“I have a weakness for tough guys who read.”
“My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies.
My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.”
“What's her name?"
"None of your business."
"That can't possibly be her name.”
“I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.”
“I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.”
“You're a terrible cook, Daniel."
"I know," he replied, "But it's the effort that counts."
"I hope that's not the slogan for your dental practice.”
“I knew immediately that this was not going to work out. Hunter is the kind of guy who dates women who wear high heels and a cocktail dress on a first date. I can't even walk in heels, and I generally believe that someone has to earn the right to see my legs.”
“She suspects her husband, Jake, might be gay."
"Did you suggest she ask him?"
Mom laughed. "Of course not. Business is slow.”
“No one is going to abduct me, Rae."
"That's what all abductees say.”
“While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.”
“She asked how I liked my tea and I told her with cream and sugar (but really, I like my tea to be coffee),”
“David Spellman was born perfect. Eight pounds even, with a full head of hair and unblemished skin, he cried for a brief moment right after his birth (to let the doctor know he was breathing), then stopped abruptly, probably out of politeness.”
“We provide proof of a question for which the answer is already known.”
“Everyone should know what it’s like to get a C.”
“—Dicen —explicó el boyardo de Vladímir— que Alejandro ha dejado instrucciones a su familia para que le den Moscú cuando sea mayor. —¡Moscú! ¡Esa ciudad miserable! —No es gran cosa —convino el otro—, aunque no está mal situada.”
“News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.”
“All man's honors are small beside the greatest prize to which he may and must aspire--the finding of his soul, his spirit, his divine strength and worth--the knowledge that he can and must live in freedom and dignity--the final realization that life is not a daily dying, not a pointless end, not ashes-to-ashes and dust-to-dust, but a soaring and blinding gift snatched from eternity.”
“...it has been demonstrated through years of workshops that the Artist Within tends to make the same mistakes as the artist within everybody else.”
“Garrosh would learn that it was in how one fought, not where or when, that honor was born.”
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