History Quotes / TheSiege

->"It's a siege. It's a goddamned siege!"
-->-- ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976''

-->-- ''Film/AssaultOnPrecient13''

->''"Whether it's UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar, The Battle of Thermopylae, or the last stand at Film/TheAlamo, many of the famous battle in history were sieges in which small forces took on much larger armies. Unfortunately sieges don't make good stories because the smaller force won. They make the history books because the little guys fought well before they died."''

->''"A Fortress circumvented ceases to be an obstacle. A Fortress destroyed ceases to a threat. Know the difference."''
-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', "The Tacitca Imperialis"

-->-- '''Creator/JonathanCoulton''', ''"Re: Your Brains"''

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->''"Whether it's TheTrojanWar, The Battle of Thermopylae, or the last stand at Film/TheAlamo, many of the famous battle in history were sieges in which small forces took on much larger armies. Unfortunately sieges don't make good stories because the smaller force won. They make the history books because the little guys fought well before they died."''

-->-- '''JonathanCoulton''', ''"Re: Your Brains"''

-->--Michael Westen doing a voiceover, BurnNotice

->''I'm not arguing that'' The Siege ''is a deliberately offensive movie. It's not that brainy. In its clumsy way, it throws in comments now and then to show it knows the difference between Arab terrorists and American citizens. But the prejudicial attitudes embodied in the film [[UnfortunateImplications are insidious]], like the anti-Semitism that infected fiction and journalism in the 1930s--not just [[AdolfHitler in]] [[NaziGermany Germany]], but in Britain and America.''

->''I'm not arguing that'' The Siege ''is a deliberately offensive movie. It's not that brainy. In its clumsy way, it throws in comments now and then to show it knows the difference between Arab terrorists and American citizens. But the prejudicial attitudes embodied in the film are insidious, like the anti-Semitism that infected fiction and journalism in the 1930s--not just in Germany, but in Britain and America.''

-->-- '''Captain Eddan Bourne of the Silver Skulls''', ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''

-->-- ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', "The Tacitca Imperialis"

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->''"Whether it's TheTrojanWar, The Battle of Thermopylae, or the last stand at TheAlamo, many of the famous battle in history were sieges in which small forces took on much larger armies. Unfortunately sieges don't make good stories because the smaller force won. They make the history books because the little guys fought well before they died."''

->"Whether it's TheTrojanWar, The Battle of Thermopylae, or the last stand at TheAlamo, many of the famous battle in history were sieges in which small forces took on much larger armies. Unfortunately sieges don't make good stories because the smaller force won. They make the history books because the little guys fought well before they died.
-->Michael Westen doing a voiceover, BurnNotice

-->"Whether it's TheTrojanWar, The Battle of Thermopylae, or the last stand at TheAlamo, many of the famous battle in history were sieges in which small forces took on much larger armies. Unfortunately sieges don't make good stories because the smaller force won. They make the history books because the little guys fought well before they died.

-->-- ''Captain Eddan Bourne of the Silver Skulls'', '''{{Warhammer 40000}}'''

-> A Fortress circumvented ceases to be an obstacle. A Fortress destroyed ceases to a threat. Know the difference.
-->-- ''The Tacitca Imperialis'', '''{{Warhammer 40000}}'''

->I don't wanna nitpick Tom, but is this really your plan\\

And I plan on eating you, slowly!
-->--''"Re: Your Brains"'' by '''JonathanCoulton'''