Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself." [ (1193)]
It's not that I don't believe you," Peter managed. "I'm sorry. It's just that...it's only a story." "Perhaps." She shrugged. "And perheps someday someone will say those very words about you, Peter. What do you say to that?
Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own be...
Roger: It's Christmastime down there, buddy! Peter: Fat city, brother! How we gonna work it? Roger: If we can get into one of the department stores up top, they'll have their own escalators inside. Peter: Let's go check those keys.
Peter Quill: I can't believe I got taken down by a raccoon... Rocket Raccoon: Raccoon? What's a raccoon? Peter Quill: You are! I've seen many of them, like you, on Earth! Rocket Raccoon: Ain't no thing like me, except me!
[Quill struggles to control the Infinity stone] Gamora: Peter, take my hand! [Quill grabs her hand, and Drax and Rocket do the same] Ronan: You're mortal! How... Peter Quill: You said it, bitch. We're the Guardians of the Galaxy. [the Guardians strik...
Dr. Peter Venkman: He slimed me. Dr Ray Stantz: That's great. Actual physical contact. Can you move? Dr. Egon Spengler: [over walkie-talkie] Ray, Ray, come in please. Dr. Peter Venkman: I feel so funky.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Nimble little minx, in't she? Dr. Egon Spengler: We're gonna go full stream. Dr Ray Stantz: Aim for the flattop! [Ghostbusters shoot at Gozer, but she disappears] Dr. Peter Venkman: [uncertainly] Wasn't so hard.
Dr. Peter Venkman: oh, wait, wait, i've always wanted to do this! and... [he yanks the tablecloth off of one of the tables, upsetting and breaking everything except a vase of flowers on the center of the table] Dr. Peter Venkman: [shouting while offs...
Dr. Peter Venkman: [the Ghostbusters are tiring as they climb twenty-two flights of stairs in their proton packs] Where are we? Dr Ray Stantz: [gasps] Looks like we're in the teens... somewhere. Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, when we get to twenty, tell me...
Peter McCallister: Hey did you by any chance pick up a voltage adapter thing? Kate McCallister: No, I didn't have time to do that. Peter McCallister: Well how am I supposed to shave in France? Kate McCallister: Grow a goatee.
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I know him. I know him! He's my boss! He's my unholy, disgusting pig of a boss! Joanna: He's not THAT disgusting. Peter Gibbons: He represents all that is soulless and wrong! And you slept with him!
Samir: [trying to decide if he should go along with the virus plot] I have a question. Peter Gibbons: Yes? Samir: In... in these conjugal visits, you can have sex with women? Peter Gibbons: Yep, you sure can. Samir: OK, I'll do it.
I have an attitude. It's what I do. I'm edgy. I have an attitude.
Peter Kaplan was a giant.
I started to think of friends I could lean on for some help, but, as always happened when I attempted this kind of social audit, I realised that far too many of them were abroad, dead, married to people who disapproved of me, or weren't really my fri...
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
You may think my jealousy would have been enormous during those days after Peter gave Tiger Lily the smallest kiss on the neck. And you would be right. But these moments were swallowed by a bigger emotion, my tenderness for Tiger Lily, which had grow...
