5,850 quotes found
“Does anyone here speak English? Or even Ancient Greek?— A very lost Marcus Brody”
“The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.”
“Oh, right. She doesn’t know your secret identity.” Andy unzipped his sweatshirt and tossed it on a chair. “So, Meg Ryan just sent Tom Hanks a book but…” “No, Meg Ryan just sent NY152 a book, which ...”
“Just bear a passing resemblance to a fictional romantic trope I like and I will love you forever. We're all just trying to find the Mark Darcy of our workplace, aren't we?”
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.”
“Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.”
“...it is indeed a street of so impertinent a nature, so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads, and the principal inn of the city, that a day never passes in which parties o...”
“A palindrome,” I said the first time she told me. She looked at me, perplexed, and that’s when I knew I could never love her. What a waste of a palindrome she was, that Hannah.-Owen Gentry”
“JACK.I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had...”
“Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.”
“You want me to invite him to dinner.” “I want you to invite him to dinner,” she agreed. “You know,” he said, “most gay men don’t have mothers who are this enthusiastic about their love lives.” “Tha...”
“Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.”
“It’s true that journalism in reality is not the journalism that we learnt in the university. It is far from it.”
“Web analytics is like teenage sex:- Everyone talks about it.- Nobody really knows how to do it.- Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.”
“I thought you were just typical teenagers.”No one has ever called me typical. I can’t say I like it.”
“Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged k...”
“one day Satan himself visits, along with his great-grandmother—who is, not surprisingly, a total fucking bitch.”
“he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.”
“David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: “I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.”
“Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and th...”
