Many years ago I saw a Merlin's movie where he used a proverb something like this:     Is not the sword who makes the knight!!! ( this is not the correct sentence, but similar).   Could someone tell the me movie where he says this? Or perhaps point me some other "reference" (movie/book/etc..) where the similar meaning is used?  UPDATE #1  I don't think the specific movie I remember is the . The few bits and pieces I still remember tell me that this may be a "kids/teenager" movie, and perhaps with a "recent years story line" with some kind "Merlin" or the "kid" that travels time. I am really not sure. I think I saw this movie more than 15 years ago (the movie may be older).
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In this movie, a boy or a teen somehow ends up in the Arthurian period. He wears glasses and has a knack with inventions and gadgets. He almost gets executed by King Arthur, but he performs a magic to block the sun and gets out, which even the fireball-hurling Merlin finds amazing. He also performs other magic such as lightning (electrical) lance in a jousting arena.  I remember other details like he worshiped Elvis Presley as the king and the source of his power, and Merlin figures out he's from the future and brings back some music from the future to party with Knights of the Round Table. I tried to find this movie on my own several times, but it is just too difficult.  looked so close, but the synopsis looks different from how I remember, and I remember the kid wore glasses all the time.
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I want to use the following line in a poem: "Will he roll the dice, and follow it to Vegas?"   A couple of things to note; firstly, obviously I'm using "roll the dice" in both a figurative/idiomatic sense (as in taking a risk), and in a somewhat more literal sense (painting the image of the person actually following the dice that have been rolled to Las Vegas). That being said, my confusion here is if I can get away with using "follow it" or if I need to say "follow them" .... As I've read online "dice" traditionally refers to more than one die (i.e., the plural of die), but in the modern usage, "dice" can also be used to refer to the singular (i.e., just one die).   So, it seems like if I was referring to the image of just one die, then the way I phrased it could be correct. However, the image I'm trying to paint is the one usually associated with the phrase "roll the dice" (i.e., rolling two dice)...   So could "follow it" still be considered acceptable in this sense... or would I need to use "follow them"?... And if not referring to the dice themselves, could using, could the "it" be taken to refer to the act of rolling the dice, or would that not work either? Thanks so much in advance!!
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In A Dance with Dragons, when the sellswords of the      Windblown    talk between themselves, one says about  Daenerys' Unsullied that they are      the kind that don't break and run when you fart in their general direction.   It seems to me a reference to Monty Python's Holy Grail when the insulting Frenchman says to King Arthur and Ser Galahad:     I fart in your general direction   So, is it a reference to the Holy Grail, and are there any other references in ASoIaF to Monty Python's work?
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Who said "I am hungry?"   The quotation is not a question, but do I put "my" question mark there anyway?    This is related to, but not the same as
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So I know I've heard this saying in American English before but I just can't quite find the original.  I have come up with several made up variations like:   I don't send the Navy (or whole army, or a battalion) when all you need is a diplomat. Don't buy the whole cow when all you need is milk.   What's the more commonly heard saying/phrase for this of expression?
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After Force-choking Director Krennic, Darth Vader makes the comment      Be careful not to choke on your aspirations, Director.   This comment displays a sense of humor that seems entirely out of character for him. Is it ever explained in-universe?
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Context - One might use it in the following situations:   "An employee has an argument with her boss and a dispute follows." (she gets fired a few weeks later) "A student having an argument with his teacher over his grades takes the problem to the headmaster." (the headmaster doesn't want to get into it and says the teacher is right) "Workers go on strike for a week, get no raise and are considered absent from work."    You can say it to your son/daughter as a prediction: “Be careful mate, remember…(the saying)…  And you can also say it when he/she comes to you for comfort and support: “I told you, mate, they say that........(the saying).
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This is the context: &quot;Seasoned travellers, especially the sort that jet around the globe clutching laptops, know that certain words are to be avoided like the plague. This is because those who choose these words are masters of disguise : the service offered is the exact opposite of that indicated by the name used to describe it. Thus many flights described as “direct” are actually indirect, since they involve a stop, and a lengthy wait, in, say, Dallas-Fort Worth en route between Boston and Vancouver. Similarly, habitués of railways learn to shun any train claiming to be an “express” or “rapid”, since such services seem invariably to be the slowest (by design, not just by accident). Which perhaps make it fitting that some of the most seasoned travellers of all, management consultants, appear to have been inspired by just this sort of untruth-in-advertising. The buzziest among them now claim not just to be consultants, or advisers, or even experts. They are “thought leaders”.&quot;
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What does this phrase from The adventures of Tom Sawyer sentence mean: "True, the knife would not cut anything, but it was a "sure-enough" Barlow, and there was inconceivable grandeur in that -- though where the Western boys ever got the idea that such a weapon could possibly be counterfeited to its injury is an imposing mystery and will always remain so, perhaps."  Thank you!
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Notice these sentences:   Shops are open late in summer.   Summer is a traditionally viewed as a slow season for games.   At the summer solstice, the days are longest and the nights are shortest.   it's time to start thinking about what 2016's Song of the Summer will be.    In English class, they told us that "the" is used for the things that are known.  One example for this was a phrase like "The man who killed his wife".  So when we are speaking of that man, we know what he did. Somehow we know something more than nothing about him. He's not just every man in the world.     So Now I'm confused about why "the" is not used in the first and second sentences. Can anyone please explain it for me?
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I just watched a TV show and the guy says:     I ain't trying to fight with nobody with a baby.   So here, I can't understand the "nobody" since it make no sense to me, but it sounds like anybody, and if it's "I ain't trying to fight with anybody with a baby." that makes sense to me.
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I have been trying to find the title of this kid's movie involving these 2 scenes and the best description from what I can remember. Each of the scenes are connected by the use of the watch but in two different time periods in 1980s/1990s and then in the past.  First it’s about two best friends (I think both are male) who both set their wrist watches at a certain time to remember to watch a TV show (I think wrestling?) each week and after confirming the exact times on their wrist watches they say yeah air alright and possibly high five.  The show somehow had to do with time travel to the past. Only one of the friends goes back but I'm not sure how. While being stuck in the past and trying to solve a problem to help the people in the past, his alarm for the TV show goes off and he remembers the title of the TV show by hearing the alarm uses the battery to solve the problem. The watch didn’t cause the time traveling only that the battery of the watch was used in the past after traveling there.  But other then those scenes I don’t know the whole main plot and around the time it came out in the early 90s or late 80s.  It's not A Kid In King Arthur’s Court.
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David studies linguistics during the flight to LV-223. We get to listen and read a fable. Is it written in a real language? What is the name of the language? Can the fable be translated?  Approximate quotation:     hjewis jasma hwaelna nahast akwunsez dad'kta, tam ghermha vagam ugenthe
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Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.   sbj: fathers         det: our vrb: brought forth         obj: nation                 det: a                 adj: new                 adj: *conceived*                         adv: &lt;in&gt;                                 obj: liberty                 cnj: and                 adj: *dedicated*                         adv: &lt;to&gt;                                 obj: proposition                                         det: the                                         adj: -that-                                                 sbj: men                                                         det: all                                                 vrb: are created                                                         cmp: equal         adv: &lt;on&gt;                 obj: continent                         det: this         adv: ...?   I'm working on this but can't wrap my head around the phrase in bold. I know that it's adverbial phrase of time, but what kind of phrase is it exactly? What part of speech is 'ago'? Sources don't seem to agree.
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"All that is gold does not glitter" is the first line of a poem from the Lord of the Rings and it's supposed to mean "not all gold glitters" but I'm struggling to see how this can be deduced.  If all that is gold does not glitter then it follows that "gold never glitters". If all gold doesn't glitter then there's no such thing as gold that glitters. This is quite different from the actual meaning. "Some that is gold does not glitter" would make more sense. Am I missing something? Does "all" actually mean "not all" in this context? It's really confusing.    It looks like "Not all that is gold does glitter" would mean the same thing, but in logic it has a different meaning.
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Many of the Ringbearers (particularly those who carried it longer) used the word "precious" to describe it. Isildur described it as:     "But for my part I will risk no hurt to this thing: of all the works of Sauron the only fair. It is precious to me, though I buy it with great pain."   Bilbo himself used it at least once, when arguing with Gandalf about leaving it behind when he was leaving Bag End (this exchange and the lines were different in the movie, but the word is still there):     "Well, if you want my ring yourself, say so!" cried Bilbo. "But you won’t get it. I won’t give my precious away, I tell you."   And Gollum used it incredibly frequently, almost as if it was the ring's name. It was even his last words:     "Precious, precious, precious!" Gollum cried. "My Precious! O my Precious!"   So my question: Why "Precious"? It wasn't part of the inscription. It wasn't part of the poem that included the inscription. Was it somehow part of Sauron's crafting spell? Did Tolkien ever indicate why the Ringbearers would use that word in particular, other than that it sounded good?
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I encountered this sentence when I was learning another language. I have never used such a sentence in English nor seen one, but it seems it exists.  What idea does this sentence trying to convey? What time should we relate to?