Quotes 2019
“And now I know just why she,
Keeps me hanging 'round, (Hanging 'round)She needs someone to walk on
So her feet don't touch the ground”
(From the song “She”, by The Monkees, written by Bobby Hart and Tommy Boyce)
“Everybody longs to be loved and
longs to know that (they) are lovable.
Consequently, the greatest thing we can do is to help somebody know that
they are loved and capable of loving.”
(Fred “Mr. Rogers”, from the
documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor”)
“I finished my act and thought ‘I
have just done The Tonight Show’. What happened while I was out there was very
similar to an alien abduction: I remember very little of it, though I’m
convinced it occurred.”
(Steve Martin, in his memoir
Born Standing Up.)
“I realized I was dropping my ‘ings’
– runnin’, walkin’, and talkin’ – and I worked like Eliza Doolittle to elevate
my speech. It was a struggle; at first I
thought I sounded pretentious and unnatural.
But I did it, though now and then I slip back into my natural way of
speakin’.”
(Steve Martin, in his memoir
Born Standing Up.)
“I’m tired, John. I’m tired of
working for a company that doesn’t care about my dedication or want to hear my
ideas.”
(Diane Vallere, in her murder
mystery book “Union Jacked”.)
Quotes 2018
“Sometimes I want to do that again,”
she continues, “Find the staircase in that wall of noise and climb it. Because
the adrenaline in that is transcendent, I know that much. I’m aware of what it
is to be unaware, if you like. But there are other ways to do that.”
(Katie Jane Garside, during
an interview discussing her former band Daisy Chainsaw)
“Hiding and denying and being afraid
is no way to treat love. Love demands
bravery. No matter the occasion, love
expects us to arise.”
(From the book “You Know Me
Well”, written by Nina LaCour &
David Levitan)
"When I was 14, my face looked
like a potato and a chipmunk had a baby and it was me."
(Anne Hathaway, poking fun at
her teenage self, on The Late Show)
After Roseanne Barr blamed the sleep
aid Ambien for her racist Twitter rant that
caused ABC to cancel the hit reboot of her “Roseanne” show, Sanofi - the maker of Ambien- responded to Barr’s claim that
the sleep aid was behind her offensive words. The company tweeted, “While all
pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect
of any Sanofi medication.”
“I've been searching for the daughter
of the devil himself
I've been searching for an angel in
whiteI've been waiting for a woman who's a little of both
And I can feel her but she's nowhere in sight”
(From the song One Of These Nights, written and performed by the Eagles)
“Road Trips require a couple of
things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent
selection of tunes- Oh, and directions.”
(Jenn McKinlay, author of the
book “Books Can Be Deceiving”)
Quotes 2017
“When Is The ‘Right Time’ For Black People To Protest?”
It’s wrong to do it in the streets;
It’s wrong to do it in the tweets;You cannot do it on the field;
You cannot do it if you’ve kneeled;
And don’t do it if you’re rich,
you ungrateful son of a bitch.
Because there’s one thing that’s a fact:
You cannot protest if you’re black.
(Daily Show host Trevor Noah in
response to some conservative backlash about protests during the national anthem from NFL players, and about
Stevie Wonder at his own concert, and a black ESPN commentator using her private Twitter
account)
“[No man has the] right to mislead others, who
have less access to history, and less leisure to study it, . . . Thus substituting falsehood and
deception for truthful evidence and fair argument.”
(Abraham
Lincoln, “Cooper Union Address,” 1860)
“It is not the critic who counts; not
the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds
could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in
the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no
effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the
deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in
a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
neither know victory nor defeat.”
(Theodore Roosevelt)
“My only advice for any politician is
to be a public servant and not a party servant—because there’s a big
difference. Politics can get in the way. You’re here to serve the people, no
matter what it takes. Whether they’re a Democrat or a Republican, they need
freeways and schools and affordable housing. They need clean air and water and
good educations and healthcare coverage. There are all these things to grind
out and do—and a lot of obstacles and special interests—and you can’t complain
about it, because it’s part of the game.”
The new Celebrity Apprentice host,
in response to what advice he has for Donald Trump.
(Arnold Schwarzenegger, TV
Guide, January 2017)
"Hey Donald, I have a great
idea. Why don't we switch jobs? You take over TV, because you're such an expert
in ratings, and I take over your job and then people can finally sleep
comfortably again,"
(Arnold Schwarzenegger, 04
February 2017, in response to President Trump taking time yet again during an
official presidential address to mock the ratings for Schwarzenegger’s turn on
The Celebrity Apprentice)
"You ever regret going on
vacation? 'Take the week off,' they said. 'America will still be here when you
get back,' they said.' You've got to
give the guy [President Trump] credit. He can really get a lot of stuff undone. From Obamacare to climate change to torture,
he's already moved the country back to 2004. If this keeps up, pretty soon I'm
going to launch the Colbert Report."
(Stephen Colbert, The Late Show, 30
January 2017, about Trump’s second week of executive orders)
Bill O'Reilly:
“Putin is a killer.”
President Trump: “There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers. Well, you think our country is so innocent?”(Fox New Interview, 04 February 2017)
“Morning Joe” host, Joe Scarborough: “He [Vladamir Putin] kills
journalists that don't agree with him.”
Donald Trump: “Well,
I think that our country does plenty of killing, too, Joe.”(“Morning Joe” interview in 2015)
Quotes: 2016
“Pie - not to be confused with
quiche, which is pie’s high maintenance cousin who went to finishing school and
owns monogrammed flatware,”
(John Oliver, on Last Week
Tonight, November 2016)
“Some people's foresight is other people's
hindsight.”
(Me, explaining why some people
make stupid choices and other’s don’t, 11 August 2016)
"That's a Trump-ian slip - when
you tell the truth when you are trying to pander."
The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah explaining how Donald Trump let his
insincere support for the NRA slip out during a speech by saying that the
number of guns his sons have frightens him a little. (The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, 24 May 2016)
"The
question is: 'Are we rock 'n' roll?' And
I say, 'You goddamn right we rock 'n' roll.' Rock 'n' roll is not an
instrument. It's not even a style of music. It's a spirit that's been going on
since the blues, jazz, bebop, soul, rock 'n' roll, R&B, heavy metal, punk
rock and, yes, hip-hop. Rock 'n' roll is
not conforming to the people who came before you, but creating your own path in
music and life. That is rock 'n' roll,
and that is us."
(Ice Cube, explaining why N.W.A and hip-hop belong in the Rock & Roll
Hall Of Fame)
Quotes: 2015
“It's good to have a
contemptuous indifference towards your audience.”
“You had me at brown and
viscous.”
(Aimee
Mann, at her 2nd Annual Christmas Show, sarcastically talking to one
of the other performers)
"You know me, I never
cry" - a girl who is about to tell you a story where she cried about
something stupid.
(Anna Kendrick, @AnnaKendrick47 on
Twitter, 18 November 2015)
I
re-read the book “High Fidelity” and then of course had to re-watch the movie
immediately afterwards. I was struck by
how different in tone the two of them were- the book was a meditation on
wasting away one’s life and the movie was more of a romantic comedy full of
quips and funny one-liners. Both were
excellent in their own way and had numerous quotable moments. Some of my favorites are below.
“The making of a great
compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it
might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got
to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to
cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway... I've started to make a
tape... in my head... for Laura. Full of stuff she likes. Full of stuff that
make her happy. For the first time I
can sort of see how that is done.”
“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry
about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of
culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to
thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain,
misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I
miserable because I listened to pop music?“
(From the movie High Fidelity)
“I've committed to
nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.”
“Over the last couple of years,
the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little
pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep
regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've
let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew
it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.”
“Read any women's magazine and you'll see the
same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or
thirty years on - are hopeless in bed. They are not interested in
"foreplay"; they have no desire to stimulate the erogenous zones of
the opposite sex; they are selfish, greedy, clumsy, unsophisticated. These
complaints, you can't help feeling, are ironic. Back then, all we wanted was
foreplay, and girls weren't interested. They didn't want to be touched,
caressed, stimulated, aroused; in fact, they used to thump us if we tried. It's
not really very surprising, then, that we're not much good at all that. We
spent two or three long and extremely formative years being told very forcibly
not even to think about it. Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay
changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something
that women want and men can't be bothered with. (Or so they say. Me, I like foreplay - mostly because the times
when all I wanted to do was touch are alarmingly fresh in my mind.) The perfect
match, if you ask me, is between the Cosmo woman and the fourteen-year-old
boy.”
“ ‘I went out with her before Kevin
did. Only for a week or so’- I have to up it a bit, because if I told the
truth, she'd think I was mad- 'But they all count, don't they? A snog's a snog,
after all, ha ha.' I'm not going to be written out of history like this. I played
my part. I did my bit.
'What did you say your name
was?' 'Rob. Bobby. Bob. Robert. Robert
Zimmerman.' Fucking hell.
'Well, Robert, I'll tell her you
called, when I speak to her. But I'm not sure she'll remember you.'
She's right, of course. She'll
remember the evening she got off with Kevin, but she won't remember the evening
before. It's probably only me who remembers the evening before. I guess I should
have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good
at.”
(From the book High Fidelity by Nick
Hornby)
“That bottle of wine that you
have in case of a "special occasion" and how 7 pm starts to feel real
"special" when you got no other booze.”
(Anna Kendrick, on Twitter, August 29,
2015)
“You get hurt, hurt 'em back.
You get killed... walk it off.”
(Captain
America, giving a pre-battle pep talk in the Avengers: Age Of Ultron movie)
“All sad people like poetry.
Happy people like songs.”
(Vanessa, Eva Green’s character on Showtime’s
‘Penny Dreadful’ show.)
“Mobile phones are vertical devices. Turning it sideways is a lot of work.”
(Troy Young, of Hearst Digital [Cosmo
magazine], stating why videos should be recorded vertically for use by companies like SnapChat.)
“Marijuana, zombies and
GMOs? What could go wrong?”
(Spoken by Murphy, on the TV show ‘Z
Nation’ on the SyFy Channel)
“If
people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break
them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many
are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills. It
kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you
are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no
special hurry.”
“I know the night is not the
same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night
cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night
can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
(Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms)
“There is nothing noble in
being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your
former self.”
(From
the movie Kingsman: The Secret Service. Oh,
and originally by Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms)“The rule still stands. We’re sensitive to all the parties involved, but if I call you a friend today, and you do something wrong tomorrow, I can say what you did is wrong but still consider you a friend. They are two different things.”
(Vida Ali, the daughter-in-law of Ben’s Chil Bowl founder Ben Ali responding to questions about whether Bill Cosby still has “Eats free for life” privileges.)
“All the art of living lies
in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on” ...Henry Havelock Ellis
Yogi Berra passed away today (09-22-2015) and I thought I should include some of his stuff since he was the master of the quotable malapropism.
“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
“It’s déjà vu all over again.”
“When you come to a fork in the road … take it.”
“I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.”
“Never answer an anonymous letter.”
“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
“I want to thank you for making this day necessary.”
“I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to
school like I did.”
“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
“He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”
“You can observe a lot by watching.”
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
“It gets late early out here.”
“If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.”
“If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s
going to stop them.”
“Pair up in threes.”
“Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.”
“It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”
“A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
(Yogi Berra, said during the course of his
Yankees career and lifetime.)
Quotes From 2014
“I'm so humble it's crazy. I'm like the Kanye West of
humility.”
(Anna
Kendrick, on Twitter, 2:15pm - 4 Nov 2014)
(Anna Kendrick, on Twitter, 2:12pm - 11 Sep
2014)
Said while searching for a cell phone signal…."How
can there be no bars? It's like the middle-80's!"
(Eliza [Karen Gillian] on the TV show
"Selfie", 2014)
"I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill
themselves. How in the hell could you possibly do that to your
children? I don’t care how well adjusted your kid might be — choosing to kill
yourself, rather than to be there for that child, is every shade of awful,
traumatic and confusing. I think as soon as you have children, you waive your
right to take your own life. No matter what mistakes you make in life, it
should be your utmost goal not to traumatize your kids. So, you don’t kill
yourself."
“My family has always been private about our time spent together,” she said in a statement. “It was our way of keeping one thing that was ours, with a man we shared with an entire world. But now that’s gone, and I feel stripped bare. My last day with him was his birthday”–July 21, three weeks before his death–“and I will be forever grateful that my brothers and I got to spend that time alone with him, sharing gifts and laughter. He was always warm, even in his darkest moments. While I’ll never, ever understand how he could be loved so deeply and not find it in his heart to stay, there’s minor comfort in knowing our grief and loss, in some small way, is shared with millions.”
(Zelda
Williams, commenting on her father's- Robin William’s- suicide, Time Magazine,
14
"I always thought of disco as a beautiful woman with no brain."
(By Mark Mothersbaugh, Esquire magazine,
February 2014)
"In
the mid-seventies, I saw a Burger King commercial on TV. they had taken
Pachelbel 's "canon", which was a beautiful piece of classical music,
and turn it into: 'hold the pickle/hold the lettuce/special orders don't upset
us/all we ask is that you let us/serve it you way.' And I was like, Oh
my God! they know how to change how people think. They know
how to make people do things. They don't use rebellion. They
use subversion! I thought, It's so evil, yet it's perfect!"
(By Mark Mothersbaugh, Esquire magazine,
February 2014)
“A book I consider grossly overrated- On the Road (by Jack Kerouc). I hate that book. What a stupid book. What a limp, flaccid, impotent little manifesto of a book.”
(By Joshua Ferris, author of “Then We Came
To An End” and “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour”)
“By now I had learned something about the psychology behind the way a guy asks for chips,” writes Bloom. “Wanting to be overstocked or short-stacked at a table is a clear indication of playing style and ego. Whereas some guys want the tallest piles they can manage, the better to bully the table and scare people, Ben’s buy-in choice told me that he was a smart player who liked to limit his downside, especially at a table with a bunch of guys he wasn’t used to playing with.”
(By Molly Bloom, Vanity Fair except from
her book, July 2014)
"Thank
you for this lovely blunt object that I will forever use as a weapon against
self-doubt"
(By Anne Hathaway, after winning Best
Supporting Actress at the 2013 GoldenGlobes.)
On
Agreeableness: "I get pissed off every time somebody says to me, 'No
problem.' I don't care if it's a problem or not! That's your job. Do it! You're
not there to evaluate whether or not it's a problem. How 'bout 'As you wish,
sir.' "
(By Alan Arkin, during an Esquire magazine
interview, February 2013)
Finn: [to
Rachel] You and I both know how this thing ends. I don't know how, or when, and
I don't care where you're living or what dope you're shacked up with. You're my
girlfriend. We are endgame. I know that and you know that.
(Glee, Valentine’s Day episode, February
14th, 2013)
Stewie’s
Advice For Seth McFarlane When Hosting The Oscars:
1) “If ‘Ted’ wins for Best Picture, make sure you-
ha ha, just kidding!”2) “When you first come out, make sure you wear a name tag. No one over 40 knows who you are.”
3) “Let Nick Nolte sniff your hand before you try to touch him.”
4) “Wear a black ribbon in memory of all the other ribbons.”
5) “Say we need to find a cure for some fake disease and see if anyone claps.”
6) “Chris Rock, David Letterman, Anne Hathaway, James Franco, and Hugh Jackman are all trained performers. But I’m sure you’ll do great.”
(From Entertainment Weekly, 22 Feb 2013)
“Yes, I’m
disappointed. I was so sure of
myself. But I know God loves me and I
just pray that He will…. punish them.
All of them.”
(Mandy [Kristen Bell], after not getting picked on Burning Love (a reality dating show parody.)
