Below the bows of the Arrawa a child’s coffin moved onto the night stream. Its paper flowers were shaken loose by the wash of a landing craft carrying sailors from the American cruiser. The flowers formed a wavering garland around the coffin as it ...
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. ...
I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitari...
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entai...
My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I ...
Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I hav...
Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking beca...
I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie....
Liesel Meminger: Did he take away your mother? Max Vandenburg: Probably. Liesel Meminger: Don't worry... I cried a lot when I first came too. [pause] Liesel Meminger: The soup is terrible, isn't it? Max Vandenburg: You may find this hard to believe, ...
Will: Do you find it hard to hide the fact that you're gay? Henry Lipkin: [stammers] What are... talking... about... What? Will: Look, buddy, a few seconds ago you were ready to give *me* a jump! Henry Lipkin: [feeling somewhat insulted] A jump? I......
Scarlett: Cathleen, who's that? Cathleen Calvert: Who? Scarlett: That man looking at us and smiling. The nasty, dark one. Cathleen Calvert: My dear, don't you know? That's Rhett Butler. He's from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation. Scarl...
Professor Lupin: Why do you look so miserable, Harry? Harry: None of it made any difference. Pettigrew escaped. Professor Lupin: Didn't make any difference? Harry, it made all the difference in the world! You helped discover the truth. You saved an i...
Isaac Davis: You know what you are? You're God's answer to Job, y'know? You would have ended all argument between them. I mean, He would have pointed to you and said, y'know, "I do a lot of terrible things, but I can still make one of these." You kno...
[Cypher has betrayed the crew and is pulling their plugs one by one] Cypher: By the way, if you have something terribly important to say to Switch, I'd suggest you say it now. Trinity: Oh no, please don't... Switch: Not like this. Not like this. [Cyp...
Sheba Hart: [touches Steven's cheek] It's incredibly important we keep this secret. Does anyone know you're here? Steven Connolly: No. [pause, Sheba sits down with him] Steven Connolly: Miss. I'm no genius, but I ain't a dickhead. I won't tell no one...
Niki Lauda: [Testing his Ferrari at Fiorano] It's terrible. Drives like a pig. Lauda's Mechanic: [Offended] Oh, you can't say that. Niki Lauda: Why not? Lauda's Mechanic: It's a Ferrari! Niki Lauda: It's a shitbox! It under-steers like crazy and the ...
Remy: [watching Linguini's clumsy attempt to repair the soup he spilled] What is he doing? No. No! No, this is terrible! He's ruining the soup! A-and nobody's noticing it? [to Gusteau] Remy: It's your restaurant. Do something! Gusteau: What can I do?...
C-3PO: That sounds like an R2 unit in there! I wonder if... Hello? How interesting. Stormtrooper: Who are you? C-3PO: Oh, my! I... I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to intrude. No, please don't get up. [the Stormtrooper shoots C-3PO]
Jack Torrance: The most terrible nightmare I ever had. It's the most horrible dream I ever had. Wendy Torrance: It's okay, it's okay now. Really. Jack Torrance: I dreamed that I, that I killed you and Danny. But I didn't just kill ya. I cut you up in...
Charlie Bucket: Mr. Wonka, what'll happen to the other kids? Augustus, Veruca? Willy Wonka: My dear boy, I promise you they'll be quite all right. When they leave here, they'll be completely restored to their normal, terrible old selves. But maybe th...
Bob Woodward: How do you think your check got into the bank account of a Watergate burglar? Kenneth H. Dahlberg: I'm, uh, a proper citizen. What I do is proper. Bob Woodward: Well, I - I understand. Kenneth H. Dahlberg: I've just been through a terri...
