MACaraher’s most recent Quotables

You can do anything, but not everything.

So it goes.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently, or if your favourite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

Joel: I don't see anything I don't like about you.

Clementine: But you will! But you will, and I'll get bored with you and feel trapped, because that's what happens with me.

Joel: Okay.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Half of what I say is meaningless;
but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still.

The intolerable wrestle
With words and meanings.

A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.

I think something interesting happens to language when you break it up so that the words stand alone, one after the other, and you have a moment of waiting for the next word and anticipating what it will be. It’s as if this language is like little drops of words that fall.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to human beings because this is connected to thought.

The most beautiful words in the English language aren't "I love you" but "it's benign."

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Apt Alliteration's artful aid.

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

'Whom are you?’ he asked, for he had attended business college.