Samson Quotes in D.C. Cab (1983)

Samson: Fool! Your fare is the only thing stopping me from breaking your face!

Samson: Shut up, Dell!

Samson: Why don't you get off the street and get a decent job?

Hooker In Mr. T's Cab: Cause I need the bread!

Samson: Then get a job at the bakery.

Samson: Albert's just telling the truth. We're the worst company in town, and we know it!

Samson: We're the worst cab company in town, and we know it!

Samson: [after breaking the door down] Sorry, ma'am. Wrong house!

Samson: Look! We found it! It says Bruce Leigh

[pronounced Lee]

Samson: .

Buddy: But that says Bruce Leg!

[thinking Leigh is pronounced Leg]

Samson: Didn't I tell you two to go back to school?

Samson: My cab ain't no motel!

Samson: Just keep your people out of here!

Johnny Nappa: But you have a bar. You have a licence. You have to serve anybody who comes in here, don't you?

Samson: Yeah, but this is a lousy bar with a lousy service!

[In Samson's Bar. Nappa's man are making trouble. Samson gets angry]

Samson: Just keep your people out of here!

Johnny Nappa: But you have a bar. You have a licence. You have to serve anybody who comes in here, don't you?

Samson: [smiles] Yeah, but this is a lousy bar with a lousy service!

Samson: [on being told he will be kicked out of the gang] That's fine. It doesn't bother me at all. Not at all. You didn't know that?

Samson: LEAVE THEM TO ME! THE BLACK RETAINER! LEAVE THEM TO ME!

Samson: The oldest trick in the world. Silk trap, baited with a woman.

Delilah: You know a better bait, Samson? Men *always* respond.

Samson: You came to this house as wedding guests. Fire and death are your gifts to my bride. For all that I do against you now, I shall be blameless. I'll give you back fire for fire, and death for death!

Tubal: [holding Delilah and trading her for Semadar] Look! Here! Samson. My other daughter. Take her. She'll make you a much better wife. She's fairer than Semadar, and much, much more beautiful.

Samson: You give me a turnip for a...

Tubal: Wait, wait Samson. This one is a queen among women. Samson, look. Look. Have you ever seen eyes like that? So full of love for you? See the whiteness of her skin, smooth as a young dove's. Oh she'll grow into a rare blossom.

Samson: She'll grow into a thornbush!

Delilah: [grasps Samson] Did a thornbush steal the chariot that took you to the lion? Did a thornbush tell the Saran how you killed it with your bare hands? No, I did, and he believed me, then you chose Semadar.

Samson: Take your claws out of me!

Delilah: You'll never get them out of you. I made Ahtur steal the riddle's secret from Semadar. I lied to stop you from marrying her. I'll kill to keep you. You're the only thing in the world I want.

Samson: [to Tubal] Hold this fork-tongued adder before I put a heel on her.

Delilah: If you crush the life out of me I'd kiss you with my dying breath!

Samson: [to Tubal] And you want me to marry this wild cat?

Samson: A man must marry where his heart leads him, little mother.

Hazelelponit: A man's heart can be blind, son.

Samson: What is sweeter than honey?

Semadar: What is stronger than a lion?

Samson: Your arms were quicksand. Your kiss was death. The name Delilah will be an everlasting curse on the lips of men.

Samson: [reaching for a cluster of grapes that Semadar has held up high] A man shouldn't have to reach at his own wedding feast.

Semadar: The most desirable grapes are always out of reach.

Samson: [reaches again] Not if you reach high enough.

Prince Ahtur: [grabs the cluster of grapes from Semadar's hand] Or wait long enough.

Semadar: You waited too long, Ahtur.

Samson: For what?

Prince Ahtur: Entertainment.

Samson: Miriam, you're further above me than the moon.

Miriam: But not as hard to reach. Only stretch out your hand.

Samson: I don't want to hurt you, Miriam. You're like a sparrow, so gentle and...

