Some quotes are better out of context

"The senate discussed the disturbance, and it was moved that the praetors should be empowered to have ballet-dancers flogged."

-Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome, 1.77.

Approximately 2/3 of the conversations on Lost take this form

Person 1: You need to do (x) right now! I can't explain why!

Person 2: No way am I trusting you! You're the person who lied to me/manipulated me/shot me/tortured me/drowned me/drugged me/tricked me/assaulted me/kidnapped me/led me into an ambush/stole my stuff/stole my child/locked me in a polar bear cage/locked me in a shark tank/murdered someone I loved/murdered me.

Person 1: It's really, really, important that you do (x).

Person 2: Okay, (x) it is!

And to think that I saw it on Bancroft Street

A man riding uphill on a unicycle, holding a paperback copy of Guns, Germs, and Steel. Not quite as good as the girl who was unsuccessfully trying to walk a cat on a leash, but close.