Office Darryl Quotes & Sayings

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true. — Alexander Payne

It wasn't the bent, nasty, yellow laminated four-by-six card everyone else got but a real heavyweight plastic tag embossed with my name. Jenks had one, too, and he was obnoxiously proud of it even though I was the one wearing it, right under mine. It would get me into the morgue when nothing else would. Well, besides being dead. — Kim Harrison

A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear from us and so defuse their wrath. The idea that such behavior would be taken by a ruthless and implacable enemy only as a sign of weakness is as foreign to them as the idea of honor itself. — James Bowman

The saddest task for the ironist is having to tell the listener that it's a joke, because of course it is never a joke. — Paul Theroux

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They're allowed to think. — Steven Erikson

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard. — Adam Sandler

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt. — Samuel Johnson

Mr. Persichetti was a night nurse at the state hospital, inspired — Alice McDermott

Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth. — Plato

We're humans, so we're messy — Dennis Lehane

We could talk ... " I take a long inhale off my cigarette and gradually let it out, smoke circling my face. "If you want to."
She tenses as she shakes her head and stares out the window to the side of her. "I want to play make believe for just a little bit longer."
God, i've never felt my heart shatter for someone else more than I have at this moment. — Jessica Sorensen

Marley was dead: to begin with. — Charles Dickens

look at her. She froze, staring at the slitted silver eyes. Jagged ridges lined the top of the dragon's eyes, sweeping back into a crest on its head. The crest grew into a bony mane down the back of its neck. They ended in front of the wings and picked up again behind the wing joint to the tip of the dragon's tail. — Carol M. Vaughn

I'm not going to be like my mother. You're maniacs. You're mad."

"Yes," said Kate. "I know it. And so you won't be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead? — Doris Lessing

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women. — Kate Smith