History Quotes / ItWillNeverCatchOn

->''"Kid," he said, "someday there'll be 50 hotels here and it'll be [[LasVegas the entertainment capital of America]]." I thought to myself, "No wonder they call him Bugsy."''

-->--Apocryphal note from FredAstaire screen test

->'''R.F. Simpson''': (apropos new sound technology for films)'' What do you think of it, Dexter?\\

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''Snake''': I know, right? And what kind of name is 'Metal Gear' anyway? ItWillNeverCatchOn.\\

->"Kid," he said, "someday there'll be 50 hotels here and it'll be [[LasVegas the entertainment capital of America]]." I thought to myself, "No wonder they call him Bugsy."
-->--'''Alan King'''

->''Can't act. Balding. Dances a little.''
-->--Note from FredAstaire screen test

->''"There were only two actors that anyone had ever heard of when ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]]'' was announced: [=LeVar=] Burton and Creator/WilWheaton, because they were already stars. As you know, there was a famous sign I had outside my trailer door which quoted the very first thing which appeared in the calender section of the ''Los Angeles Times'' about me, which described me as, "''Unknown Shakespearean actor.''" And that's what it said outside my trailer door: "''[[AC:[[BewareOfViciousDog Beware: Unknown Shakespearean Actor]] ]]''""''
-->--'''Creator/PatrickStewart'''

->'''Ryan:''' ''(as gangster, dialing phone)'' Someday they're gonna invent a phone where you just push buttons.\\
'''Colin:''' You're crazy!
-->-- ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway?'

->'''Brain-2-Me-2:''' [[AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering Are you pondering what I'm pondering]], 3-Pinky-O?
->'''3-Pinky-O:''' I think so, Brain-2, but a show about two talking lab mice? Heh, it'll never get on the air.
-->--''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', episode "Star Warners"

->''[[LampshadeHanging "That's what they said about the horseless carriage."]]''
-->---'''Cosmo Brown, ''Film/SinginInTheRain'''''

->''"Hey, [[JackieChan Chon]], you're lucky I didn't invest in that ridiculous 'auto-mobile' idea. Yeah, that's gonna make a lot of money."''
-->--'''Roy O'Bannon''', ''[[ShanghaiNoon Shanghai Knights]]''

->'''Snake''': Sigint, did you hear all that?
->'''Sigint''': Yeah, man. A walking tank? That's stupid.
->'''Snake''': I know, right? And what kind of name is 'Metal Gear' anyway? ItWillNeverCatchOn.
->'''Sigint''': Seriously, man. No one's gonna go with that.
->''[[RimShot *BA-DUM TSH!*]]''
-->--''[[WebComic/{{Hiimdaisy}} Let's Destroy The]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Shagohod!]]''

->"I consider machine guns an absurdity in a field army of normal composition."

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->''"There were only two actors that anyone had ever heard of when ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]]'' was announced: [=LeVar=] Burton and Creator/WilWheaton, because they were already stars. As you know, there was a famous sign I had outside my trailer door which quoted the very first thing which appeared in the calender section of the ''Los Angeles Times'' about me, which described me as, "''Unknown Shakespearean actor.''" And that's what it said outside my trailer door: [[AC:[[BewareOfViciousDog Beware: Unknown Shakespearean Actor]] ]]"''

->''"Kid, someday there'll be 50 hotels here and it'll be [[LasVegas the entertainment capital of America]]." I thought to myself, "No wonder they call him Bugsy."

-->'''Cosmo Brown, ''Film/SinginInTheRain'''''

->"This guy is bad. This is his first and last film."
-->'''Crow T. Robot''', talking about a young ClintEastwood, ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode ''RevengeOfTheCreature''

-->-- ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway?''

->"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense."
-->-- Napoleon Bonaparte on the steamship.

->"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication."

->"The telephone is a curious device that might fairly find place in the magic of Arabian Tales. Of what use is such an invention?"

->"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
-->--Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

->'''Brain-2-Me-2:''' AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering, 3-Pinky-O?

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->"The telephone is a curious device that might fairly find place in the magic of Arabian Tales. Of what use is such an invention?"
-->--A newspaper reporter, 1876.

--> Napoleon Bonaparte on the steamship.