The Hudsucker Proxy Quotes & Sayings

Tell me the sort of agreement that the United Nations will reach with respect to the world's petroleum reserves when the war is over," Ickes proclaimed, "and I will undertake to analyze the durability of the peace that is to come. — William Manchester

Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scratching of a branch against the window at night, the steady insistence of it is comforting. She has stories without beginnings, stories that trail off, stories that crisscross and contradict and dead end.
Toy is the star of her stories. Events orbit her like a constellation. — Erica Lorraine Scheidt

The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger
the black flag of piracy
flying from her peak. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. — Confucius

Time is an illusion that makes us all pant. — Yann Martel

He was evil, and he didn't know it. He didn't know what evil was. That is to say, he was pure evil. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Her fierce creature of a mind: sleek and sharp-clawed and utterly unwilling to be caught. — Marie Rutkoski

She helped the hunter with the cooking as a husband helps his wife: when he had gone out to hunt and left something to stew, she would take the pot off the fire. But she never knew when to take it off; sometimes it was cooked to pieces, and she never got it right except by accident. But when the accident happened the hunter would laugh and say, "You're as good a cook as my mother!" After all, why should he want her to keep house? If you have a seal that could talk, would you want it to sweep the floor? — Randall Jarrell