Angry poor people are 'enraged.' Angry rich people are 'livid.
The Covert Comic: glans clitoridis of America's intelligence gap.
I don't watch TV; it's pretty weird, I know.
They're making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I'm laughing at that.
In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.
The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.
I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.
Frank Booth: The candy-colored clown they call the Sandman.
Jeffrey Beaumont: It's a strange world.
Cab Driver: Do not touch the young lady in my taxi.
Adam Canfield: We didn't steal it, there's no law against stealing stolen money. Reggie Lampert: Of course there is! Adam Canfield: There is? Reggie Lampert: Yes! Adam Canfield: When did they pass such a silly law?
Mr. Matheson: [Eating custard with Vera's pus squirted in it] Damn fine custard. Rich and creamy, just the way I like it!
Captain: [looking at one of the LI's pictures] Funny. I haven't seen snow in years.
Theo: [laughing as a LAPD SWAT armored vehicle is hit with a missile] Oh my God, the quarterback is TOAST!
Walter Neff: Do I laugh now, or wait 'til it gets funny?
Roberto: Very strange mother, my mother.
Catwoman: My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men. Batman: This isn't a car.
Rich Boyd: I knew there was something wrong with that kid.
Django: [while whipping Roger Brittle] Keep it funny!
Bytes: He's the greatest Freak in the World...
[first lines] Tarek Fahd, Häftling Nr. 77: [voiceover, reading newspaper ad] Test subjects wanted. Earn 4000 marks for a 14-day experiment in a simulated prison.