David Warner Quotes

Nightwing

Observation of Flea Behavior Under Microscope

Phillip Payne Doctor, I'd like to show you something. You too, Chee. Now there are four species of flea on this slide: carnivore, dog, X-Cheopis, and bat. I'm going to put a blood spot on the slide. Now what do you see?

Doctor Well, the bat flea is ingesting the blood.

Phillip Payne Keep looking. Now what do you see?

Doctor It's a bacilli. And virulent.

Walker Chee You mind if I take a look at that?

Phillip Payne Go ahead.

Doctor Where did you get that blood specimen?

Phillip Payne Same place as the fleas: the dead sheep.

Walker Chee What kind of bacilli is that?

Phillip Payne Bubonic plague.

Walker Chee Now how the hell do you know that?

Phillip Payne It's my business to know.

Walker Chee What do you think, Doc?

Doctor Well, it certainly could be plague. What mystifies me is the loss of blood and the stench of ammonia and the bites. I've never seen bites like that.

Phillip Payne The bite marks come from the incisor teeth of vampire bats. The blood loss and the ammonia are one and the same.

Walker Chee Meaning what?

Phillip Payne Vampires consume one and half times their weight in blood. They piss the excess out so they can get airborne again. That excess blood turns into ammonia.

Phillip Payne Make no mistake. There's a highly intelligent colony of vampire bats roosting in a great cave somewhere in these canyons. Their attacks, inevitably, will be drawn closer to mass human dwellings. And with these attacks come the bubonic plague. That's what you've got to face, Chee.

Walker Chee What about placing the reservations under quarantine?

Phillip Payne No, that won't help. You can't protect people from nocturnal sweeps of thirty or forty thousand vampire bats.

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Nightwing

Killing Vampire Bats: A Dark Perspective

Youngman Duran It just doesn't seem natural for a man to spend his life, his entire life, killing bats.

Phillip Payne Not just bats. Vampire bats. I kill them because they're evil. There's a mutual grace and violence in all forms of nature; and each specie of life gives something in return for its own existence. All but one. The freak. The vampire bat alone is that specie. Have you ever seen one of their caves?

Youngman Duran No.

Phillip Payne I killed over 60,000 of them last year in Mexico. You really understand the presence of evil when you go into their caves. The smell of ammonia alone is enough to kill you. The floor of the cave is a foul syrup of digested blood. And the bats: up high, hanging upside down, rustling, fighting, mating, sending constant messages, waiting for the light to fade, hungry for blood, coaxing the big females to wake up and flex their nightwings to lead the colony out across the land, homing in on any living thing; cattle, sheep, dogs, children, anything with warm blood. And they feast, drinking the blood and pissing ammonia. I kill them because they're the quintessence of evil. To me, nothing else exists. The destruction of vampire bats is what i live for.

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The Omen

Conflict Over Dark Prophecy and Responsibility

Keith Jennings Look, I want to know what he said. I have a right to know. Robert, I want to know what he said! Look, I'm not just some ]. I was the one who found him!

[[bystander]

Robert Thorn I'm the one who's supposed to kill him. These are knives. He wants me to stab him! He wants me to murder a child.

Keith Jennings It's not a child!

Robert Thorn He doesn't know that! Maybe he's wrong. He's not responsible. I won't do it!

[Throws the knives into an alley]

Keith Jennings Then if you won't do it, I will.

[Looks at Robert, then walks away]

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Cast a Deadly Spell

Belief in Magic Without Usage

Amos Hackshaw It's true... no tokens, no fetishes... nothing. You really don't use anything... any magic, that is.

[Lovecraft has just proved that he uses no magic talismans]

Det. Harry Philip Lovecraft Just like I told you on the phone.

Amos Hackshaw You don't believe in magic?

Det. Harry Philip Lovecraft I believe it, just don't use it.

Amos Hackshaw Why?

Det. Harry Philip Lovecraft Personal reasons.

Amos Hackshaw And they are?

Det. Harry Philip Lovecraft Personal.

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Nightwing

Consequences of Recklessness in Nightwing

Phillip Payne They piss blood

[repeated line]

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Cast a Deadly Spell

Invocation of the Old Ones

Amos Hackshaw ].] From the wells of night to the gulfs of space. Ever the praises of great Cthulhu and Tsathoggua and of Him who is not named. Ever praises of abundance to the black goat of the woods, Shub-Niggurath, the goat with a thousand young, for thou has seen the dark universe yawning, the lost place where black planets roll without aim. Too long have thou dwelt in that cold captivity beyond the mercy of time. The way is clear. Return. And rule. Yog-Sothoth is the key and the guardian of the gate. He knows where the Old Ones have trod Earth's fields and that they will tread once more. Sorcerer. Emissary. Changeling, outsider. Thou art the whisper in the dark, for a million years the voice in man's ear, seducer, shaper of foul deed and betrayal. All was prelude and preparation. We empty our hearts in your name. Teacher! Master! Complete us! The things inside become the things outside! The waiting ends and the journey begins! Consume the darkness between the dimensions! Cross the gulf with a single stride! Here on this threshold is placed a gift. This is my gift. Come forth and receive it! Stars align! Space folds! A thousand worlds merge in a single instant! Crack the band of formlessness! Take shape and come forth!

