"It's important to note how Pokey refers to Giygas during the battle, especially since the English version doesn't quite convey it. In the original Japanese, Pokey saliently drops the "-sama" honorific from Giygas's name, which is a tremendously audacious and disrespectful thing to do. Pokey no longer considers Giygas his boss or his better, but as something more of an attack dog or prop. This is no longer about what Giygas wants. Between the two antagonists, Pokey is the only one with any control or awareness of his actions, and what he wants is to see Ness beaten and humiliated — even if it means destroying all existence in the process."
— Pat R.
on EarthBound (1994)
on EarthBound (1994)"While Mr. President is busy with his personal matters -playing golf, playing pool, take part in toasts and sexually harass his secretaries- I shall have the hard job to make this enterprise run."
— Carla Burnelle in Flander's Company CC Corp.
"Now, you lock Crespi in a room for a couple of weeks, chances are, he'd figure out how to break an egg. His brains is his concierge here, Nathan Davidoff."
— Sgt. Geno Polucci, Kojak ("The Chinatown Murders")
Bane: (to an underling) Leave us.
Daggett: No, stay here! I'm in charge!
(Bane places a heavy hand on Daggett's shoulder)
Bane: Do you feel in charge?
Daggett: (slowly realising just how screwed he is) ...I paid you a small fortune.
Bane: (disapprovingly) And this gives you power over me?
Daggett: No, stay here! I'm in charge!
(Bane places a heavy hand on Daggett's shoulder)
Bane: Do you feel in charge?
Daggett: (slowly realising just how screwed he is) ...I paid you a small fortune.
Bane: (disapprovingly) And this gives you power over me?
"John is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will... something you know very little about. I once saw him kill three men in a bar... with a pencil, with a fucking pencil. Then suddenly one day he asked to leave. It's over a woman, of course. So I made a deal with him. I gave him an impossible task. A job no one could have pulled off. The bodies he buried that day laid the foundation of what we are now. And then my son, a few days after his wife died, you steal his car and kill his fucking dog."
Hai Fat: May I remind you that you work for me? I took you on to be an occasional consultant, nothing more. I did not pay you to interfere in my affairs. Is that understood? Now, return to the plant and don't leave there without my permission. I now regret having even considered employing your services, but that is beside the point. Bond doesn't know you; he's never seen you. But he knows me. That's the problem.
Francisco Scaramanga: That's no problem.
[Scaramanga shoots Fat dead; one of Fat's aides rushes to investigate]
Francisco Scaramanga: Mr. Fat has just resigned. I am the new Chairman of the Board.
Francisco Scaramanga: That's no problem.
[Scaramanga shoots Fat dead; one of Fat's aides rushes to investigate]
Francisco Scaramanga: Mr. Fat has just resigned. I am the new Chairman of the Board.
Tyrion: You just sent the most powerful man in Westeros to bed without his supper.
Tywin: You're a fool if you think he's the most powerful man in Westeros.
Tywin: You're a fool if you think he's the most powerful man in Westeros.
— Game of Thrones, "Mhysa"
Thapa: Let's talk about something else. Like the money you're going to pay me.
Henshe: We already discussed your compensation.
Thapa: The situation's changed since we last bargained. I can still tell what's happening in the city from this room. I certainly can tell what's going on with the Earth Kingdom troops I've been aiming at. And you, my friend, are way in over your head. You're hanging on by your fingernails.
Henshe: (nervously) We have a deal.
Thapa: We had a deal. Let me guess what you were originally going to do here. Once you had me and the other two in your possession, you were going to work out an arrangement with the shangs and the Earth Kingdom both, where you claimed a good chunk of the wealth in Bin-Er for yourself. You'd keep us a secret, and if anyone crossed you, bang! But for you to have a credible enough position, you'd need to show the people you were bargaining with your power. The way you've had us blasting away without end— it's all been one big demonstration, hasn't it? You can't threaten someone with a weapon they don't understand the effects of.
Henshe: (exasperatedly) Congratulations. You know the basics of negotiation.
Thapa: Yes, which means I understand your position is worse now, not better. You've demonstrated that Yingsu, Xiaoyun, and I are the only force keeping the army of the Earth King camped outside the city from marching in here to discover your part in the whole enterprise. You've demonstrated to us that we control whether Bin-Er is open for business, not you or the shangs. Our value has taken a leap skyward, don't you think?
Henshe: We already discussed your compensation.
Thapa: The situation's changed since we last bargained. I can still tell what's happening in the city from this room. I certainly can tell what's going on with the Earth Kingdom troops I've been aiming at. And you, my friend, are way in over your head. You're hanging on by your fingernails.
Henshe: (nervously) We have a deal.
Thapa: We had a deal. Let me guess what you were originally going to do here. Once you had me and the other two in your possession, you were going to work out an arrangement with the shangs and the Earth Kingdom both, where you claimed a good chunk of the wealth in Bin-Er for yourself. You'd keep us a secret, and if anyone crossed you, bang! But for you to have a credible enough position, you'd need to show the people you were bargaining with your power. The way you've had us blasting away without end— it's all been one big demonstration, hasn't it? You can't threaten someone with a weapon they don't understand the effects of.
Henshe: (exasperatedly) Congratulations. You know the basics of negotiation.
Thapa: Yes, which means I understand your position is worse now, not better. You've demonstrated that Yingsu, Xiaoyun, and I are the only force keeping the army of the Earth King camped outside the city from marching in here to discover your part in the whole enterprise. You've demonstrated to us that we control whether Bin-Er is open for business, not you or the shangs. Our value has taken a leap skyward, don't you think?
