Sister, why do you do that?" "Do what?" "Cage the animals at night?" "Well..." She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me."We don't want to, Jennings, but we have to. You see, the animals that are given to us we have to take ...
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Mr. Gambini, the next words out of your mouth better be "guilty" or "not guilty." I don't want to hear commentary, argument, or opinion. I don't want to hear any facts or evidence. If I hear anything other than "guilty" or "...
Travis Bickle: Hello Betsy. Hi, it's Travis. How ya doin'? Listen, uh, I'm, I'm sorry about the, the other night. I didn't know that was the way you felt about it. Well, I-I didn't know that was the way you felt. I-I-I would have taken ya somewhere e...
Sir Guy of Gisbourne: Now that you've robbed us and had your fill of insulting us, we wish to leave. Come, Lady Marian. Robin Hood: My own men will escort my Lady. But before you take leave of her, it might be as well if you thanked her for saving yo...
It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all.
The monkey says there is nothing better than poverty to unlearn man of his conceit.
If the dog barks, go in; if the bitch barks you had better stay outside.
Until your fortieth it is better to eat than to drink; afterwards it is vice versa.
Better one day a man than ten days a woman.
The shame you can't lift away, you had better let lie.
One good word puts out the flames better than a bucket of water.
You would do better to sit on a powder keg than on the knee of a woman.
A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.
Better visit hell in your lifetime than after you're dead.
If you have nothing better to do, go to bed with your own wife.
When the wolf invites you in, you had better take your dog.
Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.
Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon.
We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity
It was late afternoon. This time tomorrow he would be somewhere on a good graveled road, driving his car past things that happened to people, quicker than their happening. ("Death of a Traveling Salesman")
Cryptic Dad is cryptic,' I muttered ... We'd hung out all day today. Was there no time in there he could have said, 'Oh, hey, meet me at the magical bookcase at the butt-crack of dawn tomorrow, cool?
