Portlandia Season 1 Episode 1 Quotes & Sayings

It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation. — Karen Russell

If you put it up, I'll just take it down again." His voice lowered to a throaty hum, "And you know what happens when I take your hair down. — Sabrina Jeffries

I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes. — Michael Schur

They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left, and we're not going to take it anymore. — Pat Robertson

Life with out purpose is like a sailboat with out it's sail, with out one ... you'll get nowhere. — Timothy Pina

They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not at all desirable near the eyeballs. — J.K. Rowling

Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people. — Matthew Stewart

If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule:Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There's this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died. — James Surowiecki

Hey, pretty dancer. Think you could put on a private show for me? — Cora Graham

I've learned one general thing in filmmaking: to work with one strong idea. One strong concept that pushes you to work in a certain way artistically. — Darius Khondji