100 Days, 100 Coen Brothers One-liners

his was something I did back in 2018 – each day I posted a different one-line quote from a Coen Brothers movie. This went on for 100 straight days. It was a fun little endeavor, even though only certain quotes seemed to get engagement.

As Twitter is basically slowly dying, and because it was a fair amount of work, I thought I’d codify them on this here blog. The experience will certainly be different as I'm dumping all 100 quotes at once. But I guess we're not into the whole brevity thing here.

Tell me in the comments any of:

• Which is your favorite(s)
• Which one I forgot
• Which new one-liners post 2018 are worthy of inclusion

Here’s the list. Enjoy!

1. “Sometimes your career’s gotta come first.”
2. “Oh, George, not the livestock.”
3. “I’m sickadah high hat!”
4. “Strictly speaking, I’m never supposed to do THIS. But do you have any better ideas?”
5. “It’s a Radisson, so it’s nice.”
6. “The story is ludicrious!”
7. “I’m not here representing HardBodies.”
8. “I’m not afraid of you anymore, Marty.”
9. “You wanna play The Gaslight…!”
10. “He told them not to look at the facts, but at the meaning of the facts. Then he said facts had no meaning.”
11. “You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers.”
12. “Yeah, I got a rash, man.”
13. “I could tell you some stories.”
14. “I’m not sure I agree with you 100% on your police work there, Lou.”
15. “Would you hold still please, sir.”
16. “Hey, look. I’m really happy for the gig, but who wrote this?”
17. “Everyone is so goddamn smart. Well, we’ll go out to Miller’s Crossing and we’ll see who’s smart.”
18. “Government do take a bite, don’t she?” <DING!>
19. “I thought you might be worried about the security… of your shit.”
20. “You know what you are? An enthusiast.”
21. “You’re a smooth smoothie, ya know?”
22. “Son, you got a panty on your head.”
23. “”Also we know, that this is your homework.”
24. “Sex? He’s a man. We wrestled!”
25. “Mr. Musburger is so nice, I’,m gonna give him a double-stich anyway.”
26. “OK. I’m with you fellas.”
27. “Look in your heart! Look in your heart!”
28. “I’m already home, Glen.”
29. “Jean and Scottie never have to worry.”
30. “You’re obviously not a golfer.”
31. “And stay outta the Woolsworth!”
32. “Nothing more foolish than a man chasing his hat.”
33. “Leads? Yeah, I’ll just check with the boys at the crime lab. They’ve got four more detectives on it. They’ve got us working in shifts!”
34. “I don’t see a lot of money here.”
35. “Do you take advantage of the new freedoms?”
36. “We’re just about to start the robbery proper.”
37. “Thank God your mammy died giving birth. If she’d have seen you she’d have died of shame.”
38. “Hey Tom, what’s the rumpus?”
39. “You gotta eat a breakfast. I’ll make you some eggs. <GHCIUWw>”
40. “Well no, unless round is funny.”
41. “Calmner’n you are.”
42. “We’re not a bank, Jerry.”
43. “How are we supposed to do reform when we’s the incumbent?”
44. “Look upon me! I’ll show you the life of the mind!”
45. “Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.”
46. “Let me just sit here a minute.”
47. “I’ve never seen you here before. I like that in a woman.”
48. “That lake as not my doin’.”
49. “OK, yeah, so there’s that, too.”
50. “We released ourselves on our own recognizance.”
51. “This is a bummer, man.”
52. “Who cares about fifth Earl of Bathsdrop and Lady Higgenbottome and who killed Nigel Grinchgibbons?”
53. “I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday. I’m afraid she’s startin’ to turn.”
54. “Tan Ciera! Tan Ciera!”
55. “I’ve had a rough night, and I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man.”
56. “What’s the most you’ve ever lost on a coin toss?”
57. “We’re set to pop, hon.”
58. “They don’t drink milkshakes, I assure you.”
59. “It’s all part of your sick Cynthia thing.”
60. “Who looks stupid now?”
61. “I’ve always found that writing comes from great inner pain.”
62. “Well, I could say we should talk about this when you’re less angry, but that would be… that’d be… when would that be?”
63. “Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.”
64. “Oh my fuck. I just killed a fucking spook.”
65. “And for what? For a little bit of money. There’s more to life then a little money, you know. Don’t you know that? And here ya are, and it’s a beautiful day. Well, I just don’t understand it.”
66. “The more you look, the less you really know. It’s a fact, a true fact. In a way, it’s the only fact there is.”
67. “I’m just gonna go find a cash machine.”
68. “Ain’t got no radio.”
69. “Close your eyes, ladies, I’m coming in!”
70. “Now, let me ask you a question. Would an imbecile come up with this?”
71. “We go to pancakes house.”
72. “I’m fucking hungry now, yanknow?!”
73. “You’re not wrong, Walter, you’re just an asshole.”
74. “Youse fancypants. All a youse.”
75. “Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.”
76. “Up! Up on your feet! We don’t crawl here at Hudsucker Industries.”
77. “We ate sand…”
78. “He’s seen the same things I’ve seen, and it’s certainly made an impression on me.”
79. “So you have no frame of reference here.”
80. “Heavens to Betsy, Birdy!”
81. “Is that some kind of Eastern thing?”
82. “I’ll be taking these Huggies, and… whatever cash you got.”
83. “You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me.”
84. “No, I just… think I’m gonna barf.”
85.  “You don’t hold elected office in this town. You run it because people think you do. They stop thinking it, you stop running it.”
86. “You’re killing your father, Larry!”
87. “And the doc went on to explain that this woman, who looke das fertile as the Tennessee Valley, could bear no young. Her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.”
88. “Me, I don’t talk much. I just cut the hair.”
89. “Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you int o a life of aimless wanderin’?”
90. “Oh boy, how you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm once they’ve seen Karl Hungus?”
91. “In Russia, they got it all mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else… that’s the theory anyway. But what I know about it is Texas, and down here, you’re on your own.”
92. “You ain’t go a license to kill bookies, and today I ain’t sellin’ any. So take your flunky and dangle.”
93. “There’s what’s right, and there’s what’s right, and never the twain shall meet.”
94. “Well come on down here, hammerhead, and I’ll show it to ya!”
95. “If you point a gun at someone, you better make sure you shoot him. And if you shoot him, you’d better make sure he’s dead. Because if he isn’t then he’s gonna get up and try to kill you.”
96. “And if a frog had wings it wouldn’t bump its ass a-hoppin’.”
97. “I’ve spoken my peace, and counted to three.”
98. “OK, then.”
99. “Au revoir…”
100. “Fuck it, Dude… let’s go bowling.”