Miriam: That's a very gentle way of telling me that you're in love with someone else?

Samson: You always see through people as if they were cobwebs.

Miriam: I hear you saw a woman in Timnath.

Samson: Yes... and I can't forget her.

Miriam: You did the same with me. I can't forget you.

[Miriam walks to the door]

Samson: [approaches Miriam at the door] Miriam.

Miriam: I'll always be here.

[Miriam closes the door]

Samson: I prayed for an angel of the Lord and the Devil sent me you.

Samson: Delilah...

Delilah: No, I will not listen.

Samson: But you asked me to...

Delilah: I don't want to hear you.

Samson: Three times you plagued me to tell you.

Delilah: And three times you've lied to me. You said new ropes that had never been used would hold you.

Samson: Who knows the strength of a rope that's never been used?

Delilah: Then you told me your strength would go if I wove your hair to the web of my loom. Now look at my loom.

Samson: I'd rather look at you.

Delilah: It's no use, Samson. You'll always find a new trick to deceive me. The night I came to the Valley of Sorek, you wanted to send me away. You were right. It is better that I go.

Delilah: The wine of parting is bitter, Samson.

Samson: Not as bitter as blood.

Hazelelponit: What did I tell you? He wants to marry a Philistine!

Manoah: Samson, you would not bring this shame upon us.

Samson: There's no shame in marriage, father.

Manoah: To a Philistine woman?

Samson: Father, Semadar pleases me. Go to Tubal of Timnath and say I will take his daughter to wife.

Manoah: The law forbids it.

Samson: A Philistine law?

Samson: Those boxes are bad news. Stay away.

[first lines]

Samson: So there I was, face to face with the biggest, meanest leopard on the savannah and...

Ryan: You roared so loud, his spots flew off. Dad I've heard that story a billion times.

Ryan: I told you I'd come to the game.

Samson: You think this is funny? You just endangered everyone in the zoo!

Ryan: I'm sorry.

Samson: For what? Chasing the Gazelles or costing us the game?

Ryan: No, I...

Samson: All you do is sit in your tree and sulk.

Ryan: If you would just...

Samson: I mean, What is it? What's the problem? Is all of this because you can't roar?

[pause]

Samson: Ryan, I didn't mean that.

Ryan: You know what I'm doing when I'm sulking up in my tree? I'm thinking how great it would be if Samson the Wild wasn't my father.

Samson: Huh? Ryan, I... I didn't

Ryan: 'Cause it would make being Ryan the Lame a whole lot easier.

[he starts running away]

Samson: Ryan, I'm sorry. Ryan! Please don't... leave.

Larry: Bye, Ryan! Thanks for coming to the game.

[talking about a sewer system]

Samson: Appears to be a human bathing area.

Nigel: You mean humans don't lick themselves clean? Disgusting!

Samson: Who are you?

Camo: Our names aren't important.

Cloak: I'm Cloak, he's Camo.

Larry: Oh, oh, I know; he's sulking because he lives in his father's shadow, and he roars like a school girl.

Samson: Thanks, Larry.

Larry: You betcha.

Hyrax: Aaahh! Doesn't anyone ever knock anymore?

Samson: Hey, where's my son? Did he come through here?

Hyrax: Yeah, now that I think about it, he did come through here.

[turns to toilet]

Hyrax: Hello? Come out of there, baby lion, your dad's here! well, what do you know, it's a whole pride of lions down here!

Samson: Do what you did just then - but the opposite!

Larry: But I don't know my opposites!

Samson: I have a strange destiny. I seem to always be searching for new adventures, new dangers.

Samson: There's a reason Romeo killed himself, okay? Suicide was the best option for this guy.

Mallory: Why?

Scott: What?

Lyle: No, no. Romeo set the standard for love.

Samson: No, Shakespeare didn't know anything about love. The guy was a sexual deviant, okay? He couldn't keep his hands off himself. That's why his name was Shakespeare

Narrator: It's true. Hardy, Dickens, Longfellow, all sex starved pen names.

