We must have that put in Latin—We do what we can—on
People can't have everything they want. You should know that; it's a rule; people can have some of the things they want, but they can't have everything.
What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it
I swear if you existed I'd divorce you.
ROSS I hear a kind of … rushing sound, like a … wooooosh!, or … wings, or something. MARTIN It’s probably the Eumenides.
What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as...
You want to dance with me, angel tits?
Martha: ... I cry allllll the time; but deep inside, so no one can see me. I cry all the time. And Georgie cries all the time, too. We both cry all the time, and then what we do, we cry, and we take o...
It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
Everything becomes... too late, finally. You know it's going on... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shi...
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
There's no limit to you, is there?
MARTIN (Serious) Am I too young for Alzheimer’s? STEVIE Probably. Isn’t it nice to be too young for something?
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
It's sad to know you've gone through it all, or most of it, without… that the one body you'v wrapped your arms around, the only skin you've ever known, is your own… and that's it's dry, and not warm.
I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
I have learned that neither kindness nor cruelty by themselves; independent of each other, creates any effect beyond themselves; and I have learned that the two combined, together, at the same time, a...
First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
Awww, 'tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads.