"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy!" The Joker - The Killing Joke
gigastar said:This one from one of the Discworld novels.
"Give a man a fire, and he is warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, and he is warm for the rest of his life."
The one that sticks out in my mind (probably because it's a more recent film) is from Quantum of Solace.SonicWaffle said:My personal favourite Bond one - can't remember the film - is when he's dancing with some lady and the bad guys are watching. She says something about her brother coming to help. He just casually throws out "Your brother is dead. Keep dancing!"Eclipse Dragon said:snip
M: Ask him about Slate.
Tanner: She wants to know about Slate.
James Bond: Slate was a dead end.
Tanner: He says it was a dead end.
M: Damn it! He killed him.
That's more of a casual, snarky way of reporting the death though. The example I gave was creepy as fuck because he obviously didn't understand or care how this woman might feel upon finding out her brother had been murdered - all he cared about was that she keep dancing, damn it! He really, really wanted to win that dancing contest.Eclipse Dragon said:The one that sticks out in my mind (probably because it's a more recent film) is from Quantum of Solace.SonicWaffle said:My personal favourite Bond one - can't remember the film - is when he's dancing with some lady and the bad guys are watching. She says something about her brother coming to help. He just casually throws out "Your brother is dead. Keep dancing!"Eclipse Dragon said:snip
M: Ask him about Slate.
Tanner: She wants to know about Slate.
James Bond: Slate was a dead end.
Tanner: He says it was a dead end.
M: Damn it! He killed him.