Popcorn Quotes

"I fight like a rocking chair in a boxing ring. That’s also how I make love. I should probably sell popcorn at my shows to boost revenue."

Jarod Kintz

"Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that when agitated, bursts to create something marvelously desirable. It’s sort of like those tiny, little thoughts trapped inside an author’s head that―in an excited explosion of words―suddenly become a captivating fairytale!"

Richelle E. Goodrich

"Some people are like popcorn: they will only succeed when under heat or pressure."

Charbel Tadros

"It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn"

James Patterson

"This isn't an army marching on the Mists. This isn't a case you have to solve. It's just a bunch of nobles coming to puff their chests out at each other an try to look important. Do what I do. Bring popcorn."

Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

"I barely even know how I didn't feel. I didn't feel like reading a newspaper, or having a coffee, or going for a jog, or watching television. Nor did I feel like crying behind the boiler in the basement. Or like trying out for something. I did't even feel like I had lost someone I deeply loved; this was different from that. I didn't feel like going to another movie and asking for extra butter on my popcorn. I didn't feel like talking to someone who would understand."

Rivka Galchen, American Innovations: Stories

"Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it."

Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

"I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film."

William Shatner

"We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan."

Emma McLaughlin

"Popcorn! Our fatal weakness!"

Hazel Levesque

"Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark."

Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories