Pennypincher
- How to Save Money on Gas
You've probably noticed that the price-per-gallon for gasoline is higher if you use a credit card, as opposed to paying cash. However, you can purchase a gift card using your credit card, and then use the new gift card to buy gas. I have used this trick many times in order to get the lower price. Unfortunately, this really only works at the larger chains as most independent stations don't sell gift cards.
Betty Cornell
- Teenage Popularity Guide - 1960
Do not underestimate a boy's intelligence. They may seem pretty stupid about some things - they may get their feet tangled on the dance floor or stumble on their tongues when talking to your parents, but they are smart enough to know that a girl who just follows the crowd hasn't got very much on the ball. They would rather date a girl who sets the pace than a girl who just jogs along.
Bill the Butcher
- Gangs of New York
I know your works. You are neither cold nor hot. So, because you are lukewarm, I will spew you out of my mouth. You can build your filthy world without me. I took the father. Now I'll take the son. You tell young Vallon I'm gonna paint Paradise Square with his blood. Two coats! I'll festoon my bedchamber with his guts! As for you, Mr. Tammany Hall, you come down to the Points again, and you'll be dispatched by my own hand. Get back to your celebration, and let me eat in peace.
Thomas Moore
- Did Not
She felt my lips' impassioned touch, 'twas the first time I dared so much, and yet she chid not; but whispered o'er my burning brow, "Oh, do you doubt I love you now?" Sweet soul! I did not. Warmly I felt her bosom thrill. I pressed it closer, closer still, though gently bid not. Till - oh! the world hath seldom heard of lovers, who so nearly erred, and yet,... who did not.
Vladimir Nabokov
- Sounds
It was necessary to shut the window: rain was striking the sill and splashing the parquet and armchairs. With a fresh, slippery sound, enormous silver specters sped through the garden, through the foliage, along the orange sand. The drainpipe rattled and choked. You were playing Bach. The piano had raised its lacquered wing, under the wing lay a lyre, and little hammers were rippling across the strings.
Stick Boy and Match Girl
- Tim Burton
Stick Boy liked Match Girl, he liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally; he burned up quick.
Trent Reznor
It's the sort of club that no matter what time you turn up, they're always playing 'Blue Monday' by New Order. I walked in and there is Robert Smith, all by himself dancing in the middle of the dance-floor, with a circle of goth girls all around him just watching him move. He sees me and I see him, and we've never met before, but he just gives me a big hug. And we we're just hugging for about two minutes and I think by the time we stopped 'Blue Monday' actually was playing.
Sloan Wilson
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
By the time they had lived seven years in the little house on Greentree Avenue in Westport, Connecticut, they both detested it. There were many reasons, none of them logical, but all of them compelling. For one thing, the house had a kind of evil genius for displaying proof of their weaknesses and wiping out all traces of their strengths.
Paul Neilan
- Apathy and Other Small Victories
I was stealing salt shakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small child, I knew it would one day come to this.
Ellen Degeneres
While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.
John Cleese
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies! It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-parrot!
Christopher Moore
- Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Tucker fell back with an exasperated sigh. He didn't understand religion. It was like heroin or golf; He knew lots of people did it, but he didn't understand why. His father watched sports every Sunday and his mother had worked in real estate. He grew up thinking that church was something that simply interfered with games and weekend open houses.
Katheryn Stockett
- The Help
The kitchen is about half the size of the living room and warmer. It smells like tea and lemons. The black-and-white linoleum floor has been scrubbed thin. There's just enough counter for the china tea set. I set the typewriter on a scratched red table under the window. Aibileen starts to pour the hot water into the teapot.
Yukio Mishima
- Confessions of a Mask
What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide. I wanted a death like that of a fox, not yet well versed in cunning, that walks carelessly along a mountain path and is shot by a hunter because of its own stupidity...
