Sion calls Anne an eel, he calls her a slippery dipper from the slime, and he remembers what the cardinal had called her: my serpentine enemy. Sion says, she goes to it with her brother; he says, what, her brother George? ‘Any brother she's got. Th...
If you put it as 'complex nervous systems' it sounds pretty deflationary. What's so special about a complex nervous system? But of course, that complex nervous system allows you to do calculus. It allows you to do astrophysics… to write poetry... t...
Bad lovers face to face in the morning Shy apologies and polite regrets Slow dances that left no warning of Outraged glances and indiscreet yawning Good manners and bad breath get you nowhere Even presidents have newspaper lovers Ministers go crawlin...
Capitão Nascimento: [shouting, rubbing the student's face in the blood-soaked body of a dead drug dealer] Put your face here. Put your face here. You see this, you see this hole right here? Who killed this guy here? WHO KILLED THIS GUY HERE? Student...
Walter Burns: [on the phone] Well Butch, where are you?... Well, what are you doing there? Haven't you even started?... Listen, it's a matter of life and death!... Well, you can't stop for a dame now! I don't care if you've been after her for six yea...
Computer Operator: Gentlemen, I know how anxious you've all been during these last few days. But now I think I can safely say that your time and money have been well-spent. We're about to witness the greatest miracle of the machine age. Based on the ...
Overweight Man: Been to the top of the tower? Ray: Yeah... yeah, it's rubbish. Overweight Man: It is? The guide book says it's a must see. Ray: Well you lot ain't going up there. Overweight Man: Pardon me? Why? Ray: I mean, it's all winding stairs. I...
Saying of the Prophet Monkishness No monkery in Islam.
I live by never saying what if?...
So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it
As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real
All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.
Prestidigitation? You've got to be joking. No one says that.
Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'
What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age.
I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
