Old Scully, who according to Jennifer, hadn't the imagination to think the worst. Something she said once, as though neurosis was an artform.
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.
As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued, collagelike, to the once unified experience of life.
The land will sink into the water, and then, the water will evaporate into the air, taking the sky with it. And all, but a tremor of what once was, will be gone. ~ Ichabod Everward, during the Fossil War.
Abraham Lincoln wrote a poem about me once. You might know it as the Gettysburg Address. Men with beards are romantic.
Schrödinger’s cat was a Siamese cat, must have been, because if it’s at once alive and dead, it’s a zombie, and the only zombie cats are Siamese cats.
Renaldo once made a sex tape, and even fully erect, he still had to shoot it four times just to get some "footage.
Hungry and thirsty? Soup solves both problems at once. My love for you is starved and dehydrated, and all I need is one spoon.
How to grow up slowly and secretly, not all at once like lunch in a condom, that is the essence of politics. But I don’t vote for dicks.
The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire reading base will disappear.
Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.
Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to.
Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.
Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this
I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again.
She’d fallen into a deep silence once, when the sun appeared, and it was then he’d wondered most what she was thinking.
Once upon a time, there was a generation of parents who were certain that Elvis Presley's unashamed hip-swivellingvwas most certainly the end of society.
But us women, well, we like our egos stroked every once in a while and a boy mourning over us is a huge boost
This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once.
...because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
He had to escape. He had to go and become a hero, the way he had been once.
