🔱Random Quotes - Jeremiah 🔱
These are taken from both seasons of the television show Jeremiah, starring Luke Perry and Malcolm Jamal Warner.
See, most people, they tend to do the most convenient thing. The right thing? Well, that’s a little harder to do.
North American Aerospace Defense. They built it deep inside the mountain. In the event of a nuclear attack, it’d be safe. My dad said if the end of the world ever came, this place would survive.
You know, my dad always said that, uh, other people’s problems are everybody’s problems, otherwise it all falls apart.
I don’t mean to alarm you or anything but it already has fallen apart.
Well, generally I prefer to be on top, and usually there are flowers involved, but yeah… I’m okay.
What if something happened to you over there, huh? Like, I don’t know, maybe you… you choke on the fish bone or somethin’. And I’m over here stuck, all tied up, huh. Then I’d be fucked! I would be so completely, supremely, eternally fucked that I don’t even think there’s a word for that level of fuckosity! You know what I’m sayin’?
I have a warning for you, and a blessing, they’re the same thing. More efficient that way. The thunder will change you forever, but everyone you love will fall at the end of the world.
Are you happy? Are you satisfied now? I mean, that’s the way it works, isn’t it? You set us up. You take someone like him, you give him hope, just so you can take it away again? What did he ever do to you? What did any of us ever do to you? What did the whole fucking world do to you that we deserve all of this? I mean, come on, the locusts and the death of the first-born wasn’t good enough for you anymore so now it’s the death of the eldest? The death of heroes? You know what? Fuck you. Because we’re not just gonna lay down and die down here. You want to finish off the job? Come down here! Do it yourself. You send the Angel of Death, you better give him one hell of a big sword, because I tell you what, we are gonna kick his ass all the way back to the great white fucking throne. And then we’re coming for you. We’re coming for you.
Does this buckskin make my ass look fat?
Now that is one fine looking native american ass.
You and your ass are welcome.
You know, I was thinking the other day. It’s ironic isn’t it. Here, every day, you keep me alive. But if I were to get out I’d only bring you death.
What relationship doesn’t have its little ups and downs?
So, are you gonna come and see us off, oh great pain in the ass?
Dear Dad. It’s been fifteen years since the Big Death wiped out everyone over the age of innocence. The end of your world. The beginning of mine.
Yeah, that’s the one thing about a ball and chain - it’s real easy to feel attached.
My guys found a GPS on you set to this location.
I’m impressed. Your guys don’t look like they could spell G-P-S.
Yeah, right. Like he’s really gonna shove a oxygen tank in that shark’s mouth, then smack, hits the bullseye, it’s raining sushi.
Every time someone drags God into the conversation, it’s because they want something. It’s a con, it’s a hustle, or worse. So excuse me if I look at all you’ve got going on here, and I wonder what it is that you’re really up to.
You know, a few centuries ago, people went on pilgrimages all the time to testify to their belief, to encourage hope, to receive absolution. They expected miracles, and they got them.
I believe in miracles a lot less than I believe in whatever it is that you’re selling.
Why? It’s a new world. The rules have changed. Technologically, we’ve been plunged back into the middle ages. Right? Maybe, that’s the only place where miracles are possible. Maybe, God stopped appearing because He got tired of all the noise. Maybe he only appears when the world is quiet enough to pay attention. Either way, I know we will find our miracle at the end of our journey. Tell me something. Do you believe that there’s hope for a better world?
Well then, like it or not, you and me and God, we’re all on the same side.
Yeah, it’s nice. This kind of nice makes me worry. It usually means somebody wants something from you. Trust me, I’ve been hustled before by guys like this.
Nobody said anything about guests. I would’ve rolled out the red carpet. Only you don’t wanna know why it’s red.
How about I ram my foot so far up your ass your kidneys give me a shoe shine
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I know they’re gonna break yours.
Well, sure. Legalize sex, next thing you know people start smiling.
