Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Charlie Wilson's War


Gust Avrakotos: There's a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse... and everybody in the village says, "How wonderful. The boy got a horse". And the Zen master says, "we'll see." Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everybody in the village says, "how terrible." And the Zen master says, "We'll see." Then a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight... except the boy can't cause his legs messed up. And everyone in the village says, "How wonderful"...and the Zen master says, "We'll see."
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Joanne Herring: Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?
Charlie Wilson: Well, tradition mostly.
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Charlie: You mean to tell me that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is to have the Afghans keep walking into machine gun fire 'til the Russians run out of bullets?
Gust: That's Harold Holt's strategy, not U.S. strategy.
Charlie: What is U.S. strategy?
Charlie: Most strictly speaking, we don't have one. But we're working on it.
Charlie: Who's 'we'?
Gust: Me and three other guys.
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Joanne: May I ask what it is that I've done to make you dislike me, Mr. Avrakotos?
Gust:I like you just fine, Mrs. Herring, it's just been my experience that when people with money and too much free time get involved in politics, pretty soon, I forget who it is I'm supposed to be shooting at.
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Joanne: Are you Catholic, Mr. Avrakatos?
Gust: Greek Orthodox.
Joanne: Still a Christian, though.
Gust: Imagine my relief.
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Gust: Promises were made!
Cravely:Not by me.
Gust: I've been with the company for twenty-four years. I was posted in Greece for fifteen. I've advised and armed the Hellenic Army. I've neutralized champions of communism. I've spent the past three years... learning Finnish!! Which would come in handy here in Virginia, and I'm never ever sick at sea. So I wanna know why... I'm not gonna be your Helsinki station chief!
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Gust: Excuse me, what the fuck?

Sunday, June 22, 2008

I feel it in my fingers...

(recently saw this one... found it oddly funny.)

Sam: Worse than the total agony of being in love?
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Juliet: Banoffee pie? 
Mark: No, thanks. 
Juliet: Thank God. You would've broken my heart if you'd said yes. 
Mark: Oh, right, well, lucky you.

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Billy Mack: Oh yeah... hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs...... Become a pop star, and they giv'em to you for free!
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Daniel: So, let's go. We can definetly crack this. Remember... I was a kid once too. So come on, it's someone from school, right?
Sam: Yeah.
D: Aha, good, good. And what does she - he feel about you?
S: SHE doesn't even know my name. And even if she did, she'd despise me. She's the coolest girl in school and everyone worships her because she's heaven.
D: Good. Good. Well... Basically, you're fucked, aren't you?
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Sam: Let's go get the shit kicked out of us by love.