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From YKTTW Working Title: Stock Quotes
ccoa: Quotes that should be here but need more examples:
- "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio."Shakespeare's Hamlet
- Quoted by Beast in the "On Angel's Wings" episode of X Men Evolution. Kitty correctly identifies it as Shakespeare.
"To be or not to be, that is the question."Shakespeare's Hamlet"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- The Star Trek episode "By Any Other Name"
"The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.""A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"Shakespeare's King Richard III
- Appears in Mel Brook's Robin Hood verbatim.
"Revenge is a dish best served cold"Laclos
- The Count Of Monte Cristo
- A Klingon proverb in Star Trek.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Spoofed in Robot Chicken.
"In this sleep of death what dreams may come."Shakespeare's Hamlet
- What Dreams May Come was a book by Richard Matheson, later turned into a movie with Robin Williams.
"That which does not kill me, only makes me stronger"Frederik Nietzsche.
- The original Mortal Kombat console uses this.
- Played with in the Joker's first line in The Dark Knight
I believe whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.
- A type of "what?" (that is not a Flat "What") that means "Did I do something? Why are you all staring at me?"
"We need someone who can (some ability)." Everyone turns to look at someone who has not heard the conversation."What?"
- A double-take with a pause to process Cognitive Dissonance.
"Wait... What?!"
