Oedipal Crisis Quotes & Sayings

You're just a character in my dream."
"You wish."
"I didn't mean my love interest," she replied defensively. "You'd have better hair. You're the character I dreamed up because the rest of the dream was making me homesick."
"Maybe you're the character I dreamed up to scare myself awake."
"That's not very nice!"
"You made fun of my hair. I like it this way. Short and simple."
I don't mind short. Mine is short."
"Then what's wrong with mine?" Jason challenged.
"Maybe we should talk about something else."
"Like the guy on a horse coming to kill us?"
"It needs more style," she muttered.
"The horse?"
"Your hair."
"I forgot to bring my gel when I got eaten by a hippo. — Brandon Mull

I'd hate to be a giraffe with a sore throat. — Mitch Hedberg

Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well. — Timothy Keller

Like that guy could make Yuri do anything he doesn't want to," Mikhail scoffed. "Yuri could break him in half if he wanted."
"Or fold him in half," I offered. "Which is probably more along the lines of what Chuluun was thinking when he asked for permission. — Mary Calmes

Nurse, if she didn't have more money than any person ought to have, you might be tempted to call it senile dementia. As it is, she is in for a rest and a check-up. — Robert A. Heinlein

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth. — George D. Prentice

God did not have time to make a nobody, so you're a somebody. — Mary Kay Ash

The other that will guide you and itself through this dissolution is a rhythm, text, music, and within language, a text. But what is the connection that holds you both together? Counter-desire, the negative of desire, inside-out desire, capable of questioning (or provoking) its own infinite quest. Romantic, filial, adolescent, exclusive, blind and Oedipal: it is all that, but for others. It returns to where you are, both of you, disappointed, irritated, ambitious, in love with history, critical, on the edge and even in the midst of its own identity crisis; a crisis of enunciation and of the interdependence of its movements, an instinctual drive that descends in waves, tearing apart the symbolic thesis. — Julia Kristeva

I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape. — Charlotte Bingham

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely — Tony Hoagland