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Quick demonstration of Jan's nifty VFS functions in action.

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binaries/data/mods/official/gui/test/2_mainmenu.xml
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<object type="empty" name="PREGAME_GUI" size="0 0 100% 100%" z="1" hidden="false">
<action on="Load"><![CDATA[
// Play main 0 A.D. theme when the main menu starts.
curr_music = newRandomSound("music", "theme");
curr_music = newRandomSound("music", "menu");
curr_music.loop();
]]></action>

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binaries/data/mods/official/gui/test/functions_pregame_load.js
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getGUIObjectByName("loading_screen_progress_bar_text").caption = "";
getGUIObjectByName("loading_screen_progress_bar").caption = 0;
getGUIObjectByName("loading_screen_text").caption = "LOADING " + g_GameAttributes.mapFile + " ...\nPlease wait ...";
getGUIObjectByName("loading_screen_tip").caption = "Wise man once say ...\nHe who thinks slow, he act in haste, be rash and quick and foolish. But he that thinks too much, acts too slowly. The stupid always win, Commandersan. Remember that. You are tiny grasshopper.";
// Pick a random tip of the day (each line is a separate tip).
tipArray = readFileLines("gui/text/tips.txt");
// Set tip string.
getGUIObjectByName("loading_screen_tip").caption = tipArray[getRandom(0, tipArray.length-1)];
// Begin game session.
if (! startGame())

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binaries/data/mods/official/gui/test/functions_utility_music.js
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{
case "music":
randomSoundPath = "audio/music/"
switch (soundSubType)
{
case "peace":
// Get a random number within the sound's range.
// (Later we'll need to change this to an array selection of filenames.)
randomSound = getRandom(1, 4);
switch (randomSound)
{
case 1:
randomFileName = "germanic_peace_1.ogg"
break;
case 2:
randomFileName = "germanic_peace_2.ogg"
break;
case 3:
randomFileName = "germanic_peace_3.ogg"
break;
case 4:
randomFileName = "roman_peace_1.ogg"
break;
}
break;
case "theme":
randomFileName = "menu_track.ogg"
break;
default:
break;
}
break;
case "voice":
randomSoundPath = soundPrePath + "/";
switch (soundSubType)
{
case "attack": // Unit given an attack order
// Get a random number within the sound's range.
// (Later we'll need to change this to an array selection of filenames.)
randomSound = getRandom(1, 6);
switch (randomSound)
{
case 1:
randomFileName = "Attack_Attackx.ogg"
break;
case 2:
randomFileName = "Attack_Chargex.ogg"
break;
case 3:
randomFileName = "Attack_Engagex.ogg"
break;
case 4:
randomFileName = "Attack_ForMyFamily.ogg"
break;
case 5:
randomFileName = "Attack_Warcry.ogg"
break;
case 6:
randomFileName = "Attack_ZeusSaviourandVictory.ogg"
break;
}
break;
case "command": // Unit given a generic order
// Get a random number within the sound's range.
// (Later we'll need to change this to an array selection of filenames.)
randomSound = getRandom(1, 8);
switch (randomSound)
{
case 1:
randomFileName = "Command_AsYouWish.ogg"
break;
case 2:
randomFileName = "Command_ByYourCommand.ogg"
break;
case 3:
randomFileName = "Command_ImComing.ogg"
break;
case 4:
randomFileName = "Command_IObey.ogg"
break;
case 5:
randomFileName = "Command_MyLiege.ogg"
break;
case 6:
randomFileName = "Command_OnMyWay.ogg"
break;
case 7:
randomFileName = "Command_WithMyHonour.ogg"
break;
case 8:
randomFileName = "Command_YesMyLord.ogg"
break;
}
break;
case "select": // Unit clicked by player
// Get a random number within the sound's range.
// (Later we'll need to change this to an array selection of filenames.)
randomSound = getRandom(1, 10);
switch (randomSound)
{
case 1:
randomFileName = "Select_AtYourService.ogg"
break;
case 2:
randomFileName = "Select_HowMayIServeYouq.ogg"
break;
case 3:
randomFileName = "Select_MyLiegeq.ogg"
break;
case 4:
randomFileName = "Select_MyLordq.ogg"
break;
case 5:
randomFileName = "Select_OrdersSireq.ogg"
break;
case 6:
randomFileName = "Select_Ready.ogg"
break;
case 7:
randomFileName = "Select_ReadySire.ogg"
break;
case 8:
randomFileName = "Select_Yesq.ogg"
break;
case 9:
randomFileName = "Select_YourOrdersq.ogg"
break;
case 10:
randomFileName = "Select_YourWishq.ogg"
break;
}
break;
case "hit": // Unit attacks with a grunt
// Get a random number within the sound's range.
// (Later we'll need to change this to an array selection of filenames.)
randomSound = getRandom(1, 6);
switch (randomSound)
{
case 1:
randomFileName = "Hit1.ogg"
break;
case 2:
randomFileName = "Hit2.ogg"
break;
case 3:
randomFileName = "Hit3.ogg"
break;
case 4:
randomFileName = "Hit4.ogg"
break;
case 5:
randomFileName = "Hit5.ogg"
break;
case 6:
randomFileName = "Hit6.ogg"
break;
}
break;
case "pain": // Unit is hurt, possibly death blow
// Get a random number within the sound's range.
// (Later we'll need to change this to an array selection of filenames.)
randomSound = getRandom(1, 9);
switch (randomSound)
{
case 1:
randomFileName = "Pain1.ogg"
break;
case 2:
randomFileName = "Pain2.ogg"
break;
case 3:
randomFileName = "Pain3.ogg"
break;
case 4:
randomFileName = "Pain4.ogg"
break;
case 5:
randomFileName = "Pain5.ogg"
break;
case 6:
randomFileName = "Pain6.ogg"
break;
case 7:
randomFileName = "Pain7.ogg"
break;
case 8:
randomFileName = "Pain8.ogg"
break;
case 9:
randomFileName = "Pain9.ogg"
break;
}
break;
default:
break;
}
break;
default:
break;
}
// Get names of sounds (attack, command, select, hit, pain).
// or
// Get names of "peace", "menu" (theme) and "battle" tracks.
soundArray = buildFileList(randomSoundPath, "*" + soundSubType + "*", false);
// Get a random number within the sound's range.
randomSound = getRandom(0, soundArray.length-1);
// Set name of track.
randomFileName = soundArray[randomSound];
// Build path to random audio file.
randomSoundPath += randomFileName;
randomSoundPath = randomFileName;
console.write("Playing " + randomSoundPath + " ...");

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"It is easier to train one dog than it is to train a hundred sheep."
"Just because someone is foreign that doesn't give them the right not to speak English!"
"I'd make a wonderful new man if I wasn't such a lying cheating bastard..."
"When people start referring to you as sheep, you have to start worrying about their intentions."
"Sheep don't write essays saying why they shouldn't be herded into buildings and turned into lamb chops, do they."
"Wise man say, when setting out on the path of revenge, always dig two graves... You may be lucky and get one of your enemies' mates too."
"No matter how advanced a civilisation is, they will never invent something that means they don't have to chase baddies through corridors."
"Laziness is a good quality, laziness is the mother of genius, invention and ingenuity."
"There is an esoteric aspect here that our gardener hasn't quite sussed".
"Context is for the weak"
"Not enough people in the world believe in fairys."
"Can I torture them 'till they bleed?"
"I like shiny things, even if they don't physically shine. It takes a shiny thing collector to understand that concept."
"Wise man once say, when branching out from building hotels to building cruise liners, it is a good idea to seek advice from sailors."
"See, once more, Asphalt saves the day."
"The best measurement unit of bandwidth? ... Dollars I suspect."
"Mind you, I have taken so many opposing stances to stupid ideas, I can't actually remember what I really do believe any more."
"Of course it's tacky! Do you know how much extra you have to pay for something that will appeal to the modern Internet user?"
"If you nag me on this, I just minimise the little window and you go into the flashing psycho bar. No real skin off my nose!"
