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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
-- Cyril Parkinson
I think I'll go someplace where I can find intelligent conversation....
-- Alan Williams
Stop teasing like this! We know you love the attention you get here! Fess up -- you're a soc.motss abuse bottom and you know it!
-- Greg Parkinson
Hell's afloat in lovers' tears.
-- Dorothy Parker
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
-- Dorothy Parker
Men are like parking spaces: the good ones are taken and the rest are handicapped.
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
-- Dorothy Parker
"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see --
But microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
-- Emily Dickinson
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
It's a mistake to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion.
-- Robert Park
"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."
-- Dorothy Parker
Natural vs. unnatural is a pretty worthless distinction.
-- Greg Parkinson
Only to someone such as yourself, with a deliberate disability to perceive the difference.
-- Bob Sarver
But easy for someone like you, who can manufacture the difference on the spot.
-- Mike Batchelor
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
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
-- Dorothy Parker (Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item")
Politics: Poly (many) - tics (blood sucking parasites)
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
God help us... We're in the hands of engineers.
(Jurassic park)
"Don't drink and park. Accidents cause people."
(Bumper Sticker)
Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car.
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
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