We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the w...
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than a...
Herb Brooks: Red line, back. Blue line, back. Far blue line, back. Far red line, back. And you have 45 seconds to do it. Get used to this drill. You'll be doing it *a lot*. Why? Because the legs feed the wolf, gentlemen. I can't promise you we'll be ...
Dr. Stephen Maturin: Jack, I fear you have burdened me with a debt I can never fully repay. Capt. Jack Aubrey: Nonsense! Name a shrub after me. Something prickly and hard to eradicate. Dr. Stephen Maturin: A shrub? Nonsense! I shall name a new specie...
Capt. Jack Aubrey: Oh a week, perhaps. Dr. Stephen Maturin: A week? Capt. Jack Aubrey: There's no great hurry. Dr. Stephen Maturin: Mustn't we make haste for... Capt. Jack Aubrey: I'm not even sure it was the Acheron we sighted. And if it was, she'll...
Blakeney: Tie your neck bands on your right upper arm to tell friend from foe. Blakeney: [pointing] Davies, this arm. Starboard arm. Awkward Davies, Able Seaman: Is that the one you got or the one you don't got? Blakeney: All right, that's enough che...
Capt. Jack Aubrey: [examining some sheet music on the floor below deck in the Acheron. A French sailor, whom Aubrey thought was dead, suddenly leaps at him. Aubrey stops the sailors' dagger just in time. Aubrey puts his cutlass to the sailors' head. ...
Auntie Em: Help us out today and find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble! Dorothy: A place where there isn't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a tra...
Marie Derry: What are you gonna do? Fred Derry: I'm going away. Marie Derry: Where? Fred Derry: As far away from Boone City as I can get. Marie Derry: That's a good idea. You'll get a good job someplace else. There are drugstores everywhere.
The States still has the best audiences by far.
I was on the far side of the dream.
I've managed to avoid tattoos so far.
The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far.
I don't look too far ahead.
But memory is less disposed to compromise
I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.
I'm a little unusual: I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert.
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Who laughs less than feminists?
Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
You couldn't get less royal than me.
