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3[[folder:Comic Books]]
4->'''Clerk:''' Stop! The cameras! The security cameras have seen you! If you kill me, you'll get caught! HA!\
5'''Johnny:''' Now that would be something, though it's unlikely. You see, I never get caught. Not even if I tried. I don't think it's possible but let's not go into that.
6-->-- ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac''
7[[/folder]]
8
9[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
10->''"I think it was only the sheer ridiculousness of the situation which prevented me from tracing a sword and killing someone in embarrassment. I wasn't certain if that someone would be Kazehana or myself, but at least the outrageousness of the scene kept SOMEONE from dying, that much I was certain of.''"
11-->-- ''FanFic/InFlight''
12
13->'''Absent:''' Okay. Let me reiterate. Your four foreign friends came all the way to your college to surprise you; [[ForcedTransformation all of you were inexplicably turned into Pokemon]]; you found a [[CoolBoat cruise ship with psychic abilities]] hidden behind your administration building; one of your friends pressed a button that brought you to a dimension filled with [[AnthropomorphicPersonification living representations of foreign languages]]... ''and'' [[IOweYouMyLife you saved my life.]]\
14'''oghond:''' [[BluntYes Yes.]]\
15'''Absent:''' (''after a pause'') [[DeadpanSnarker That's so]] ''[[DeadpanSnarker stupid]]'' [[DeadpanSnarker I have no choice but to believe you.]]
16-->-- ''Fanfic/SOSchip'', Chapter 3, "A Coder on Board"
17[[/folder]]
18
19[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
20->'''Police Officer:''' Hey you! Where are you going with that elephant?\
21'''Bowers:''' Elephant? ''What'' elephant?
22-->-- ''Billy Rose's Jumbo''
23
24->Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive.
25-->-- '''Ferris Bueller''', ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''
26
27->'''Madeleine:''' Well, I'd love to tell you what a monster you are, but I have to help Bin Laden's nephew buy a co-op on [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Park Avenue]].\
28'''Arthur:''' If that were true, you wouldn't tell me.
29-->-- ''Film/InsideMan'' (''sure'' she wouldn't)
30
31->''"Whilst we've been going on with our respectable lives, those with sick and depraved minds have been building their armies and constructing their story. A preposterous story that will redefine history and dazzle the world with mind-blowing special effects. I think you know what I'm talking about, ladies and gentlemen. That's right: '''MOTHER[[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]] [[StupidJetpackHitler SPACE]] [[ThoseWackyNazis NAZIS]]''' [[TitleDrop in a film called]] ''Film/IronSky.''"''
32-->-- ''Film/IronSky'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeIu1FiTTyI Berlin trailer]]
33
34->''"I'm a Catholic whore, currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with my black Jewish boyfriend who works at a military abortion clinic. So, hail Satan, and have a lovely afternoon, madam."''
35-->-- '''Harry Hart''' to a bigot woman in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''
36
37->''"It's so overt, it's covert.''"
38-->-- '''Sherlock Holmes''', ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows''
39
40->''"I can do anything I like! [[EccentricMillionaire I'm eccentric!]]"''
41-->-- '''Donald Sinclair''', ''Film/RatRace''
42
43->''"The city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots, and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense."''
44-->-- '''[[ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} Clint Barton]]''', ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''
45
46->''"Hail Hydra.''"
47-->-- '''[[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]]''', ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', convincing several undercover HYDRA Agents to give him the Mind Stone.
48[[/folder]]
49
50[[folder:Literature]]
51->''"Run before you walk! Fly before your crawl! Keep moving forward! You think we should try to get a decent mail service in the city. ''I'' think we should try to send letters anywhere in the world! Because if we fail, I'd rather fail really hugely."''
52-->-- '''Moist von Lipwig''', ''Literature/GoingPostal''
53
54->''"The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."''
