Quotes - Page 420 | Just Great DataBase

I don't like any shows very much, if you want to know the truth. They're not as bad as movies, but they're certainly nothing to rave about. In the first place, I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do. Some of the good ones do, in a very slight way, but not in a way that's fun to watch. And if any actor's really good, you can always tell he knows he's good, and that spoils it. [...] They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good. When one of them got finished making a speech, the other one said something very fast right after it. It was supposed to be like people really talking and interrupting each other and all. The trouble was, it was too much like people talking and interrupting each other. If you do something t-o-o good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.

It was a happy cemetery. The

The only thing going on was a war, and no one seemed to notice but Yossarian and Dunbar. And when Yossarian tried to remind people, they drew away from him and thought he was crazy.

What makes people so impatient is what I can’t figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

But despite everything, we didn't do badly by one another, we did as well as most. I wish she were here, so I could tell her I finally know this.

Llevé el vestido al armario y se lo colgué. Tuvo gracia. Cuando lo colgué me puse un poco triste. Me la imaginé yendo a la tienda y comprándose el vestido sin que nadie supiese que era prostituta ni nada.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike- in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

[...] There are just some men who -- who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one [...]

Don’t be such an ass, Scheisskopf. People have a right to do anything that’s not forbidden by law, and there’s no law against lying to you.

My friend, that, as anyone can see, is not a hotel; it's a depot.

There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.   In

Беда с этими девчонками. Иногда на нее и смотреть не хочется — видишь, что она дура дурой, — но стоит ей сделать что-нибудь милое, я уже влюбляюсь. Ох эти девчонки, черт бы их подрал! С ума могут свести.

Reader! Bruder! What a foolish Hamburg that Hamburg was! Since his supersensitive system was loath to face the actual scene, he thought he could at least enjoy a secret part of it—which reminds one of the tenth or twentieth soldier in the raping queue who throws the girl's black shawl over her white face so as not to see those impossible eyes while taking his military pleasure in the sad, sacked village.

el que hayamos perdido cien años antes de empezar no es motivo para que no intentemos vencer

Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children .

The more he tries to stop it, the faster it goes. When he lets his hands and face move like they want to and doesn’t try to hold them back, they flow and gesture in a way that’s real pretty to watch, but when he worries about them and tries to hold back he becomes a wild, jerky puppet doing a high-strung dance. Everything is moving faster and faster, and his voice is speeding up to match.

Are you there? I whisper.Large as life and twice as ugly, Moira whispers back.

Главное, что как только дойдет до этого, так девчонка, если она не проститутка или вроде того, обязательно скажет: «Не надо, перестань». И вся беда в том, что я ее слушаюсь. Другие не слушаются. А я не могу. Я слушаюсь. Никогда не знаешь — ей и вправду не хочется, или она просто боится, или она нарочно говорит «перестань», чтобы ты был виноват, если что случится, а не она.