The Ultimate Question, part 244

"Power can be held in the smallest of things..."

- The tagline of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings

The Ultimate Question, part 243

“Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.”

- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

The Ultimate Question, part 242

"'So that plan worked out well.'

'Skulduggery, your entire plan consisted of, and I quote, "Let's get up close and then see what happens.'

'All the same,' he said, 'I think the whole thing worked out rather beautifully.'"

- Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire by Derek Landy

The Ultimate Question, part 241

Tony: Gibbs'll get in. He's got clearance that'll let him see the dead aliens buried in Area 51.

Kate: Because he probably killed them.

- NCIS

The Ultimate Question, part 240

"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans… We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."

- Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking

The Ultimate Question, part 239

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. "

- Of Studies by Fracis Bacon

The Ultimate Question, part 238

“Doors are for people with no imagination.”

- Skulduggery Pleasant

The Ultimate Question, part 237

"There are three things I noticed about being thirty-three: Failing memory, hair loss and failing memory."

- Derren Brown in Trick of the Mind

The Ultimate Question, part 236

Little Girl: They wouldn't let us see Grandad when he was dead. Is that cos he'd gone to heaven?

Sherlock Holmes: People don't really go to heaven when they die. They're taken to a special room and burned.

- Sherlock (TV series)

The Ultimate Question, part 235

Edmund: [to Lisa] Sorry. My dad insisted on coming. [a bat appears and turns into Dracula] [clearly aggravated] Dad! I don't need a chaperone. I'm 400 years old.

Dracula: You live in my crypt, you play by my rules.

Edmund: You're tearing me apart!

 

- The Simpsons

The Ultimate Question, part 234

Sherlock Holmes: Punch me in the face.

John Watson: Punch you?

Sherlock Holmes: Yes, punch me, in the face. Didn't you hear me?

John Watson: I always hear "punch me in the face" when you're speaking, but it's usually subtext.

- Sherlock (TV series)

The Ultimate Question, part 233

"If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!"

- Robert Baden-Powell in The Scouter

The Ultimate Question, part 232

"[Asked what he thinks about most during the day] Women. They are a complete mystery."

- Stephen Hawking

The Ultimate Question, part 231

"Born in Lust, Turn to Dust. Born in Sin, Come on In."

- Storm of the Century by Stephen King

The Ultimate Question, part 230

"Then you shall judge yourself," the king answered. "that is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom."

- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry