Notable Quotes

"Perhaps I've been too independent...All I really want is to feel cared for and safe."
-Ellen Olenska
The Age of Innocence

Pushing 40, blonde PR executive Samantha is the most cynical of the four girlfriends. She instructs the other women that "we're all alone, even when we're with men. My advice to you is to embrace that fact, slap on some armor, and go through life like I do, enjoying men!" Yet later on, even sophisticated Samantha gets duped by a club owner, who misleads her about their future together. William promises Sam he'll invite her to East Hampton for the summer, only to stand her up at their second date. Samantha waits for him "without a book, or a project, or any of her dining-alone armor." William, we are told bitterly, was "one of those men who faked a future to get what he wanted in the present." She bursts into tears and flees the restaurant. "I can't believe I fell for some guy's line," she cries to her buddies. "But sometimes you need to hear a ‘we.’ "

"My English exam was a piece of cake, which was a bit of a surprise because i was expecting some questions on a piece of paper."

"My God! What are you doing to the furniture? What are you on about? What's all this then? Who are you people!?!?!"

-Thomas Renfield, "Dracula, Dead and Loving It"

"4's will probably get in deep and touch 8's hearts and quite frankly, I think 8's are the only ones strong enough to deal with a 4 and not go insane."

-"Yip Chameleon," Enneagram Institute Discussion Board Member

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, conn a ship, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve an equation, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

-Robert A. Heinlein

A Four who has fallen out of favor “can develop a thirst for vengeance that matches any Eight’s.”

-Helen Palmer

The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life

I think this sums it up for me. Thank you, Sex and the City.

"Billy: All we are saying is there is no good way to break up with somebody. Is there?

Carrie: Well, it's funny you should mention that, Billy, 'cause actually there is. You can have the guts and the courtesy to tell a woman to her face that you no longer want to see her. Call me crazy, but I think you can make a point of ending the relationship in a manner that does not include an email, a doorman, or a missing persons report. I think you can all get over your fear of looking like the bad guy and actually have the "uncomfortable break-up conversation" because here's what... avoiding that is what makes you the bad guy! And just so you know, Allen-

Andrew: Andrew.

Carrie: Uh-huh. Most women aren't angry irrational psychos. We just want an ending to a relationship that is thoughtful and decent and honors what we had together...so my point, Billy, is this: there is a good way to break-up with someone and IT DOESN'T INCLUDE A POST-IT!

Thank you, Sex and the City!

"The problem with most beds is that they are flat."

-Craftmatic Adjustable Beds

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"Things I would not tell anyone, I tell the public."

-Michel de Montaigne

"Give a man some coal, he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

-Terry Pratchett.

"Oh. People."

-Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (2005)

(A man after my own heart!)

"You can't be suicidal if you're singing showtunes!!"

-Cooper, Dead Man on Campus

"The bally balliness of it all makes it all seem so bally bally."
–Clive Exton, via Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster in Jeeves and Wooster

"At times like this, continuing with one's life seems impossible. I have two choices: to give up and accept permanent state of spinsterhood (and eventual eating by dogs) ... or not. And this time, I choose not. I will not be defeated."

-Bridget Jones' Diary

"The sardines...they've GONE!"
~Garry Lejeune
Nothing On/Noises Off
Michael Frayn

"You've got to keep up certain standards if you work for Inland Revenue!"
~Brooke Ashton
Nothing On/Noises Off
Michael Frayn

"Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Episode: Space Rockers)

While watching a futuristic "rock" band on video screen...

Buck: Sounds like the Beatles
Wilma: The who?
Buck: No, not the Who - the Beatles. They were a popular group in my time."

"Math does make me think of a stainless steel wall – hard, cold, smooth, offering no handhold; all it does is glint back at me. Edge up to it, put your nose against it; it doesn’t give anything back; you can’t put a dent in it; it doesn’t take your shape; it doesn’t have any smell; all it does is make your nose cold. I like the shine of it – it does look smart, intelligent in an icy way. But I resent its cold impenetrability, its supercilious glare (Buerk, 1982, p. 19)."