Private Cowboy: Tough break for Hand Job. He was all set to get shipped out on a medical. Private Joker: What was the matter with him? Private Cowboy: He was jerkin' off ten times a day. Private Eightball: No shit. At least ten times a day. Private C...
Sing: Fat woman, you're in charge here, right? Landlady: [takes her shoe off, slaps Sing with it] Fat woman, my ass! Sing: I'm with the Axe Gang! Landlady: [slaps him] Axe Gang, my ass! Sing: Boss! Landlady: [slaps him] Boss, my ass! Sing: You have t...
Dan: A medical test might be a way of proving of what you're saying John Oldman: I don't wanna prove it. Art: So, you're telling us this the yarn [?] Art: of the century and you don't care if we believe it or not? John Oldman: I guess I should've exp...
Corporal Upham: [Wade lying down, shivering with pain and anguish, after being shot through the stomach] Tell us what to do... tell us how to fix you. Captain Miller: What can we do Wade? Tell us what to do. Medic Wade: [Wade still shivering] I could...
Private Reiben: You want to explain the math of this to me? I mean, where's the sense in risking the lives of the eight of us to save one guy? Captain Miller: Anyone wanna answer that? Medic Wade: Reiben, think about the poor bastard's mother. Privat...
The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be...
A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for potential partners, a 2 or 3 page multiple-choice document that covered all the music/film/T...
It is a foible of our human nature that when we have an extremely unpleasant experience, it gives us a peculiar satisfaction if it is “the biggest” of its disagreeable kind that has happened since the world began. During a heat wave, for instance...
No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen, we’re not heroines, they happen in our lives like car crashes, books that change us, neighborhoods we move into and come to love. Tristan and Isolde is scarcely the story, women at le...
[Following Lauda's press conference, Hunt approaches the British journalist that offended Lauda] British Journalish: James, are you all right? James Hunt: Good, yeah. Listen, I think I've got something for you on that last question, about Niki. Briti...
[Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda are escaping the Jedi temple as Obi-Wan noticed the hologram center] Obi-Wan: Wait, Master. There is something I must know. Yoda: If into the security recordings you go, only pain will you find. Obi-Wan: I must know the truth...
Infiltrating the records of a state penitentiary as well as the state and federal court systems was much more fun than deciphering art. -Phil Roach
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)
Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.
Of all the times - Time be the recorder, Of all the things - Time be the robber, Of all the sorrows - Time be the healer, Of all the powers - Time be the taker. [6] - 4
Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.
As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.
In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.
This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.
