Quotes tagged ‘Fables’

“Mike Milligan: There's a man. Ben Schmidt: What—what man? Mike Milligan: Just a man. He works in a factory. One day, the boss gets it in his mind that this man is stealing from him. So, every night at the gate, the guards search his wheelbarrow. But they never find anything. Ben Schmidt: Pat him dow…”

— Matt Wolpert, Ben Nedivi, Noah Hawley, Mike Milligan, Bokeem Woodbine, imdb.com

“Once upon a time, there was a little boy. He was born in a field and raised in the woods. And he had nothing. In the winter the boy would freeze and in the summer he would boil. He knew the name of every stinging insect. At night he would look at the lights in the houses, and he would want. Why was…”

— Noah Hawley, Don Chumph, Glenn Howerton, imdb.com

“Christianity…is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles…”

— Frederick the Great, amazon.com

“I don't think I'll ever be able to forget Susie—ahhh. And most of all, I will never forget that one night. Working late on the catalog. Just the two of us. And we surrendered to temptation. And it was pretty good.”

— David Mandel, J. Peterman, John O'Hurley, imdb.com