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Comedy2 quotes
Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays. — Female Temp · 1999Do you ever wish you that sometimes you could freeze frame a single moment in your day, look at it and say, "this is not my life?" — Daniel Hillard · 1993Comedy (film)2 quotes
Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays. — Female Temp · 1999Do you ever wish you that sometimes you could freeze frame a single moment in your day, look at it and say, "this is not my life?" — Daniel Hillard · 1993Comedy drama2 quotes
Janie's a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her. — Lester Burnham · 1999Do you ever wish you that sometimes you could freeze frame a single moment in your day, look at it and say, "this is not my life?" — Daniel Hillard · 1993Comedy drama (film)2 quotes
Janie's a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her. — Lester Burnham · 1999Do you ever wish you that sometimes you could freeze frame a single moment in your day, look at it and say, "this is not my life?" — Daniel Hillard · 1993Autobiography and memoir1 quote
The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. — Henry Beston · 1928Black comedy1 quote
Janie's a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her. — Lester Burnham · 1999Black comedy (film)1 quote
Janie's a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her. — Lester Burnham · 1999Comedy (play)1 quote
How comes it
That thou art then estranged from thyself? — William Shakespeare · 1594Drama1 quote
If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and I didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. — Jim Stark · 1955Drama (film)1 quote
If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and I didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. — Jim Stark · 1955Folk music1 quote
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone? — Bob Dylan · 1965Folk rock1 quote
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone? — Bob Dylan · 1965Modernist literature1 quote
When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. — Franz Kafka · 1915Nature writing1 quote
The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. — Henry Beston · 1928Political literature1 quote
The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. — Edmund Burke · 1790Rock music1 quote
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes. — The Who · 1971