Quotes

The Classics


"The things you own end up owning you"
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"
The first line - "People were always asking me if I knew Tyler Durden"
The last line - "You met me at a very strange time in my life"

The Narrator


"Is that your blood?" - "Some of it, why?"
"I want bowel cancer!"
"With a gun barrel between your teeth you speak only in vowels"
"The next fucking guy to leave this room gets a...a LEAD SALAD!!!" He actually ad-libbed this!!! What a star.
"How embarrassing - a house full of condiments and no food"
"That wasn't just a bunch of stuff that got blown up. That condo was my life!!! ...I'd like to thank the Academy..."
Geek love - "She was like the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would only heal if you could stop tonguing it - but you can't" and "If I had a tumour, I would name it Marla"
"We have just lost cabin pressure"
"I used to flip through catalogues and wonder 'What kind of dining set defines me as a person?'."
"So you'll be staying in tonight, then?"
"I wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every panda that wouldn't screw to save its species"
"I'd be very careful who I talked to about this, cos whoever wrote this is dangerous, and this buttoned down, oxford-cloth psycho could just snap at any moment and stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-180 carbine gas-operated semiautomatic pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you know. Someone very, very close to you."

Both
"Tyler, you are by far the most interesting single-serving friend I've ever met. I have this thing, everything you get on a plane is single-serving..."
"Oh, I get it. It's very clever. How's that working out for you?"
"What?"
"Being clever"

"You're insane!"
"No. I think you'll find that you're insane."

First time we see the office block scene:
"Any last words?"
"I can't think of anything."
Second time we see the same office block scene:
Voice-over: "I think this is about where we came in."
"Any last words?"
"I still can't think of anything."
"Oh flashback humour, very funny."

Tyler


"You studied stuff? How were the mid-terms?"
"Now, do I give you the ass or the crotch?"
"Look at you, running around in your underwear, you look like a crazy person"
"Quit the foreplay and just ask, man."
"Would it be a problem for you?"
"would it be a problem to ask?"

The Others

Marla on the running-away money - "I consider it asshole tax"
"I saw you practicing this earlier...telling me off. Is it going as well as you hoped?"
"The condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you first meet a stranger, you dance all night, and then you throw it away - the condom, that is, not the stranger."
Biography from Bob - "He was born in a mental institution and he sleeps only one hour a night"
"In the event of a dildo, we have to use the indefinite article 'a dildo', never 'your dildo'"
"Clean food, please" - "Then I recommend the lady doesn't have the clam chowder"
The boss man - "Can I get the icon in cornflower blue?"

You Are Not...

You are not your job.
You are not how much you have in the bank.
You are not the contents of your wallet.
You are not your fucking Khakis.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

The Rules
1. You do not talk about 'Fight Club'.
2. You do not talk about 'Fight Club'.
3. When someone yells "Stop" or goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over.
4. Only two guys to a fight.
5. One fight at a time.
6. No shirts, no shoes.
7. Fights go on as long as they have to.
8. If this is your first night at 'Fight Club', you have to fight.

The Jacks
I am Jack's medulla oblongata/colon/broken heart/wasted life/raging bile duct/complete lack of surprise

The sacred text:
"You has to hand it him, he had a plan. And in a Tyler kind of way it worked. No fear, no distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide"

And the mantra:

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