Quotes (Page 29)!

  1. "The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just wasn"t the kind of logic you"d use around midday." ~Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
  2. "The way I see it, I"m more indigenous than [indigenous peoples]. I earned my indigenuity, I did." ~Fair Go Dibbler
  3. "[Steven] Page's vocals are so velvety and seductive, I really don't care where his love disappeared to, because I'm more than ready to be his next one." ~Gloria Diaz on "Have You Seen My Love?"
  4. "If I had a car, I'd drive it insane." ~"(I"m Looking for) Cracks in the Pavement," Simon Le Bon
  5. "It"s always surprising to be reminded that while you"re watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they"re watching and thinking about you, right back at you." ~Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
  6. "Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." ~Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
  7. "I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time for some regional representation. And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they"re like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times." ~Terry Pratchett
  8. "There seemed to be so much to do that she couldn"t bring herself to do any of it." ~Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
  9. "How can it be broken? It"s a bubble on a stick." ~Natalie Teeger on a level
  10. "I take my level-checking level to the hardware store twice a year to have it calibrated." ~Adrian Monk
  11. "It"s funny because my friends and family watched [Battlestar Galactica] and they go, "You are SO that guy." And they say they can tell it was ad-libbed because "That"s just something Aaron would say." That"s what they all say to me and it"s really funny." ~Aaron Douglas on playing Chief Tyrol
  12. "If you put some cameras in there and broadcast them across the internet you would have had a reality show like you have never seen. It would have been hilarious! Either that or it would have been profoundly boring." ~Aaron Douglas on negotiations between Sci-Fi and Battlestar Galactica reps regarding whether the show would be picked up or not
  13. "The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they"ve found it." ~Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
  14. "I would like to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place." ~"Lofty" Tewt
  15. "If the landslide is big enough, even square pebbles will roll." ~Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
  16. "This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs." ~Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
  17. "Caring for small things had to start with caring for big things, and maybe the world wasn"t big enough." ~Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
  18. "If it's a great song it doesn't matter if it was written by Nick's dogs." ~Roger Taylor, putting to words one of the fundamental truths of music
  19. "You can't go wrong with hottie Welshmen, as far as I'm concerned." ~Captain Chaotica!!
  20. "The problem is that Islam does not have a pope, so there"s no one guy to say, "This isn"t kosher"...Not that he would." ~Fareed Zakaria
  21. "You"re my inspiration. I figure, if you can have a show, anyone can." ~Fareed Zakaria
  22. "Here"s the thing about global warming that I didn"t realize: it would all happen at once." ~Jon Stewart
  23. "But it"s good to sweat together, isn"t it?" ~John Taylor
  24. "I watch the X-Files. I know things." ~Marshall
  25. "Moooooose...?" ~Adam, telling Chris what sound a moose makes
  26. "No, I think once a week is enough." ~Jason, in response to Chris" "We should get together every week."
  27. "John Lennon and a piece of string has never been a Medieval cure for anything. Alchemy proceeded the [Tartarus] out of Lennon." ~My cousin
  28. "The pillow"s making me paranoid." ~Jason
  29. "It"s okay, because I have a rock." ~Becca, after her rubber ball was confiscated
  30. "A for effort!" ~Duckie as Hornblower to Clayton"s "I"m sorry I didn"t kill him."