"Musicians
want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts." - Billy Joel
"A colored
is a very frightened-to-death Afro-American.
A Negro is one that makes it in the system, and he wants to be
white. A nigger, he's loud and
boisterous, wants to be seen. Nobody
likes a nigger. A black man has
pride. He wants to build, he wants to
make his race mean something. Wants to
have a culture and art forms. And he's
not prejudiced. I am a black American
man. Now you go ahead and print
it."
(James Brown, 1982, from an article in
Rolling Stone)
"I like
the idea of me doing my job more than the idea of someone else doing my
job"
(Antonio Banderas, in the movie Haywire,
January 2012)
“The new
album by Little Boots could serve as a good insurance policy against the new
Daft Punk album being a disappointment.” - Chris Richards, Washington Post
review of the new album by Little Boots (May 6, 2013), summing up exactly how
anticipated the new Daft Punk album is, and it is not likely to live up to
expectations.
"'It's
wearing on him [Macklemore] in private', the producer Ryan Lewis says. 'In public he tries as hard as he can to care
for people and not be an asshole. Nobody
wants to be Kanye, you know?'"
(Rolling Stone magazine, 29 August 2013)"Who here actually thinks I would do '50 Shades Of Grey' as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life."
-Emma Watson, via Twitter, addressing rumors that she might be up for a role in the adaptation of the steamy book.
Edgar
Wright: "The movie is essentially [Simon Pegg's character] bringing about
his own intervention."
Simon Pegg:
"It's not in any way unintentional that there are 12 steps to him having
this showdown with a higher power. Every
now and then people will see it and go, 'I really want to go on a pub
crawl.' And I think that's not really
what we are getting at. It's not a love
letter to alcohol at all."(Entertainment Weekly interview, 30 August 2013)
“There's
something scary about stupidity made coherent.”
(The Real Thing, a play by Tom Stoppard)
From Astonishing X-Men Volume 1 (Written
by Joss Whedon):
Beast- “What’s
this all about?”, referring to a fight between Wolverine and Cyclops about Jean
Grey’s death.
Emma Frost: “What
do you think? Superpowers. A
scintillating wit and the best body money can buy… and I still rate below a
corpse.”
Kitty: “Okay,
I officially really, really don’t know why I’m here. I’m not a fighter, not like you guys”
Logan: “You’ve
been in it plenty, kid. I’d take you at
my back any day.”Scott: “But you’re not a fighter. Your power isn’t aggressive, it’s protective. That’s good to show. And people like you. Hank’s articulate as anything but what people see is mostly, well, a beast. Emma’s a former villain, Logan’s a thug.”
Logan: “Born and bred.”
Scott: “And me… I can lead a team. But I haven’t looked anyone in the eyes since I was fifteen.”
Kitty: “So I’m what- a P.R. stunt?”
Emma: “Yes, our own poster child. Isn’t it sweet? ‘The non-threatening Shadowcat’. Or ‘Sprite’, or ‘Ariel’ or whatever incredibly unimpressive name you’re using nowadays.”
Lyrics to the song “With A Girl Like
You” [1967] by The Troggs
“I want to
spend my life with a girl like you
And do all
the things that you want me to Till that time has come
That we might live as one
Can I dance with you
I tell by
the way you dress that you're so refined
And by the
way you talk that you're just my kind
Girl why
should it be
That you
don't notice me Can I dance with you
Baby baby is
there no chance
I can take
you for the last dance All night long yeah I've been waiting
Now there'll be no hesitating
So before
this dance has reached the end
To you
across the floor my love I'll send I just hope and pray that I'll find a way to say
Can I dance with you”
Quotes From 2012
“I am in the
shallow end of a very dark pool”
(June, from the TV show Don’t Trust
The Bitch In Apartment 23)
“I guess I
have to go but I’d prefer to stay”
(Daniel Day Lewis, as Lincoln, in the
movie Lincoln)
Rolling
Stone: What do you want for Christmas?
Ke$ha: I
want an adult baby stroller so my managers can stroll me around to interviews
while I drink Slurpees.Rolling Stone: Really? Slurpees? No booze?
