If we missed a favorite of yours, let us know in the comments. Here, we’re looking back at the 25 most memorable lines from the movies since August 1998, the year that Rotten Tomatoes came into this world.

My dream - and I hope you dont find this too crazy - is that I would like the people of this community to feel that if, God forbid, there were a fire, calling the fire department would actually be a wise thing to do. Its not a big dream, its just a little dream. Maybe they were delivered just right (“Why… so… serious?”). What 1980s Daryl Hannah movie featured the line: 'I have a dream. Maybe they were hilarious (poor Gretchen, “fetch” never happened), or maybe they were chilling (“I see dead people”). They’re the lines you’re maybe a little sick of, but can’t stop loving. Before they were famous, though – before they were parodied on SNL and printed onto ironic mugs – they were words on a page and then words in a movie you were hearing for the first time, and they stuck. They’re the lines you’ve worn on T-shirts and Photoshopped into memes.

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