55-->-- ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas''
56
57->''"There was every reason to believe I was heading for trouble, that I'd pushed my luck a bit far. I'd abused every rule Vegas lived by -- burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help. The only hope now, I felt, was the possibility that we'd gone to such excess, with our gig, that nobody in a position to bring the hammer down on us could possibly ''believe'' it [...] When you bring an act into this town, you want to bring it in heavy. Don't waste any time with cheap shucks and misdemeanors. Go straight for the jugular. Get right into felonies. The mentality of Las Vegas is so grossly atavistic that a really massive crime often slips by unrecognized.''"
58-->-- ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas''
59
60->''"Given two possible approaches to any problem, Cayleb will always opt for the more audacious one."''
61-->-- '''Earl Grey Harbour, First Councilor of Charis''' on his monarch, ''Literature/{{Safehold}}''
62
63->''"You'd be surprised by how many things we get away with that fall into the category of unlikely.''"
64-->-- '''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'''
65
66->''"You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."''
67-->-- '''Ginny Weasley''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix''
68
69->''"[[TheFairFolk They]] looked at the parchment, then at us, then to the parchment again. It was fake, of course. [=I'd=] known it would be pointless to try to forge something that would pass muster, since we had no idea if invitations like that even existed and what they would look like if they did. So [=I'd=] gone the other way and made it a ridiculously obvious fake. It was even signed [='the King of Winter'=], since none of us knew what his actual name was. I could see the nobles wanted to immediately call us out on it, but they hesitated. I smothered a grin. It was just like dealing with [[TheEmpire Praesi]]. It was a transparent lie, so naturally there had to be something they were missing. Was it a trap aimed at them, perhaps? [[DecadentCourt A true invitation made to look like a fake so they would offend and give pretext for execution?]]\
70"[='This is a false invitation,'=] the first fae to have spoken finally said, tone wary.\
71"My companions stirred, preparing for a fight, but I’d bluffed with thoroughly empty hands often enough to know not to react.\
72"[='Aleban, don't be obtuse,'=] the Marchioness laughed. [='Of course it's true, look at the signature.'=]"''
73-->-- ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil,'' [[https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/chapter-8-lies/ Book 3, Chapter 8]]
74
75->''"Ma'am, your daughter's car has just been deservedly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police."''
76-->-- '''Gus''', ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars''
77[[/folder]]
78
79[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
80->'''Ron Swanson:''' Never Half-ass Two Things, Whole-ass One Thing.
81-->-- ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''
82
83->''"Inexperienced operatives give up their cover ID under pressure. Experienced ones ''play it harder."
84-->-- '''Michael Westen''', ''Series/BurnNotice''
85
86->''"Well, I was on my way to this gay gypsy Bar-Mitzvah for the disabled when I suddenly thought, "Gosh! The Third Reich's a bit rubbish. I think I'll kill the Führer." Who's with me?''"
87-->-- '''Mels''' to a group of heavily-armed Nazis, ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler "Let's Kill Hitler"]]
88
89->''"There's a line in the sand, right, and you can't even see the line in the sand. You're actually out of sand into, like, tropical tundra regions.''"
90-->-- '''Dara Ó Briain''' regarding Creator/FrankieBoyle, ''Series/MockTheWeek''
91
92->'''Beck:''' ...You juiced my pizza.\
93'''Cat:''' Why chew what you can drink?
94-->-- ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', "Robarazzi"
95
96->''Hey Bob!''
97->''Is this as bad as you feared?''
98->''It doesn't count as''
99->''Slander!''
100->'''Cause it's way too weird''
101->''We made up these anecdotes''
102->''They're silly and insane''
103->''We could go on and on and on''
104->''And on and on and on and on''
105->''But we will stop this song, who knows, we may have fried your brains''
106->''SO EAT!''
107->''SHIT!''
108->''BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!''
109->''YOW!''
110-->-- '''Creator/JohnOliver''' and an ensemble of performers tell Bob Murray where to shove it in the middle of Times Square, ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''
111
112->'''Worf:''' Sir, may I say [[UnderequippedCharge your attempt to hold the away team at bay with a non-functioning weapon]] was an act of unmitigated gall.