[summoning [[w:Cthulhu_Mythos_deities#Yog-Sothoth|Yog-Sothoth]

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Hogfather

A Conversation About Existence and Finality

Lord Downey The doors are locked. The windows are barred. The dogs do not appear to have woken up. The squeaky floorboards haven't. I really doubt that you are a ghost, and gods generally do not announce themselves so politely. You could, of course, be Death, but I don't believe he bothers with such niceties and, besides, I am feeling quite well. Hmm. (Auditor appears.) Good evening.

Auditor Good evening, Lord Downey.

Lord Downey You wish someone inhumed?

Auditor Brought to an end.

Lord Downey Our scale of fees -

Auditor The payment will be three million dollars.

Lord Downey No questions asked, I assume.

Auditor No questions answered.

Lord Downey We need to know your name. Or names. In strict client confidentiality, of course.

Auditor You may think of us as...the Auditors.

Lord Downey Really? What is it you audit?

Auditor Everything. We maintain the logical order of the Universe.

Lord Downey I think we need to know something about you.

Auditor We are the people with three million dollars.

Lord Downey We need to know where, when, and, of course, who.

Auditor The location is not on any map, and we need the task to be completed by sunrise tomorrow. This is essential. As for the who - let us call him the Fat Man.

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Cast a Deadly Spell

Promises of Power and Divine Authority

Amos Hackshaw The wheel has turned. Yog-Sothoth knows the Gate. That is the promise of the Necromnomicon. Open the Gate, let the Old Ones back in and they will make you a god.

Det. Harry Philip Lovecraft Ooohhh, you get to be a god. What does Harry get?

Harry Bordon Tell him.

Amos Hackshaw For services rendered, Mr. Borden gets to be Ruler of the World.

Det. Harry Philip Lovecraft What kind of world?

Amos Hackshaw A world of the unburied dead, and a sky dark with ashes. A blasted, maimed planet. But he'll be the most important person in it.

Harry Bordon How do you like them apples partner, huh?

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Nightwing

Questioning Belief in Superstition

Phillip Payne You're not buying this superstition are you?

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The Omen

Uncertainty Surrounds Mysterious Heir's Identity

Photographer Run out of film?

Keith Jennings Just saving a bit for his canonization.

Photographer How's that?

Keith Jennings I don't know if we just got the heir to the Thorn millions here, or Jesus Christ himself.

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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

A Toast to the Future and Shakespeare

Chancellor Gorkon I offer a toast. The undiscovered country...the future.

Everyone The undiscovered country.

Spock ]

[[Hamlet#Act III|Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1.]

Gorkon You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

Chang taH pagh taHbe "To be or not to be?" That is the question which preoccupies our people, Captain Kirk. We need breathing room.

[Klingons laugh]

James Kirk ].

[[w:Lebensraum|Earth. Hitler, 1938]

Chang I beg your pardon?

[pause]

Gorkon Well...I see we have a long way to go.

Planet of the Apes

Relaxation Away from City Life

Nado We just returned from our country house.

Sandar How was it?

Nova Boring.

Nado I find it relaxing being away from the bustle of the city.

Nova There was no place to go. Nothing but trees and rocks. All you did was nap.

Nado Exactly. Time away from politics. . . . . .is what I needed. We'd lose ourselves for days in the forest when we were young. Now I can barely climb a tree.

Sandar Trite but true: "Youth is wasted on the young. " Oh, how did I get so old so fast?

Thade Living with your daughter would age any ape quickly.

Sandar You've been a stranger lately.

Thade I apologize for my lateness, senator. I stopped to see my father.

Sandar How's my old friend?

Thade Slipping, I'm afraid. I'd like to see him more, but these are troubled days. The humans infest the provinces.

Ari We encroach upon their habitat. They breed while we grow soft in our affluence.

Thade They outnumber us four to one!

Nova Why can't we simply sterilize them all?

Nado The cost would be prohibitive. Although scientists tell me. . . . . .these humans carry terrible diseases.

Ari How would we know? The army burns the bodies before they're examined. Father?

Sandar At times, perhaps, the senate feels that the army has been. . .. . .a tad extreme.

Thade ] in defense of apes is no vice, senator! Your ideas threaten our prosperity! The human problem can't be solved with money!

[[Extremism]

Nado We tried that once, and all we got was. .. . .a welfare state that nearly broke us.

Nova I think the city has about as much diversity as I can handle.

Ari This garment was made by one of my humans. And can you deny the skill? Obviously, they're capable of a real culture.

Thade Everything in the human culture takes place below the waist.

Attar Bow your heads! We give thanks for the fruit of the land. Bless us, holy father, who created all apes in his image. Hasten the day when you will return and bring peace to your children. Amen.

Apes Amen.

Nado Next you'll be telling us these beasts have a soul.

Ari Of course they do.

Attar The senator's daughter flirts with ].

[[blasphemy]

Thade Is there a soul in there? Do you have a towel?

Ari I've lost my appetite.

Cast a Deadly Spell

Time and Perspective in Conversation

Amos Hackshaw Do you realize how long they've waited for me? Centuries! Millennia!

Det. Harry Philip Lovecraft How long is that in dog years?

Memorable Quotes from David Warner