Can you think of famous quotes, or perhaps an idiom or expression, that you would associate with someone, or their voice, just from reading it??

“Hey Now”: Howard Stern

“I am not a crook” RMN

“Why, I oughta…” Moe Howard

“Good news, everyone!” Seeing that makes me read it in Professor Farnsworth’s voice in my head.

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Hello nurse! -Animaniacs
Hello, hello, hello! -A Series of Unfortunate Events
Impressive… most impressive! – Darth Vader

Ayyyyy! -Fonzie

The first one that jumped to mind reading this was, ”“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt. I can hear his voice and inflection in that speech. And then Neil Armstrong’s “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” That one was particularly interesting because he had meant to say “for a man” but left out the definite article.

WILMAAAA! – Fred Flintstone.

Aiyah! – Chinese.
O la la! – French.
Delicioso! – Italian Chef.

“I’ve been to the mountaintop.”- Dr. Martin Luther King

“Turn left at Greenland” – John Lennon (in answer to a reporter’s “How’d you get to America?”)

“HEEEYYY YOOOU GUUUUUYYYYYSSSS!” – Rita Moreno on the 70s-era Electric Company

“I’ll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too!” – Margaret Hamilton (“The Wicked Witch of the West” from The Wizard of Oz)

“I like you just the way you are.” – Fred Rogers

“Mel, kiss mah grits!” – Polly Holliday (“Flo” from Alice)

“Billions and Billions”

“Ooooooh mr. Sheffield…..” – Fran Drescher(The Nanny)

Every time I hear @Sueanne_Tremendous‘s voice, I think of Zen Picard speaking her words.

“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!” – Margo Channing (Bette Davis)

“Look at all the happy little trees.” – Bob Ross

“D’OH!” – Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta)

“It’s Lacroix, sweetie. Lacroix.” – Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders)

I did not have sex with that woman. —Bill Clinton
The bitch set me up —Marion Barry, former mayor of DC

Why dontcha come up and see me sometime, big boy?—Mae West

I lol-ed @wilma ‘s wilma.

I’m totally in agreement with most of the posts but especially with @Haleth – there is only one Fonz – and only one Ayyyyy!

Allo allo – from “allo allo”
I got a bad feeling about this . . . – Star Wars
Giggidy – Family Guy

Don’t have a cow, man.

Eat my shorts.

Bart Simpson

IM IDAHO!!!!

Ralph Wiggum

“Do ya’ feel lucky?” – Clint.

@IsthmusCrypticus – Me, too

Now go make me a sandwich aka bob sounds like Archie Bunker.

“I wuv you, you wuv me, we’re as happy as can be…”—that purple dinosaur

“Oh Ahhchie.”—Edith

Yeah, you blend.

@zenele Marisa Tomei, My Cousin Vinny

Well, she did win the Oscar for that. Maybe for that line alone. I watched it again with Director’s comments recently.

LUUUCY!!!

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I’m gonna send you to the moon, Alice!

“Goodnight, Mrs Calabash, wherever you are!”—-Jimmy Durante

“Won’t you be my neighbor?”—-Mr Rogers

“The devil made me do it.”—-Flip Wilson

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”—-Bill Clinton

“That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.”—-Neil Armstrong

“Well, la-dee-da, la-dee-da, dee-dah….”—-Diane Keaton in “Annie Hall”

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”—JFK

“When I’m good, I’m very, very good…but when I’m bad….I’m better.” and ” I used to be Snow White…but I drifted.” ——Mae West

“Someday a real rain will come.”
“Here’s looking at you kid.”
“Why are there people like Frank?”
“Calm as a Hindu cow.”
“...Smells like victory”

Gooood Morrning Vietnaamm!—Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer
I may have missed it, but I don’t see “Here’s Johnny!”—Jack Nicholson in the Shining.
I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.—Humphrey Bogart in Casabnlanca

Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.—Rick Blaine

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.— Rhett Butler

and the infamous “I’m sorry, I can’t do that, Dave” -HAL 9000

“I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.”

Meathead!

^ For sure, and of course: Oh, Arrr chie!

“You see, a pimp’s love is very different from that of a square.”

@zenele you say Oh, Arrr chie! I say Oh Ahhchie
:-)

“My dog barks some”

And after seeing the film The Ten Commandments year after year for the Passover season, who could forget Bithiah (Nina Koch) and here cry of devotion to Moses (Charlton Heston), “Moses, Moses, Moses!”

Every year around Passover I’d get that chant stuck in my head.