Classic Quotes from DC One Million #1-4

Plastic Man: "I never knew why they always passed me over for the Elongated kid. Nice guy, nice wife, but hey! Somebody left the stable door open and his charisma just bolted, I guess..."

Plastic Man: "This place is a magnet for opportunist thieves and lowlife characters."
Huntress: "You mean like you? I just can't believe we don't all wipe ourselves out...."

Green Lantern: "Sorry about that, but we've had some serious security problems up here. Come through and meet the apemen."

Plastic Man: "Speaking of New Gods, where's Orion? I miss his obvious contempt for everything I represent....Why do I look at you and think of my mother, Barda?"
Big Barda: "I don't know. Did your mother ever threaten to disembowel you?"

Future Superman: "For the fastest man alive you sure take a long time to get to the point, John."

Nightwing: "Ladies and gentlemen: My Batman voice. I know a hundred ways to make you regret this. Pick a number."

Ted Knight: "Most of my old Starman outfits are so full of holes, they look like something from a lingerie catalog...not that I would know, of course. True, it didn't hold the Phantom Lady back...dear Sandra. What a girl."

Ted Knight: "It validates everything we fought for, Jay. Whatever happens, we now know that the good prevails in the end. The dream we had, that stupid idea when we were young, that we could make things better....it all comes true, Jay."

Superman: "...Celebrations to honor my own future self? I don't know whether I should feel schizophrenic or just deeply embarassed."

Steel: "I don't want to be the voice of doom, but this team has a vivid track record for attracting big trouble...What if something goes wrong?"
John Fox: "What if hats were ants?"

John Fox: "You'll be treated like stars. Like royalty."
Aquaman: "I am royalty."

Huntress: "Why am I here? What am I doing here?"
Batman: "You must have heard; it has to do with the birds and bees. Didn't your mother and father talk to you about any of this?"

Batman: "This is the world they live in. Our world gets more like theirs every day. Get used to it."

Batman: "We can't automatically assume everyone's a enemy."
Huntress: "But they usually are, Batman."

Future Batman: "You see you have to go and this is a martial arts move developed by a telepathic octopus species inhabiting the oceans of Durla; the attack's telepathic as well as physical, and by the time you realize this sentence seems way too long and that Huntress was right....it'll all be over."

Steel: "Where did you get this, Wonder Woman?"
Wonder Woman: "....From a hidden city called Lansinar, where people had the heads of animals and built impossible machines."
Steel: "They told me you lived an interesting life. This technology's way beyond me. I'd need time to study it. You got five minutes? I liked your mother, by the way. I didn't realize she wasn't you for the first month after I joined. Good to be back?"
Wonder Woman: "I died and became a goddess. I was eternal. I walked among the gods on Olympus. And then I returned to life and here I am...still walking among gods, it seems."

Green Lantern: "Flash always gets there first and looks at his watch. You know, like some guys pick their noses?"

Flash: "So how was the tour of the 20th century, Starman?"
Future Starman: "The air tastes rotten. My gravity rod is registering toxic levels of background radiation and viral pollution. Everything seems so squeezed together....When does Tesseract technology get here?"
Flash: "Come back in a thousand years?"

Green Lantern: "Hey, Wally. Grow up. 'Uranus' stops being a funny word after you get past the age of twelve, man."
Flash: "Okay, okay. You try saying it."

Future Superman: "'Faster than a speeding tachyon, more powerful than the gravitational pull of a collapsing star, able to leap from world to world in a single bound.' That's what they say about me."

Tempest: "This is small scale: We were the Titans. We went into outer space."

Vandal Savage: "I knew your great-great-great-grandfather...or did I miss a great? In fact, I've probably met all your ancestors at one time or another."

Tempest: "I'm with you to the bitter end on this, Roy. But I'm warning you now: He's JLA class..."
Arsenel: "Yeah? So we take him down and prove that we are, too."
Tempest: "It'll look great on the business cards, Roy. Along with 'have chip on shoulder, will travel....'"

