Noah Cross: I hope you don't mind, I believe they should be served with the head. J.J. Gittes: Fine, as long as you don't ser...ve chicken that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yelburton: After you work with a man a certain length of time you come to know his habits, his values. You come to know him. And e...ither he's the kind who chases after women or he's not. J.J. Gittes: Mulwray isn't? Yelburton: He never even kids about it. J.J. Gittes: Well, maybe he takes it very seriously.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rev. J.D. Liddell: The Kingdom of God is not a democracy. The Lord never seeks re- election. There's no discussion. No deliberatio...n. No referenda as to which road to take. There's one right, one wrong. One absolute ruler. Sandy: A dictator, you mean. Rev. J.D. Liddell: Aye, but a benign, loving dictator.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a young man of Calcutta Who had a most terrible stutter.... He said, "Pass the ham, And the j...j...j...jam, And the b...b...b...b...b...b....butter."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun,... What strenuous singles we played after tea, We in the tournament--you against me!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standin...g on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you're tall, thin, blond, and have big boobs, you can have any job you want. ... ultimately, it all settled into a runni...ng soap opera, with new episodes on the same theme every week. Barbara and Peter. Episode 13 of the Barbara is Uninhibited and Peter is a Drag Show: this week Barbara and Peter went to a party and Barbara pulled down her pants and mooned the guests and Peter was furious. Joanna and Dave, Episode 19 of the Will Joanna Ever Get Dave to Share the Household Duties Show: this week Joanna refused to get out of bed and change the channel and Dave hit her and she threatened to kill herself. Claire and Herbie in the Claire has Sexual Boredom but Loves Her Husband Show: this week a man in the office Claire has the hots for put his hand on her leg while they were having a drink at P. J. Clarke's, but it was time to go home and feed the children and she never did find out whether it was significant or an accident.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, in ...my judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They all see you when you least suspect. Out flat in your p.j.'s glowering at T.V.... or at the oven gassing the cat or at the Hotel 69 head to knee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
psychologist Ultimately it's all a matter of style. What it comes down to is this: Do you spell Jennifer with a J or G? That'...s a class division. As a populist, I'm all for G.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »