Backpocket Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is free. You got to pay to be in society. First you start with homework. — Mel Brooks

There has been one defining production for me in each decade. — Stephen Daldry

'Malvolio' is the one show of mine that will not die. I've performed it more than 200 times all over the place. — Tim Crouch

The light of God is in you. Let your light shine! — Eleazar

Come on, you winefizzling, ginsizzling, booseguzzling existences! Come on, you dog-gone, bullnecked, beetlebrowed, hogjowled, peanutbrained, weaseleyed fourflushers, false alarms and excess baggage! Come on, you triple extract of infamy! Alexander J. Christ Dowie, that's yanked to glory most half this planet from 'Frisco Beach to Vladivostok. The Deity ain't no nickel dime bumshow. I put it to you that he's on the square and a corking fine business proposition. He's the grandest thing yet and don't you forget it. Shout salvation in king Jesus. You'll need to rise precious early, you sinner there, if you want to diddle the Almighty God. Pflaaaap! Not half. He's got a coughmixture with a punch in it for you, my friend, in his backpocket. Just you try it on. — James Joyce

She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover whether one was really a writer or just a victim of a literary home environment. — John Fowles

Assume the worst about people and you get the worst. — Ha-Joon Chang

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.
'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you. — L.M. Montgomery

I am a crab. I am thinking crabby thoughts. I am tightening my grip on this rock with my big red pincers. — Yahtzee Croshaw

If trained animal professionals with years of dog-handling experience aren't good at visually identifying breeds, then what does that say about the rest of us? — Bronwen Dickey