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You wouldn't know a good time if it stripped naked, hopped on your face, and started wiggling!
-- C. Stanley

"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority."
-- Stanley Milgram

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
-- Stanley Kubrick (in an interview with The Guardian, 5th June 1963)

Hell's afloat in lovers' tears.
-- Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
-- Dorothy Parker

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
-- Dorothy Parker

The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
-- Dorothy Parker

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
-- Dorothy Parker

"Tell him I've been too fucking busy - or vice versa."
-- Dorothy Parker

"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."
-- Dorothy Parker

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-- Dorothy Parker

"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
-- Dorothy Parker

They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
-- Dorothy Parker ('Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928)

"It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends."
-- Dorothy Parker

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker

I think it's adorable that our fans call me Shirl. It's preferrable to asshole.
-- Shirley Manson

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with RAISINS in it.
-- Dorothy Parker

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker

Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.

-- Dorothy Parker (Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item")

"In all our searching, the only thing we found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other"
(Contact)

Politics: Poly (many) - tics (blood sucking parasites)

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
(The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985)

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong
And I am Marie of Roumania.

-- Dororhy Parker

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
-- Dorothy Parker

"The first 80% of software development is the easy part. The hard part is the next 80%"

Notice in a hotel lobby in Bucharest:
"The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable."

"Do you know a cow was murdered to make that jacket?"
"I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I guess I'll have to kill you too."

-- Paul Crowley

Even if you're paranoid, maybe the guy with the chainsaw really is after you.

Why serial commas are important: "I dedicate this book to my parents, Ayn Rand and God."

"Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity."
-- Beth Gibbons

"And I'm not all that decent and honorable. I'm merely well-bred, which I hope is a tolerable substitute."
-- Anne Rice (Ramses the Damned)

All sunshine makes the desert.
-- Arab proverb