113->'''Kevin Uxbridge:''' Didn't fool you, huh?
114->'''Worf:''' I admire gall.
115-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "The Survivors"
116
117->''At first the Germans didn't shoot at him. I think they couldn't quite believe what they were seeing.''
118-->-- '''Sergeant Carwood Lipton''' regarding Lieutenant Speir's infamous run straight through German lines in Foy, ''Series/BandOfBrothers''
119[[/folder]]
120
121[[folder:Music]]
122->''"And if you have to cross thin ice, then cross it in a dance!''"
123-->-- '''Creator/MercedesLackey''', [[http://youtu.be/ccZgbpankKo?list=PLC105DB44D16F5B6B "Philosophy"]]
124[[/folder]]
125
126[[folder:Radio]]
127->'''Arthur:''' ...It's alright officer, this is all a dream. Ask him. He was in it!\
128'''Policeman:''' Dreamy, eh? Account for the dressing gown, would it?\
129'''Arthur:''' Oh, no. The ''dressing gown's'' just a hallucination, you see. It's what I was wearing when the Earth was demolished to- Eugh, eugh, eugh! I've got a bone in my beard! Eughh! I've got a beard! Eughhhh! Tell you what I'll do, I'll be the one over there passing out. How about that? Good idea? ''(Collapses)''\
130'''Ford:''' Officer, my name is Ford Prefect. I was born six hundred light years from Earth near Betelgeuse. I am a researcher for The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.\
131'''Policeman:''' Bit old for student pranks aren't we, sir?\
132'''Ford:''' ''That'' is Arthur Dent. He's from Earth, but has been stranded in your Prehistoric era for a while.\
133'''Policeman:''' Yes, well... er, just... Don't let it happen again! ''(Leaves hurriedly)''
134-->--''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978''
135[[/folder]]
136
137[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
138->''So a Chicago police officer walked down the stairs and got to the bottom in the basement, and looked out into a sea of [[WildTeenParty drunk toddlers yelling "Fuck da police"]] in his face. But he was almost impressed! He was like "woah..."''
139-->-- '''Creator/JohnMulaney''', "The One Thing You Can't Replace"
140[[/folder]]
141
142[[folder:Theatre]]
143->'''Chater''': You insulted my wife in the gazebo yesterday evening!\
144'''Septimus''': You are mistaken. [[{{Cuckold}} I made love to your wife in the gazebo.]] She asked me to meet her there, I have her note somewhere, I dare say I could find it for you, and if someone is putting it about that I did not turn up, by God, sir, it is a slander.
145-->-- ''Theatre/{{Arcadia}}''
146
147->''Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzle\
148Razzle dazzle 'em\
149Show 'em the first rate sorcerer you are!\
150Long as you keep 'em way off balance\
151How can they spot you've got no talents?\
152Razzle Dazzle 'em...\
153And they'll make you a ''star!''''
154-->-- '''[[MagnificentBastard Billy Flynn]]''' [[VillainSong tells us how it's done]], ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}''
155
156->''"Now look here, Smithers. They's two kinds of stealing. They's the small kind, like what you does, and the big kind, like I does. Fo' de small stealing dey put you in jail soon or late. But fo' the ''big'' stealin' dey puts your picture in the paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croak."''
157-->--'''Brutus "Emperor" Jones''' outlining this trope to his lackey, ''Theatre/TheEmperorJones''
158[[/folder]]
159
160[[folder:Video Games]]
161->''"When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid."''
162-->-- '''Cheshire the Cat''', ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice''
163
164->'''Marcus''': Control! This is Delta! We are continuing toward the objective on a Brumak—\
165'''Anya''': You're ''what?!''\
166'''Marcus''': We're ''riding a Brumak!''
