"I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness."
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"Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue."
"Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff?"
"In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down, and I thought, What a wonderful thing; perhaps I can make some small contribution to this process, myself."
"I'm for whatever gets you through the night"
"Before I speak, I have something important to say."
"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
"There's no sauce in the world like hunger."
"I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?"
"I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun."
""There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel.""
"A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly."
"A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio."
"Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college."
"I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier."
"Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off."
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
"I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action."
"The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink."
"You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat."