"All
shall come to revelation."
-Jeff
VanDermeer, Annihilation
“Computers
are useless; they supply only answers.”
-Pablo
Picasso
“You
don’t go around slicing folks open to gape at their guts in this day and age.”
-Alan
Dean Foster, Cat-A-Lyst
"Yeah,
let's trust in the business of science, huh?"
-Lords
of the Deep
“If
‘if’s and ‘but’s were candies and nuts, oh, what a Christmas we’d have!”
-The
Blacklist
“This
was, I believe, the first recorded instance of a CIA agent being eaten alive by
a rainbow trout!”
“Possums
in Piedmont awaiting orders!”
-Leonard
Part 6
"Life
is beautiful and life is stupid."
“The
world had gotten gritty enough. The only thing left to do in all that dirt was
to SHINE.”
“No matter how mad, bad, and dangerous to know a civilization gets, unto every generation are born the lonely and the uncool, destined to forever stare into the candy-store window of their culture, and loneliness is the mother of ascension. Only the uncool have the requisite alone time to advance their species.”
“No matter how mad, bad, and dangerous to know a civilization gets, unto every generation are born the lonely and the uncool, destined to forever stare into the candy-store window of their culture, and loneliness is the mother of ascension. Only the uncool have the requisite alone time to advance their species.”
“I’ll
put this in words you can understand: humans are hideous, pain-guzzling,
pollution-spouting space monsters who might threaten our way of life. Now, how
does that usually pan out in the movies, kitten? At least we let you try to
convince us we’re wrong. I doubt you asked the dodo birds what they thought
about it before you blasted the last one in the face with a blunderbuss.”
“Somewhere
on Earth is an insect that excretes a golden antibacterial ooze that also does
a splendid job sweetening your tea; a terribly picturesque tree whose bark will
fix your malaria right up; and a large four-legged, two-horned mammal whose
reproductive system dispenses ice cream, brie, and buttercream frosting.”
-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera
-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera
“We
don’t need another hero.”
-Tina
Turner
“What
is the point of Star 80? I'm not sure...There is no redemption in the movie,
no catharsis. It unblinkingly looks at the short life of a simple, pretty girl,
and the tortured man who made her into something he couldn't have, and then
killed her for it. The movie seems to be saying: These things happen. After it
was over, I felt bad for Dorothy Stratten. In fact, for everybody.”
-Roger
Ebert, Star 80 review
“The
movie stars Eric Roberts, the demented killer from Star 80, as the
American Coke expert, and one of the movie's incidental oddities is that
Roberts seems just as obsessed in this role as he did as a killer. He brings
such a murderous intensity to marketing that he seems a lot like the marketing
people I know.”
-Roger
Ebert, The Coca-Cola Kid review
“You
cannot make history. You can only hope to survive it.”
"Despite
my best efforts, I've become an icon...I realized it's simpler to make a statue
to someone who you believe embodies all your better qualities than it is to
actually improve yourself."
-Babylon 5
-Babylon 5
“I’m
grateful every day for the nearly invisible perfect things that I count on. My
car starts every single time. The water in my tap doesn’t make me sick, ever.
The thing in the jar is the same thing that was in the jar the last time I
bought it… but, and I feel spoiled to say this, I take the perfect for granted.
I’m way more interested, and spend far more time and money on the imperfect
things, the things that might not work, the ideas and services and products that
dance around the edges. If you’re going to offer something that’s imperfect, by
all means, make it as good as you possibly can, but embrace the fact that
you’re not selling perfect. You’re selling interesting. You’re selling
possibility. You’re selling connection.”
-Seth
Godin
“Miss
Fellowes is a highly moral person. If she ever recognized the truth about
herself it would destroy her.”
-Night
of the Iguana
"Death
to the wizard! Death to the sorcerer! Death to the werewolf!"
"The
wolf put on a mocking expression of countenance. 'Is that all?' he said, 'Your
peroration does not accord very well with your exordium.'"
-Alexandre
Dumas, The Wolf Leader (1857)
"For
of all writers Dumas was certainly the last to regard his novels as sacred
texts; he wrote neither to uplift the reader nor to express his own
personality, but to entertain."
-L.
Sprague de Camp
“What
we lack in subtlety, we make up for with a lack of subtlety.”
-Don
Winslow, The Power of the Dog
“There’s
no easy way out. There’s no shortcut home.”
–
Robert Tepper
“That
isn’t cranberry sauce. That is NOT cranberry sauce.”
-Blood
Rage
“Gravity
is the anchor that pulls us down into our graves.”
-Stephen
King, Elevation
“I
must decline, for secret reasons.”
-E.B.
White
“Achilles,
without his heel, you wouldn’t even know his name today.”
-Stan
Lee
“By
the power vested in me, I now pronounce you…man and knife!” [stabs guy]
“I've
heard another rumor, that you were bitten by a king cobra?”
“Yeah,
I was. But after five days of agonizing pain, the cobra died.”
-The
Expendables 2
“Christ
promised the resurrection of the dead. I just thought he had something a little
different in mind."
The
Walking Dead
“The
man has superior judgement, squid face."
"Captain,
Fleming's dead! I'll explain later."
-Endless
Descent
“It
was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and
quarrelled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal
now.”
-Barry
Lyndon (epilogue)
-B.P. Kasik/Phony McFakename
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