THE BLA LAB
-- C3P0
"I suppose you expect me to talk."
"No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die."
-- Goldfinger
I think we're in trouble.
-- Han Solo
I think... I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check.
-- Escher
-- Elvis Costello I was working on a case. It had to be a case, because
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cowards who are so eager to escape that they exit directly through
the wall of a house, leaving a cookie-cutout-perfect hole. The
threat of skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction.
-- Esquire, "O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion", June 1980
If *I* had a hammer, there'd be no more folk singers.
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
-- Paul Beatty
If an average person on the subway turns to you, like an ancient mariner,
and starts telling you her tale, you turn away or nod and hope she stops,
not just because you fear she might be crazy. If she tells her tale on
camera, you might listen. Watching strangers on television , even
responding to them from a studio audience, we're disengaged -- voyeurs
collaborating with exhibitionists in rituals of sham community. Never
have so many known so much about people for whom they cared so little.
-- Wendy Kaminer commenting on testimonial television
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Nietzsche A woman of generous character
have what I think is a pretty good act." The foreman nodded assent, whereupon the little man hurried over to the main pole and rapidly climbed up to the very tip-top
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Channel 4 on the thing for two weeks."
Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out
of Casablanca and the Germans have outlawed miracles.
-- Casablanca
Mike: "The Fourth Dimension is a shambles?"
Bernie: "Nobody ever empties the ashtrays. People are SO inconsiderate."
-- Gary Trudeau, "Doonesbury"
Minnie Mouse is a slow maze learner.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade
themselves that they have a better idea.
-- John Ciardi
Mos Eisley Spaceport; you'll not find a more wretched collection of
villainy and disreputable types...
