OUR FAVE PLANS, QUOTES and SAYINGS



A Secret Report within the Guild

    Four planets have come to our attention regarding a plot that 
    could jeopardize spice production.
    
    Planet Arrakis, Source of the Spice
    Planet Caladan, Home of House Atreidies
    Planet Geidi Prime, Home of House Harkonnen
    Plant Kaitain, Home of the Emperor of the Known Universe.
    
    Send a third stage guild navigator to planet Kaitain to demand details from the emperor.
    
    The spice must flow.
    

The Litany Against Fear

    I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. 
    Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
    I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
    And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
    Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
    

The Juice of Sapho

    It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
    It is by the juice of saphoo that thoughts acquire speed,
    the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning.
    It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
    

Conan the Barbarian Preamble

    Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis,
    and the rise of the sons of Aryas,
    there was an age undreamed of.
    
    And onto this, Conan, destined to wear the jewelled crown
    of Aquilonia upon a trouble brow.
    
    It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga,
    Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!
    

The Riddle of Steel - Father's Version

    Fire and Wind come from the Sky, from the Gods of the Sky.
    But your God is Crom, and he lives in the Earth.
    
    Once Giants lived in the Earth, Conan, 
    and in the darkness of chaos, they fooled Crom,
    and took from him the enigma of Steel.
    
    Crom was angered and the Earth shook,
    and Fire and Wind struck down these giants,
    and threw their bodies onto the waters.
    
    But in their rage, 
    the Gods forgot the secret of Steel
    and left it on the battlefield.
    
    And we who found it, are just men,
    Not Gods, Not Giants, just men.
    
    The Secret of Steel had always carried with it a mystery,
    you must its secret Conan, you must learn its discipline,
    
    for no one, on one on this earth can you trust,
    not men, not women, not beasts,
    
    *lifts sword*, this you can trust
    

The Riddle of Steel - Thulsa Doom's Version

    Yes! You know what it is don't you boy.
    Shall I tell you? It's the least I can do.
    
    Steel isn't strong boy, flesh is stronger!
    
    Look around you.
    There, on the rocks, that beautiful girl
    Come to me my child..
    
    *girl falls to her death*
    
    That is strength boy! That is power!
    What is Steel compared to the hand that wields it?
    
    Look at the strength in your body,
    the desire in your heart, I gave you this!
    
    Such a waste, contemplate this on the tree of woe.
    
    Crucify him.
    

What is Best in Life?

    
    Mongol General: "..I fear my sons will never understand me."
    
    Mongol Messenger: " We win again"
    
    Mongol General: "That is good! But what is best in life?"
    
    Mongol Warrior: "The open steppe, fleet horse, a falcon on 
    		your wrist, the wind in your hair!"
    
    Mongol General: "Wrong!, Conan, what is best in life?"
    
    Conan: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and
    	to hear the lamentations of the women!" 
    
    Mongol General: "That is good"
    

Crom, I've Never Prayed to You Before...

    Crom,
    I've never prayed to you before,
    I have no tongue for it,
    
    No one, not even you will remember,
    if we were good men or bad,
    why we fought, or why we died,
    no, the only thing that matters is,
    two stood against many, thats whats important,
    
    and if valour pleases you Crom,
    then grant me one request,
    grant me revenge,
    
    and if you do not listen,
    then the hell with you!
    
    

Black Adder - The Scottish Play

    
    M: ..lest you continue in your quotations and mention the name of the "Scottish Play".
    
    
    K: Oh-ho... never fear, I shan't do that. (laughs)
    
    
    E: By the "Scottish Play", I assume you mean *Macbeth*.
    
    
    (The actors perform a ritual warding off of bad luck.)
    
    
    As: Aahhhhh! (slapping each others hands, pat-a-cake fashion) 
    Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends. (pinch each others noses) Aaahh!
    
    
    E: What was that?
    
    
    K: We were exorcising evil spirits. Being but a mere butler, you
    will not know the great theatre tradition that one does *never*
    speak the name of the "Scottish Play".
    
    
    E: What, *Macbeth*?
    
    
    As: Aahhhhh! Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends. Ohhh!
    
    
    E: Good lord, you mean you have to do *that* every time I say *Macbeth*?
    
    
    As: Aahhhhh! Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends. Owwww!
    
    
    M: Will you please stop saying *that*! Always call it the "Scottish Play".
    
    
    E: So you want me to say the "Scottish Play"?
    
    
    As: YES!!!
    
    
    E: Rather than *Macbeth*?
    
    
    As: Aahhhhh! Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends. Owwwwww!
    
    
    (Prince George enters.)
    
    
    PR: For heaven's sake, what is all this hullabaloo, all this
    shouting and screaming and yelling blue murder? Why... it's like
    that play we saw the other day, what was it called... umm..
    
