Juliette." I close my eyes. He says, "I don't want you to call me Warner anymore." I open my eyes. "I want you to know me," he says, breathless, his fingers pushing a stray strand of hair away from my face. "I don't want to be Warner with you," he sa...
My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future." And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in...
Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see w...
See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad ...
A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. Bu...
When the wildish woman has an idea, the friend or lover will never say, "Well, I don't know . . . sounds really dumb [grandiose, undoable, expensive, etc.] to me." A right friend will never say that. They might say instead . . . "I don't know if I un...
Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I learned to say no, and mean it, I was always overloaded by stress. You may feel guilty and selfish at first for guarding your down- ti...
Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me." "Why not?" "He says lunch isn't a sub...
Major Barton: [into a telephone] Barton, sir. Col. Robinson: [into a telephone] Barton, I don't care what your watches say, mine says they should've gone 3 minutes so send them. Major Barton: Sir, do you know that they're back in the trenches. Col. R...
Balin: What news from the meeting in Ered Luin? Did they all come? Thorin Oakenshield: Aye, envoys from all seven kingdoms. Balin: Ah, all off them! Dwalin: And what did the Dwarves of the Iron Hills say? Is Dain with us? Thorin Oakenshield: They wil...
Judge Chamberlain Haller: I don't like your attitude. Vinny Gambini: So what else is new? Judge Chamberlain Haller: I'm holding you in contempt of court. Vinny Gambini: [to Bill] Now there's a fucking surprise. Judge Chamberlain Haller: What did you ...
Eli: What'd you say? Richie: Hmm? Eli: What? Richie: I didn't say anything. Eli: When? Right now? [a pause] Eli: I'm sorry, don't listen to me. I'm on mescaline. I've been spaced out all day. Richie: Did you say you're on mescaline? Eli: I did, indee...
Warden Samuel Norton: [to new inmates, after explaining the prison routine] Any questions? Prisoner: When do we eat? Captain Hadley: [Approaches prisoner] You eat when we say you eat. You piss when we say you piss, and you shit when we say you shit. ...
Strategy for a Marathon I will start when the gun goes off. I will run for five miles. Feeling good, I will run to the tenth mile. At the tenth I will say, Only three more to the halfway." At the halfway mark, 13.1 miles, I will know fifteen is in re...
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
The sparrow says: "I have not eaten... so the parrot will not eat either."
When a man says he does not mind, then he really does.
If the king says that it is night in the middle of the day, look up at the stars.
If you give in to a fool, he will say, "This is because they are afraid of me."
The weasel comes to say "Happy New Year!" to the chickens.
The crow was killed by the storm -- "He died by my curse," says the owl.