167-->-- ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 2''
168
169->''"[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The end of days is here.]] That's it for the race... unless we win. But we're not going to just barely pull through... We are going to massacre [[EldritchAbomination them!]] We are going to decimate the dark spots. Why? Because it's the least likely outcome! Because it's [[WeDoTheImpossible impossible!]] Because we have no business doing it! You go too far, and reality snaps like a rubber band. Then we're flying! Our laughter will shred the dark days! That's the only sensible way to face oblivion, Jack. If the world dusts out, my gapped grin is the last thing they'll see.''"
170-->-- '''Daimon Kiyota,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''
171
172->'''Xigbar:''' You were able to go back in time to just before your home became a Sleeping World, only because a past version of you already existed there. And I can see, in the past, you already met [Ansem]. Yup, he was there [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI then]] to make sure you ended up here [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance now]].\
173'''Sora:''' ''(completely disbelieving)'' That's ridiculous!\
174'''Xigbar:''' It sure is. It's too perfect. Who'd ever believe it? Which is why you idiots never saw it coming.
175-->-- ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', revealing the BigBad had everything planned out ten years in advance
176[[/folder]]
177
178[[folder:Webcomics]]
179->''"I just surfed a Robo Dracula from the moon, so all y'alls can just take it."''
180-->-- '''Dr. [=McNinja=]''' [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p49 when it seems public opinion has turned against him]], ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcninja''
181
182->'''Senator''': Mr. Acting-President, do you know why you're being impeached?\
183'''King Radical''': I'm sure it's not my various legitimate businesses in Cumberland, Maryland.\
184'''Senator''': It is not about your empire of crime, no.\
185'''King Radical''': Is it because I turned the whole city into a giant ghost-fueled robot?\
186'''Senator''': No, that's... not illegal.
187-->-- ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcninja''
188
189->''"You ever try just ''throwing'' something at a guy with a hostage? Of course not, who the hell does that? But that is exactly why it works ''every time.''''"
190-->-- '''Detective Kamina''', ''Webcomic/DoubleK''
191
192->''"It was like teabagging a bear cub in front of its mother. The sheer audacity of it is the only thing that saved him."''
193-->-- '''Sven Bianchi''', ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''
194
195->''"The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them."''
196-->-- '''Aubrey''', ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive''
197
198->'''MH''': Eighteen Charisma is as high as you can get, though. Any eighteen stat in a regular human should be, like, freaky high.\
199'''JH''': Max, I truly believe that you could stab me in the face, turn to the cop who saw it happen, smile, [[BlatantLies tell him we were rehearsing for a play]], and he would believe you for at least six seconds.
200-->--''Webcomic/LeftoverSoup''
201[[/folder]]
202
203[[folder:Web Original]]
204->But Jesus Christ, you don't know what you're missing... in that, I just saw the film and I don't know what I'm missing. ''Dolittle'' is one of the most baffling films I've seen in recent years. [...] Everything from the writing, the acting, the editing, the cinematography, I have no idea what this film was trying to do or be. On the surface, it looks like a harmless kids film. But the experience is like having a bedtime story written by Tim Burton's Willy Wonka read to you by Joe Exotic. It's a rainbow of madness producing colors you'll regret you now know exist. It's a one-of-a-kind dumpster fire that has to be seen to be believed.
205-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFXy0NO36jo on]] ''Film/{{Dolittle}}''
206
207->''"It's not hard to read stuff like this and think, 'Maybe Tipper Gore had a point.'"''
208-->-- '''[[http://www.acidlogic.com/im_gg_allin.htm Wil Forbis]]''' on Music/GGAllin, ''Interesting Motherfuckers''
209
210->''"The premise of this movie is so bad and weird I almost have to respect it."''
211-->-- '''WebVideo/JennyNicholson''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-8zmGr0geQ I’m on lockdown so I watched all 14 Land Before Times]]"
212
213->''"I have re-read that answer at least 10 times and I'm not sure if that's Madonna being shady or truthful. On the one hand, that sort of sounds like how I would imagine Madonna would call someone a boring basic bitch. On the other hand, it sounds like Madonna being self-aware enough to realize that her hard-core commitment to crotchless leather panty couture might be a bit much for the White House. I'm going with shade, if only because Shady Madonna is my favorite Madonna."''