Ke$ha: I just love 7-Eleven. If the world was ending in 20 minutes, I'd walk across the street to 7-Eleven and hang out there with my cat, Mr. Peeps. 7-Eleven makes me really happy. It's a one-stop shop, it's open all night, and the green and red colors make me feel safe.
(From a Rolling Stone Interview with musician/performer Ke$ha)
“I gotta
join that group (AA). I used to have a
liquor cabinet but now I just have a cabinet.”
- heard at a poker game.
Quotes from the movie “Seeking A Friend
For The End Of The World”:
Penny: Is
she the one that got away?
Dodge: Well
they all got away but... she was the first.
Penny: I
wish we met each other a long time ago. When we were kids.
Dodge: It
couldn't have happened any other way. It had to happen now.Penny: But it isn't enough time--
Dodge: It never would have been.
Penny: I
won't steal anything, if you promise not to rape me.
Dodge: Okay.
Penny: I
don't know, I just... I love records. I mean, they're not for everyone, you
know? You really have to take care of vinyl. It's very delicate, it can get
wrecked so easily. You really have to love it. Do you hear how full it sounds?
Now, what you want to buy is a thicker record. They're more stable. The grooves
in them are sort of deeper and wider. You get more detail. I mean, they're
harder to carry around 'cause they're heavier, but they're worth it.
Penny:
You're a really nice person.
Dodge: You
are an awful judge of character.
Radio
Announcer: "The final mission to save mankind has failed...the 70 mile
wide asteroid known as 'Matilda' is set to collide with Earth in exactly three
weeks time, and we'll be bringing you our countdown to the end of days, along
with all your classic rock favorites."
Quotes From 2005 thru 2011
"Going
on a year now I ain't had nothin' twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries!”
…..Jewell Staite
in the movie "Serenity"
"Tattoo
on the lower back? Might as well be a bull's-eye."
…..Vince Vaughn
in the movie "Wedding Crashers"
“The
individual who embodies your personal definition of love does not really
exist. The person is real and the
feelings are real but you create the context.
They’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you
really, really want to love someone… but for the rest of your life they will
control how you feel about everyone else.
If someone asked Quincy to rank the romantic relationships of her life,
I think I would place third of fourth. I
might even end up seventh, which is a difficult thing to admit. But she will always be No. 1 for me, no
matter whom I meet, and that has far more to do with me than it does with
her. And now she’s officially gone, just
as Lenore is figuratively gone and Diane is potentially gone. I’m still alive, but I feel myself dying,
person by person by person by person.”
…..Chuck
Klosterman, in the book “Killing Yourself To Live”
“If there's
any fighting, you fall down or run away.
It's okay to leave them to die.”
…..Dr. Simon Tam,
to River
The
Operative: “I want to resolve this like civilized men. I'm not threatening you. I'm unarmed.”
Capt. Mal
Reynolds: “Good.” [Shoots Operative in the chest, grabs Inara and gets ready to
leave] The Operative: [grabs Mal from behind] “I am, however, wearing full body armor. I am not a moron!”
Mal: “I've staked my crew's life on the theory that you're a person, actual and whole, and if I'm wrong you'd best shoot me now... [River cocks the gun she is pointing at Mal] Or, we could talk more.”
Capt.
Malcolm Reynolds: [Over the ship's intercom]
“This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence,
so we may experience some slight... turbulence and then explode.”
Jayne
Cobb: “We're gonna explode? I don't
wanna explode!”
River
Tam: “Put a bullet to me. Bullet in the
brain pan, squish.”
"I'm
not Prince or Rivers Cuomo who brags about having hundreds of great
songs," Reznor said. "And to that I would say, Prince, if you have a
hundred great songs or a thousand, how about picking a few and putting them on
a record because your last several have sucked. Same for you, Rivers. I say
that constructively, you know. I might be happy and engaged, but I can still be
a prick."
