Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Strange. Even something as momentous as the Scut Farkus affair, which it came to be known, was pushed out of my mind as I struggled to come up with a way out of the impenetrable BB gun web, in which my mother had me trap...
Harvey Dent: Remember that name you all had for me when I was at Internal Affairs? What was it, Gordon? Lt. James Gordon: Harvey, I... Harvey Dent: Say it. Two-Face: Say it! Lt. James Gordon: Two-Face. Harvey Two-Face. [Dent turns his head, showing G...
Vicomte de Valmont: Be careful of the Marquise de Merteuil. Chevalier Danceny: You must permit me to treat with skepticism anything you have to say about her. Vicomte de Valmont: Nevertheless, I must tell you in this affair, we are both her creatures...
Johann Friedrich Struensee: Your majesty. Caroline Mathilde: You recognized me. Johann Friedrich Struensee: I would recognize you blindfolded. Caroline Mathilde: But your costume is not very imaginative. Johann Friedrich Struensee: I'm afraid I'm not...
[in a letter to Max] Dirk Calloway: Dear Max, I am sorry to say that I have secretly found out that Mr. Blume is having an affair with Miss Cross. My first suspicions came when I saw them Frenching in front of our house. And then I knew for sure when...
Nefretiri: Did you think my kiss was a promise of what you'll have. No, my pompous one. It was to let you know what you will not have. I could never love you. Rameses: Does that matter? You will be my wife. You will come to me whenever I call you, an...
Wood Hite: [about Dick] His philanderin' ways have instigated such malice. He's a yellow snake in the grass and can't be trusted. Wilbur Ford: Dick told me a complete other version of that affair. Robert Ford: [upstairs, waking Dick] Wood Hite's down...
General Sternwood: You may smoke, too. I can still enjoy the smell of it. Hum, nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. You're looking, sir, at a very dull survival of a very gaudy life, crippled, paralyzed in both legs, ba...
Nationalism as a thesis confuses (almost always deliberately) certain legitimate desires with illegitimate ones. People like to run their own affairs, and most people value the culture they were raised in, are proud of its achievements and wish it we...
As Ganin looked up at the skeletal roof in the ethereal sky he realized with merciless clarity that his affair with Mary was ended forever. It had lasted no more than four days—four days which were perhaps the happiest days of his life. But now he ...
Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.
You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.
My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.
I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.
Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
Private lives are more important than public reputations.
Jacksonville has more public libraries than people who know how to read.