Samson: E. Cummings

Scott: Updike

Mallory: Margaret *Atewood*

Samson: Dean *Cunts*

Lyle: [Correcting their pronunciation] Atwood and Koontz.

Scott: Balzac.

Samson: I think I broke his fuckin' neck!

Announcer: I think he broke his fuckin' neck!

Team doctor: One side, one side.

[Examines injured player]

Team doctor: Get the ambulance! I think he broke his fuckin' neck.

Samson: See! I told you I broke his fuckin' neck!

Paul Crewe: We're gettin' up a football game against the guards. Wondered if maybe you and some of your buddies here would like to join in on the fun.

Samson: With the guards?

Paul Crewe: Uh huh.

Samson: Sure, I'd like that.

Samson: Oi, Fletcher.

Harry Grout: There'll be something for you in your Christmas stocking, Fletcher.

Fletcher: Oh, thank you sir. I'll look forward to that, sir.

Feck: I killed a girl, it was no accident. Put a gun to the back of her head and blew her brains right out the front. I was in love.

Samson: I strangled mine.

Feck: Did you love her?

Samson: She was okay.

Samson: You were a biker.

Feck: Yeah, years ago. Oh, man. I ate so much pussy in those days, my beard looked like a glazed doughnut.

Samson: I killed her.

Maggie: You're strange, John.

Tony: What'd you do, man? Sit on her?

Layne: Why did you kill her?

Samson: She was talking shit.

[Matt tries to buy beer]

Samson: You giving my friend trouble.

Checker: Look, I cannot sell you guys beer after two o'clock in the morning.

Samson: [displaying a gun] Well, I'm here to turn back the time.

[holding a cat]

Samson: Look what I found. We can get it stoned!

[first lines]

Checker: [points at legal age sign]

Samson: That's a real nice sign, how much.

Checker: I have to see ID.

Samson: I left it at home. How much?

Checker: I'm not going to sell you this unless you show me ID.

Tony: Gimme a cigarette, man.

Layne: You fucking gave up cigarettes.

Tony: I gave up yesterday, not today.

Layne: I gave up lending.

[hands over the cigarette anyway]

Layne: Learn some self-control, you're interrupting.

[to Matt:]

Layne: Go on.

Matt: I don't know. I just figured we could dump this place, you know? Go up there, and if we like it, we stay, don't come back.

Clarissa: [not impressed] Where did you get Portland?

Matt: Well, nobody knows us up there.

Clarissa: People know us here?

Layne: [mimicking Sonny & Cher, his hand wandering] I know you, babe.

Clarissa: [brushing him off] That's really annoying, Layne.

Layne: [to Matt:] So what, man? We could be lumberjacks or something?

Matt: There's other things to do.

Layne: Like what?

Maggie: Like getting stoned.

[laughter]

Layne: It almost sounds like a plan. Except we're all broke, and I'm the only one with a car.

Tony: We could just take all our parents' money, take off, discover America, and make like we're Easy Rider plus five.

Clarissa: [checking Maggie's wristwatch] Shit, I gotta go. Burkewaite's gonna have a spaz attack if I'm late again.

Layne: [taunting] She's in love with his middle-aged ass.

Clarissa: He's not middle-aged, asshole.

[to new arrival coming up:]

Clarissa: Hi, John.

Layne: [to Samson] Didn't think you'd make it today. Where's Jamie?

Samson: I killed her.

Clarissa: [to Maggie] She's gonna be in big trouble if she keeps ditching like this.

Maggie: [to Samson] You what?

Samson: I killed her.

Maggie: [decides he's talking nonsense] You're strange, John.

[the two girls walk off to class]

Tony: [after his blunt revelation about having killed Jamie] What did you do, man? Sit on her?

[walks off]

Samson: [to the others] They don't believe me.