-- Trent Reznor (Nine Inch
Nails), in July 2009 Spin magazine interview
"Your
child may be an honor roll student but your driving sucks."... Seen
on a bumper sticker while driving to work this morning.
Michael Caine
Oscar-Winning supporting role: A compassionate
doctor in 1999's The Cider House RulesBox office for winning film: $57.5 million, Number of roles within five years of Oscar win: 13
Why him: With an earlier supporting win for 1986's Hannah and Her Sisters, the British actor rarely turns down work, including his gig as manservent Alfred in the recent Batman franchise. His philosophy: "First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."
Onstage And Off,
They Said A Mouthful At The Oscars
(By Susan Wloszczyna, USA
Great
dialogue isn't just found in Oscar-worthy movies. USA
"Ladies
and gentlemen, the show took so long that Avatar now takes place in the
past." — Co-host Steve Martin, wrapping it up
"Being
a friend is getting the other a cup of coffee. Can you do that for me, Ted? It
is Ted, isn’t it?" —Tim Robbins, quoting Shawshank Redemption co-star
Morgan Freeman on the last day of shooting
"A
fantasticially fantastic Mr. foxy Fox. Or, in the words of my mother's
co-workers, 'He's just so dreamy.' " —Vera Farmiga on the wonder who is
her Up in the Air co-star, George Clooney
"They
just said my name at the Oscars. I'd better enjoy it because it will never
happen again." — Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry while handing out the
editing award
"The
thought that I'll have a two-legged man in my room tonight is so exciting, I
can't stand it." — Honorary Academy Award recipient Lauren Bacall
"That
means 'This seemed like a better idea during rehearsal.' " — Makeup award
presenter Ben Stiller in blueface and Avatar braids after sputtering his intro
in the film's language of Na'vi
"It's a
collaboration between handsome gifted people and sickly little mole
people." — Incensed actor Robert Downey Jr. about working with writers
such as snarky co-presenter Tina Fey
"Meryl Streep holds the record for the most nominations for an actress. Or, as I like to think of it, most losses." — Steve Martin teasing his It's Complicated love interest
"The
day started when we went over to Quentin's. He threw a party at his house for
us. He had pizza and red-velvet cupcakes and Cristal Champagne and DJs. We came
straight here from his house. He said, 'Eat up, guys. The food at the Oscars is
terrible.' " —Inglourious Basterds actor Eli Roth on director Tarantino's
pre-ceremony treat
Martin:
"Oh, look, there's that damn Helen Mirren." Co-host Alec Baldwin: "Steve, that's
Dame Helen Mirren."
Martin
(referring to actor Christoph Waltz): "In Inglourious Basterds, he played
a Nazi obsessed with finding Jews."
He and Baldwin look out into the Kodak Theatre crowd and spread their
arms. Martin: "Well, Christoph ...
the mother lode."
"I even
voted for Jeff Bridges." — George Clooney on his fellow best-actor nominee
on E!
From The Book “Outwitting Trolls” by
William G. Tapply:
“Dogs love
you, no doubt about it, but they love food best of all.”
“Then Ken
got divorced and moved to Baltimore and shortly after that I got divorced
too. We’d been out of touch ever since
but Ken And I used to be pretty good friends, and when he called me saying he
was coming up to Massachusetts and would love to meet me for a drink if I could
sneak away, just for old times’ sake, I agreed instantly. Friends, old or new were always worth
sneaking away for.”
“We’re going
to live happily ever after,” I said.
“Ever after what?”“After we slay the wicked stepmother,” I said, “and escape from the castle and outwit the trolls at the bridge.”
“All that, huh?”
“Nobody ever said that happily ever after was going to be easy.”
She gave my hand a squeeze, then let it go. “Well, I don’t see why it has to be so hard,” she said.
Oxymorons Run Amuck
Why does
"fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
Why do
"tug" boats push their barges?
Why do we
sing "Take me out to the ball game when we are already there?
Why are a
"wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites?
Why is bra
singular and panties plural?
How come
abbreviated is such a long word?
Why do we
drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
Why is
toilet paper tiny squares and tissues big squares?
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