Waiting for the girls to get out, he gazed upon some undisturbed part of the water.
— Eudora Welty, Moon Lake
I love watching a good trim.
— Jon
Little thumb.
— Becca
Aabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.
— Arthur Baker, Calligraphic Alphabets
This is now.
— Stuart Kestenbaum, “The Moment”
Revision is the party.
— Bill Roorbach
Strawberry.
— Pine Tree Air Freshener
I’m a gentleman honey farmer.
— Gob, “Double Crossers,” Arrested Development
Just last month, Kanye West told the Times that his latest album, “Yeezus,” was inspired by a Le Corbusier lamp.
— Emma Allen, “The Rapper is Present.” The New Yorker
Tellin’ you that I’m bogus.
— Kanye West, “Hold My Liquor”
You meant it in the other sense of the word.
— Akshay
He felt suddenly of the texture of his own coat and then he reached out and pressed his thumb against the granite of the building by his side.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Lost Decade”
Well ya gotta die of somethin’.
— Ryan Gosling, Gangster Squad
I have a plan for you.
— Hamburg Airport Employee
You have to live a little.
— Liz
What she order? Fish fillet.
— Kanye West, “Ni**as in Paris”
I have to take my shoes off because I have corn nuts in my feet.
— John
Don’t be in a hurry.
— Macrina
And his tongue felt agile as a butterfly.
— John Updike, “Bech in Rumania”
Sometimes her English had a weird precision.
— John Updike, “Rich in Russia”