Vandal Savage (on wine): "It's Chateau Lefite Rothschild. 1847. I recognized the sound of it being poured. As one grows older, one's tastes become refined. And I am a very, very old man as these things go."

Vandal Savage: "I remember a world without the wheel. I have seen empires bloom and wither and die. Brief as flowers. And periodically, I have chosen to rule the Earth...This time I decided to wait until the competition was big enough and arrogant enough to make it worth humiliating..."

Jesse Quick: "I'm so used to working with guys who just move at the speed of light. I never see stuff like this...."

Vandal Savage: "I planned and fought and won battles you have only read about in your history books, boy. You're no tactician. There's too much need in you. Too much to prove to everyone. It's like a craving. That's your weakness. That's your undoing."

Solaris: "This is my intention: I will make him watch his oldest friends die here, in a world beyond their comprehension. I will tear down the sun and take his place in the sky. And end the Superman dynasty forever."
Vandal Savage: "Good to have you back and thinking big, Solaris. The JLA are lambs to the slaughter. Let the games begin."

Future Aquaman: "I'm sorry, Manhunter. Solaris is pure rage, pure hatred, pure terror. Your friends are already dead."
Martian Manhunter: "No. They'll find a way."

Big Barda: "If you raise that mallet against me I'll crush it in one hand."
Plastic Man: "Just let me sell the tickets for that one!"

Plastic Man: "Doc, the only black man on the team can't quit. It's an unwritten law."
Steel: "Plastic Man, I don't remember joining this group as the representative of every black man on Earth. I made it quite clear when I started: My family comes first."
Zauriel: "Steel. The JLA is sworn to protect all humanity. Not just those closest to us. Right now, the JLA is us."

Oracle: "Do you always call collect?"
Atom: "I don't carry change; metal messes up the signals from my size circuitry."

Atom: "I'm useless with faces when I'm miniaturized. They all just look like big moons to me."

Oracle: "This is incredible. In fact, this is slightly weird."
Atom: "Yeah, well, I don't usually get this far on a first date. All the way to the reticuloendothelial system. Wow."
Oracle: "So you swim through a girl's bloodstream and suddenly it's a date, huh?"
Atom: "I can't help flirting with girls who wear glasses; I'm from a college town. Nice plasma."
Oracle: "You know just what to say, don't you?"

Waverider: "Liri Lee. Hi. You died. I'm sorry."
Liri Lee: "Had to happen. You died too."

Future Wonder Woman: "It won't be the first time I've had to catch a missle."

Vandal Savage: "Understand: This is not a threat. I don't want to bargin with you. I'm simply explaining how it will happen."

Vandal Savage: "I paid for all this a long time ago; it cost me sixty loads of silver in the days of Thutmose."

Vandal Savage: "Seven hundred years ago, I loaded my catapults with the fallen bodies of Jhorasmians and fired them over the city walls of Samarkand. Nothing quite like the sight of a loved one's corpse to undermine an enemy's morale."

Vandal Savage: "The words were mine but I gave them to Hitler. He said: 'The world can only be ruled through fear.' This is my gift of terror for the Superman. I give them their children, transformed into weapons of mass destruction. For I am the future. And tomorrow belongs to me."

Plastic Man: "The celebtirty lookalikes from the future are getting those serial killer eyes again. I say we plan an ambush before it dawns on 'em how 'a la mode' they'd look wearing our intenstines as earrings..."

Future Batman: "You're right. I am going mad. The virus is causing me to experience extreme paranoid reactions. What's your excuse for trading in human lives, Starman?"

Vandal Savage: "Hitler himself said the machines would never work against the superman. Like all the rest of them down the centuries, his mortality, his fear was his downfall. He trembled before those monsters of evolution. I destroy them with a wave of my hand! Look, Hitler, look!"

Martian Manhunter: "Enough. This madness will no longer be tolerated. The age of empires and conquerors is over. You and your kind belong to the dust of history."

Future Starman: "Why are you returning the Qarvat? Do you know what I could do with this?"
Future Batman: "Generate fifteen million kelvin units."