  31. "You wanna fight? I"ve got a duck." ~Preston
  32. "What was that? It sounded like a rat; it looked like a human." ~Duckie
  33. "Loving Kat is like having Stockholm Syndrome." ~Kenny
  34. "I would fail at life on rollerblades." ~Molly
  35. "There"s not much Smell of Girl on Kevin these days." ~My cousin, whose name happens to be Kevin
  36. "Since we"re all getting along so well, can people stop pointing their guns at us?" ~Lieutenant Karl "Helo" Agathon
  37. "It seems odd, don"t you think, that the quality of the food should vary inversely with the brightness of the lighting. Makes you wonder what culinary heights the kitchen staff could rise to if you confined them to perpetual darkness." ~Professor Urban Chronotis, the Regius Professor of Chronology
  38. "Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn"t have a good answer to." ~Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently"s Holistic Detective Agency
  39. "Come, let us go. Let us leave this festering [Tartarus]hole. Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." ~Dirk Gently
  40. "[St. Cedd was] one of the duller Northumbrian saints. His brother Chad was even duller. Had a cathedral in Birmingham if that gives you some idea." ~Dirk Gently
  41. "He was in Freaks and Geeks, as well." ~Marshall, during the Freaks and Geeks opening credits
  42. "We"re Italian, Robert. "Whack" means something else to us." ~Raymond Barone
  43. "You"ve got sirens for a welcome, there"s bloodstain for your pain, and your telephone"s been ringing while you"re dancing in the rain." ~"The Wild Boys," Simon Le Bon
  44. "I work with seven trolls!" ~Deputy James Garcia
  45. "Existing is basically all I do!" ~Philip J. Fry
  46. "It _is_ rather unnerving when [Simon Le Bon] suddenly has a fashion crisis mid-SONG, yes." ~Captain Chaotica!!, sounding more like she"s describing a member of the Fashion Club than a middle-aged pop star
  47. "The second set is just the stuff that"s not good enough for the first. I wouldn"t stay for it either, if I weren"t in the band." ~Trent Lane
  48. "I think it's that they see some of my movies and feel sorry for me." ~Johnny Depp, discussing why he is popular with the ladies
  49. "You really have to be a special kind of stupid to want to look like an evil cartoon clown." ~The Phat Phree staff on a bad haircut
  50. "I remember a My Little Pony that I had for some reason." ~Marshall
  51. "If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt [Damon] would be the first person I'd call." ~Ben Affleck
  52. "I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do." ~Christian Bale
  53. "I'm not a macho guy." ~Gerard Butler
  54. "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." ~Drew Carey
  55. "I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder." ~Craig Charles
  56. "He who laughs most, learns best." ~John Cleese
  57. "I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made." ~Robbie Coltrane
  58. "I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but Harry Potter, too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?" ~Robbie Coltrane
  59. "The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing." ~Willem Dafoe
  60. "I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face." ~Johnny Depp
  61. "With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying." ~Johnny Depp
  62. "I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do." ~Ralph Fiennes
  63. "I have a pretty good handle on who Jonathan Frakes is, but it seems to be an ongoing process to learn how to play him accurately." ~Jonathan Frakes
  64. "It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk." ~Sir Ian McKellan
  65. "Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it." ~Sir Ian McKellan
  66. "I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff. It's the first thing I have to solidify whenever...I get into a character. The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice." ~Guy Pearce
  67. "When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that." ~Guy Pearce
  68. "Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!" ~Geoffrey Rush
  69. "There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed." ~Peter Sellers
  70. "Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much." ~Peter Ustinov
  71. "I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world." ~Peter Ustinov
  72. "A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet." ~Orson Welles
  73. "If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends." ~Orson Welles
  74. "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self." ~Elijah Wood
  75. "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune." ~Noam Chomsky
  76. "If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion." ~Noam Chomsky
  77. "I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is." ~Don Bluth
  78. "Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?" ~M.C. Escher
  79. "He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder." ~M.C. Escher
  80. "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement...let me go upstairs and check." ~M.C. Escher
  81. "We adore chaos because we love to produce order." ~M.C. Escher
  82. "Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem." ~John Galsworthy
  83. "One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes." ~John Galsworthy
  84. "I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." ~Jerome K. Jerome
  85. "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." ~Jerome K. Jerome
  86. "Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong." ~Terry Pratchett
  87. "Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself." ~Terry Pratchett
  88. "Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae." ~Kurt Vonnegut
  89. "I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different." ~Kurt Vonnegut
  90. "Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." ~Kurt Vonnegut
  91. "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." ~Kurt Vonnegut
  92. "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." ~Matt Groening
  93. "Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun." ~Matt Groening
  94. "For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work." ~Doug Larson
  95. "Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog." ~Doug Larson
  96. "I don"t know about your previous captains, but I plan to do as little dying as possible." ~Turanga Leela
  97. "I don"t want to stay here over night. I want to find McLaggen and kill him." ~Harry Potter
  98. "You didn"t meet [Aragog], Hermione. Believe me, being dead will have improved him a lot." ~Ron Weasley
  99. "As far as infomercials go, this one is really good. I judge them by how much i want to hit the hosts, btw. That's my smarmometer." ~Kenny
  100. "I feel very conflicted. He's still on so I'm laughing; and I want to kill him." ~Kenny

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