Chaff's Picks: Favorite Quotes

BY CHAFF

Ever wondered what our favorite quotes are? We know this *essential* question has plagued your sleepless nights. Sleep tight tonight!

"What, you egg! [Stabbing him]" – Macbeth 
“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.” – Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“It’s like I have ESPN or something.” – Mean Girls
"Oh wait, I was once an electrical engineer." – Barbie Life in the Dream House
“But while I may look impassive, I'm frantically paddling my feet underwater, always overcompensating to hide my devouring feelings of inadequacy.” – Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli." – The Godfather
"Ouch! That's too tight, you ambulatory meat sack.” – Barbie Life in the Dream House
“She picked up a potato. I saw it hit the floor, then roll under the stove.” – Raymond Carver, Cathedral
"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex." – Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
“[R]acial trauma is not a competitive sport.” – Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings
"To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable."  – Beethoven 
"I'll set it to extra crispy.” – Barbie Life in the Dream House
“Word-work is sublime… because it is generative: it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—the way in which we are like no other life.” – Toni Morrison
"When and where does this "real world" occur?" – Almost Famous
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it" – Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"You know, I've never met someone who talks so much and says nothing at the same time" – A Little Bit of Heaven
"You talkin' to me?" – Taxi Driver
“I miss you more than I remember you.” – Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"Everyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great." – Ratatouille
"The world is filled with nice people, if you can't find one be one" – Dodie Clark
“You’ve got a fast car / Is it fast enough so we can fly away?” – Tracy Chapman
"The sun will rise, and we will try again." 
"I wanna be the king" – Sarah Kinsley, “The King”
“I have struggled to prove myself into existence.” – Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings
"College Board is a scam." – my friend
“Mom, I am a rich man.” – Cher
“Bella, where the hell have you been, loca?” – Twilight
“We keep our heads down and work hard, believing that our diligence will reward us with our dignity, but our diligence will only make us disappear.” – Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings
“‘Jeff, I think you should play the role of my father.’ ‘I don't want to be your father.’ ‘That's perfect. you already know your lines.’” – Community
“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.” – Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I have dirt on you. Now I know everything. Can you imagine what will happen when everyone finds out about your act? The price of my silence is 0.21 BTC, transfer them to me by August 26 to his bitcoin wallet bc1qw220sye4cxya05ahpuw9lwfu7acwql660h73tq otherwise, I’ll tell everyone. And then you will feel very bad. Time has passed.” - BrettWon BrettWon, some random guy on our website.
“This is fine.” – a dog, on fire (but also us.)