"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."
"Live long and Prosper"
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer..."
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!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!
Roads, where we're going we don't need roads.
But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made
I enjoyed this take on that quote
“In the beginning the Universe was created.This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
"To summarize the summary of the summary: People are a problem."
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.
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.
Hey! Listen!
AAAAH YAAAAAH!
„I live, I die, I live again“
“Do you know what "nemesis" means?” -Bricktop
"The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two.” -Deepthought
“ You know, when you cut too deep, you cut the tendons. Finger movement goes out the window.” -Lucifer
A Lemmy classic.
"The spice must flow" is not in the Dune book, only David Lynch's adaptation.
If you only knew the power of the dark side
Shall we shag now or shall we shag later?
"Luke there's a whole bunch of stars out there and we're declaring war on all of them Luke" - Han Solo, Stars War
I have a bad feeling about this.
"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.
"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"
'tis but a scratch
Can't rain all the time.
Wealth beyond measure, outlander
"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."
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.
It isn't very famous, but I like the opening line of Mortal Engines:
It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.
It just throws you right into this weird post-apocalypse where cities run around on wheels eating each other. Honestly I think Mortal Engines has some really cool worldbuilding in general.
BTW the movie is a terrible adaptation.
Their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war.
"War. War never changes."
"Say auf widersehen to your Nazi balls."
