The UOAH Lexicon
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Common Phrases
Do you know... Do you speak... I know... I speak... I don't speak...
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Question Words:
Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Which?
Numbers:
One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen. Fourteen. Fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. Nineteen. Twenty. Twenty-one. Twenty-two. Twenty-three.
Greetings and Salutations:
Hi. Hello. My name is... Nice to meet you. Good Morning. Good Day. Good Afternoon. Good Evening. Good Night. Peace. See you later. See you soon. Take care. Cheers. Later. Bye. Goodbye.
Common Questions:
How are you? What is your name? How do I say...? How do I find...? What time is it? How much does it cost? Can you help me? Where is the bathroom? Where is the closest hospital? Which way to the bus station, train station, or airport?
Common Statements:
Yes. No. Maybe. Please. Thanks. Thank you. You're Welcome. Great. Good. Fine. So-so. Bad. Awful. Excuse me. Sorry. I need a taxi, bus, train, plane, or a ride. I need a doctor. I need help. Please help me. I would like... I don't know. I like... I love... I am lost. I am hungry. I am from...
Not So Common Phrases
- My hovercraft is full of eels.
"Monty Python's Flying Circus"
- We don't need no stinking badges!
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, "the Monkees", and Blazing Saddles
- I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy, but they're definitely dirty.
But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
Pulp Fiction
- Not that there's anything wrong with that.
"Seinfeld"
- You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
The Princess Bride
- I see dead people.
The Sixth Sense
- I know Kung Fu. Show me.
The Matrix
- Phone home.
E.T. the Extraterrestrial
- There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
"Doctor Who"
- Oh, and Senator, just one more thing. Love your suit.
The Silence of the Lambs
- It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Fight Club
- Show me the money.
Jerry Maguire
- Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit? Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
Donnie Darko
- You're gonna to need a bigger boat.
Jaws
- I'm offering you my body and you're offering me semantics.
Clerks
- The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- I think I must have one of those faces you can't help believing.
Psycho
- Call me an ambulance. Somebody, call me an ambulance.
True Romance
- Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room!
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- I'll paint you a picture of a dolphin.
"The Whitest Kids U' Know"
- I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
2001: A Space Odyssey
- You know, squirrely looking guy, mumbles a lot.
Office Space
- If you build it, they will come.
Field of Dreams
- This is ridiculous, that's the most well guarded yeast factory I've ever seen!
Gentlemen Broncos
- I don't know about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all of this.
Titanic
- You guys are so un-hip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- I'll have what she's having.
When Harry Met Sally...
- You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
Inception
- Everyone, just pretend to be normal.
Little Miss Sunshine
- Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Batman
- Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
Dirty Dancing
- That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone.
A Clockwork Orange
- I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
Network
- Maybe I'll make some teeth and whiskers...
Citizen Kane
- You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you, here, staring at me like I owe him something?
"Firefly"
- This means something. This is important.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- We thought you was a toad!
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- When I was a little kid, my mother told me not to stare into the sun, so when I was six I did...
Pi (aka Pi: Faith in Caos)
- You're trying to seduce me, aren't you?
The Graduate
- They sent me to a prison for a massage.
“An Idiot Abroad”
- Son, you got a panty on your head.
Raising Arizona
- You can't handle the truth.
A Few Good Men
- We demand bouncing, followed by rolling, followed by bouncing of the third kind!
"Futurama"
- It doesn't matter what country someone's from, or what they look like, or the colour of their skin. It doesn't matter what they smell like, or that they spell words slightly differently-some would say, more correctly.
“Flight of the Conchords”
- Also, my rug was stolen.
The Big Lebowski
- Your pencils are creating a health hazard. I could fall and pierce an organ.
"The Office"
- In Heaven, everything is fine. You've got your good things, and I've got mine.
Eraserhead
- You must unlearn what you have learned.
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
- You are so blind! You so do not understand! You weren't there at the beginning. You don't know how good it was! How important! This is it for you! This jumped-up firework display of a toy advert! People like you make me sick! What's wrong with you?
"Spaced"
- I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Casablanca
- I smell sausage rolls.
"That Mitchell and Webb Look"
- Why'd it have to be snakes?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
- What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Cool Hand Luke
- I shall hide behind the couch.
"Arrested Development"
- I reject your reality and substitute my own!
The Dungeonmaster and "MythBusters"
- Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.
Blade Runner
- You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore.
Wet Hot American Summer
- There's no place like home.
The Wizard of Oz
- At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.
Billy Madison
- The man likes to play chess; let's get him some rocks.
The Shawshank Redemption
- A great big bushy beard!
Hot Fuzz
- That is, essentially exactly the way it happened... Except for the part about the buck teeth.
"The X-Files"
- I'm a one-armed German space explorer.
The Invention of Lying
- Sell crazy someplace else. We’re all stocked up here.
As Good As It Gets
- You're only as healthy as you feel.
Taxi Driver
- Here, just drink way too much of this.
"Louie"
- You've just found the marble in the oatmeal. You're a lucky, lucky, lucky little boy.
'Cause you know why? You get to drink from... the Fire-hose!
UHF
- In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
The Godfather
- A birthday is a special occasion. I will therefore bring the special for everybody.
eXistenZ
- Some places are like people: some shine and some don't.
The Shining
- How's life in hippie heaven, you pregnant baboon-bellied space beatnik? What's the plan for the day, then? Slobbing in the morning, followed by slobbing in the afternoon, then a bit of a snooze before the main evening's slob? God, you're a disgrace to the species.
"Red Dwarf"
- It's not a tumor!
Kindergarten Cop
- I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid, and I went ahead anyway.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
- You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.
Body Heat
- Which one of you nuts has got any guts?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- They're eating her... and then they're going to eat me...
Troll 2
- See a need, fill a need.
Robots
- I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- These go to eleven.
This is Spinal Tap
- Whoever has the most liquor to get the soldiers drunk and send them to be slaughtered... he's the winner.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Oh, he was a little guy... Kinda funny looking.
Fargo
- But I'm funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you?
GoodFellas
- It doesn't take a genius to see that the world has problems.
Watchmen
- I'm your number one fan.
Misery
- No, that's a brand name. May I have back my prophylactic, or sheath?
"Extras"
- The night beckons, like a finger curling and uncurling as if to say "Hey, come here".
"Community"
- My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
Forrest Gump
- Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
Zoolander
- Progress is the enemy of tradition. Tradition is the enemy of progress.
10 MPH
- We'd better get back, because it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly.
Aliens
- Oh, I’ve got a helmet. I got a beauty.
Easy Rider
- They treat me like a criminal. I'll end up a criminal.
The Usual Suspects
- You fool! Damn you! You call yourself a horse! For shame! Hey! Wait! Please! I apologize! Forgive me!
Seven Samurai
- I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Where's my free will in all this? Have you lost it? I will look around for it.
Millennium
- I'll be back.
The Terminator
- I could have had class. I could have been a contender. I could have been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it.
On the Waterfront
- You look a little older without your clothes on.
It's a Wonderful Life
- Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself.
Dirty Harry
- It's so stimulating being your hat.
Labyrinth
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Famous Quotes
- We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Robert F. Kennedy
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
- There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
- A good traveler has no fixed plans.
Lao-Tzu
- Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
- For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Plato
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
- Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon
- It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Albert Camus
- You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
- Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
- There is nothing impossible to those willing to try.
Alexander the Great
- United we stand, divided we fall.
Aesop
- Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
- The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
- I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
Konrad Lorenz
- It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
- If we could have one generation of properly born, trained, educated and healthy children, a thousand problems of government would vanish.
Herbert Hoover
- Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
Yogi Berra
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato
- The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
- If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
- Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
- No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
- You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
- We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
Carl Sagan
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
- Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
Winston Churchill
- Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
- When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky
- Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Socrates
- Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph Campbell
- If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu
- An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
- If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
- There is no limit to the good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
George Marshall
- It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller
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