“How
was your flight?”
“Relatively
crash-free.”
-Cheers
“You
are about as covert as a sledgehammer.”
“A
man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.”
“Werewolves
lack subtlety.”
“These
feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop
causing them immediately.”
-Gail
Carriger, Soulless
“Does
it really have to be all so meaningless? she wondered. Does it really have to
be as crapulous as a TV soap opera?”
Edward
Jarvis, Maggots
“To
be an adult all the time is frankly unbearable.”
“Every
time an idea is repressed, it comes back stronger, more insistent, more
dangerous.”
-Irma
Flaquer
“Blow
that mother grabber into bits and pieces!”
-Exterminators
of the Year 3000
“I
hope the implications of the questions raised here will concern you long after
the book is forgotten.”
-William
Woolfolk, The Sendai
“It
is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of
something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have
something to hide.”
“Holding
this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to
yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great
misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own
insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest
assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.”
“Such
is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you
mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is
in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.”
-Honore
de Balzac, Pere Goriot
“The
man was all meat, a walking butcher shop: rare-beef face, pork chop jowls,
slabs of veal for ears. And unplucked chicken wing sideburns.”
-Lawrence
Sanders, McNally’s Secret
"Of
all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.
Gravity is easy-peasy by comparison."
-Terry
Pratchett, Johnny and the Dead
"Life
got awfully boring with only humans to talk to."
-Larry
Niven, Ringworld
“You’re
as crazy as a nebula of crap.”
-L.
Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth
“I
am going to make you as happy as a baby Psychlo on a straight diet of
kerbango.”
Battlefield
Earth (the movie)
"In
the Franche-Comte, the more walls one builds, the more one covers the land with
rocks placed atop each other, the more one is entitled to the neighbors'
respect."
"The
age was created to bring everything into confusion! We are on the march toward
chaos!"
-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
“It’s
got about as much balls as a castrated jellyfish.”
-Beyond
the Door
-B.P. Kasik/Phony McFakename
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