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totally quotable! 2006: new 'Miami Vice' quote

Here they are, the most quotable movie lines of the year 2006. No ranking -- newer quotes are posted at the top. [Warning: May contain spoilers.]

“Probability is like gravity. You cannot negotiate with gravity.”
Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell), Miami Vice

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“The doc says most of my injuries are emotional.”
--Dupree (Owen Wilson), You, Me and Dupree

“I have to tip my hat to any entity that can bring integrity to evil.”
--James Barris (Robert Downey Jr.) on corporate drug-rehabbers NewPath, A Scanner Darkly

“Look, an undead monkey!”
--Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

“Somehow, I doubt Jack will consider employment the same as being free.”
--Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

“You have a touch of destiny about you, William Turner.”
--the witch Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

“I will solve, when I’m in a hotel, a USA Today [crossword], but I don’t feel good about it.”
--Jon Stewart, Wordplay

“The most powerful force on Earth is the English language.”
--Ken Burns, Wordplay

“You wrote that the world doesn’t need a savior, but every day I hear people crying for one.”
--Superman (Brandon Routh), to Lois Lane, Superman Returns

“Gods are selfish beings who fly around in red capes and don’t share their powers with mankind.”
--Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey), Superman Returns

“Three things sell newspapers: tragedy, sex, and Superman.”
--Perry White (Frank Langella), Superman Returns

“Pulitzer Prizes are like Academy Awards -- no one remembers what you got one for.”
--Perry White (Frank Langella), Superman Returns

“You are so dumb you could be twins.”
--Dusty (Woody Harrelson) to Lefty (John C. Reilly), A Prairie Home Companion

“Two penguins are standing on an ice floe. The first penguin says, ‘You look like you're wearing a tuxedo.’ The second penguin says, ‘What makes you think I'm not?’”
--Garrison Keillor (Garrison Keillor), A Prairie Home Companion

“I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States.”
--Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth

“Like a nature walk through the Book of Revelation.”
--Al Gore, on the weather catastrophes of 2005 around the globe, An Inconvenient Truth

“He’s an invisible man -- Wells, not Ellison.”
--Theodore Brassel (Laurence Fishburne), about a hard-to-find bad guy, Mission: Impossible III

“It’s unacceptable that chocolate makes you fat, but I’ve eaten my share and guess what?”
--Theodore Brassel (Laurence Fishburne), Mission: Impossible III

“You don’t have to invade Paris to drop round for a drink.”
--French lieutenant Audebert (Guillaume Canet) to his German counterpart, Joyeux Noël

“Spelling bees are serious shit.”
--spelling bee contestant, Akeelah and the Bee

“Martin, I’m not physically attracted to other people, but if you want me, I’m yours.”
--Sally Kendoo (Mandy Moore), to Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant), American Dreamz

“I just don't know what I'm doing here. On Earth. In this life. As far as the world is concerned, people like me might as well not exist.”
--Jim (Casey Affleck), Lonesome Jim

"This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
--V (Hugo Weaving), V for Vendetta

“You must acquire the habit of ignoring those who do not like you.”
--John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (Johnny Depp), The Libertine

“Old people fuckin’ love me. You must be doin’ something right if old people love you.”
--Dave Chappelle, Dave Chappelle’s Block Party

“Well, I gotta go rock.”
--Corbit (Will Ferrell), Winter Passing

“The secret of life is butter.”
--Chef Didier (Gérard Depardieu), Last Holiday

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I remember the penguin quote as follows:

“Two penguins are standing on an ice floe. The first penguin says, ‘Why aren't you wearing your tuxedo.’ The second penguin says, ‘What makes you think I'm not?’”

Makes the final line more logical. However, the IMDB Memorable Quotes page for the movie agrees more with you. So I guess my memory was off. But I could have sworn that the whole point of the last line was to undermine the assumption of the prior line, and thus the humor.

Actually, I think it's funnier as I and the IMDB recall it: then the humor comes from the juxtaposition of an animal who looks like he's wearing human clothes with one that might actually, and for no reason, be wearing human clothes. Your version removes that surprise with its assumption that it's perfectly normal for a penguin to be wearing a tuxedo.

i was there and i recall the line the way maryann and imdb recall it. and i agree -- it's funnier that way.

OK, I defer to you both (and IMDB too). Memory is a funny thing.

I like the absurdist version I remember, however. There is something really funny to me that a penguin would think in terms of human clothing as we do when we see them, but then think his friend is NOT dressed as usual for some bizarre reason, only to have his friend turn that assumption upside down while adding a paranoid element to the discussion.

The movie way is also funny, though, and I see what you mean.

I'd add this one to the list:

"Why did G-Girl just throw a shark at you?"
Hannah (Anna Farris), after a night of sex and white shark attacks.

What movie is that from, Miguel?

My Super Ex-Girlfriend.
from reading your reviews, you're going to hate it!

I already hate it from the trailers.

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