    
    E: *Macbeth*, sir?
    
    
    As: Aahhhhh! Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends. Owwwwww!
    
    
    PR: No, no, it was called Julius Caesar.
    
    
    E: Ah yes, of course. Julius Caesar... not *Macbeth*.
    
    
    As: Aahhhhh! Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends. Owwwwww!
    
    
    E: Are you sure you want these people to stay?
    
    
    PR: Course, I asked them, didn't I, Mr. Thicky-Butler.
    
    
    K: Your Highness, may I say what a great honour it is to be invited?
    
    
    PR: Why certainly.
    
    
    K: Thank you. (dramatically) What a great honour that it is to be
    invited here to make merry in the halls of our King's loins' most
    glorious outpouring.
    
    
    PR: Eeergh!
    
    

Black Adder - Ploppy the Jailor

    BA: Right, good morning team. My name is Edmund Blackadder
    
    and I'm the new minister in charge of religious genocide.
    
    Now, if you play straight with me you'll find me a considerate
    
    employer, but cross me and you'll find that under this playful
    
    boyish exterior beats the heart of a ruthless sadistic maniac.
    
    Now my man you are ?
    
    
    MRP: Eh, jailor Sir, my Lord.
    
    
    BA: Good, well done and your name is ?
    
    
    MRP: Ploppy Sir.
    
    
    BA: Ploppy ?
    
    
    MRP: Yes Sir.
    
    
    BA: Ploppy the jailor ?
    
    
    MRP: That's right Sir. Ploppy son of Ploppy.
    
    
    BA: Ploppy, son of Ploppy the jailor ?
    
    
    MRP: Ah ach no Sir. I am the first Ploppy to rise to be jailor.
    
    My father, Daddy Ploppy was known as Ploppy the slopper.
    
    It was from him that I inherited my fascinating skin diseases.
    
    
    BA: Yes you are to be congratulated, my friend, we, we live in an age
    
    where illness and deformity are common place and yet Ploppy, you are
    
    without a doubt the most repulsive individual that I have ever met.
    
    I would shake your hand but I fear it would come off.
    
    
    MRP: There's no many bosses would be that considerate sir.
    
    
    BA: Thank you Ploppy, I do my best. Now then woman. if indeed you are a
    
    woman, what is your function on death row ?
    
    
    MRSP: I'm the last meal cook Sir. The prisoners may ask for what they fancy
    
    for there last meal.....
    
    
    BA: And you cook for them what they desire ?
    
    
    MRSP: Oh yes Sir, provided they ask for sausages. Otherwise they tend to get
    
    a tiny bit disappointed. Sausages is all I got.
    
    
    BA: You are clearly a woman of principle and compassion mistress eh ?
    
    
    MRSP: Ploppy Sir.
    
    
    BA: Ah, so you are married to...
    
    
    MRSP: No, many people think that but it's pure coincidence. We did laugh
    
    when first we found out. "Good morning" mistress Ploppy he'd say,
    
    and I'd say "good morning ..
    
    
    MRP&MRSP: Mr. Ploppy" (both laugh)
    
    
    BA: The long winter evenings must just fly by.
    
    

Blade Runner - Time to Die

    Quite an experience to live in fear isn't it?
    Thats what it is to be a slave.
    
    I've seen things you people won't believe,
    Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion,
    
    I've watched C-Beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate,
    But all those moments will be lost in time,
    
    Like, tears in the rain,
    Time to die...
    
    





Excalibur - A Boy Has Drawn the Sword

    
    Arthur: Your sword was stolen Kay, but here's Excalibur
    
    Boy: A boy has drawn the sword..
    
    Morgan: Kay, did you free Excalibur from the stone?
    
    Kay: Yes....No, I didn't, Arthur did.
    
    Boy: A boy has drawn the sword..
    
    Morgan: You freed it Arthur?
    
    Arthur: I did Father, I beg your forgiveness.
    
    Morgan: You must put it back.
    
    *Arthur replaces the sword* 
    
    *a crowd gathers*
    
    Morgan: Now try to draw it again Arthur
    
    Uryens: Wait! I, Uryens will try, Stand Back!
    
    *Uryens tries with all his might to free the sword*
    
    Crowd: No, let the boy try, let the boy try
    
    Morgan: Let the boy try
    
    *Uryens steps away*
    
    Morgan: Go on Arthur, don't be afraid
    
    *Arthur grabs the hilt with one hand and frees the sword cleanly*
    
    Priest: Praise God, we have our new king.
    
    Arthur: Rise father please, I was your son before I became King,
    	if I am King?
    
    Morgan: You are King, the more so, because I am not your father
            and you are not my son.
    
    Arthur: You are not my father, then Kay is not my Brother?
    
