Sheldon: No, this is my home now. Thanks to you, my career is over, and I will spend the rest of my life here in Texas trying to teach evolution to creationists.
Mrs. Cooper: You watch your mouth, Shelly. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion.
Sheldon: Evolution isn’t an opinion, it’s fact.
Mrs. Cooper: And that is your opinion.
Sheldon: [to the guys] I forgive you, let’s go home.
The Big Bang Theory, Season 3: Episode 1 – “The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation”
“There’s a way of doing it!” Hermione said crossly. “There just has to be!”
She seemed to be taking the library’s lack of useful information on the subject as a personal insult; it had never failed her before.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
Raj: Well, I’m a Hindu. My religion teaches that if we suffer in this life, we are rewarded in the next. Three months at the North Pole with Sheldon and I’m reborn as a well-hung billionaire with wings!
The Big Bang Theory, Season 2: Episode 23 – “The Monopolar Expidition”
But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light.
“Hermione, Neville’s right — you are a girl. . . .”
“Oh, well spotted,” she said acidly.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
Leonard: [To his mother] Howard lives with his mother, and Raj can’t speak to women unless he’s drunk. Go!
The Big Bang Theory, Season 2: Episode 15 – “The Maternal Capacitance”
Beatrice: O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands; and then, with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour, —O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.
Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare
“Oh I would never dream of assuming I knew all of Hogwarts’ secrets, Igor,” said Dumbledore amicably. “Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I have never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five-thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon — or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.”
Harry snorted into his plate of goulash. Percy frowned, but Harry could have sworn Dumbledore had given him a very small wink.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
Jadzia Dax: None of Dax’s hosts, even Jadzia, had any musical ability.
Julian Bashir: Nobody said life was fair.
Jadzia Dax: Yeah, even if you had seven of ’em.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 3: Episode 4 – “Equilibrium”
Benedick: Your wit is as quick as the greyhound’s mouth; it catches.
Margaret: And yours as blunt as the fencer’s foils, which hit, but not hurt.
Benedick: A most manly wit, Margaret; it will not hurt a woman: and so, I pray thee, call Beatrice: I give thee the bucklers.
Margaret: Give us the swords; we have bucklers of our own.
Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare
Jenny Mills: If you don’t fight for the things you stand for, you don’t really stand for them.
Sleepy Hollow, Season 1: Episode 4 – “The Lesser Key of Solomon”
The Love Pirate 