Favorite Quotes from The stand

[K4driver]

self explanatory.
Larry:Guess I'm not much of a writer, Alice Underwood:you can say that again Larry:guess I'm not much of a writer"
Stu:I saw Jim Morrison a few years after he died"
trashcan man"Thumpity Thump" "my life for you"

[thymeoperator]

this isn't a quote but the scene where nadine is 'taken' by flagg finally, that was so powerful and scary and surreal, i really loved that. personally 'the stand' didn't end up being one of my favourites of his (i know that's some kind of sacrilege to say!), but that one scene is one of my favourites, easily.

[Robbi]

One of my favorite most memorable is when Nick writes that he doesn't believe in God and Mother Abagail says that "It don't matter, cause he believes in you" or something similar.

[K4driver]

guess I will post another
"baby can you dig your man?"
"It is therefore required you watch this execution....Those of you with small children are excused"
"what was that line "I'll be in your dream if you'll be in mine?"
M-o-o-n that spells Tom cullum.

[michal]

There's one I really like
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home." - Glen Bateman, The Stand (C&U), 3rd paragraph of Chapter 42.

There's also a nice page of Mr. King's favorite quotes (http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/sk/quotes.html) that will remind you some of the good ones. And they have quite a few from the Stand

[Bluey Lunger]

the lord is my shepherd...i shall not want for nothing. he makes me lie down in the green pastures. he greases up my head with oil. he gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. amen....(and then a bit later)...M-O-O-N, that spells sore feet.

and

what christ should have said was 'yea, verily, whenever two or three of you are gathered together, some other guy is going to get the living sh!t knocked out him.' (there's more to it, but seems to apply. we never leave the playground)

[K4driver]

i can't wait to get the power back I am gonna play a fender electric guitar.

Sprung from cages out on Highway nine, chrome wheeled fuel injected and stepping out over the line

"we shut em up and then we shut em down. just like the boss says.you believe that happy crappy?" "sure" the trashcan man said. You dig the boss?" Sure trash said. he hadn't the slightest idea who the boss was or had been"

"if you can't afford the movies go to the zoo, if you can't afford the zoo go see a politician"

[mrbeer]

One of my favorite all time King quotes is in the stand.

"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human f*ckery."
-Larry Underwood

:rofl:

[George_Stark]

There's one I really like
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home." - Glen Bateman, The Stand (C&U), 3rd paragraph of Chapter 42.

Have to agree there, not only is that my favourite quote from The Stand, its my favourite S.K quote period!

[THISisWHEREiMAKEmySTAND]

"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of change. You just...come out the other side...Or don't. "

[Checkman]

Okay my favorite quote.

"Come down and eat chicken with me beautiful. It's soooooo dark"

Got to love it.

[spilltheblood]

'And in the end, that burning was very great' from the Trashcan Man. i liked that line so much that i want to get it into a tattoo!

[LostGraveRobber]

"I'm going to see him in heaven. Tom Cullen is going to see him there, and he'll be able to talk and I'll be able to think."

This quote just really stood out to me when I was reading The Stand. Tom and Nick's friendship was one of the best part of the book for me, and this quote just made me smile when I read it.

[Ilian]

Glen Bateman(if i'm not mistaken): "Rationalism is the idea we can ever understand anything about the state of being"

[midnightlady]

M-O-O-N, that spells moon! Ratman forgives you this time.

[Nabila]

Mother Abigail : ( thinking of Randall Flagg). It's all time relevance scares me.

His goal was clear and simple: to destroy all of them.

This is one of the saddest lines I've come across in this book.

Trashcan Man was a beaten thing, used to accepting the punchings and pummelings of both fate and his own inexplicable nature... and doing so with a bowed head.

[Locnar1]

My Absolute Favorite Quote is when one of the characters(can't remember which one, I'm not a re- reader of this King novel). says something to the effect of "He thinks he's king turd of s**t mountain!"
A friend and I would lean over to each other at school and whisper this whenever someone was being too big for their britches. :laugh:

[aliciasimon]

Early in the book, one of the guys in the bar is in the hospital for the flu...(paraphrasing because I don't remember the exact text):
"Pretty sure something was in his a**. What's that for, sh*t radar???"

[Er0tic NeUr0t1c]

This first one is beautiful to me... its near the end and you should all remember it.

"And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire." Oh baby... oh yes oh go baby oh yeah OH OH CLIMAAAAAAAAAAX

and then "My life for you." [/B ]Trashy's awesome line repeated through the book.

"[B]A young man munching Fritos from a gigantic bag told Larry conversationally that he was going to fulfill a lifelong ambition. He was going to Yankee Stadium, run around the outfield naked, and then masturbate on home plate. "Chance of a lifetime man, man," he told Larry, winked with both eyes, and then wandered off, eating Fritos." FUNNY as hell.

"CIBOLLAAAAAAAAAAAAA" The look of sheer exhaustion and determination I pictured on his face as he screamed this led me to put it up here.

There are more but i can't keep thinking. Some have already been pointed out.