    *Merlin appears in the background, slowly walking closer*
    
    Morgan: Merlin the Magician brought you to me when you were newly born,
    	and bade me, to bring you up as my own, at first I
    	did so because I feared Merlin, but then because I
    	loved you.
    
    Arthur: Then whose son am I?
    
    Morgan: Only Merlin can tell you that.
    
    Arthur: And who is Merlin?
    
    Merlin: *I* am Merlin
    
    Arthur: Who's son am I?
    
    Merlin: You are the son of Uther and Igrane, you are *King* Arthur
    
    Knights: Merlin, we haven't forgotten you, what trickery is this?
    
    Uryens: He's trying to foist a fatherless boy upon us,
    	do you want a bastard as a king!
    
    Knight: Leondegrance, join us against the boy
    
    Leondegrance: I saw what I saw, the boy drew the sword.
    	      If a boy has been chosen, then a boy shall be king!
    
    Knight: No I challenge that...
    
    Morgan: The Sword has been drawn.
    
    Uryens: Are you with us or against us!
    
    Leondegrance: Against you!
    
    Uryens: How can a boy find his kingdom?
    
    

Excalibur - Broken that what could not be Broken

    
    Arthur: Merlin what have I done?
    
    Merlin: You have broken, that what could not be broken....Hope is broken..
    
    Arthur: My pride broke it, my rage broke it!
    
    *Arthur throws the hilt shard of Excalibur into the lake*
    
    Arthur: This excellent knight, who fought with fairness and grace,
    	was meant to win, I used Excalibur to alter that verdict.
    	I've lost, for all time, the ancient sword of our fathers,
            whose purpose was to unite all men, not to serve the vanity
    	of a single man. I am nothing.
    
    * The Lady of the Lake begins to take form underneath the lake*
    
    Merlin: The Lady of the Lake...
    
    * Excalibur rises, whole, in the Lady arms*
    
    Arthur: Can it be true?
    
    Merlin: Take it!
    
    *Athur wades out and reaches for the sword*
    
    Merlin: Take it! Quickly!
    
    *Arthur takes the sword and looks in wonder, before returning to shore*
    
    *Lancelot stirs*
    
    Arthur: Praise speed to God, your still alive.
    
    Lancelot: Aye, This is a great day!
     
    	  The best knight in the world bested.
    
    	  My search is at an end, my king, make me your champion.
    
    Arthur: But your life and lands are far from here.
    
    Lancelot: I give up my castle and my lands,
    
    	  This metal skin will be my home,
    
    	  I pledge everything that I still own to your cause,
    
    	  Muscle, Bone, Blood and the heart that pumps it.
    	   
     
    Arthur: And a great heart it is, Sir Lancelot, you will be my champion.
    
    
    

Excalibur - I will be King!

    
    Percival: You and the land are one, drink!
    
    Arthur: I'm wasting away, yet I cannot die and I cannot live
    
    Percival: Drink from the Chalice and you will be reborn
              and the land with you.
    
    *Arthur drinks from the Grail*
    
    Arthur: Percival...I did not know how empty was my soul
            until it was filled. 
    
    Kay: Arthur?
    
    Arthur: Ready my knights for battle, they will ride with
    	their king once more.
    
    	I've lived through others far too long, 
    
            Lancelot carried my honour, and Guinevere my guilt, 
            Mordred bore my sins, my knights have fought my
            causes.
    
            Now my brother, I will be King!
    
    Kay: Guards, Knights, Squires, Prepare for battle!
    

Wayne's World 2 - Del Preston's Speech

    
    There I am in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon at 3.00 O'clock in the
    morning, looking for 1000 brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass or
    Ossie wouldn't go on stage that night.
    
    So Jeff Beck pops his head round the door and mentions that 
    there's a little sweet shop on the edge of town.
    
    So we go, and, its closed. So there's me and Keith Moon and
    David Crosby breaking into this little sweet shop right.
    
    Well, instead of a guard dog they've got this bloody great big
    Bengal tiger. Well I managed to take out the tiger with a can
    of mace but the shop owner and his son, that's a different
    story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own
    shoes.
    
    Nasty business really. But sure enough, I got the M&Ms and Ossie
    when on stage and did a great show.
    
    

Pulp Fiction - Ezekiel 25:17

    
    The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the
    inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
    
    Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will,
    shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is
    truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. 
    
    And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and
    furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my
    brothers.  
    
    And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my
    vengeance upon you.
    

The Brave May Live Forever!

    
    Lo there do I see my father...
    
    Lo there do I see my mother, and my sisters and my brothers...
    
    Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning...
    
    ..and lo, they do call to me and bid me to take my place at 
    their side...
    
    ...in the halls of Valhalla where...the brave...may live....forever....
    



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