I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.
Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.
Jake Gittes: Have you ever heard the expression "Let sleeping dogs lie"? Sometimes you're better off not knowing.
[after losing a hockey ball from the roof] Dante Hicks: Are there any balls down there? Jay: About the biggest pair you ever seen, dingleberry!
Captain Renault: [seeing a uniformed French officer talking non-stop to an Italian officer] If he ever gets a *word* in, it'll be a major Italian *victory*.
Jessie Stevens: Sorry I ever sent her to finishing school. I think they finished her there.
[after Dave nearly told the boat plan] Carlito: [to Dave] If you ever talk that shit again in front of her, I'm going to kill you.
[Wikus walks into a room filled with Alien weaponry] Wikus Van De Merwe: This is Christmas. This is Christmas, my friends! This is the biggest find that I've ever seen.
Pink: All I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life - remind me to kill myself.
Alfred Pennyworth: I trust you don't have *me* followed on my day off. Bruce Wayne: If you ever took one, I might.
Sherrif Bullard: Don't ever do nothin' like this again. Don't come back up here. Bobby: You don't have to worry about that, Sheriff.
Scotty: [everyone is looking into the cellar after it flies open] An animal? An animal? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Bela Lugosi: This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.
Father Dyer: Listen, if you ever go up there again will you take me along? Astronaut: What for? Father Dyer: First missionary on Mars.
Tom Hagen: I have to get back to work. It's part of the wedding. No Sicilian can ever refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day.
Melvin B. Tolson: We'll be one of the first Negro colleges to ever debate a white college. If we beat them, we beat the best.
Tanner Bolt: You two are the most fucked up people I've ever met and I deal with fucked up people for a living.
Carol Connelly: Have you ever let a romantic moment make you do something that you knew was stupid?
Sean: If you ever disrespect my wife again, I will end you. I will fucking end you. You got that, chief? Will: Time's up.
Hyman Roth: I loved baseball ever since Arnold Rothstien fixed the World Series in 1919.
