Strategy quotes

Headquarters still didn't buy my analysis of the situation. Hell, they had "experts" sitting in air-conditioned offices in Saigon who understood the war better than any one in the front line. We had asked for ammunition and reinforcements. What we got was the mail run, a few cases of beer, and a VD film... There were times when we all wondered... (continue)(continue reading)
R. Lee Ermey - Bill Hafner

“After 30 years behind a bar, I'm an expert. I'll even give you the recipe. Take two regulars, mix them together and let them stew. It never fails.”

Claire Maurier - Madame Suzanne

“Dammit kid! How many times do I have to tell you? You don't win fights with that tip-tap shit. Now take your gloves off, let's go hit the pads.”
Dennis Alexio - Eric Sloane

“You don't know. Well, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get me a bath. Then I'm gonna get drunk. Then I'm gonna catch me a whore with great big tits. Then I'm gonna get drunk again. Then I'm gonna rob that Wells Fargo office and get me my money back, you dumb-ass Jew!”

Harrison Ford - Tommy

“- The Dude: Walter, the chinaman who peed on my rug, I can't go give him a bill, so what the fuck are you talking about?
- Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you do not... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeff Bridges - The Dude
John Goodman - Walter Sobchak

“- King Mongkut: l have decided to give self anniversary dinner and invite important English nobles and diplomats.
- Anna Leonowens: l don't understand.
- King Mongkut: French lndochina grows stronger and more aggressive. But if l improve our foreign intercourse with your queen's special envoy, French will think three times before trying to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut
Jodie Foster - Anna

“- Air Marshal Kutuzov: You had considered, First Secretary, that this could all be an elaborate bluff by the Americans to distract us from looking to the north, while this single aircraft attempts to escape to the south?
- First Secretary: No, Kutuzov, the Americans are simply paying the price for too many years of softness - paying with an act...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alan Tilvern - Air Marshal Kutuzov
Stefan Schnabel - First Secretary

“- Dr. Arliss Loveless: I'm just a little bit curious as to how you managed to wind up with them.
- Rita Escobar: They seemed so sure that they could find you, I thought if I stayed with them, they'd bring me back to all my friends.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Dr. Arliss Loveless
Salma Hayek - Rita Escobar

“Last time I had a hot meal was 5 days ago. Since then my entire platoon has been wiped out. That's why you're here. Just a bunch of guys in line to get shot so they can bring in a bunch of other guys. See how that works? Now once you get that through your fucking head, maybe you'll realize how important a hot meal could be.”
Ron Eldard - Manning

“- Kate (White) Reilly: What's he doing? Has he got some kind of plan?
- Earl Bassett: Burt always has a plan when he does something. Well... usually.”
Helen Shaver - Kate 'White' Reilly
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“The governments of the world spend billions on medicine, welfare, charity to what affect? It only keeps alive the weak, the stupid, the lazy who breed and multiply and weaking the human race.”
Pierre Cosso - Claude

“- Admiral Painter: What's his plan?
- Jack Ryan: His plan?
- Admiral Painter: Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.”
Fred Thompson - Admiral Painter
Alec Baldwin - Jack Ryan

“- Professor Abraham Van Helsing: Mr. Morris, your bullets will not harm him. He must be beheaded. I suggest you use your big Bowie knife.
- Quincey P. Morris: Well, I wasn't plannin' on getting that close, Doc.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Abraham Van Helsing
Billy Campbell - Quincey P. Morris

“- Elise Kraft: You might consider leaving him alone.
- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Why would I consider doing that?
- Elise Kraft: Play him like a cop and haul him in now and get your arrest, or tag him and let him lead you to the really big fish.”

Annette Bening - Elise Kraft
Denzel Washington - Anthony Hubbard

“Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy… the fear to attack!”
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove

“- Nick Bartkowski: Now what about getting inside?
- Carlos Barrios: The place next door is a real-estate office. We pick the lock. We get in, and go through the wall. It is made of brick, like your brain. It's one foot thick, two layers.”
William Russ - Nick Bartkowski
Rubén Blades - Carlos Barrios

“Didn't have details on the operation, Colonel. So we brought everything, even the condoms.”
John Leguizamo - Rat

“If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions.”
Eric Maturin - Colonel Goodhead

“- Stu Smiley: How do you know that was a nuclear facility?
- General Dick Panzer: Well, they tricked us on that one. That's a hospital. But it's a hell of a strike!”
Kevin Pollak - Stu Smiley
Rip Torn - General Dick Panzer

“You don't fight a junkyard dog with ASPCA rules. What you do is you take the leash off your bigger, meaner dog.”
- - Senator

“- Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.
- The Terminator: Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia.
- John Connor: Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now?
- The Terminator: Because Skynet knows that the Russian counterattack will eliminate its enemies over here.”
Linda Hamilton - Sarah Connor
Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Terminator
Edward Furlong - John Connor

“- McCoy: Lieutenant, you are looking at the only Starfleet cadet who ever beat the no-win scenario.
- Saavik: How?
- James T. Kirk: I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to rescue the ship.”

DeForest Kelley - McCoy
Kirstie Alley - Saavik
William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“Look, Major, either you start playing it straight or you can deal me out of this mess.”
Clint Eastwood - Schaffer

“- President James Marshall: Kathryn, if you give a mouse a cookie...
- Vice President Kathryn Bennett: It's gonna want a glass of milk.”
Harrison Ford - President James Marshall
Glenn Close - Vice President Kathryn Bennett

“Are you trying to get me to fall in love with the dog... and then with you?”

Gabriel Byrne - Kevin Scanlon