214-->-- ''[[http://dlisted.com/2015/03/21/madonna-says-shed-get-an-invite-to-the-white-house-if-she-was-more-like-beyonce/ DListed]]'', "Madonna Might Get an Invite to the White House if She Was More Like {{Music/Beyonce}}"
215
216->''"If you saw a naked warrior dancing naked while dodging bullets in the tune of Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive', you'd respect the guy for the sheer audacity of the act."''
217-->-- '''aaa''', ''Fundies Say the Darndest Things'' [[http://fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=71271 comments section]]
218
219->'''Queen Elizabeth II:''' Well, well, well. If it isn't Allie. Your skin is still as smooth as the day I felt it on my own.\
220'''Alucard:''' You know it. Reminds me of when I'd keep your bed warm during the Blitz.\
221'''Queen Elizabeth II:''' Those were better days. I was younger, beautiful...\
222'''Alucard:''' Ah, shut up you old hag, I'd still wreck you like Diana.
223-->-- ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged''
224
225->''"Fetus in a bowl of jello. And people said Game Freak was out of ideas..."''
226-->-- '''Website/YouTube comment''' on Duosion from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''
227
228->''"Whenever given a choice of options, always pick the crazy one. Nobody ever plans for crazy."''
229-->-- '''[[Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG Mr. Welch]]''' explaining [[TheLoonie how he plays]] TabletopGames
230
231->''"There's some shit that you are willin' to do in a fight [that] if I'm not willing to do that shit, you got it. Like, if I'm like, 'Man, I'm gonna beat your ass! I'mma kill you, nigga!' And the other motherfucker's like 'Ah! Don't make me suck your dick!', like, I'm confused, like 'What the... wait, what?!' He won that fight. I am not gonna go anywhere near this dude, even if I've got a knife, like, he has that shit one hundred percent of the time."''
232-->-- '''LetsPlay/BlasphemousHD''' in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNB7QFT34I&ab_channel=BlastphamousHDTV Angry Grandpa Destroys His TV After The Carolina Panthers Loss In The Super Bowl! REACTION!]]
233
234->''"Of course, ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'' was all about a Russian submarine that was so quiet that no one could hear it, but you know what? If you could make [[ItMakesSenseInContext a submarine fly]] then no one would '''believe it'''. Like, you can imagine the scene at NORAD, as they see a submarine '''flying''' on their radar system, and they'll say '[[CassandraTruth That must be a glitch! That can't be a real thing!]]'"''
235-->-- '''LetsPlay/ScottManley''' during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw8wjOz_Jtc his quest for]] the [[Blog/WhatIf Most Kerbal Spacecraft Ever]]
236
237->'''Silver:''' I'd like to be in the friendzone! I'd like friends!\
238'''Mephiles:''' It's not as pleasant as you'd think. They don't treat you like a friend; they treat you like an item. Sometimes I wish I could be more than just an accessory for these women, but unfortunately, as a gamer, I don't get respect.\
239'''Silver:''' Well, I'm not a gamer, so maybe they'll respect me!\
240''[Beat]''\
241'''Mephiles:''' That just makes you a beta cuck.
242-->-- ''WebVideo/RealTimeFandub'', ''Videogame/SonicTheHedgehog2006''
243
244->''"Ultimately, the host pointed out to all three psychics that the whole thing was made up and pressed them for an explanation. [...] The third, the guy who forgot his glasses, decided to argue with ''the guy who made up the story'' about the truthfulness of the story. Because [[DiggingYourselfDeeper when you've dug yourself into a hole that deep]], the only option is to keep digging in the hope that you can escape to China."''
245-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''', ''[[http://www.cracked.com/article_20566_the-6-most-humiliating-public-failures-by-celebrity-psychics.html The 6 Most Humiliating Public Failures by Celebrity Psychics]]''
246
247->"Okay, so, bringing [[CaneFu a staff]] into the [boxing] ring is ridiculous, he isn't even ''trying'' to hide it! At least Aran had decency to hide his [[EpicFlail flail]] down [[{{Trouserspace}} his pants]]!"
