“Some people just don’t find their Prince Charming straight away, they have to search for him.”
“Matthias joined them at the table. “The Shu woman we faced was stronger than me, Jesper, and Wylan put together.” “You heard right,” said Jesper. “Stronger than Wylan.”
“Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe”
“Ah, if only we were born roaring with laughter and took that emotional template through life with us! Whoever s in charge seriously messed up somewhere. I can only hope that right now, that selfsame Whoever is wryly relating their cock-up to some celestial colleague, who responds: Hey, you should put that in a book. LOL!”
“Pretty much I would let Gemma know that she is a fat cunt and, um the shoes that she gave me were not something that I would particularly buy for myself. They were old maiden type of shoes, and she said that those shoes were meant to be worn on a beautiful woman So if that is the case she should have put them back on the rack and she should never even purchased them because she was UNQUALIFIED to own those shoes if that s the case and, um I think that Gemma is just a disgrace. She s a disgrace to women who are actually beautiful and classy and, um she just doesn t have the vernacular she thinks she possesses Somebody lied to her several times and told her that she was fly, hot and sexy and beautiful and she s nothing like that She s nothing of the sort”
“Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.”
“The division seems rather unfair, I remarked. You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you? For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains the cocaine-bottle. And he stretched his long white hand up for it.”
“People talk too much, humans aren t descended from monkeys, they re descended from parrots.”
“Angela Merkel zitiere ich ja am liebsten wörtlich, ich hab noch keine bessere Möglichkeit gefunden diese Frau zu beleidigen.”
“Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has several times made statements to the effect that we Europeans should not cultivate a superficial anti-Americanism. But mine isn t superficial at all. Personally I have nothing against the US itself - it s a beautiful country - it s the people who live there that are the problem. I guess you could say it s the same thing with Bavaria.”
“Henry, you mustn’t mind. It is really a kindness to have him.’ ‘Well, I do mind, Emily,’ said Mr Leslie, getting up. ‘Kindness is one thing and your family is another. You treat this house as if it were the Ark, Emily, inviting everyone in.’ ‘At least she doesn’t ask them in couples, sir,’ said David. ‘A female Holt would be appalling.’ ‘That’s enough,’ said his father. ‘If Mr Holt comes into this house, I go out of it.’ He took a cigar from the sideboard and went out, almost slamming the door.”
“Bookstores are wondrous places, are they not?”
“Welcome to gym. Where the quads and glutes and delts and pects, are the gods of brutes and svelte and sex.”
“Defensive driving meant we travelled so slowly we were often overtaken by maimed war veterans on tricycles”
“Drina is not terrifyingly muscled. Her underdeveloped calves tell me she s not a runner. Her bad posture tells me she has little to no energy. She might be good with a sword, but I deem that unlikely. I fail to find a solid reason not to punch her in the face.”
“Seen through the gold of old Scotch, life seems more beautiful.”
“I come from there, there where I never belonged.”