“Hello Fry, it's a … *[stops mid-sentence, throws a D20 and a D6]* pleasure to meet you.”
Gary Gygax (1938–2008) American writer and game designer
Voicing himself in "Anthology of Interest I" on Futurama (21 May 2000)
Small talk: Dermot Healy, 2011
“Hello Fry, it's a … *[stops mid-sentence, throws a D20 and a D6]* pleasure to meet you.”
Gary Gygax (1938–2008) American writer and game designer
Voicing himself in "Anthology of Interest I" on Futurama (21 May 2000)
“I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”
Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham
Source: Green Eggs and Ham (1960)
Context: I would not like them here or there.
I would not like them anywhere.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.
“I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.”
Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer
“I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.”
Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects
Source: Sharp Objects
“Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.”
Jeremy Brett (1933–1995) English actor
As related at Playing Holmes http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/sherlock-holmes/features/playing-holmes-in-progress
Robert Wever (1500) English poet
Lusty Juventus http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/drama/juventus.txt (1557)
“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) Czech bookwriter and writer
“Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.”
Jessica Simpson (1980) American singer-songwriter and actress