quotes at random, no. 8

[fiefoe]

A hundred houses shall he have, in every house a hundred rooms and in every room twenty beds, and a delirious fever should drive him from bed to bed.

You can't look a big problem too directly in the eye. You have to approach it somewhat obliquely. But you have to adjust the angle just right: you have to be facing the big problem directly enough that you catch some of the excitement radiating from it, but not so much that it paralyzes you.

It became the last of a long train of events that had driven any sense of utopian vision out of American life.

The human cuteness detector is set at such a low bar, researchers said, that it sweeps in and deems cute practically anything remotely resembling a human baby or a part thereof, and so ends up including the young of virtually every mammalian species, ... a big round rock stacked on a smaller rock, a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis typed in
succession.

If villains are so nasty you wouldn't carpool with them, why would you want to imagine them naked?

Some of her other films, such as The Poseidon Adventure, are camp spectacles -- to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, in this movie you would need a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Shelley Winters.

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