Arsenel: "This arrow's aimed at your good eye; my fingers slip, I'm blaming the virus."

Vandal Savage: "No today, perhaps not tomorrow, but soon. Even if it takes ten thousand years. I can wait. I have forever."

Steel: "What made you trust him? How can we be sure what he'll do with that weapon?"
Future Batman: "Two-Face-Two was finally cured when the second Batman proved to him that, coin-toss by coin-toss, he'd made more good choices than evil ones. Statistics. Long story, short answer: Expect the good to win out."

Lex Luthor: "Explain to me exactly what's happening here. I'd vaule a second opinon."

Lex Luthor: "No, that was my first opinon which you simply repeat, parrot-fashion."

Future Starman: "In the end, what made me turn was remembering the light in Old Man Knight's eyes. The costume. The heritage. Like it was all still new and meaningful. In the system, nothing mean anything, because everything was possible. So I sold my soul to Solaris because I couldn't think of anything better to do; that's the honest truth. I couldn't buy it back, I knew that. But I could look good trying."

Future Starman: "The Knight Family history. Tradition. Heritage. There never seemed to be any place for me in all that. Always where you least expect it, huh?"

Hourman: "Because of me, Starman is dead. Because of me, Solaris now exists to plaque the galaxy for the next 833 centuries. Because of me the Justice League of this era is doomed in the future. This is not self-pity."

Narrator:: "The first impact sends a shock wave across late summer of the year 4070: A young woman named Veda Nite spills her lunch, misses her pod connection and becomes Doc Midnite thirty seconds later than she should have. She still saves the universe in 4078, as usual."

Solaris: "I am Solaris. Perfect engine of stellar annihilation. My strategies have been calculated across centuries. I have come to destory the sun and end the Superman dynasty. I am perfect in my hatred. I am unstoppable in my perfection."

Batman: "Our enemy is capable of studying, analyzing, planning and responding at speeds millions of times beyond anything in the 20th century. On the other hand...we have the Flash."

Wonder Woman: "It's beautiful...They have pacifying weapons."

Green Lantern: "Batman...no way is ring powerful enough to hold down an exploding sun..I can't do it."
Batman: "Yes you can. The ring does whatever you think, doesn't it? Trust me, Green Lantern. And think big."

Green Lantern: "Hey, Superstar! Imminent nuclear chain reactions ring any bells?"

Batman: "Obviously we survive to take our story back home and sow the seeds of our survival in the past."
Aquaman: "You always make it sound convincing. Convince Green Lantern, Batman!"

Future Superman: "It's up to your era's Superman to race the Kryptonite bullet and stop the assassination of his own future self!"
Green Lantern: "No sweat."

Future Batman: "I had to send you...the memoir said the future needed you...your friend Alfred said...thiry pages survived."
Batman: "Lives were saved, I accept, but...I'm trying hard to find my free will in all of this."

Green Lantern: "I"m wiped, J'onn. I feel like I gate-crashed Mount Olympus. Must be coffee- shakes, huh?"

Superman: "Duty roster's on the fridge door. Meeting adjourned."

Green Lantern: "Great. I made 'feat' status. What comes next, miracles?"

Superman: "I don't like to think about living forever."
Martian Manhunter: "It becomes natural in time. Nor is the future set, Superman."

Martian Manhunter: "I fear the Justice League's greatest challenge lies just ahead..."
Superman: "Doesn't it always, J'onn?"

Batman: "I disaprove of your methods, it's true. I've also, in the past, found you to be pedantic, inflexible, brutal and lacking finesse. But I've enjoyed watching you change."
Huntress: "What's that supposed to mean....?"

Oracle: "This is Oracle, the eyes of the world...in serious need of visine."

Chronos: "Message from Gabriel Walker: Congratulations: You have been conned by Chronos. 'Checkmate.'"

Narrator:: "The sky seems to catch fire, as if struck by a flint. Vandal Savage, the last caveman, experiences an overwhelming sense of deja vu. In the 853rd century, Mitch Shelley, the Ressurrection Man, dies with a smile on his face."