Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Favorite Quotes: November 2017



“If Hamlet hadn’t pretended to be crazy, he would have actually gone crazy.”
-William Peter Blatty, The Ninth Configuration

“You know the best way to survive a plane crash?”
“No.”
“Don’t be in it.”
-Justified

“People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States...One bombing now and everyone gets excited. In 1972? It was every day. Buildings getting bombed, policemen getting killed. It was commonplace.”
-Max Noel, quoted in Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough

"What you are about to see is based upon true accounts and conjecture and is a delineation of actual events which transpired at an indeterminate time to persons of less than genuinely equivocal authenticity."
-Opening Title Screen, Cannibal Campout

“There's a unique strain of blind rage simmering in white men who've failed to fully capitalize on their privilege.”
-Dan Ewan

“Corn dogs," the exorcist said, "are all the proof I need that God exists.”

“Abby and Gretchen still kept up, but it was phone calls and letters, then postcards and voicemail, and finally emails and Facebook likes. There was no falling-out, no great tragedy, just a hundred thousand trivial moments they didn’t share, each one an inch of distance between them, and eventually those inches added up to miles.”
-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend’s Exorcism

“Kind of galling when you realize that nutbags with cardboard signs had it right the whole time.”
-2012

“He had come here to research a series of articles and had found terror - terror he had, until now, believed existed only in fiction.”
-Gregg Loomis, Voodoo Fury

“If you stare too long it becomes a blur and it’s easy to forget who we really are.”
-Strung Out

“The hours drifted by, the remaining pizza slices turned cold and dead-mozzarella ugly.”
-Randall Boyll, Shocker (novelization)

“In the end, we all get caught.”
-Stephen King, 1922 


-Phony McFakename



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1 comment:

  1. "For a gay guy you sure do have a good memory"
    Randy, Earl's brother (My Name is Earl)

    "If we can hit that bullseye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... Checkmate." Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)

    I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. 'tell you what - never again. Tim Vine, Comedian

    Some people call me a hypochondriac, that hurts Stewart Francis, Comedian

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