"The north has a lot to answer for in terms of music. It's all so grey and lacking in contrast. Dreay musicians with no character in their voices singing at the same monotonous dirge tone as their boringly played instruments. It's about as interesting as listening to a power supply."
"I like to think of myself as one of the New Age lords of Karma. I figure all the old ones have died so someone needs to keep up the traditions."
"It's a real shame that old people smell so much and break so easily. They would probably be great fun to hang around with otherwise."
"Do really cool websites have "fucking A" records?"
"I don't think they would know investigative journalism if it came with a huge sign and verbal announcements."
"You can garauntee that if I have pictures of naked women on my screen then I am working."
"I am going to convert all my Canadian Dollars to Turkish Lira. I can be an international money trader and make millions!"
"I like Canada, it's a shame about Canadians. They are just like Germans only they speak worse English."
"I don't play any game I can't cheat at, and if I can cheat there's no point in playing."
"Rabbits are not sentient... Rabbits are pies waiting to happen."
"I am more than happy to accept that people know more than me, most people know more than me, my main skill is just in knowing who they are."
"Why do people want to talk to me about security? They never actually want to listen to what I have to say."
"The Yahoo Auction site is sweet. It's like what nursery school kids would build if they were asked to create an auction site out of old washing up bottles and cereal boxes."
"Choosing friends is easy... Be a child again. Ask yourself if this person rang your doorbell and said 'Are you coming out to play?', would you go, or would you make an excuse? If you wouldn't want to play with them as a kid then what hope do you have as a grown up!"
"I have knives and guns, you have a teabag ... Let's be sensible!"
"You simply can't increase safety by protecting people more. People use the added protection as performance enhancing devices and the risks always remain constant. Put simply, airbags are the best go-faster stripes you could add to your car."
"The English like dates because dates show that we planted our flag first. If the fuzzy-wuzzies have neither flags nor calendars, then we can always show we planted our flag first, and therefore their land is actually ours!"
Michael's 10 second Steeley Eyed Dealer of Death Course: "Aquire target, take 2 shots, evaluate damage, reaquire target or if it's twitching aquire a new one, take 2 shots and repeat all of that until you, or all of the bad guys are dead."
"The English are not lazy as such, it's just that we just spend all our time learning good manners and other clever stuff rather than filling our heads with such nonesenses as foreign language, vocabulary and the mastery of gutteral contortions!"
"Tea is why the British Empire worked; which scarily is actually true! Before anyone knew what germs were, the British habit of making tea meant that the British pioneers didn't get killed in places like India and Africa, simply because they boiled the water they drank. Also tea is a natural antiseptic, and killed a lot of other weird tropical diseases so the British stayed alive whilst the other Europeans all died... Quite ironic really. It also allowed the slum based workers in the industrial revolution to survive in their terrible circumstances for the same reasons, meaning we developed a better home industrial base than any other country. Gin and Tonic helped too, but the reader is free to work that one out for themselves".
"I think Kids have a wonderful outlook on life and some brilliant ideas. It's when Kids start trying to act like grownups that the shit sets in and they start becoming deranged."
"You know they say that the world is starting to get fucked up because its best rapper is white and it's best golfer is black. How come they haven't noticed that the best tennis players players seem to be black now too...?"
"No wonder Blaire likes the US, it's just another little Britain being nurtured overseas... We never really left there did we? I think really it was a British long term plan to make them British without them realising it, then we could just join up with them a few hundred years later and so far, it's working beautifully."
"And no, I don't agree the lyrics were brilliant. They showed a complete lack of understanding about the word 'ironic' which was somewhat... Ironic. Somewhat akin to somebody writing a song about failed love and writing about a broken kidney." -- On Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill".
"If you are in a bad mood, for example, then going onto your system and putting everyone else in a foul mood should cheer you up no end. Rather like yoga but without all the stretching." -- Confessions.
"I just realised I was wiping my nose with a kangaroo's bollocks."
"I appear to be fundamentally and somewhat perversely drawn to meals you can eat with a spoon... I figure at the least this will help me in my old age."
"If I could eat my own cheesey goodness, why would I be chatting you up, dearest?"
"Every unsafe old version was a safe new version once."
"I don't read newspapers. I do read the Daily Mail sometimes, but only because they are easy to steal from Little Chefs."
"A glue gun it the answer! Well ... A Glue Gun is the answer to everything."
"If they stopped taking monogamy for granted in Soap Operas, they'd actually have to think up some real plot-lines."
"And not many people have had a Pterodactyl on a stick eaten by a Giant Tiger."
"I fear that was stretching the practical limits of comic-timing to extremes."
"If there is a God then I think it is his biggest joke ever making male and female humans look so similar that one could assume they are nearly the same."
"Never shag someone you wouldn't spend 4 weeks alone in the jungle with."
"I won't try and understand, my brain is small and mushy."
"My cats and I need to have words about how they treat my pornography."
"The US know that North Korea have nuclear weapons, and wants to go to war against them. The US know that Iraq wants to make nuclear weapons, and wants to go to war against them and the US knows that Israel has nuclear weapons and nobody says a thing."
"I guess you could say that some of Bush's speeches sound a bit similar to some of Churchills... The difference is that Churchill wrote his own Speeches whereas Bush probably can't even write his own name."
"If, after so many years, we can't even get anything approaching fair voting in the Eurovision Song Contest... What hope is there for a United European Parliament?"
"I pointed out to him that most of my skills were about 6,000 years to 200 years old anyway, so it didn't really matter; I have seen very little of modern security technology that would be unfamiliar in concept to an iron age hill fort designer."
"Someone accused me of being a tree hugger a few days ago, I pointed out that the last time I even got close to hugging a tree was whilst I was chainsawing down two of them that were in the way of me taking a good photograph."
"Should we visit him in prison and bake him a cake with somebody else's files in it?" -- (On Cliff Stanford being questioned by the police over allegations of reading other people's email)
"Incest may come with really good sex, but some of the other issues can be problematic."
"Being in a night-club also makes people think that they have the "right" to try and make me dance, which is fine, as long as they accept that I have the right to make their joints go in ways that they weren't meant to go thus causing them short term excrutiating pain. Unfortunately, they seem to not accept this balance of rights so it often causes problems."
"The one thing Americans should never, ever do is try and pass an opinion on Northern Ireland, not if they want to keep friends in either country anyway."
"On the subject of Irony and Americans: Unless it is them quoting somebody else or it comes with a canned laughter track; how on earth are we meant to spot it? It's like expecting quantum theory to come from the paws of squirrels."
"Drugs aside, there are two nearly sure-fire ways to get a woman into bed... A home cooked meal, preferably with an obscure home baked bread on the menu or alternatively, just buy her some wind-chimes."
"I am a crap photographer. I just happen to be in the right place occasionally when a good photograph appears."
"As far as their beligerancy towards humanity goes, goats and donkeys must be the most deadly animals on earth."
"There's nothing much new in the world... There just aren't many people with a decent knowledge of history."
"For the modern geek, Mac is the new black."
"It worries me that most of the quotes I collect are mine... One day I may have to start agreeing with people that I am egotistical and arrogant. Or maybe... I am just lazy?"
And quotes from other people, to prove I am not completely egotistical.
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned. And hell no fury like a woman scorned." (William Congreve)
"To summon the demons of darkness, there is a price."
"If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?"
"Games are critical to a warlike society." Film: New Eden
"You must be careful what you pretend to be because, in the end, you are what you pretend to be" Film: Mother Night. (Kurt Vonnegut)
"Beware, toes you are stepping on today may be connected to the arse you are kissing tomorrow" Film: Body Count.
"Poor Crusty, he's like a black velvet sheet come to life" - Lisa Simpson
"But you got fired, and you still hang around like a big loser so why can't he?" - some witchy woman in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the series.
"Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of this day? The birth of Santa." - Bart - Simpsons.
"What is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery?" - Chief Wigham - Simpsons.
"If you love something set it free if it comes back, it was and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with"
"Then Fred said "let's have a cup of tea" and I said "Right oh!"".
"Officially, I am here quite unofficially". - Troughton, The two doctors.
"You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once and then move on!" Homer Simpson.
"The first time you buy a shed is undoubtedly a weird experience but after the next time it'll be a lot easier." - Some email that Amy got.
"Spock knew nothing of children except that he had been one, had managed to get over it, and saw no need to dwell upon things that could not be helped."
"If you don't want children get a cat, they can be just as much trouble but at least you get the pleasure of outliving them." - Tim the Goth.
"My kids use the Internet far too much anyway. The only useful it has ever taught them is how to use the mouse with their left hands." - Radio 4.
"I am a psychopath so I guess the difference is I have to think about not hurting people, as opposed to just knowing what is bad. Personally, I can't see that as a bad thing because all I see with you normal people is y'all hurting one another all the time because you don't think." -- A sane loonie.
"Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit." - Oz, The Wizard of Oz.
"Do I look like someone who cares what God thinks?" Pinhead - Hellraiser.
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been pecuiliarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." - Thomas Jefferson
"It's better to have people think you a fool, than to open your mouth, and remove all doubt." - Samuel Clemens / Mark Twain
"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. Furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait for next year's model." - Andrew Tanenbaum
"Mr Secretary, you are paying me a lot of money to do what I do. Go home and let me earn it." - Michael Ironside, Seaquest 2032.
"I've really got to learn to do the damage and get out of town. It's the stay and gloat that gets me every time." - Ethan Hawke(?), Buffy.
"Everybody who I know is right always agrees with me." - Unknown.
"I see no more than you, but I have trained myself to notice what I see" - Sherlock Holmes.
"Sometimes when live in cage too long, whole world seems like very big place." - Mr Miyage, Karate Kid 4.
"He's a Lawyer, a sense of humour would only get in the way." -- Mr Roarke, Fantasy Island.
"In real life... there is no backspace key" -- Ayla
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
"Besides being an infallible cure for enemy constipation, the canister fire does much to alter the geography of the place." -- From the Commander of B Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment, Royal Australian Armoured Corps, re the use of the 20 pounder gun of the long gone, but, never to be forgotten Centurian Tank, on active service in the Republic of South Viet Nam 1970.
"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter." -- Ernest Hemingway, April 1936 issue of Esquire. It was the first line of an article titled "On The Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter."
"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made." -- Jean Gieraudoux
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." -- Joseph Stalin.
"The plate in front of us is placed over an extra-wide letter box. So that even the largest cheques can get through. LAW OFFICE, it says." -- Peter Hoeg: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow.
"When you can't change the direction of the wind; adjust your sails" -- Max Depree.
Daniel: "Can you break a log like that?" Miyage: "Don't know, never been attacked by tree." -- Karate Kid II.
"I like babies and old people... What you see is what you get." -- Elly in Neighbours.
"Ritzys: London, Paris, New York, Accrington" -- Sign outside a Night Club in Accrington somewhere around 1985.
"This ain't a bridge... It's termites holding hands." -- Removal Van Driver in Chevy Chase's Funny Farm.
"But if you trusted me, you never would have known I was lying to you!" -- Susan in Diagnosis Murder.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein.
"I hate everybody equally! I'm an equal opportunity hater." -- Jerry ex-sas.
"Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it will waste your time and will only annoy the pig." -- old Yiddish saying.
"A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig." -- Lazarus Long - Time Enough for Love (though the pig quote is more than likely borrowed from an old Yiddish saying above).
"But the polysemic champion must be 'set'. Superficially it looks like a wholly unassuming monosyllable, the verbal equivalent of the single-celled organism. Yet it has 58 uses as a noun, 126 as a verb, and 10 as a participal adjective. Its meanings are so various and scattered that it takes the OED 60,000 words - the length of a short novel - to discuss them all. A foreigner could be excused for thinking that to know 'set' is to know English." -- Bill Bryson, Mother Tongue.
"Hah! I remember when the police officers used to tell me, 'Slow down'. Now, it's the fucking doctors!" -- Ralph.
"I've got nothing against poofters... but I was bought up to believe that dicky up the chuffter is abnormal, and vile" -- Oz, Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
"[Apartheid] began before I was born and will probably be resolved long after I die. In the meantime I want to run." -- Zola Budd.
"Never wear your best pants when you go to fight for freedom." -- Fortune cookie - http://home.nc.rr.com/rellis/fortunes/best_pants.htm
"You are going to ruin my reputation long before you get to ruin me." -- Unknown.
"In the end, it all comes down to dancing in silly hats." -- Terry Wogan, Eurovision 2002.
"If God didn't mean for us to eat this animal, why did he make it out of turkey?" -- Clueless.
"Yea, it was cute! Like a puppy with a glock." -- Sofie.
"Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are already taken."
"Your Hobbies and Interests cannot exceed 255 characters." -- msn.com
"You can always rely on the Americans to do the right thing... After they've tried everything else" -- Winston Churchill
"That money talks, I'll not deny. I heard it once. It said, 'Goodbye.'" -- Richard Armour
".. No one who has something original or important to say will willingly run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief." -- Peter Medawar
"More information about asparagus can be found at http://www.asparagus.org/" -- From http://www.studentbmj.com/back_issues/0800/education/277.html
"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." -- Mark Twain
""There's nothing wrong with having nothing in common, otherwise there'd be no point in having two of us" -- Ben in My Family.
"Hey Mr Burns, can I go with you to get the treasure? I won't eat much and I don't know the difference between right and wrong." -- Bart Simpson.
"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes." -- Dylan Thomas.
"Charlotte Church: Voice of an Angel, brain of a Goldfish." -- RI:SE Newsreader.
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed; they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!" -- Orson Welles in The Third Man (1949).
"I believe what I said yesterday I don't know what I said but I know what I think and I assume its what I said."
"I am shocked - sort of"
"You know I'm not a lawyer - I don't do that"
"If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer and if I don't I'll just respond cleverly"
"Boys are stupid. Throw rocks at them."
"You're acting like you think the world doesn't need a 170 MPH SUV. Are you some sort of tree-hugging commie?" -- Steve Gombosi.
"O what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive! But when we've practised quite a while How vastly we improve our style!" -- A Word Of Encouragement by J. R. Pope
"They are basically witless midgets who spend most of their time trying to kill themselves" -- Dylan Moran on children.
"I just don't trust something that bleeds for five days and doesn't die." -- Mr Garrison, Southpark.
"Lisa: Let's put it on the Internet! Bart: No. We have to reach people who's opinions actually matter." -- Simpsons.
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. A little knowledge of Psychology is downright lethal." -- Amy in Judging Amy.
"I think I have monogamy, I must have caught it from you people!" -- Samantha in Sex and the City.
"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." -- Sir Winston Churchill.
"Don't forget what happened to the man who got everything he ever wanted... He lived happily ever after." -- Charlie, in his Chocolate Factory.
"I should have known, no human being is that humane." -- Ripley, Alien 4.
"If you hang out with me for long enough, you will find out I am not a man with whom to fuck" -- A rather incongruous quote from a bad pirate guy on Alien 4.
"Vampires are bloodsuckers to whom the concept of honour is meaningless" -- Vampire Hunter D.
"Lorry is the mental equivalent of a Dark Alley" -- Alan Cox.
"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero" ("Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow") -- Horace.
"The sociopath, lacking the restraints that hold a normal character together can become anything. Ammorality frees her to be universally perfect. A charming chameleon with a scorpion's tail."
"A sociopath with no restraints can become anything... Ammorality frees her to be universally perfect, a charming chameleon with a scorpion's tail..." -- Color of Night
"I don't want to spoil Lawrie's fun or reputation here, but I feel duty bound to point out that you're writing to someone about an article they wrote that may be true or may be ironic, and in either case you can't be sure whether their reply is true or ironic. There are few Englishmen who, faced with questions from an earnest, truth-seeking American, would be able to resist exploiting their gullability and winding them up something rotten." -- Richard Bartle on "Confessions of an Arch-Wizard".
"I was a Wiccan for a few months, but then I realised it was like being a Brownie and I gave up." -- Gemma.
"... He speaks English like he hates it." -- some film called "Never So Few".
"You know what four dollars buys today? It doesn't even buy three dollars." -- Tony's dad in Saturday Night Fever.
