Quip Quotes
15 quotes
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not."
"Look on the bright side,"said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway."
"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
"In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting."
"Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway."
"That's easy," Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ..."
"As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone."
"It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal."
Initially NO, Percipience: Outside the Range of Understood Sense
"I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a scale."
"tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!"
Dorothy Parker, The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker
"Thad: “But this is a boy, and you need to think of your reputation if you’re spending time alone with him—”Ari: ”Learning how to put a man's eye out or take him down at the knees. Very romantic stuff, Thad. Very romantic. Oh, and we also hid a body together, so we're practically engaged."
"Well, I can hardly lick champagne off your dazzling personality, now can I?"
"Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)"
"Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense"