's looking at you, kid." (Casablanca)
  • "If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."
  • "I am shocked - shocked - to find that gambling is going on in here!"
  • "We'll always have Paris."
  • "Round up the usual suspects."
  • "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
  • "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
• "Rosebud." (Citizen Kane)
• "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" (White Heat)
• "Shane! Come back, Shane!" (Shane)
• "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops!" (Arsenic and Old Lace)
• "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." (Mary Poppins)
• "Nobody puts baby in the corner." (Dirty Dancing)
• "Get away from her, you BITCH!" (Aliens)
• "Say hello to my little friend!" (Scarface)
• "They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!" (Braveheart)
• "You can't handle the truth!" (A Few Good Men)
• "You're gonna need a bigger boat." (Jaws)
• "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." (2001: A Space Odyssey)
• "Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!" (Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure)
  • EXCELLENT! (Air Guitar)
• "Run away! Run away!" (Monty Python and The Holy Grail)
  • "It's Only a Flesh Wound!"
• "Get off my plane!" (Air Force One)
• "Wax on, wax off." (The Karate Kid)
• "Pain don't hurt." (Road House)
  • "I used to fuck guys like you in prison!"
• "You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order!" (And Justice for All)
• "That's not a knife. That's a knife!" (Crocodile Dundee)
• "I like to watch." (Being There)
• "Run, Forrest! Run!" (Forrest Gump)
  • "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates."
• "What we have here is a failure to communicate." (Cool Hand Luke)
• "Houston, we have a problem." (Apollo 13)
• "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." (The Usual Suspects)
• "I Coulda Been a Contender." (On the Waterfront)
• "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" (Network)
• "If you build it, he will come." (Field of Dreams)
• "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." (Chinatown)
• "No wire hangers, ever!" (Mommie Dearest)
• "Stella! Hey, Stella!" (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• "The calla lilies are in bloom again..." (Stage Door)
• "Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?" (Little Caesar)
• "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!" (42nd Street)
• "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten us into!" (Sons of the Desert)
• "...win just one for the Gipper." (Knute Rockne, All-American)
• "The stuff that dreams are made of." (The Maltese Falcon)
• "Rommel, you Magnificent Bastard, I read your BOOOOOOK!" (Patton)
• "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." (Apocalypse Now)
  • "The horror... the horror..."
• "How about a magic trick? I'm gonna make this pencil...disappear." (The Dark Knight)
  • "Why so serious?"
  • "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain."
• "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." (Sunset Boulevard)
• "It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast." (King Kong)
• "My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you." (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
• "Randy -- where's the rest of me?" (Kings Row)
• "E.T. phone home!" (ET the Extraterrestrial)
• "YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, LISA!" (The Room)
• "Are you gonna bark all day little doggy, or are you gonna bite?" (Reservoir Dogs)
• "You're an inanimate fucking object!" (In Bruges)
  • "Fucking Bruges."
• "I am serious...and don't call me Shirley." (Airplane!)
• "Show me the money!" (Jerry Maguire)
• "I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!" (There Will Be Blood)
• "You've got red on you." (Shaun of the Dead)
• "You've gotta get busy livin' or get busy dyin'" (The Shawshank Redemption)
• "Rocky!" "ADRIAN!!"
  • "I pity the fool." (Rocky III)
  • "I must break you." (Rocky IV)
• "It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?" (Blade Runner)
• "Pull the string! Pull the string!" (Glen or Glenda)
  • "Beware the big grrreen drrragon that sits on your doorstep... he eats little boys!"
• "Next Saturday night, we're sending you back to the future!" (Back to The Future)
• "ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT!?" (Pulp Fiction)
  • "DOES. HE. LOOK. LIKE. A BITCH!?"
• "Warriors... come out and play-ay!" (The Warriors)
• "Ya best start belivin' in ghost stories, Miss Turner...you're in one." (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
  • "So tell me...what's become of my ship?" (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest)

Literature

• "Call me Ishmael." (Moby-Dick)
• "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)
• "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." (A Tale of Two Cities)
  • "It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done..."
• "You're a wizard, Harry." (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
  • "Snape killed...Dumbledore." (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince)
  • "Not my daughter, you bitch!" (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
• "The things I do for love." (A Song of Ice and Fire)
• "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." (Pride and Prejudice)
• "Bah, humbug!" (A Christmas Carol)
• "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." (The Hobbit)
• "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, / One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." (The Lord of the Rings)
• "The rosy fingers of dawn." (The Iliad)
• "And so it goes." (Slaughterhouse Five)
• "Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
  • "As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean."
• "Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate" ("Abandon all hope, ye who enter.") (The Divine Comedy)
• "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." (Neuromancer)
• "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there." (The Go-Between)
• "Big Brother is watching you." (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• "All right, I'll go to hell, then." (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

Live Action TV

• "No soup for you!" (Seinfeld)
• "I'm Rick James, bitch!" (Chappelles Show)
• "Live long and prosper." (Star Trek)
  • "To boldly go where no man has gone before."
  • "He's dead, Jim."
  • "I'm a doctor, not a..."
• "Make it so." (Star Trek the Next Generation)
  • "Resistance Is Futile."
• "Survey says..." (Family Feud)
• "Horatio * ...* one liner. YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" (CSI: Miami)
• "Tragic." (Yes Prime Minister)
  • Oh, very droll, minister."
• "I have a cunning plan." (Black Adder)
• "My name is Jack Bauer, and this is the longest day of my life." (Twenty Four)
• "Live, from New York, it's Saturday Night!" (Saturday Night Live)
• "Will the real [mystery guest] please stand up?" (To Tell the Truth)
• "Science rules!" (Bill Nye the Science Guy)
• "What's next?" (The West Wing)
• "I've made a huge mistake..." (Arrested Development)
• "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!" (WKRP in Cincinnati)
• "Don't tell me what I can't do." (Lost)
  • "We have to go back!"
• "The Truth is out there." (The X-Files)
  • "Trust no one."
  • "Deny everything."
• "EXTERMINATE!!!" (Doctor Who)
  • "Hello, I'm the Doctor!"
    • "Doctor who...?"
  • "It's Bigger On the Inside."
  • "Would you like a jelly baby?"
  • "DE-LETE! DE-LETE!"
• "Get ta steppin'!! (Martin)
• "The avalanche has already started. It's too late for the pebbles to vote." (Babylon 5)
• "Henshin!" (Kamen Rider)
• "It's Morphin' Time!" (Power Rangers)
• "'Sanctuary For All' is not an empty motto." (Sanctuary)
• "Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once." (Allo Allo)
  • "Good moaning."
• "And Now for Something Completely Different." (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
  • "It's..."

Newspaper Comics

• "We have met the enemy, and he is us." (Pogo)
• "Good grief." "You Blockhead!" (Peanuts)
• "I hate Mondays." (Garfield)
• "It's a magical world, ol' buddy!" (Calvin and Hobbes)
• "Ack thbbft!" (Bloom County)
• "Aaack!" (Cathy)

Tabletop Games

• "In the grim, dark future of mankind, there is only war." (Warhammer 40000)
  • "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!"

