originally posted may 18th 2007
Mr. Bennet: It's important to you, being special?
Syler: It's important to everyone.
- Heroes
Christopher: What did last night mean to you?
Lorelai: It means Jose Cuervo still has amazing magical powers.
- Gilmore Girls
"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Nietzsche
"Sometimes...I wish that karma meant something other than a human consquence." - Angie
"The thing about good music is this, if you were to take out all the lyrics in a song, you'll still know what the songs about..." - Jimmy Hendrix
Reception guy: Are you guys going on a puppy run?
Worker: Nah, just going to XYZ Office*.
Temp: Puppy run?
Reception guy: Yeah, when we're a bit crabby we go across the street to the pet shop and look at the puppies.
Temp: Oh.
- overheardintheoffice.com
Four-year-old holing up a toy: Mommy, can I get this?
Mom: It says it's for kids ages eight and up. How old are you?
Four-year-old: Um... eight.
- overheardinnyc.com
Passenger: Excuse me, sir, but does that staircase go up or down?
Crew member: Yes.
- overheardatthebeach.com
Teen boy to friend: Don't trust women -- they have vaginas. It's where they keep all their secrets and lies!
- overheardeverywhere.com
"It's only just beginning to occur to me that it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on. [...] You need as much ballast as possible to stop you floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one guy on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then? I've got to get more stuff, more clutter, more detail in here, because at the moment I'm in danger of falling off the edge." - Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Alex: Morning, Dr. Model.
Izzy: Dr. Evil Spawn.
Alex: Ooooh, nice tat. Do they airbrush that out for the catalogs?
Izzy: I don't know. What do they do for the 666 on your skull?
- Grey's Anatomy
Bingo number caller: I pick up lots of chicks, G-56. But when I don't, I masturbate, B-8.
- overheardeverywhere.com
(driving in the middle of the woods looking for their missing lackies)
Bubbles: Whats that boys, look up on the road.
Julian: Ricki, stop the car.
*they run into the road*
Bubbles: Oh no, those are the good good whole weat shreddies I gave them!
Ricki: Those guys are dumb, like why would they leave the fuckin' shreddies right here?
Bubbles: They might be starvin' out here!
Julian: They got lots of licorice, they'll be fine Bubbles.
- Trailer Park Boys
Bubbles: Julian, for the record, I do not fucking trust lumberjacks!
- Trailer Park Boys
Wayne: I want to rip off my skin. God, I want to drink so much I can't even remember who I am. I want to die. I want more meth. God, you must think I'm such an asshole.
Priest: No, of course not. You're in a lot of pain, it's the human condition. We're all flawed, Wayne.
Wayne: Wow, I mean, wow the -- Thanks.
Priest: I understand how you feel. I'm having something of an existential crisis myself.
Wayne: You're an existentialist priest?
Priest: I'm quitting the priesthood, next week is my last week. I don't believe in God anymore.
Wayne: Oh, what bad timing.
- The Riches
"Your religion is where your love is." - Henry David Thoreau
Man at airport: I'm gonna go hug that kid. Maybe then his mom will start keeping an eye on him.
- overheardeverywhere.com
"The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one, and in each of them we've found each other." - Nicholas Sparks, "The Notebook"
"One day you are going to lose everything you have. Nothing will prepare you for that day. Not faith...not religion...nothing. When someone you love dies, you will know emptiness...you will know what it is to be completely and utterly alone. You will never forget and never ever forgive. Think about what you have to lose." - The Crow
Syler: It's important to everyone.
- Heroes
Christopher: What did last night mean to you?
Lorelai: It means Jose Cuervo still has amazing magical powers.
- Gilmore Girls
"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Nietzsche
"Sometimes...I wish that karma meant something other than a human consquence." - Angie
"The thing about good music is this, if you were to take out all the lyrics in a song, you'll still know what the songs about..." - Jimmy Hendrix
Reception guy: Are you guys going on a puppy run?
Worker: Nah, just going to XYZ Office*.
Temp: Puppy run?
Reception guy: Yeah, when we're a bit crabby we go across the street to the pet shop and look at the puppies.
Temp: Oh.
- overheardintheoffice.com
Four-year-old holing up a toy: Mommy, can I get this?
Mom: It says it's for kids ages eight and up. How old are you?
Four-year-old: Um... eight.
- overheardinnyc.com
Passenger: Excuse me, sir, but does that staircase go up or down?
Crew member: Yes.
- overheardatthebeach.com
Teen boy to friend: Don't trust women -- they have vaginas. It's where they keep all their secrets and lies!
- overheardeverywhere.com
"It's only just beginning to occur to me that it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on. [...] You need as much ballast as possible to stop you floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one guy on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then? I've got to get more stuff, more clutter, more detail in here, because at the moment I'm in danger of falling off the edge." - Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Alex: Morning, Dr. Model.
Izzy: Dr. Evil Spawn.
Alex: Ooooh, nice tat. Do they airbrush that out for the catalogs?
Izzy: I don't know. What do they do for the 666 on your skull?
- Grey's Anatomy
Bingo number caller: I pick up lots of chicks, G-56. But when I don't, I masturbate, B-8.
- overheardeverywhere.com
(driving in the middle of the woods looking for their missing lackies)
Bubbles: Whats that boys, look up on the road.
Julian: Ricki, stop the car.
*they run into the road*
Bubbles: Oh no, those are the good good whole weat shreddies I gave them!
Ricki: Those guys are dumb, like why would they leave the fuckin' shreddies right here?
Bubbles: They might be starvin' out here!
Julian: They got lots of licorice, they'll be fine Bubbles.
- Trailer Park Boys
Bubbles: Julian, for the record, I do not fucking trust lumberjacks!
- Trailer Park Boys
Wayne: I want to rip off my skin. God, I want to drink so much I can't even remember who I am. I want to die. I want more meth. God, you must think I'm such an asshole.
Priest: No, of course not. You're in a lot of pain, it's the human condition. We're all flawed, Wayne.
Wayne: Wow, I mean, wow the -- Thanks.
Priest: I understand how you feel. I'm having something of an existential crisis myself.
Wayne: You're an existentialist priest?
Priest: I'm quitting the priesthood, next week is my last week. I don't believe in God anymore.
Wayne: Oh, what bad timing.
- The Riches
"Your religion is where your love is." - Henry David Thoreau
Man at airport: I'm gonna go hug that kid. Maybe then his mom will start keeping an eye on him.
- overheardeverywhere.com
"The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one, and in each of them we've found each other." - Nicholas Sparks, "The Notebook"
"One day you are going to lose everything you have. Nothing will prepare you for that day. Not faith...not religion...nothing. When someone you love dies, you will know emptiness...you will know what it is to be completely and utterly alone. You will never forget and never ever forgive. Think about what you have to lose." - The Crow