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[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 10 months ago

"One Ring to Rule Them All"

"ET Phone Home"

"You are without a doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of. - But you have heard of me."

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid, I can't do that."

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 15 points 10 months ago

"Live long and Prosper"

[-] Romanmir@lemmy.today 14 points 10 months ago

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer..."

[-] YaksDC@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women"

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago
[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Conan the barbarian, I believe

[-] YaksDC@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

You are correct. ☺

[-] Aquila@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made

[-] Snowyday@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I enjoyed this take on that quote

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Roads, where we're going we don't need roads.

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

[-] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

For 40k, I actually feel like "An open mind is like a fortress with its gates open and unbarred" is a cooler, if less iconic quote. It just conveys the ridiculous dystopia of the Imperium so well and so quickly.

But yeah gotta love the classic BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! YOUR CORPSE-EMPEROR WILL NOT SAVE YOU!

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

“In the beginning the Universe was created.This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

"To summarize the summary of the summary: People are a problem."

[-] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago

A more recent one that really struck me hard was the date lines in True Detective - Night Country.

Dec. 22nd Third Day of Night

It really grounded me how fucking creepy it must be to see the sunset and know it’s not coming back for months.

[-] Kostyeah@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I spent a part of my childhood in the extreme north, and you get used to it. Usually I wouldn't see the sun between mid December and late January. Winter just becomes a dark time, and you get used to the street lights. The first sunrise feels almost magical.

[-] Aquila@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago
[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

AAAAH YAAAAAH!

[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 6 points 10 months ago

„I live, I die, I live again“

[-] jonwyattphillips@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

"The spice must flow" is not in the Dune book, only David Lynch's adaptation.

[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

If you only knew the power of the dark side

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

"Luke there's a whole bunch of stars out there and we're declaring war on all of them Luke" - Han Solo, Stars War

[-] Treczoks@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I have a bad feeling about this.

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Shall we shag now or shall we shag later?

[-] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

"It's bigger on the inside!"

Also "We are leaving the universe! How? With enormous difficulty!", but that's more iconic because it rather encapsulates a particular character, rather than being something iconic to a particular piece of world-building.

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Can't rain all the time.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

'tis but a scratch

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Wealth beyond measure, outlander

[-] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die."

[-] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I've never watched Blade Runner, only this scene, but this scene is incredible. And this quote gives a really strong impression of a much larger world.

[-] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

"War. War never changes."

"Say auf widersehen to your Nazi balls."

[-] Aquila@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war.

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