Theater

• "Oh Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name." (Romeo and Juliet)
  • "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."
• "To be or not to be: that is the question." (Hamlet)
  • "Alas, poor Yorick."
  • "What a piece of work is a man!"
• "Et tu, Brute?" (Julius Caesar)
  • "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."
• "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" (Richard III)
  • "Off with his head. So much for Buckingham." (A line added to Shakespeare's play by Colley Cibber)
• "All the world's a stage." (As You Like It)
• "[Exit Pursued By a Bear] He exits, pursued by a bear." (The Winters Tale)
• "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)
• "Dead! And never called me 'Mother'!" (East Lynne)
• "Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" (Macbeth)
  • "Something wicked this way comes"
  • "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"
  • "Out, Damned Spot!!"
• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (Twelfth Night)
  • "If music be the food of love, play on!"
• "STELLA!" (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" (A Midsummer Nights Dream)

Video Games

• "Dodongo dislikes smoke." (The Legend of Zelda)
  • "It's dangerous to go out alone. Take this."
  • "I am Error." (Zelda II the Adventure of Link)
  • "Mah boi!" and/or "I wonder what's for dinner?" (The Legend of Zelda CDi Games)
    • "I wonder what Ganon's up to!" and "I'm so hungry I could eat an octorok!"
• "So zetta slow!" (The World Ends With You)
  • "Soh Cah Toa."
• "Feel the pain of those inferior beings as you burn in hell." (Tales of Symphonia)
• "You jumped into a sword. You retard!" (I Wanna Be the Guy)
  • "GAME OVER - Press 'R' to Try Again"
• "Our princess is in another castle." (Super Mario Bros.)
  • "It's-a me, Mario!" (Super Mario 64 originally, but pretty well the whole series at this point)
• "All your base are belong to us." (Zero Wing)
• "Die, monster! You don't belong in this world!" (Castlevania Symphony of the Night)
  • "What is a man? A miserable pile of secrets! But enough talk! Have at you!"
• "WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO HAVE A CURSE." (Castlevania II Simons Quest)
• "I, Garland, will knock you all down!" (Final Fantasy I)
• "Whatever." (Final Fantasy VIII)
• "DECAPITATIOOOOOOOOOOON!!!" (Brutal Legend)
• "OBJECTION!!!" (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney)
• "I choose you!" (Pokémon)
• "I'm a Badass Freaking Overlord!" (Makai Kingdom)
• "That was too close. You were almost a Jill sandwich." (Resident Evil)
• "X-Men, welcome to die!" (X-Men Arcade Game)
• "FINISH HIM!!!" (Mortal Kombat)
  • "FATALITY!"
• "Do a Barrel Roll!" (Star Fox 64)
  • "Can't let you do that, Star Fox!"
• "Jackpot." (Devil May Cry)
• "RECO-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!" (Mushihime-sama Futari)
• "Girls do their best now and are preparing. Please watch warmly until it is ready." (Touhou)
• "Welcome to the Fantasy Zone! Get ready!" (Space Harrier)
• "Welcome to Violent City!" (Armed Police Batrider)
• "This guy are sick!" (Final Fantasy VII)
• "I am Calypso and I thank you for playing Twisted Metal!"
• "You Spoony Bard"! (Final Fantasy IV)
• "Find the Computer Room." (Shadow the Hedgehog)
  • "Where's that damn fourth Chaos Emerald?!"
• "A winner is you!" (Pro Wrestling)
  • "You're WINNER!" (Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing)
• "Oh no! The truck have started to move!" (Metal Gear (NES))
  • "I feel asleep!"
  • "Metal Gear?!"
  • "Snake? Snake, say something! Snake! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!"
  • "We've managed to avoid drowning!"
• "This reminds me of a puzzle!" (Professor Layton)
• "What you see is what you get, just a guy that loves adventure."
• "Henshin a go-go, baby!" (Viewtiful Joe)
• "I'm Guybrush Treepwood, Mighty Pirate!"
  • "You fight like a dairy farmer!" "How appropriate, You Fight Like a Cow."
• "It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta gum." (Duke Nukem 3D)
• "Heaven or Hell? Let's Rock!" (Guilty Gear)
• "The Wheel Of Fate Is Turning..." (Blaz Blue)
• "He is dead, and soon you will be too." (Grange Hill)
• "Are you okay? BUSTAAAAAH WOLF!" (The King of Fighters)
  • "You cannot escape long death."
  • Iori's signature Evil Laugh.
• "Hadoken!" and "Shoryuken!" (Street Fighter)
  • "Let's fight like gentlemen."
  • "Sonic Boom!"
  • "Go home and be a family man!"
• "Falcon...PUNCH!" (Super Smash Bros)
• "The original sin that man is responsible to! To protect the loyfe cycle!" (House Of The Dead 2)
  • "Suffer like G did?"

