This is literally from the Boden catalogue, but what I like is when they ask the catalogue models a bunch of questions. Spring 2014 produced fresh and witty replies:

Arlenis, what's a good measure of success?
Arlenis: The number of times you laugh each day.

Arlenis, what is your greatest extravagance?
Arlenis: Sleep.

Arlenis, best advice?
Arlenis: Don't wait for things to happen.

Arlenis, what gets easier as you get older?
Arlenis: Listening.

Arlenis, my most treasured possession:
Arlenis: My watch.

Cintia, you can never...
Cintia: Recreate the past.

Cintia, best way to fall asleep quickly?
Cintia: Spending 12 hours on a photo-shoot.

Arlenis, best way to fall asleep quickly?
Arlenis: Spend 12 hours on a photo-shoot.

Arlenis, thing I'd like to tell my 16 year old self...
Arlenis: Life will get easier.

Cintia, my mantra of the moment:
Cintia: The best is yet to come.

Giedre, the British should be proud of...
Giedre: Everything.

Giedre, you can never...
Giedre: Be over-educated.

Egle, best advice?
Egle: Don't wait for things to happen.

Giedre, greatest British contribution to civilization?
Giedre: Good manners.

Giedre, a true friend will tell you:
Giedre: When food is stuck in your teeth.

Giedre, most life changing invention:
Giedre: Modern dentistry.

Giedre, my most treasured possession:
Giedre: Family.

Giedre, best advice?
Giedre: Get on with it.

Egle, what gets easier as you get older?
Egle: Being myself.

Inguna, what is your greatest extravagance?
Inguna: Sleep.

Inguna, best advice?
Inguna: Don't wait for things to happen.

Inguna, thing I'd like to tell my 16 year old self...
Inguna: Nothing matters as much as you think.

The landlord: He who signs a lease must pay rent. That's the law.
Max Bialystock: You miserable wretch! How dare you take the last penny out of a poor man's pocket?
The landlord: I have to. I'm a landlord.
Max Bialystock: [to God] Oh, Lord, hear my plea; destroy him! He maketh a blight on the land!
The landlord: [also to God] Don't listen to him; he's crazy.

Leo Bloom: Let's assume, just for the moment, that you are a dishonest man.
Max Bialystock: Assume away.

Max Bialystock: It's practically a love letter to Hitler!
Leo Bloom: This won't run a week.
Max Bialystock: A week?! Are you nuts? This play's gotta close on Page 4!

Max Bialystock: How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?

Don't be stupid! Be a smartie!
Come and join the Nazi Party!
(sung by Mel Brooks)

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Reporter: And what, in the opinion of Your Highness, is the outlook for friendship among nations?
Princess Ann: I have every faith in it... as I have faith in relations between people.
Joe Bradley: May I say, speaking for my own... press service: we believe Your Highness's faith will not be unjustified.
Princess Ann: I am so glad to hear you say it.
Another reporter: Which of the cities visited did Your Highness enjoy the most?
General Provno: [prompting] Each, in its own way...
Princess Ann: Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to — Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.

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Notes from The Pink Panther wiki:
A Shot in the Dark featuring Peter Sellers - Released less than a year after The Pink Panther. Clouseau returns to bumble his way through a murder investigation. This also marks the first appearance of both Herbert Lom's Charles Dreyfus and Burt Kwouk's Cato.

Chief Inspector Dreyfus: (praying) If someone has been murdered here... please let it be Clouseau, hm?

Dreyfus: Give me ten men like Clouseau and I could destroy the world.


(In trying to murder Clouseau with a car bomb, Dreyfus has just killed all the suspects in the case)

Dreyfus: (balefully) That was meant for you...
Clouseau: What do you mean, it was meant for me, Commissioner?
Dreyfus: A doorman, two customers, and a Cossack... And now, six more innocent people!
Clouseau: They were all murderers, except for Maurice, who was a blackmailer, Commissioner!
Dreyfus: Compared with you, they were all saints!

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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Just keep in mind that when it comes to teachers bitterly disappointed in their own pursuits—well, those teachers can either be very effective...or very dangerous.

The key to a woman's heart? An unexpected gift at an unexpected moment.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.


Allen: That's quite a lovely Jackson Pollock, isn't it?
Woman: Yes, it is.
Allen: What does it say to you?
Woman: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation, forming a useless, bleak straitjacket in a black, absurd cosmos.
Allen: What are you doing Saturday night?
Woman: Committing suicide.
Allen: What about Friday night?

--from Play It Again, Sam (1972)


Robin: There's Henry Drucker. He has a chair in history at Princeton. Oh, and the short man is Hershel Kaminsky. He has a chair in philosophy at Cornell.
Alvy Singer: Yeah? Two more chairs they got a dining room set.

This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs."

[In California]
Annie Hall: It's so clean out here.
Alvy Singer: That's because they don't throw their garbage away, they turn it into television shows.

Alvy Singer: I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.

--from Annie Hall (1977)

[Surrounded by masses and masses of Daleks]
Amy: Where are we? Spaceship, right?
The Doctor: Not just any spaceship. The Parliament of the Daleks. Be brave.
Amy: What do we do?
The Doctor: Make them remember you.

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It ain't over till it's over.

Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded.

You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it!

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring, really boring, so boring.

There is a saying that a glass is half empty or half full, depending on how you look at it. Well, we all know that one. But we cannot just say, okay so half full is how we should look at things. No. We have to go even further in our observation and realize that the glass is actually 100 percent full: 50 percent with water and 50 percent with air.

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data."

She's like the woman with a virginia ham under her arm, crying the blues 'cause she has no bread.

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It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.

It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

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