All Quotes

"All hell has broken loose. I admit our Russian is limited, but we can say hello, come in, you are beautiful, oh no you don't. … So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda. Something has slipped badly."

"No little appetite or pain, no carelessness or meanness in him escaped her; no thought or dream or longing in him ever reached her. And yet several times in her life she had seen the stars."

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

"One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: “Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.”"

"Yesterday in that dog lifted his leg on a tree that was 20 feet across, 80 feet high and a 1,000 years old — what's left in life for that poor dog?"

"The President must be greater than anyone else, but not better than anyone else. We subject him and his family to close and constant scrutiny and denounce them for things that we ourselves do every day. A Presidential slip of the tongue, a slight error in judgment — social, political, or ethical — can raise a storm of protest. We give the President more work than a man can do, more responsibility than a man should take, more pressure than a man can bear. We abuse him often and rarely praise him. We wear him out, use him up, eat him up. And with all this, Americans have a love for the President that goes beyond loyalty or party nationality; he is ours, and we exercise the right to destroy him."

"Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic."

"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard."

"Woody is just Woody. Thousands of people do not know he has any other name. He is just a voice and a guitar. He sings the songs of a people and I suspect that he is, in a way, that people. Harsh voiced and nasal, his guitar hanging like a tire iron on a rusty rim, there is nothing sweet about Woody, and there is nothing sweet about the songs he sings. But there is something more important for those who will listen. There is the will of the people to endure and fight against oppression. I think we call this the American spirit."

"This is the story of Danny and of Danny’s friends and of Danny’s house."

"“Thou knowest not what bitches women are,” Danny said wisely. “I do know,” said Pilon. “Thou knowest not.” “I do know.” “Liar.”"

"It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning."

"The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer’s own experience."

"The candle aimed its spear of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine."

"It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leprous."

"Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it."

"So, okay, you're probably going, "Is this, like, a Noxzema commercial or what?" But seriously, I actually have a way normal life for a teenage girl."

"Dionne and I were both named after great singers of the past who now do infomercials."

"[repeated line] As if!"

"Suddenly, a dark cloud settled over first period. I got a C in Debate?!"

"Isn't my house classic? The columns date all the way back to 1972."

"Wasn't my mom a Betty? She died when I was just a baby. A fluke accident during a routine liposuction."

"[arguing her way out of a tardy] Mr. Hall, I was surfing the crimson wave. I had to haul ass to the ladies'."

"[to Dionne, about Mr. Hall and Miss Geist] Will you look at that body language? Legs crossed towards each other. That's an unequivocal sex invite."

"[to Elton] You are a snob and a half."

"So, okay. I don't wanna be a traitor to my generation and all, but I don't get how guys dress today. I mean, c'mon, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants, and take their greasy hair—ew!—and cover it up with a backwards cap and, like, we're expected to swoon? I don't think so!"

"Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie."

"So, okay. The Attorney General says there's too much violence on TV, and that should stop. Even if you took out all the violent shows, you could still see the news. So until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value."

"Anything you can do to draw attention to your mouth is good. Also, sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds guys of being naked, and then they think of sex."

"[after she and Josh kiss] Well, you can guess what happened next. [scene changes to Mr. Hall and Miss Geist's wedding] As if! I am only 16, and this is California, not Kentucky."

"Sex. Clothes. Popularity. Is there a problem here?"

"Sex. Clothes. Popularity. Whatever."

"Alicia Silverstone – Cher Horowitz"

"Stacey Dash – Dionne Davenport"

"Brittany Murphy – Tai Fraiser"

"Paul Rudd – Josh Lucas"

"Donald Faison – Murray"

"Elisa Donovan – Amber Mariens"

"Breckin Meyer – Travis Birkenstock"

"Jeremy Sisto – Elton Tiscia"

"Dan Hedaya – Mel Horowitz"

"Wallace Shawn – Mr. Wendell Hall"

"Twink Caplan – Miss Toby Geist"

"Justin Walker – Christian Stovitz"

"Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting."

"The straight line is godless and immoral."

":[This sentence also occurs in Hundertwasser's manifesto "On the Paradise Destroyed by the Straight Line" (1985).]"

"I close my eyes halfway just as when I conceive paintings and I see the houses 'Dunkelbunt' -glowing in pure strong and deep colours a little sad like seem on a rainy day instead of ugly cream colour and green meadows on all roofs instead of corrugated iron. p.6"

"I am looking forward to become humus myself buried naked without coffin under a beech tree planted by myself on my land in ao tea roa. p6"

"To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act."