Web Original

• "I AM A MAN!!!" (Atop the Fourth Wall)
• "I mean, really!" (Mike Mozart of Jeepers Media)
• "LEEROYYYYYYY JENKINSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS" (Leeroy Jenkins)
• "Screw the Rules, I Have Money!" (Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series)
  • "BROOKLYN RAGE!"
• "CONSEQUENCES! WILL NEVER BE! THE SAME!" (Jessi Slaughter's dad)
  • "...'cuz you dun goofed!"
  • "I'll pop a glock in your mouth, and make a brain slushee!"
• "MOVE FASTER, POKEY!" (Proton Jon)
• "LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!" (Chris Crocker)

Western Animation

• "Eh, what's up doc?" (Bugs Bunny)
• "I am not a gun." (The Iron Giant)
  • "Superman..."
  • Souls... Don't... Die...
• "Stupid dog!" (Courage the Cowardly Dog)
• "D'oh!" (The Simpsons)
  • "Excellent..."
  • "Worst episode ever!"
  • "To alcohol! The cause of, and the solution to, all of life's problems!"
• "Oh, my God, they killed Kenny!" "YOU BASTARDS!" (South Park)
  • "Screw you guys, I'm going home!"
• "To infinity and beyond!" (Toy Story)
• "Off with her head!" (Alice in Wonderland)
• "I tawt I taw a puddy tat!" (Tweety Bird)
• Meep Meep (Roadrunner)
• "I'm ready! I'm ready!" (Spongebob SquarePants)
  • "My leg!"
• "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for You Meddling Kids." (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?)
  • "Like, Zoinks!"
  • "Jinkies!"
  • "Let's split up, gang!"
• "What could possibly go wrong?" (Fairly Oddparents)
  • "Uh, Internet?"
• "Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit..." (What's Opera Doc)
• "Wham bam, we're in a jam!" (The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan)
• "Bite my shiny metal ass!" (Futurama)
  • "Good news, everyone!"
• "And he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit!" (The Hunchback Of Notre Dame)
• "Yes, yes, I killed your father. What is it with you women anyway? I killed my father too, and you don't hear me whining about it!" (Street Fighter: The Animated Series)
  • "BISOOOON!"
  • "Just get in the plane!"
  • "This is delicious!"
    • "Yes! YES!"

Real Life

• "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many, to so few." - Winston Churchill
  • "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."
• "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• "Veni; vidi; vici." (I came, I saw, I conquered.) - Julius Caesar
  • "Alea jacta est." (The die is cast.)
• "I have a dream." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - Ronald Reagan
• "That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong
• "Let my people go." - Moses
• "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy
• "Speak softly, but carry a big stick." - Theodore Roosevelt
• "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." - Lillian Hellman
• "I have nothing to declare but my genius." - Oscar Wilde
• "Cogito ergo sum" (I think therefore I am) - Descartes
• "Sapere aude" (Dare to know) - Immanuel Kant
• "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains" - Rousseau
• "écrasez l'infâme" (crush the infamous thing) - Voltaire
• "You cannot conceive the many without the one" - Plato
• "The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates
• "God is dead!" - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • "What does not destroy me makes me stronger."
• "I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few." - Adolf Hitler
  • "If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed."
• "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
• "Time is money." - Benjamin Franklin
  • "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."
• "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
• "I did not get on the bus to get arrested; I got on the bus to go home." - Rosa Parks
• "To err is human, to forgive divine." - Alexander Pope
• "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi
• "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