Quotes (Page 53)!

  1. "I mean, I love Daleks, obviously. Obviously I adore Daleks." ~Gary Russell
  2. "[The Tenth Doctor] is too skinny for words - you give him a hug, you get a papercut." ~Donna Noble
  3. "He called you a grunt! Don't call Ross a grunt. He's nice! We like Ross!" ~The Tenth Doctor
  4. "What is it?" "Eh...Just looks like a thing, doesn't it? People don't question things, they just think, 'Eeuh, it's a thing.'" ~The Tenth Doctor
  5. "Thank of me as a paradox in an anomaly, and get on with your tea." ~The Professor (Shada)
  6. "You've got a lot to unlearn." ~The Fourth Doctor on human understanding of science
  7. "There isn't anything that stands as little chance as you do out there." ~Romana II to The Doctor
  8. "I know it's very hard to understand, and it's very easy to be sarcastic." ~The Doctor
  9. "Never mind, Helen. James is being old fashioned - it's a very endearing quality in the young. He'll soon grow out of it." ~Siegfried Farnon
  10. "Some galactic hobo with ideas above his station - the cosmos is full of them." ~The Fourth Doctor
  11. "You stammer because you know I speak truth." ~Ray Barone
  12. "Do you know how close you are to the end of your life?" ~Debora Barone
  13. "I have the right to remain silent, and that's a right." ~belligerent drunk guy being arrested on Jail
  14. "Sometimes it's hard to face your own...life." ~Jon Stewart
  15. "If you want people to drive safer, take out the airbag and attach a machete pointed at their neck." ~Dr. Gregory House
  16. "I don't know how to deal with him when he's reasonable." ~Dr. James Wilson
  17. "I'm gonna [tick] off one of them, and they both scare me." ~Dr. James Wilson on Drs. Gregory House and Amber Volakis
  18. "You said you were taking the high road - what, to the first exit?" ~Dr. James Wilson
  19. "I thought I was having drinks with a friend. I didn't know the drink had subtext." ~Dr. James Wilson
  20. "Why do they have to make it awkward to watch TV at night." ~Hillary
  21. "In respect of character a face may make certain admissions by its outline; but it fully confesses only in its changes. So much is this the case that what is called the play of the features often helps more in understanding a man or woman than the earnest labours of all the other members together. Thus the night revealed little of her whose form it was embracing, for the mobile parts of her countenance could not be seen." ~Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
  22. "My man, don't you be afraid. I forgot you were here. That's only a curious way reddlemen have of going mad for a moment; but they don't hurt anybody." ~Diggory Venn
  23. "The face was well shaped, even excellently. But the mind within was beginning to use it as a mere waste tablet whereon to trace its idiosyncrasies as they developed themselves. The beauty here visible would in no long time be ruthlessly overrun by its parasite, thought, which might just as well have fed upon a plainer exterior where there was nothing it could harm. Had Heaven preserved Yeobright from a wearing habit of meditation, people would have said, 'A handsome man.' Had his brain unfolded under sharper contours they would have said, 'A thoughtful man.' But an inner strenuousness was preying upon an outer symmetry, and they rated his look as singular." ~Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
  24. "The observer's eye was arrested, not by his face as a picture, but by his face as a page; not by what it was, but by what it recorded. His features were attractive in the light of symbols, as sounds intrinsically common become attractive in language, and as shapes intrinsically simple become interesting in writing." ~Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
  25. "Sons must be blind if they will. Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close? Clym must do as he will--he is nothing more to me. And this is maternity--to give one's best years and best love to ensure the fate of being despised!" ~Eustacia Yeobright
  26. "Now, don't you suppose, my inexperienced girl, that I cannot rebel, in high Promethean fashion, against the gods and fate as well as you. I have felt more steam and smoke of that sort than you have ever heard of. But the more I see of life the more do I perceive that there is nothing particularly great in its greatest walks, and therefore nothing particularly small in mine of furze-cutting. If I feel that the greatest blessings vouchsafed to us are not very valuable, how can I feel it to be any great hardship when they are taken away? So I sing to pass the time." ~Clym Yeobright
  27. "...if we, who remain alive, were only allowed to hold conversation with the dead--just once, a bare minute, even through a screen of iron bars, as with persons in prison--what we might learn! How many who now ride smiling would hide their heads!" ~Clym Yeobright
  28. "To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was." ~Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
  29. "It was a night which led the traveler's thoughts instinctively to dwell on nocturnal scenes of disaster in the chronicles of the world, on all that is terrible and dark in history and legend--the last plague of Egypt, the destruction of Sennacherib's host, the agony in Gethsemane." ~Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
  30. "Suspence is . . . related to tragic irony. The tragic character moves closer and closer to his doom, and though he may be surprised by it, we are not; we are held by suspense. If, in fact, he is suddenly and unexpectedly saved (as is a hero of a melodrama), we may feel cheated." ~Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, and William Burto, A Dictionary of Literary Terms
  31. "...we cannot help wondering what will become of them, these dear creatures who have joined our fantasy world. The public demand for sequels and serials is not to be written off as naive Philistinism. It represents a legitimate desire, of theoretical interest, to extend the illusion, to find out how fate disposes of characters in whom we have come to invest emotion and interest. Whether the author elect to respond or not is, of course, his own aesthetic affair." ~Seymour Chatman, Story and Discourse
  32. "In Norman's mind, there were no enemies in war. Just victims. Victims of historical process." ~Joe Haldeman, The Coming
  33. "...he was the least popular president since Nixon. A majority of the House and Senate wanted him impeached, if not actually hanged, but they were putting it off for a few days. Maybe the aliens would vaporize him and save them the trouble." ~Joe Haldeman, The Coming
  34. "I don't have a verbal narrative to show you." ~My Narratology teacher
  35. "It's like the Polar Express effect, where Tom Hanks is every character, and it looks really creepy." ~My Narratology teacher on the Uncanny Valley
  36. "Purchase of food does not guarantee seating." ~Sign in McDonalds
  37. "I haven't done that. I haven't tried to attack Alley." ~My Narratology teacher on playing Photopia
  38. "If you wanted to read a book subversively or throw the book out the window, the author can't really do anything about that. But in interactive fiction, the writer can at least prepare a snarky response." ~My Narratology teacher
  39. "I don't want to make any claims about the state of kangaroos in Michigan..." ~My Narratology teacher on Michigan's apparent 9-foot kangaroo infestation
  40. "The sense in which this is interactive is not at all." ~Guy in my Narratology class on Fa�ade
  41. "What about Furbies?" ~My Narratology teacher
  42. "What genre of videogame is DOOM? A) dating simulator, B) massively multiplayer online role-playing game, C) first-person shooter, D) third-person dancer" ~A question on a Narratology quiz
  43. "This is Poe, so you know something nefarious is going on." ~My Narratology teacher on "The Cask of Amontillado"
  44. "It was like, 'Thanks for playing; here's your Yeti.'" ~My Narratology teacher on playing an ARG
  45. "Somebody just arsoned it." ~My Narratology teacher
  46. "You're not going to have a short story with a couple of guys playing with a flying novelty disk - they're going to be playing Frisbee." ~My Narratology teacher on product placement in literature
  47. "It's freaky. I mean, it's all these freaky creatures." ~My Narratology teacher on the Musee Mechanique
  48. "There's some part of me that really wishes I could go to Middle Earth and hang out with Frodo." ~My Narratology teacher
  49. "But few of us actually take it to the level of going to the North Pole and looking for [Santa]." ~My Narratology teacher comparing Christmas to an ARG
  50. "Batman and his cronies have been running amok America." ~Guy in my Narratology class on the Harvey Dent ARG
  51. "On American Idol, don't they give you backstory on the characters--the contestants?" ~My Narratology teacher
  52. "If you are interested in getting a syllabus - if for some reason you need a piece of paper to be happy - you can go to the website and print it out." ~My Communications professor
  53. "Oh, god, now I've gotta have that dream..." ~Ray Barone
  54. "For whatever reason, Communications engineers like to ignore grammars." ~My Communications professor
  55. "Believe in me, trust this...at least for another ten minutes." ~My Communications professor
  56. "So, you're doomed." ~My Communications professor
  57. "No idea [how you know the change in frequency]. That's why we need engineers and not robots. That's why we still have jobs." ~My Communications professor
  58. "I hear some humming. [puzzled] My ear is picking up some AM signal." ~My Communications professor
  59. "This is natural mapping. It's natural because...your computer works that way." ~My Communications professor
  60. "It's just some stupid terminology. I mean, if you're the first guy to come up with this, you can call it whatever you want." ~My Communications professor
  61. "Um...Alright, I give up." ~My Communications professor
  62. "That is one special kind of idiot." ~Frank Barone
  63. "As a kid, I had a hard time accepting that. I've gotten over that. I worry about other things." ~My QM professor on the wave nature of particles
  64. "I've never seen a billiard ball express wave characteristics." ~My QM professor
  65. "Our book's pretty scary." ~My QM professor
  66. "We could try a wave packet thingie." ~My QM professor
  67. "'Free particle' is a bit misleading, because it is not actually free. The particle is locked up in a box." ~My QM professor
  68. "That's very novel. Maybe you can get funding for that." ~My QM professor in response to "I think I'm in terra eV."
  69. "Let you out early? I have a class to teach at 3, so I am not sympathetic to your argument." ~My QM professor
  70. "You have homework due on Wednesday, did you know that? Check the website from time to time for these little surprises." ~My QM professor
  71. "That mode still exists in this thingie right here." ~My QM professor being terribly specific
  72. "I'm just losing my mind. That's okay." ~My State Variables professor
  73. "Ray, I'm sorry about your whole life." ~Debora Barone
  74. "How is this a good idea?! I would just like to know what's going through his stupid, pea-brained mind." ~Hillary watching Horatio Hornblower
  75. "'You mean that if you do overtime you have to do more overtime to pay for it?' said Moist, still pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it." ~Terry Pratchett, Making Money
  76. "It can't be from a friend. Everyone I think of as a friend can spell." ~Moist von Lipwig
  77. "The world is full of things worth more than gold. But we dig the damn stuff up and then bury it in a different hole. Where's the sense in that? What are we, magpies? Is it all about the gleam? Good heavens, potatoes are worth more than gold!" ~Moist von Lipwig
  78. "This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one." ~Moist von Lipwig
  79. "Mr. Lipwig had been in trouble, but it seemed to Igor that the trouble hit Mr. Lopwig like a big wave hitting a flotilla of ducks. Afterward, there was no wave but there was still al ot of duck." ~Terry Pratchett, Making Money
  80. "You get a wonderful view from the point of no return." ~Moist von Lipwig
  81. "If you upset Vetinari again you will have a wonderful opportunity to never have to buy another hat." ~Adora Belle "Spike" Dearheart
  82. "He's so cute! Okay, focusing, now..." ~Ashley about either Kyle Reese, The Doctor, or Corporal Hicks, I honestly don't remember which
  83. "'O, yes, thank you,' said Maggie, 'I'm very much obliged to you. But I wish you'd go with me too.' She thought anything was better than going with one of the dreadful men alone: it would be more cheerful to be murdered by a larger party." ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
  84. "I think of too many things—sow all sorts of seeds, and get no great harvest from any one of them. I'm cursed with susceptibility in every direction, and effective faculty in none. I care for painting and music; I care for classic literature, and mediaeval literature, and modern literature: I flutter all ways, and fly in none." ~Philip Wakem
  85. "...no one has strength given to do what is unnatural. It is mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day, and then every rational satisfaction of your nature that you deny now, will assault you like a savage appetite." ~Philip Wakem
  86. "'Character,' says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms—'character is destiny.' But not the whole of our destiny. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, was speculative and irresolute, and we have a great tragedy in consequence. But if his father had lived to a good old age, and his uncle had died an early death, we can conceive Hamlet's having married Ophelia, and got through life with a reputation of sanity notwithstanding many soliloquies, and some moody sarcasms towards the fair daughter of Polonius, to say nothing of the frankest incivility to his father-in-law." ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
  87. "It is a way of eking out one's imperfect life and being three people at once—to sing and make the piano sing, and hear them both all the while—or else to sing and paint." ~Philip Wakem
  88. "The Doctor has the maturity to respect many points of view." ~Zastor
  89. "I've discovered something new about our tough-guy Tristan - he's absolutely potty about the cat." ~Helen Herriot
  90. "This is my brother, Tristan, the one usually responsible for the chaos." ~Siegfried Farnon
  91. "Christmas IS less than a year away..." ~James Herriot
  92. "We may be barbarians, but we pay for our pillaging." ~Dr. Niles Crane
  93. "Vinegar isn't supposed to go in your lungs." ~Duckie eating salt and vinegar chips improperly
  94. "Or we could just look out through the door." ~Adric
  95. "Why can't people be nice to one another, just for a change? I mean, I'm an alien, and you don't want to drag me into a swamp, do you? You do." ~The Fourth Doctor
  96. "My dear Tristan, you are magnificently ill equipped [to a normal life]. I've known it for years. It's part of your charm." ~Siegfried Farnon
  97. "Oh, don't mind me, I don't exist. Just argue amongst yourselves until you're ready." ~Tristan Farnon
  98. "The customers are convinced we've got a confirmed lunatic about the place. It isn't very far from the truth." ~James Herriot
  99. "Oh, I don't know about that. There's no use blinding me with facts." ~Tristan Farnon
  100. "Look at it this way: I can't come to any harm, it's not possible. Not 'till I pass my finals, anyway. It wouldn't be fair." ~Tristan Farnon on why it would be okay for him to enlist

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