Isn’t that what they call a circular argument?
I’ve got another name for it…..
Future ain’t what it used to be.
I say we bury him in bunny ears. Make it easier to find him in Hell so we can kick his ass clear across the afterlife. […] Pink bunny ears, with bells on them.
Now, people with electricity or copters or guns, that’s trouble enough. But you show me one group of people in all of this who have the free time and the resources to produce fresh, clean, new underwear? That’s something to worry about.
I’ll tell you something about questions, ______. They’re like papercuts. You get one good one, that’s pretty much all you need.
Okay, you’d rather be eating baby-back ribs and be right.
_____, an elephant just woke me up.
An asshole just woke me up.
You might as well say it, because you’re saying it with innuendo anyway.
I got a thing about libraries, man. They are more sacred than churches to me. And if somebody wants to pillage this temple, they gotta come through me.
Whatever your problem is, _____, it’s not as stubborn as me.
You’re starting to sound a lot like a camp counselor from Camp Not-A-Lot-Of-Fun. It’s okay. I can walk, I can walk.
Sometimes, __________, I think you have a deathwish, and I don’t want to be around when the Fair Godmother of Darkness grants your wish.
My middle name is “calm”.
Unfortunately, your last name is “before the storm”.
It’s the only way I know how to walk. Right foot, left foot, right foot…
By telling me that you’re not supposed to tell me something. That tells me something. I know something I didn’t know two minutes ago – see how that works?
A lot of people out here are all talk and no action. Me, I’m all action and no talk.
Do I look like I’m shitting you? I mean seriously, is my face twitching or something that I don’t know about?
Everytime you tell a lie, Jesus bleeds.
Like I always say, he who hesitates … gets fucked.
It’s like throwing away your own umbrella in the middle of a shit-storm.
How about I ram my foot so far up your ass, your kidneys give me a shoe shine?
The scary thing is not the end … the scary thing is seeing it coming.
Hey, don’t blame me for your charisma malfunction.
You sanctimonious piece of shit. You -dare- stand there and act like you’re the one who’s been betrayed. Fuck you!
Today made me realize, that even after everything we’ve been through–the joys we experience as children, can live as long as we do.
Now how are we to know where we are going, if we don’t even know where we’ve been? These books are our bridge to our past. They allow us to touch other lives–generation upon generation–artists, philosophers, poets. We let them die, we’re burning those bridges. We let those words die, we are killing our history as well as our future. These assholes are coming back and if we don’t pull together, we lose. It’s as simple as that. We lose.
I did -not- get up at the crack of sparrow-fart to be muzzled by you two.
See? That is just the thing. In the world outside these walls, hope can -kill- you. And I just don’t know if I’m up for that kind of pain.
Oh, this is getting more interesting by the second. If things keep going like this, I -may- have to start selling tickets.
They hit us with guns, bazookas, tear gas, tanks, APVs, helicopters, rockets. I’m pretty sure at least one of them used really harsh language.
Because you’re starting to creep me out. No, actually you were creeping me out when I first met you. It’s just different levels of creeposity, you know?
All we can do is cherish the time we have, when we have it … and treasure the memories we have after they’re gone. Try to do right by them. Everything else is out of our control.
It’s not one thing or another, it just sort of … is. You know? But just now … just now … there was sadness, grief, weariness. And under all of it? Anger. Real anger. The kind of anger that makes you throw yourself on the ground and cover your face and apologize for everything you’ve done in your entire life.
Wait, you know I think it was Socrates who said, “Fuck ‘em.”
How the hell am I supposed to know? I’m just God’s sock puppet okay? He shoves his hand up my ass and words come out the other end. Who knew math was involved.
Hello, I’m pregnant. I have mood swings. I have a whole mood playground: swings, a jungle gym, one of those things you get on and spin around and around on?
You just don’t get it, do you? There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who survive history, and those who make it.