History Quotes / WhileRomeBurns

-->-- [[IntrepidReporter Sarble the Eye]]''', ''Literature/ConsiderPhlebas''

->"This is the bi-port city of Evanauth, Vavatch Orbital, the very same Vavatch Orbital that in about eleven standard hours from now is due to be blasted into its component atoms as the Idiran-Culture war in this part of the galaxy, near the Glittercliff and Sullen Gulf, reaches a new high in standing-by-your-principles-regardless and a new low in common sense. It’s that imminent destruction that’s attracted these scatological vultures here, not the famous Megaships or the azure-blue technological miracles of the Circlesea. No, these people are here because the whole Orbital is doomed to be blown away shortly, and they think it’s kind of amusing to play Damage - an ordinary card game with a few embellishments to make it attractive to the mentally disturbed - in places on the verge of annihilation."\\

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->'''Joker''': Hey, Commander. Check it out! Big news: the Blasto movie is breaking opening-week records! There's also a big expose on quasar tournaments, tips on how to make your apartment look bigger, and... oh yeah, ''a big-ass Reaper invasion.'' [[{{Beat}} ...]] These people have NO idea...\\
'''Shepard''': When big events shake up the galaxy, people cling to what's familiar.\\
'''Joker''': You say that like it's a ''good'' thing.\\
'''Shepard''': It's better than riots in the streets.\\
'''Joker''': I guess. I just wish there were a middle ground. You know, a little less gardening advice, a little more war prep?\\
'''Shepard''': It'll happen... once there's something people can do to help.

->''[[AncientTradition The Mamushka!]] Taught to us by our [[{{UsefulNotes/Cossacks}} Cossack]] cousins, The Mamushka has been an Addams Family tradition since God-Knows-When. We danced The Mamushka while [[{{UsefulNotes/Nero}} Nero Fiddled]], we danced The Mamushka [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte at Waterloo]]. We danced The Mamushka for [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]], and now; Fester Addams: this Mamushka is for you.''
-->-- '''Gomez Addams''', ''Film/TheAddamsFamily1991''

->That day, the saucer day, the zombie day
->The Ragnarok and fairies day,
->The day the great winds came
->And snows and the cities turned to crystal, the day
->All plants died, plastics dissolved, the day the
->Computers turned, the screens telling
->Us we would obey, the day
->Angels, drunk and muddled, stumbled from the bars,
->And all the bells of London were sounded, the day
->Animals spoke to us in Assyrian, the Yeti day,
->The fluttering capes and arrival of
->the Time Machine day,
->You didn’t notice any of this because
->You were sitting in your room, not doing anything
->Not even reading, not really, just
->looking at your telephone,
->wondering if I was going to call.

->''I always had the greatest difficulty in making Lloyd George sinister in a cartoon. Every time I drew him, however critical the comment, I had to be careful or he would spring off the drawing-board a lovable cherubic little chap. I found the only effective way of putting him definitely in the wrong in a cartoon was by misplacing this quality in sardonic incongruity — by surrounding the comedian with tragedy.''
-->--Cartoonist '''David Low'''

->'''William T. Riker:''' ''(Disheveled, with the smoldering remains of the bridge of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration the Enterprise-D]] behind him)'' The Federation's gone, the Borg is everywhere!\\
'''Jean-Luc Picard:''' ''(Completely disinterested)'' Yes, this is all very interesting, Number One.\\

-> '''Robot #1:''' Where is Mutank?
-> '''Bob:''' He’s busy, that’s all I can say.
-> '''Robot #1:''' Busy, huh? Yeah, I bet he’s up there relaxing in the cushy vacuum of space while we’re picking off grains of sand under the lube!
-> '''Bob:''' Uh, thank you for that. Mutank is the definitely not ''relaxing'', that much I can tell you.
-> (later)
-> '''Robot #2:''' Are you telling me that all this time, Mutank has been up in space? We’re sweating and grinding and working and fighting, and he’s up there in SPACE!?
-> '''Bob:''' Yep, entire time.
--> - ''VideoGame/TinyTank''

->''The Mamushka! Taught to us by our [[UsefulNotes/Cossacks Cossack]] cousins, The Mamushka has been an Addams Family tradition since God-Knows-When. We danced The Mamushka while [[UsefulNotes/Nero Nero Fiddled]], we danced The Mamushka [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte at Waterloo]]. We danced The Mamushka for [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]], and now; Fester Addams: this Mamushka is for you.\\
-->--'''Gomez Addams''', ''Film/TheAddamsFamily1991''

->''The Mamushka! Taught to us by our [[UsefulNotes/Cossacks Cossack]] cousins, The Mamushka has been an Addams Family tradition since God-Knows-When. We danced The Mamushka while [[UsefulNotesNero Nero Fiddled]], we danced The Mamushka [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte at Waterloo]]. We danced The Mamushka for [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]], and now; Fester Addams: this Mamushka is for you.\\

-> '''Robot #1:''' Busy, huh? Yeah, I bet he’s up there relaxing in the cushy vacuum of space while we’re picking off groans of sand under the lube!

-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Bretonnia Army Book (5th Edition)''

-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Bretonnia Army Book (5th Edition)''

-->-- ''The Day the Saucers Came'', Creator/NeilGaiman

-->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''