235 quotes found
“Silence gives notice to the music of the senses that would otherwise not be heard.”
“I'm not a slave, man. I just gotta sign out, say where I'm going, what time I'll be back and then I gotta sign back in.”
“Once upon a time...long ago in a far-off place that everyone knows is not here or now or us.”
“Some two thousand stone-throwing protesters gathered in the street outside the school. They chanted, "We want fairness. There is no fairness if you don't let us cheat." It sounds like a joke, but t...”
“Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservative...”
“Moxie gave me a small smile. "Why do you always say that- which here means?""I'll probably outgrow it," I said.”
“You said "Hi", I to be polite will say "Bye"!”
“Two examples of irony:...a cheap knock-off of a Chinese Ming vasemade in China....getting murdered in a graveyard.”
“How can you ask me to keep a secret... when you can't keep it yourself?”
“TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORTTo make a long story shortI leave all my possessionsto the Municipal Slaughterhouseto the Special Unit of the Police Departmentto Lucky Dog LottoSo now if you want you can...”
“For 'wellness', naturally is no cause of complaint--people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill--not well. Unless, as George Eliot ...”
“The irony was not lost on any of us that despite the theme there was a robot on the throne.”
“Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed.”
“My mother had not acted for ten years. Not since a reviewer wrote that her portrayal of Lady Macbeth put him in mind of an exasperated society hostess burdened with unmannerly guests who had lost t...”
“How many times do I have to tell you? We are not gangsters!”
“quoted Lewis Hyde, whose pamphlet on John Berryman and alcohol he had read in his early months at Granada House: Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who ...”
“Put a tiger on your tank”
“...Jesus was only twelve years old. Jesus was learning the carpentry trade from his father.Two Roman soldiers came into the shop with a mechanical drawing on papyrus of a device they wanted built b...”
“[sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.”
“The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.”
