Don't people read anymore?

by **Lucifer** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:30 pm

I was just wondering. A lot of the favourite movie quotes are from those films that are an adaptation of some book. It is sad that people identify them with the movie and not with the book.

I mean, great books inevitably get made into movies but has anyone heard of a great book being made out of a movie? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we do have these book versions of X-Files, Buffy, etc. but you would not exactly classify them as book of any importance, would you?

Thought of starting a thread on famous quotes from books. Don't really know how many responses it will draw...

If we meet again, we shall laugh. Else this parting was well made. - Cassius to Brutus, Julius Caesar

And, it was called a feat of arms! - And Quiet Flows the Don

But how will you fly without a radio?

The same way I did before they put radios on planes - Jonas Cord, The Carpetbaggers

The smell of the melted butter tickled my nostrils like the nostrils of jevoah were tickled by the burnt offerings of the semites. - The Luncheon

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn! - Rhett Butler, Gone With The Wind

Anyone come up with more???

by **azazel** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:26 pm

i do read whenever i get the time.. readin "True Crime Through History" these days.. but, remembering quotes from a book is a tough proposition.. will post some as n when something strikes my virulent brain :twisted:

by **Lucifer** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:02 pm

azazel wrote:i do read whenever i get the time.. readin "True Crime Through History" these days.. but, remembering quotes from a book is a tough proposition.. will post some as n when something strikes my virulent brain

I know it is kinda tough to quote from books. Hell, it took me the good part of an hour to post the ones I did, at the expense of work, mind you - good thing boss is not around these days

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by **rock_26iin** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:20 pm

"I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one" - Howard Roark in The Fountainhead

"Life found a way" - Jurassic Park

by **Lucifer** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:24 pm

I love this quote. What makes it even better is that none other than Einstein said it:

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Another from Einstein:

Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity and I am not sure about the former.

by **azazel** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:09 pm

^^^ which book are those from ??

remembered this.. a quote, before he was hanged at Nuremburg, by Hans Frank.. the Governor General of Poland :

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased - from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

by **fried_green** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 3:17 pm

The first quote and probably the only one off the top of my head is

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than the others"

Animal Farm by George orwell

Very apt and precise

by **cooljack** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 3:32 pm

"Everything that has a beginning has an end", said by Oracle in Matrix

by **The Rainmaker** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:02 pm

NOTTING HILL

- It's as if I've taken love heroin, and now I can't ever have it again.

THE RAINMAKER

- You remember what a Rainmaker is? The bucks are going to start falling from the sky.

CON AIR

- There's only two men I trust. One is me. The other is not you.

- Put... the bunny... back... in the... box.

- Vince Larkin: So what are you going to do now?

Cameron: What do you think I'm gonna do? I'm gonna save the f**kin' day![/i]

by **akhilis2cool** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:08 pm

cooljack wrote:"Everything that has a beginning has an end", said by Oracle in Matrix

originally said by lord krishna in the Bhagwadgita

by **marko** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:12 pm

"Gully Foyle is my name,

and Terra is my nation,

deep space is my resting place,

The Stars my Destination"

- From "The Stars my Destination", Alfred Bester

"And if all others accepted the lie which the

Party imposed—if all records told the same

tale—then the lie passed into history and

became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the

Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls

the present controls the past."

- From "1984", George Orwell

"One's never alone with a rubber duck."

- From "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", Douglas Adams

by **cooljack** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:13 pm

akhilis2cool wrote:
cooljack wrote:"Everything that has a beginning has an end", said by Oracle in Matrix

originally said by lord krishna in the Bhagwadgita

yeah, u r rite

by **Stingrae** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:22 pm

cooljack wrote:"Everything that has a beginning has an end", said by Oracle in Matrix

also quoted by Captain Obvious.... :roll:

a quote from a Harry Potter?

"Its the choices we make that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities" - JK Rowling.

by **Lucifer** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:20 pm

Well, now we know two people who don't read one bit - not even the topic of the thread. Quoting from movies in a book thread...

by **rock_26iin** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:09 pm

Lucifer wrote:Well, now we know two people who don't read one bit - not even the topic of the thread. Quoting from movies in a book thread...

yea.....i was also wondering if i was at the right discussion board :roll:

ppl have gotta read a lil more :roll:

back on topic : The entire sequence when the kid goes to the lawyer in The Client was excellent. 1$ and he gets himself a lawyer. lucky chap :twisted:

by **Lucifer** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 7:38 pm

A thread on quotes seems incomplete without references to The Godfather. I simply love the ending of that book, when so many people are taken care of in one swell swoop.

Phrases from Godfather:

1. Hit the mattresses

2. Omerta

3. Make your bones

Mmm... need help for more...

by **rabbithole** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 7:56 pm

i guess evry1 remembers this phrase from godfather

iam going to make an offer he can't refuse

btw any1 remember the 2 or 3 page speech by francis d'Anco(i dont remember his name but he is thot of as a playboy in the novel) in 'atlas shrugged'. the speech that he gives in a party where in he speaks abt the importance of money...thats got some amazin dialogue....aldo the talk by john galt towards the end of the book...must read's...

by **Alexis** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:36 pm

I wouldve quoted from the book for Godfather.............but neither have I read the book nor have I seen the movie.

by **Lucifer** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:11 pm

Alexis wrote:I wouldve quoted from the book for Godfather.............but neither have I read the book nor have I seen the movie.

How could you not have read Godfather? :shock:

by **rock_26iin** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:47 pm

I am not interested in the future, but the future of the future. - Timeline

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory does not understand it - Timeline

One amazing book, that was.

by **Habitual Perfectionist** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 1:09 am

Hmmmm....what you say is true lucifer. But I feel this is due to the fact that a movie enjoys the advantage of a visual representation of what people read in books and so, things stick better to movies. So, my quotes will come in tomorrow as I don't remember the exact

IMO though, movies can never compare with books except for probably The Godfather.

Some of my favourite reads are :

Fiction :

1. Almost the entire Frederick Forsyth Collection, save his short stories. Especially liked The Day of the Jackal, The Fist of God & The Deciever.

2. John Grisham : A Time to Kill, The Partner & The Rainmaker.

3. Tom Clancy : Patriot Games, Clear & Present Danger

4. RK Narayan's short stories.

Non-Fiction :

1. Horse Sense, Marketing Warfare, The 22 immutable laws of marketing & Positioning by Al Ries & Jack Trout

2. Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

3. The Peter Principle by Dr.Lawrence J. Peter

4. Man's Eternal Quest, Autobiography of a Yogi & The Divine Romance by Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

Casual Reading :

1. Newspapers : TOI, ET, Asian Age (Online)

2. Magazines : India Today, Outlook, The Week, Frontline (Only for its photographs), Sportstar, BusinessWorld, Business Today, Business India, Advertising & Marketing

by **Lucifer** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 1:21 am

Here goes my list of fav book:

1. Harold Robbins (love the man) - The Carpetbaggers, The Adventurers, Never Leave Me, 79 PArk Avenue, The Dream Merchant, Where Love has Gone

2. Frederick Forsyth - The Odessa File, The Day of the Jackal

3. Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Identity (hell, the screwed it in the movie!)

4. Leon Uris - The Exodus, The Haj, The Angry Hills, Mitla Pass

5. Irving Wallace - The Almighty, The R Document

6. Mikhail Sholokov - And Quiet Flows the Don (a highly recommended read - if someone has a copy please pass it on so that i can read it again)

7. John Osbourne - Look Back in Anger (this play rocks)

8. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

9. Robin Cook - Coma, The Sphinx, Fever, Terminal

10. John Grisham - The Chamber, The Partner

by **rabbithole** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 6:25 am

Lucifer wrote:3. Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Identity (hell, the screwed it in the movie!)

[b]TRUE TRUE[/b] :evil:

by **rock_26iin** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 11:30 am

i see some books missing here.

My favs:

Robin Cook - Chromosome 6, Mortal Fear

Irving Wallace - The Second Lady

Ken Follett - Code To Zero, JackDaws

Tom Clancy - Op-centre - Line Of Control

Michael Crichton - Timeline, Prey, Jurassic Park

Cant think of any more right now..

by **rock_26iin** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 11:33 am

and also the Harry Potter collection

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