"(It's so easy interrogating a German because they are so scared.) You send in a naked woman and a bottle of whisky and they'll tell you anything" -- John Le Carre's daughter quoting him.
Zorro: "Do you know how to use that thing?" (pointing at a sword) Alejandro: "Yes, the pointy end goes into the other man." -- Mask of Zorro.
[On the subject of Britain outsourcing call-centre jobs to other countries] "... When you call British Rail now to find the next train to London you get put through to Bangladesh and when you call Number 10 [Downing Street] you get through to The Whitehouse." -- Tony Benn.
"So, do you cook a lot of kosher food at home?" -- Ainsley Harriet to a conformant Jew.
"You're off the edge of the map mate; here there be monsters." -- Pirates of the Caribbean.
"You know, London! Cup o' tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fucking Poppins... London!" -- Snatch
"For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me." -- Pooh.
"God created a bard, and from the waste left over, three critics." -- Unknown.
"To wives and sweet hearts - And may the two never meet." -- Old Sailors' Toast.
"This made the tea undrinkable... Even for Americans" -- From Mary Poppins on the subject of the Boston Tea Party.
"Sanity is not statistical." -- Orwell's 1984.
"Printing is ruining bookselling. The end of the world is upon us." -- Victor Hugo, Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
"Largely because Murdoch told him to. That's democray, one man one vote." -- Ian Pissflaps on "Have I got news for you" on the subject of Blair changing his mind on the EU constitution.
"Flight controller zero looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a major malfunction" -- NASA's live commentry on the Challenger Shuttle blowing up.
"I am not even allowed a key; you swallow the thing one time and all of a sudden you are the weird key swallower who can't be trusted." -- Lab Technician in Legally Blonde 2.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -- Sir Edmund Burke
"If someone tries to kill you you try to kill 'em right back!" -- Firefly.
"Those that knew him best deplored him most" -- Epitath.
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." -- Henry Thoreau
"The wicked are always suprised to find that the good can be clever." -- Marquis de Vauvenargues.
"Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room." -- Blaise Pascal.
"If you forget yourself you become the universe" --Hkuin Ortegama.
"You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure." -- Lizzie in Pride and Prejudice.
"Every accused is presumed innocent unless proved guilty, and a hundred guilty persons may go free, so that not a single innocent person be declared guilty." -- Not quite a formal quote, but Thomas Jefferson is meant to have summed up this definition of the British Justice system with "better one hundred guilty men go free than one innocent man be condemned."
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (I think).
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." -- Tolstoy.
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." -- Gloria Steinem.
"Thanksgiving: The only time the British were glad to have Indian neighbours." -- Anon.
"Nobody can ever make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
".. And relations between America and England are better than ever... You're like Mini Me to our Doctor Evil, helping out in our Zany Schemes in taking over the world." -- Marge Simpson's Christmas message to England (2004).
"Wow! I've never been called an adult before... I've been tried as one but..." -- Otto from the Simpsons.
"It's a global village, but most of the people in that village are idiots". -- Somebody on telly babbling about the Internet.
"Rome.com wasn't built in a day..." -- Karl to Lou on Neighbours (probably nicked though)
"Love is a funny thing to describe. It's so easy to feel and yet so slippery to talk about. It's like a bar of soap in the bathtub - you have it in your hand until you hold on too tight." - MJJ
"... The first Church of the Obese Polygamist - Now known as the Church of England" -- Jonathan Meades
"I wouldn't piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire." -- Anon.
"You sleep safe in your beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who do you harm" -- George Orwell
"... The weight of the new radios also led to Land Rovers breaking axles during trials." -- http://tinyurl.com/4srnb
"As below, so above; and as above so below. With this knowledge alone you may work miracles." -- Emerald Tablet of Hermes (2) From Fulcanelli trans.
"I came to apologize, and make out with tongues." -- Bobby to Connie, King of the Hill.
"If you are an alien, how come you sound like you are from the North?" "Lots of planets have a North!" -- (well, the new "Dr Who" had to have *one* good quote ...)
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D Nicoll