"Look at my toes!!! I hate people seeing my toes lookin' so bad. See, this is what the Army does to your toes, Eve!"
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Taking several pair of latex gloves while in the emergency room:
"[Gloves] pertain to my job. NO, not that one."
Cathie Dawn
"At least you're deep enough to realize you're shallow."
"Niles Crane", from "Fraiser"
"Marvelous things will happen."
"James and the Giant Peach"
"I always know it was a good night when I've lost my socks."
Paul
On her second bottle of vodka bought in two days:
"I didn't even crack it open until Rebecca opened it this morning... she wanted some before she went to church."
my very strange friend Jamie
"Look what they've done to my song, Ma,
They've tied it up in a plastic bag and turned it upside down."
Melanie
"Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company."
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Items bought at 11:30pm at Super Wal-Mart by my sister and Jamie: strawberries, whipped cream, chocolate, chocolate syrup, ice cream, and pizza.
On the back of the receipt, tucked under my sister's main boy toy's truck windshield wipers, was the following message:
"Take a good look at the list of items I bought. If you're smart, you'll come and find me."
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
Mae West
"The work of fancy is handicapped--to a quite hopeless extent--by a logical ban: you cannot bring your friends along--or your enemies for that matter--to the party."
Vladimir Nabokov
"The reference to long unbroken shots triggered a memory, unconnected to a film title, wandering among the synapses, unloved, up in my brain."
from a conversation with Ryan about film
"The use of 'mbl' [thou, in regular conversation] is rather like walking around in your underwear--with some people and situations, it simply isn't right."
Geneva Gerhart, The Russian's World (text on culture & language)
Eve: Yuck, I should go live in Antarctica : )
Kater: Can I come?
Eve: Yes. We will grow daisies and throw darts at Eurasia.
Kater: Yay!
Overheard at the Mark Twain Awards broadcast honoring Richard Pryor, the writer of the infamous seduction scene in "Blazing Saddles":
"The funniest line in the movie never made it to the theatres. After Madeline Kahn says, 'Oh, it's twue, it's twue,' Cleavon Little's [cut] line was, 'Quit sucking on my arm.'"
"1605! That's the year I was born! I remember it well: Hitler ruled Russia, Ghandi killed John F. Kennedy, and I was born."
Matt
"I don't care what you call me as long as you call me."
Kater
"I have balls!!! They're not big, but they're balls...."
Ricky
"I wished I was a mighty woman so I could pick that tree up and save my daughter."
Tina Sandlen, whose daughter escaped serious injury after being trapped under an uprooted oak tree that crashed into her bedroom as she slept
Dryly executed, interestingly amusing car commercial snippet--
Voice of Mitsubishi: Mr. Principal, I know you've heard a lot of excuses in your time--my brother ate my homework, my dog exploded...."
"Quite early on I had discovered the overlooked space open to those of us with a silent life. I didn't argue with the policeman who said I couldn't cycle over a certain bridge or through a specific gate in the fort--I just stood there still, until I was invisible, and then I went on through. Like a cricket. Like a hidden cup of water."
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"You would stand in the room so still sometimes, so wordless sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character."
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"That was Lieutenant Blackler's line. 'If you are in a room with a problem don't talk to it.'"
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient