Greenacres Quotes & Sayings

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. — Isaac Asimov

For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the end of it out because there's always ... once you've rehearsed it and shot it, it feels like a couple of times and you can always get out sooner. — Brian Helgeland

Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own! — William Shakespeare

The house, she'd explained to them many times, had spoken to her; she'd listened, and it turned out they'd understood one another very well indeed. Greenacres was an imperious old lady, a little worn, to be sure, cranky in her own way-but who wouldn't be? — Kate Morton

I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon. — Jim Woodring

They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression. — Rick Majerus

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old. — Elvis Costello

The event itself played over in her mind, and the role she'd taken in the police investigation, the things she'd told them - worse, the thing she hadn't - made the panic so bad sometimes that she could hardly breathe. No matter where she went at Greenacres - inside the house or out in the garden - she felt trapped by what she'd seen and done. The memories where everywhere, they were inescapable; made worse because the event that caused them was utterly inexplicable. — Kate Morton

So, let me get this straight," Winston says. "Our plan is basically seduce the soldiers and civilians of Sector 45 into fighting with us?"
Kenji crossed his arms. "Yeah, it sounds like we're going to go all peacock and hope they find us attractive enough to mate with."
"Gross," Brendan frowns. — Tahereh Mafi

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass
the earth
into the second
eternity. — Margaret George

It's odd, isn't it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy? — Agatha Christie

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone. — Ernest Hemingway,

The white men wouldn't do it either, of course. They called it women's work, and the women called it Nigger work. *** — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship. — Franz Kafka

Go watch (Minority Report) if you can bear Tom Cruise for that long — Kara Swisher

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation. — Thomas Jefferson