A door onbust is always open to bustin’, but ye can’t onbust a door once you’ve busted en.
– H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man
The fact is, I’m all here: head, hands, legs, and all the rest of it, but it happens I’m invisible. It’s a confounded nuisance, but I am.
– H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man
I had never realized it before, but the nose is to the mind of a dog what the eye is to the mind of a seeing man. Dogs perceive the scent of a man moving as men perceive his vision.
– H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man
Hex, little two up in the air, cross and a fiddle-de-dee.
– H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man
As you talk to me too much you’re assuming
We don’t always want what’s right.
– The Shins, Pressed In A Book
Held to the past too aware of the pending
Loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting love.
– The Shins, Past And Pending
And if you’d ‘a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, I’d ‘a jumped from my tree
And I’d a danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would ‘a fared well.
– The Shins, New Slang
Sixty people looking down at twelve million. That’s really something. For thirty dollars you can spend an hour looking down on twelve million people.
– Jerzy Kosinski, The Devil Tree
No one can help me find answers, least of all some one who claims he’s found a solution to life.
– Jerzy Kosinski, The Devil Tree
…and the message goes out and it breaks out just a little bit but – stops –
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test