248-->'''[=Bumbles McFumbles=]''' on [[VideoGame/PunchOut Hoy Quarlo]].
249
250->'''Cleophoebs:''' Why does every topic with you always lead to genocide, concentration camps, violations of human rights, eugenics, war crimes, nuclear attacks, totalitarianism, misanthropy, mass sterilization, reforming the ethics of sex, and some tangent about Bowl's desire to have sex with muscular men?!\
251'''Bowl:''' Because we're [[TitleDrop French Baguette Intelligence]]. We discuss what no one has the balls to talk about so we can remind people of why these things are never talked about. And the reason is that no matter what, it will always lead to Bowl hooking up with your father.
252-->-- ''WebVideo/FrenchBaguetteIntelligence'', "[[https://youtu.be/zipRiUvtYPE Fast-Fashion vs Women - The problem is here to stay.]]"
253[[/folder]]
254
255[[folder:Western Animation]]
256->''"Sometimes, crazy works."''
257-->-- '''Optimus Primal''', ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''
258
259->''"But [[TheCaper knocking over Florida]] is against the law! ...I think."''
260-->-- '''Muriel''', ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', "The Clutching Foot"
261[[/folder]]
262
263[[folder:Real Life]]
264->''"Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity."''
265-->-- '''Tacitus''', ''Annals'', Book XI Ch. 26
266
267->''"In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom."''
268-->-- '''J. G. Ballard'''
269
270->''"If you can hijack a plane with a pair of tweezers, then frankly, you deserve that plane."''
271-->-- '''Ed Byrne'''
272
273->''"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth."''
274-->-- '''Creator/AlbertCamus'''
275
276->''"l'Audace, et encore l'audace, et toujours l'audace!"''\
277''(Audacity, still more audacity, always audacity!)''
278-->-- '''Georges Jacques Danton''', when asked what it would take to preserve [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution revolutionary France]]
279
280->''"To see [''Film/TheProducers''] for the first time in 1968, when I did, was to witness audacity so liberating that not even ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary'' rivals it."''
281-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert'''
282
283->''"Fortune favours the audacious."''
284-->-- '''Desiderius Erasmus'''
285
286->''"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."''
287-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler'''
288
289->''"Watching the film is like sitting at a dinner with a teen-ager who believes that, if he swears long and loudly enough, he will shock the grownups into accepting him as one of their own."''
290-->-- '''Anthony Lane''', review of ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' in ''Magazine/TheNewYorker''
291
292->''"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take--choose the bolder."''
293-->-- '''Field Marshal William Slim'''
294
295->''"Who Dares, Wins."''
296-->-- Motto of [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships British]] [[BadassArmy SAS]]
297
298->''"The enormity of their crimes proved their safeguard."''
299-->-- '''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Nicolas_de_la_Reynie Gabriel-Nicolas de la Reynie]]''' on the perpetrators of the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Poisons Affair of the Poisons]]".
300
301->''"The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it."''
302-->-- '''UsefulNotes/JosefMengele'''
303
304->''"The first time I ever met him, I was 15, and I was an extra on ''Film/BadBoys2''. We were shooting this club scene, and they brought me in, and I was wearing a stars and stripes bikini and a red cowboy hat, and six-inch heels. And they took me to Mike and he approved it. And they said, ‘You know, Michael, she’s 15, so you can’t sit her at the bar and she can’t have a drink in her hand.’ So his solution to that problem was to then have me dancing underneath a waterfall getting soaking wet... So that’s sort of a microcosm of how Bay’s mind works."''
305-->--'''Creator/MeganFox''' on Creator/MichaelBay
306
307->"[T]hat quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."
308-->--'''Leo Rosten''', ''The Joys of Yiddish'', on "chutzpah."
309
310->''"Anything worth doing is worth overdoing."''
311-->-- '''Music/MickJagger'''
312[[/folder]]

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