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- You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.
- Peter Blake, House M.D., Fools For Love, 2006
- Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.
- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
- The notion of picking one time of year to be decent to other people is obscene because it's actually validating the notion of being miserable wretches the rest of the year.
- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
- The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
- I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.
- Hugh Elliott, Bible Versus, 11-27-08
- Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.
- Mark Ruffalo, In Style Magazine, 11-08
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