03 22 12
War was easier than daughters…
... Eddard Stark, from “Game of Thrones”
08 10 11
... There are ten different ways to tell if this can is cold. They’re called fingers.
... from an ad introducing their new, gimmick-free beer can, by Heineken
08 06 11
... “I never knew words could be so confusing,” Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog’s ear. “Only when you use a lot to say a little,” answered Tock.
... from The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
07 18 11
... “I’m a real believer in that creativity comes from limits, not freedom.”
... Jon Stewart
04 30 11
... “They taste like burning.”
... Ralph Wiggum
04 25 11
... “Tomorrow is Saturday. And Sunday comes afterwards.”
... Rebecca Black
04 18 11
... “She loves me and I love her. I believe. It’s wonderful when you can think that way... yeah... reciprocal. And... That’s the right way to be.”
... Walter Lindauer
03 31 11
... “When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him.”
... Don Draper
03 10 11
... “He paid the bill, and I followed him out of that restaurant and into another. Here the waiters wore pink jackets like hunting coats, and there was a lot of horse tack on the walls. We sat down, and my father began to shout again. “Master of the hounds! Tallyhoo and all that sort of thing. We’d like a little something in the way of a stirrup cup. Namely, two Bibson Geefeaters.”
... from Reunion, by John Cheever
03 02 11
... “Winning!”
... Charlie Sheen
03 02 11
... “Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!!”
... Dr. Seuss
10 24 10
... “The instructor or teacher should not be a pedant. What is required is someone to tease and irritate the student and help him discover himself.”
... Alexey Brodovitch
10 11 10
... “As he peered ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed too long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.”
... from Stuart Little, by E.B. White
08 29 10
... “When people say to me how do you get through life or each day, it’s the same thing. To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. Number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.”
... Jim Valvano – from his 1993 ESPY Awards acceptance speech
08 04 10
... “The Lieutenant’s answer startled me by its sudden conviviality. “Bring ‘em on,” he said, and rubbed his hands together, like a hearty drinking man.”
... from Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, by J.D. Salinger
07 14 10
... “An officer should never put himself in a position where he takes anything from his men.”
... from “Beyond Band of Brothers”, by Major Dick Winters
05 06 10
... “Something rolled down his throat to his stomach, cold and empty, his old feeling of the dropping hole. He leaned against the table, closing his eyes. It had never been quite real to him before that this was the thing actually expected of him—to fill a sheet of paper, to create something on a sheet of paper.”
... from “The Fountainhead”, by Ayn Rand
03 21 10
... “I’m supposed to cut back on dangling participles, and I’m not allowed to split any infinitives for at least another week.”
... 82-year-old Hall of Fame announcer, Vin Scully, on returning to work after an injury from a fall
03 19 10
... “I’d tried, long ago, to return the knocks, pounding the ceiling with a broom handle, getting up on a stepladder to follow the footfalls, only to find that, as the one below, I was unable to fend off the knocking; because to knock up is not the same as to knock down, and any sound that resides at the feet most certainly isn’t the same as a sound that comes down upon the head.”
... from “The Knocking”, by David Means
02 08 10
... “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
... Holden Caulfield
02 08 10
... “Take most people, they’re crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they’re always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that’s even newer. I don’t even like old cars. I mean they don’t even interest me. I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.”
... Holden Caulfield
02 08 10
... “All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she’d fall off the goddam horse, but I didn’t say anything or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it’s bad if you say anything to them.”
... Holden Caulfield
01 23 10
... “All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
... Conan O'Brien
01 21 10
... “SAMO as an end to bogus pseudo intellectual. My mouth, therefore an error. Plush safe... he think.”
... SAMO (aka JMB)
01 14 10
... “You can teach technique. You cannot teach passion.”
... Chef Mark Peel
01 05 10
... “We were under a big blue umbrella, side-by-side on two chaise lounges, whose plastic covers sizzled against our suits and flesh; I turned my head to look at Brenda and smelled that pleasant little burning odor in the skin of my shoulders.”
... from “Goodbye, Columbus”, by Philip Roth
12 28 09
... “Some years ago I discovered that all the work I had done that was meaningful and significant came out of an affectionate relationship with a client.
And I am not talking about professionalism; I am talking about affection.”
... Milton Glaser
10 14 09
... “Average is dumb.”
... Harvey Pekar
08 30 09
... “Talking about art is like dancing about architecture.”
... David Bowie
08 28 09
... “The world belongs to the energetic.”
... R.W. Emerson
08 28 09
... “Yeeeeeea.”
... Amper
05 04 09
... “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
... Clemenza
05 04 09
... “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
... Frank LLoyd Wright
04 22 09
... “He shoots, he scores!”
... from various voices heard this week
03 02 09
... “That’s right, Browning,” said the Under Secretary. “You’ve said exactly the wrong thing. I’ve got to be going.” He stood up and turned and went out, all dignity.
... from “Graven Image”, by John O'Hara
02 24 09
... She runs across her yard with her pizza, jumps over a stump, goes into the house. She could have gone around the stump. It was more fun to leap over the stump, like a gazelle. So that’s how you have fun.
... from Eeeee Eee Eeee, a novel by Tao Lin
02 18 09
... And the piano, it sounds like a carnival / And the microphone smells like a beer / And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, “man, what are you doin here?”
... Billy Joel