Chief Martin Brody · Roy Scheider's police chief in Jaws (1975) · Brody, shaken, backing into the cabin to tell Quint after the shark first rears out of the water beside the Orca; usually misquoted as "we're gonna need a bigger boat."
The Terminator · Arnold Schwarzenegger's cyborg in The Terminator (1984) · Said to the police desk sergeant who tells him Sarah Connor is still giving her statement and offers him a bench to wait on; he comes back by driving a car through the front of the station.
Dorothy Gale · Judy Garland's Kansas girl in The Wizard of Oz (1939) · Dorothy to her dog Toto as she steps out of the tornado-tossed farmhouse into Technicolor Munchkinland; usually misquoted as "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."
Mark Twain · A note in his private notebook in November 1896, the year his daughter Susy died; the popular version adds a second "up".
Robert Benchley · His one psychological principle of productivity, from the humour piece "How to Get Things Done".
Mitch Hedberg · From the bit that ends "Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience"; a fan was already quoting it on Usenet in September 2000.
Steven Wright · As delivered on his Grammy-nominated debut album; joke books later tidied it into "I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place."
Yogi Berra · Said in February 1986 when fans on the Houston Astros winter caravan kept asking about the sayings credited to him.
Will Rogers · A Cherokee by birth, he told the joke for years; this wording is from a newspaper report in the last weeks of his life.
Winston Churchill · Said in the House of Commons on 4 November 1952, in his second spell as Prime Minister.
Attributed to Dorothy Parker · Her friend Vincent Sheean said she greeted every doorbell ring with it; the line reached print only in John Keats's 1970 biography, and "what fresh hell is this?" had been in use since 1936.
Groucho Marx · His telegram resigning from a Hollywood club, first reported by columnist Erskine Johnson in October 1949 about the Friars Club and retold in his memoir.
Mark Twain · Written in London in 1897 for reporter Frank Marshall White after a newspaper had him dead or dying; the popular "reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" is a later misquote.
Oscar Wilde · Lord Darlington's line in Act I of the comedy.
Forrest Gump · Tom Hanks's title role in Forrest Gump (1994) · Forrest to a stranger on the Savannah bus-stop bench; the American Film Institute ranks it among the top hundred movie quotes.
Oscar Wilde · Lord Goring's line in Act III; Wilde had already printed it as "life-long romance" in his 1894 Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young.
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