Jun. 12th, 2010

wellinghall: (Grace)
You know the rules ...

1. He looked exactly the same when he was alive, only he was vertical.
The Trouble with Harry

2. I don't often try to apologize 'cause I seldom make any mistakes.
Follow The Fleet

3. A: Ah Ms. B, you're a vision of lovliness. May I offer you a cocktail? Or champagne?
B: Oh champagne, I've never had enough.
A: You will ... tonight.
Philadelphia Story

4. A: Where is the nearest recruiting office?
B: Oh, running off to war like a coward.
I Married a Witch

5. How could there have been witnesses? It was so dark. We were running, and I fell and B went to help me up, and this thing came from nowhere. I don't know what they're talking about.
An American Werewolf in London

6. A: It's all right, that's in every contract. That's what they call a sanity clause.
B: You can't fool me! There ain't no Sanity Claus!
A Night at the Opera

7. A: This is a very strange love affair.
B: Why?
A: Maybe the fact that you don't love me.
Notorious

8. Now there's a bitter pill. Our own damned rifles!
Zulu

9. A: Have you ever tried to persuade him that he wasn't Teddy Roosevelt?
B: Oh, no.
C: Oh, he's so happy being Teddy Roosevelt.
B: Oh... Do you remember, C, once, a long time ago, we thought if he'd be George Washington, it might be a change for him, and we suggested it.
C: And do you know what happened? He just stayed under his bed for days and wouldn't be anybody.

Arsenic and Old Lace; [livejournal.com profile] helflaed

10. All astronomers are amateurs. When it comes to the heavens, there's only one professional.
The Wolf Man
wellinghall: (Al)
1. Just like a rollin' stone, I'm outside lookin' in
I'm Mandy, Fly Me; 10cc

2. Meet me at the station underneath the clock, Carry an umbrella, no need to talk
Night Train to Munich; Al Stewart

3. In the year of '39, A simple year, the volunteers
'39; Queen; [livejournal.com profile] emperor

4. I see a dark sail on the horizon set under a black cloud that hides the sun
Broadsword; Jethro Tull

5. I’ve travelled the land, With a guitar in my hand
Run For Home; Lindisfarne

6. Love don't give no compensation, Love don't pay no bills
Love Kills; Freddie Mercury; [livejournal.com profile] beckyc

7. I don't want my freedom, There's no reason for living with a broken heart
It's a Hard Life; Queen; [livejournal.com profile] emperor

8. There is nothing that is wrong, In wanting you to stay here with me
Lay Down Sally; Eric Clapton

9. Warning lights are flashing down at quality control, Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole
Industrial Disease; Dire Straits; [livejournal.com profile] philmophlegm

10. Been beat up and battered around, Been sent up and I've been shot down
Handle With Care; Travelling Wilburys; [livejournal.com profile] white_hart
wellinghall: (St Bernard)
1. Dear Sir, I am obliged by your letter of yesterday's date, and hasten to send you, as requested, the complete dossier of documents.
The Documents in the Case; Dorothy L Sayers and Robert Eustace; [livejournal.com profile] asklepia

2. We turned our horses and rode into that terrible dark wood - the Lady Morgan le Fay, myself, her fifteen-year-old niece, and the four silent serving-men that followed us.
The Three Damosels; Vera Chapman

3. Two of the myriad of London's night-workers were walking down Fleet Street soon after dawn on Sunday morning, 2nd September.
The Invasion of 1910; William le Queux; [livejournal.com profile] wemyss

4. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology.
The Sword in the Stone; TH White; [livejournal.com profile] tree_and_leaf

5. It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
The Jungle Book; Rudyard Kipling; [livejournal.com profile] wemyss

6. Cedric himself knew nothing whatever about it.
Little Lord Fauntleroy; Mrs FH Burnett; [livejournal.com profile] asklepia

7. No defence is usually offered for translating Beowulf.
Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of "Beowulf"; JRR Tolkien; [livejournal.com profile] asklepia

8. There was a man named Ketill flatnefr (Flat-Nose), who was a son of Bjorn buna.
Laxdaela Saga; Anonymous

9. "We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.
A Game of Thrones; George RR Martin; [livejournal.com profile] evilmissbecky

10. One fine morning in the full London season, Major Arthur [X] came over from his lodgings, according to his custom, to breakfast at a certain Club in Pall Mall, of which he was a chief ornament.
Pendennis; WM Thackeray; [livejournal.com profile] arda_unmarred

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