Just re-reading the quotes I put on this blog, and my old one, since I started recording them on londonmabel.com .
Here, let me share the ones I gathered myself...
"It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return other dog's phone calls." Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors
When you’re walking through fire you’re concentrating on not getting burned. It’s once you are through and look back that you see there was no other path to your current destination. (You also realize what a Bad Ass Bitch you are, too. I mean, come on, you just walked through FIRE.) (Hoorah Hooha Betty)
Shorty: "I can't pay that shit no mind." Malcolm: "Brother you need to pay it all your mind." (From the movie Malcolm X)
"Time is the school in which we learn. Time is the fire in which we burn." (Poem by Delmore Schwartz)
"The call rings up the curtain, always, on a mystery of transfiguration ... which, when complete, amounts to a dying and a birth. The familiar life horizon has been outgrown; the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of the threshold is at hand." (Joseph Campbell describing the Call to Adventure.)
"Some will trust in the things they think they know. They should think again and let them go." - Steve Bell (songwriter)
"And when you're growing down instead of growing up / Tell me are you bold enough to reach for love? (Janelle Monae, "Many Moons")
"Don't get trapped in hopeless cages, 'cause hopeless isn't true." (Hawksley Workman)
“I sometimes do not know what to say, but every day I make progress.” (a robot named Bina 48)
"I'm flawed all over but I'm perfect in all my flaws." (Guy interviewed on Definitely Not the Opera)
Eric: The only person you ever loved is yourself.
Drama: ...What's not to love?
(Entourage)
I'm tired of being a nobody. I wanna be the object of respect, fear and sex! (Radar on MASH)
You approve your own beauty. You say you're beautiful. Don't wait for someone else to say it. (Iman)
"If all the girls should be 'cross the sea, what a great swimmer Yellowman would be." (Yellowman 'Mi Believe/Summer Holiday')
Childie - Not all girls are raving bloody lesbians, you know.
Sister George - That is a misfortune that I am perfectly well aware of. (The Killing of Sister George, picked out from the documentary The Celluloid Closet)
"Hair grows no matter what you do. Don't you wish that people did too?" India Arie
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” Joseph Campbell
"Fat, thin, young, old... I love me." Gene Simmons
Thorne: It's a funny story.
Amaar: You destroyed my chair!
Thorne: Well it's not funny the way you tell it.
(Little Mosque on the Prairie)
"Roast my raisins!" (The Prince Regent in Blackadder)
"Let's be calm, guys, with undertones of frantic." (Hawkeye in M*A*S*H*)
George - There's a moral here, Dick.
Dick - Keep your mouth shut.
George - That's it.
(Newhart show)
"What if I put on a more expensive dress and THEN cried?" (Movie: Dorothy Parker and the Vicious Circle)
Bad guy - How do I know you're not from Control?
Max - If I was from Control you'd already be dead.
Bad guy - If you were from Control you'd already be dead.
Max - Well neither of us is dead so I guess I'm not from Control. (Get Smart movie)
My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, "You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you." (Bill Cosby)
Dan - I think I could take him.
Casey - Out to lunch maybe. (Sports Night)
"All I want to do is sit in the shade, and remember better times, and better men." - Mrs Fisher in The Enchanted April (I love to quote that one)
"Inspector Murdoch is a teetotaler! He practices teetotalism!" (Sgt Crabtree, distressed by the intimation that his boss is on a bender)
George: Sometimes you can't help these people til they hit rock bottom.
Jerry: And by then you've lost interest.
(Seinfeld)
Ari - You wanna hug it out?
Eric - No, not really.
Ari - Let's hug it out bitch! Let's hug it out. (Entourage)
-"How is it you always think you're right?"
- "I don't, I just find it hard to operate on the opposite assumption." (House)
"Now, contrary to popular opinion, Sweathogs are not dumb. I mean, a dumb person does not think of a way to make it rain in the gymnasium." (Welcome Back, Kotter)
"In the words of Sigmund Freud: I have a dream." ('George Bush' on Dennis Leary's Christmas special)
I'm about to projectile Express Myself all over your Hush Puppies. (Sue Silvester on Glee)
"Wakin' up is a strange reason to diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie .......whoo!" (Autotune the News)
"You feel so different inside that you think that in winter you must have been barely alive." (Jane Siberry from her song When Spring Comes)
"Don't you smile at me like that--that's not even a real smile! That's just a bunch of teeth playing with my mind!" (Face on the A-Team)
"I feel like Dorian Gray's picture." (Charles on M*A*S*H*)
"Please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let's not bicker and argue over who killed who." (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
"Fine, you deck the halls but I'm not donning any gay apparel." (Brent from Corner Gas)
"They were the sort that went trampling all over your pet stamp collection, or whatever it was, and then spent the rest of their lives atoning for it. But you would rather have had your stamp collection." (Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm)
"I worry that the drop in shark attacks is a sign of how unappetizing humans have become." (comment posted on a New York Times article)
Bob Roland: The man is trying to undermine you. Now what are you going to do about it?
Rufus T. Firefly: I've got a good mind to ring his doorbell and run. (From the Marx Brother's Duck Soup)
"The door to your future is always open." Ad slogan for a burial service. (Heard on CJAD)
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
A garden full of lines
* For those with an RSS reader or getting this by email, sorry for posting this 50 million times. Blogger seems to have caught my current bout of insanity.
Today's flower. From a Wodehouse fan page on facebook someone asked for favorite Wodehouse lines. My contribution was: "If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." One of the things I enjoy about being part of this page is the way my love of Wodehouse particularly unites me with people of Southeast Asian descent. Often when an Indian writer is asked "Who were your influences?" old Plum's name comes up. Maybe it's one of the few things us colonials don't begrudge the colonizer
Today's flower. From a Wodehouse fan page on facebook someone asked for favorite Wodehouse lines. My contribution was: "If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." One of the things I enjoy about being part of this page is the way my love of Wodehouse particularly unites me with people of Southeast Asian descent. Often when an Indian writer is asked "Who were your influences?" old Plum's name comes up. Maybe it's one of the few things us colonials don't begrudge the colonizer- Dhruv M. Trivedi As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sightJune 16 at 5:02am · · 4 people4 people like this.
Swati Sengupta Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.
June 16 at 8:41pm · · 4 peopleLoading...
Swati Sengupta ...now tailors measured him just for the sake of exercise.
June 16 at 8:47pm · · 2 peopleLoading...
Dhruv M. Trivedi "He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more."
June 16 at 10:51pm · · 4 people4 people like this.
Dhruv M. Trivedi The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
June 16 at 10:55pm · · 4 people4 people like this.
Dhruv M. Trivedi"What ho!" I said.
"What ho!" said Motty.
"What ho! What ho!"
...
"What ho! What ho! What ho!"
After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation."
June 17 at 1:20am · · 8 people8 people like this.
Deepak Ramamurthy Don't remember who said this or about whom: "The beastly woman spent 45 minutes explaining why she wrote her book, when a simple apology was all that was needed."
June 17 at 8:02am · · 9 people9 people like this.
Peter Begley "I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare--or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad--who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping."
June 18 at 2:54am · · 4 people4 people like this.
Dhruv M. Trivedi "At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. "
June 18 at 2:58am · · 2 people2 people like this.
Paul R. Carroll‘I particularly wish you to make a good impression on Mr Filmer.’
‘Right-ho.’
‘Don’t speak in that casual way, as if you supposed that it was
...perfectly natural that you would make a good impression upon
him. Mr Filmer is a serious-minded man of high character and
purpose, and you are just the type of vapid and frivolous wastrel
against which he is most likely to be prejudiced.’
Hard words, of course, from one’s own flesh and blood, but
well in keeping with past form.
June 18 at 3:18am · · 4 people4 people like this.
Jen Powell Too many to declare an absolute favourite, so I'll just share from the book I'm reading today: "...the Code of the Woosters is stricter than the Code of the Catsmeats."
June 18 at 8:34am · · 1 personLoading...
Paul R. Carroll It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.
June 18 at 8:39am · · 4 people4 people like this.
Jen Powell his air was that of a man who, if he had said 'Hullo girls', would have said it like someone in a Russian drama announcing that Grandpapa had hanged himself in the barn.
June 18 at 8:45am · · 8 people8 people like this.
Jen Powell The Mating Season, although I think he might have used the line in another earlier story as well.
June 18 at 8:47am ·
Paul R. CarrollThe trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting ‘Heil, Spode!’ and you im...agine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: ‘Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?
-B. Wooster
June 18 at 8:47am · · 4 peopleLoading...
Paul R. Carroll You sent me to my collection to look up Code of the Woosters...
June 18 at 8:50am · · 1 personLoading...
Jen Powell A tall, drooping man, looking as if he had been stuffed in a hurry by an incompetent taxidermist....
(The Mating Season)
June 18 at 8:52am · · 4 people4 people like this.
Jen Powell Paul, I did the same thing myself at first. It's that line about 'the Code of the Woosters' being stricter than the code of the Catsmeats that always causes me confusion.
June 18 at 8:53am ·
Paul R. Carroll Those who know Bertram Wooster best are aware that in his journey through life he is impeded and generally snootered by about as scaly a platoon of aunts as was ever assembled.
June 18 at 8:55am · · 5 people5 people like this.
Dhruv M. Trivedi It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
June 19 at 12:33am · · 4 people4 people like this.
Tim Richards "You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing. One or the other. Not both."
June 19 at 4:42pm · · 7 people7 people like this.
Ramdas Viswanathan @swati - trust the female to place the world in a concatenation of permanent contemplation! :)
June 19 at 7:12pm · · 1 personSwati Sengupta likes this.
Bama Balakrishnan ...it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers...
June 19 at 7:48pm · · 4 people4 people like this.
Dhruv M. Trivedi Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous
June 21 at 4:28am · · 2 people2 people like this.
Dhruv M. Trivedi Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him
June 21 at 4:31am · · 4 peopleLoading...
Katharina O'Grady How can you choose just one favourite line. In the J & W episodes alone, there are dozens if not hundreds of absolute LOL moments!!
June 21 at 11:09am · · 2 peopleLoading...
Swati Sengupta And it sometimes happens with me that I laugh at different lines when I read the books a second time!
June 21 at 11:11am · · 1 personJen Powell likes this.
Jyothiprakash Trishuleshwar Providence, mysterious in its workings, had given him instead of the more customary human brain, a skull full of concrete!
June 21 at 1:05pm · · 2 peopleLoading...
Mario Schiani "Precisely, sir. Carpe diem, the Roman poet Horace advised. The English poet Herrick expressed the same sentiment when he suggested that we should gather rosebuds while we may. Your elbow is in the butter, sir."
June 21 at 1:20pm · · 3 peopleLoading...
Shabbir Shamsi Lord Ickenham thought he could guess.He was aware that given a pack of cards, Claude Pott could offend the mildest lamb.Indeed, it was a tenable theory that this might have been the cause of his once having bitten by one.
June 23 at 12:48am · · 2 people2 people like this.
Sourav Sengupta "Then how do you know he's a big bug?"
"Precisely," said Psmith. "On what system have you estimated the size of the gentleman's bughood?" --(Psmith Journalist)
June 24 at 4:54pm · · 3 people3 people like this.
Vijen Julian Wood Angus McAllister ... was a sturdy man of medium height, with eyebrows that would have fitted a bigger forehead.
June 25 at 9:28am · · 2 people2 people like this.
Carolyn Roosevelt ...aunt calling to aunt, like mastodons across the primeval swamp...
June 25 at 2:22pm · · 3 people3 people like this.
Frank Cowell The self-assessment of cult literary star Vladimir Brusilov: "No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me."
June 25 at 6:12pm · · 2 peopleLoading...
Dhruv M. Trivedi It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
June 26 at 6:51am · · 1 personSwati Sengupta likes this.
Dhruv M. Trivedi Have you ever tasted such filthy coffee?" "Never" said Joe, though he had lived in French hotels
June 26 at 6:57am · · 2 people2 people like this.
Dhruv M. Trivedi I had just got across the lawn when a head poked itself out of the smoking-room window and beamed at me in an amiable sort of way.
“Ah, Mr. Wooster,” it said. “Ha, ha!”
“Ho, ho!” I replied, not to be outdone in the courtesies.
June 26 at 7:03am · · 3 people3 people like this.
Frank Cowell"... If I had a quid for every time I've seen you gaze at him with the lovelight in your eyes----"
She gazed at me, but without the lovelight.
"Oh, for goodness sake, go away and boil your head, Bertie!"
I drew myself up.
"That," I replied, wi...th dignity, "is just what I am going to go away and boil. At least, I mean, I shall now leave you. I have said my say."
"Good."
"But permit me to add----"
"I won't."
"Very good," I said coldly. "In that case, tinkerty tonk."
And I meant it to sting.
June 26 at 7:28am · · 2 people2 people like this.
Bill Cawley Heil Spode and you imagine its the Voice of the People. That's where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is " Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in all your puff see such a perfect perisher"
June 26 at 7:18pm · · 3 people3 people like this.
Shabbir Shamsi At the open window of the great library of Blandings Castle, drooping like a wet sock, as was his habit when he had nothing to prop his spine against, the Earl of Emsworth,that amiable and boneheaded peer, stood gazing out over his domain.
Monday at 1:43am · · 3 people3 people like this.
Jen Powell @Frank. Great quote from the Clicking of Cuthbert. Possibly my favourite Wodehouse short story. Brimming to the back teeth with fabulous lines.
Monday at 4:14am ·
Frank Cowell Jen : well, living / working in the academic world one comes across quite a few with the Vladimir Brusilov attitude. Quite a few with his amazing beard too...
Monday at 4:39am · · 1 personSwati Sengupta likes this.
Jen Powell Your literary afternoon teas must be a sight to behold, all those cake slices being steered through the shrubberies.
Monday at 6:36am · · 1 personPaul R. Carroll likes this.
Frank Cowell Swati Sengupta: In fact I used your "codfish" quotation in an academic bbok -- in a chapter on inheritance and wealth!
Monday at 8:52am ·
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