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Psychologist: "This, ah, is a new sort of, ah, psychopathology that we're only now beginning to, ah, understand. These, ah, super-serial killers have no, ah, 'type' but, ah, rather consider everyone to be their 'type.'"
Gramma: "Did you hear that? Your daddy's a superhero!


Barry Lyga

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I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.
FISHER STEVENS Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasan...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn’t nobody left except a re...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON Ah just act the way ah feel.
ELVIS PRESLEY Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bo...
MARGARET MITCHELL Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!]
JACQUES BENIGUE BOSSUET Ah, but everyone knows the ending.
GAVIN HARVEY Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now
BOB DYLAN Ah, what avails the sceptred race! / Ah, what the form divine!
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous gi...
DODIE SMITH Ah, but Dumbly-dorr
J.K. ROWLING Ah, yes. Harry Potter. Our new — celebrity.
J.K. ROWLING Ha-ha! Ah-hahahaha! I am wizard; hear me roar!
JIM BUTCHER I think he put the box down and opened the folded paper. He said, 'Ah, ah,' we won't have to look mu...
MICK JAGGER Ah, it is impossible."

"No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be...
E.D.E.N. SOUTHWORTH I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
JEFF BEZOS To-morrow is, ah, whose?
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
BOB DYLAN Ah - but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now
BOB DYLAN Ah, 'The Departed' is really good.
ENRIQUE PENA NIETO Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
BRENDAN BEHAN Ah, then it's a gift.
BORIS PASTERNAK Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
JONATHAN COE Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you."

[Love's Last Shift]
COLLEY CIBBER Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison.
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
LOUIS XIV Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
LOUIS XIV Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not l...
BIBLE Ah, but there are always rules to brake.
ANNE RICE Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?"
"You closed the school and burnt all the books."...
PATRICK NESS Ah, the ability to think independently
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Ah, you've been to cholesterol corner.
LEE TOMKOW May your 'Ha Ha' moments be equivalent to your 'Ah Ha' moments.
GLEN THOMAS PILLOW Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashin...
AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA Ah yes, ... but look at our campaign.
JOHN MCCAIN Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns.
LORD BYRON Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Ah, bless. I've missed her. Do you have bullets?"

"Uh, no."

Skulduggery paused...
DEREK LANDY Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. F...
RAY BRADBURY Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing
PABLO PICASSO Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Ah! the clock is always slow;
It is later than you think.
ROBERT SERVICE Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.
BRANDON SANDERSON Ah, Kurosaki, I see you've finally realized the importance of a cape.
~Uryu Ishida
TITE KUBO Let’s see . . . ah, yes, this is nice and cozy.”
It was a broom cupboard.
J.K. ROWLING Ah, I do so love this charmingly rustic, elvin kingdom!-Baozhai
MAR MAI Dan: 'Ah, well, I hope this didn't have anything to do with me.'

Ellen: 'No, not unless y...
ELLEN DEGENERES Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go
AUSTIN DOBSON Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
AUSTIN DOBSON Ah, sweetheart, what are you doing?”

“I think that’s pretty obvious. I’m witch-ha...
N.D. JONES Ah, what an awe great God!
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Ah! Pauvre ami, comme il m'aimait!
JULES MASSENET I'm not afraid of bees....AH! BEE!!!
BLINK 182 Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
OSCAR WILDE Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
OSCAR WILDE (OSCAR FINGAL O'FLAHERTIE WILDE) Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
OVID Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich.
EVELYN WAUGH Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of
DOUGLAS ADAMS Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.
CAL BROWN How was I supposed to know that you let two little bears hurt you, Goldilocks?"
"Ah, yes, that ...
ILONA ANDREWS Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society
SYDNEY SMITH Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
ROBERT BROWNING Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
ROBERT BROWNING Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger,
And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.
PETER S. BEAGLE I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have t...
GO AH-SUNG I saw Roland Barthes's 'Mourning Diary' at a bookshop, and I felt it was like I was dest...
GO AH-SUNG The hotels set aside blocks of rooms for each rate.
DUKE AH MOO The price difference is not as significant as it was in the past.
DUKE AH MOO Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be ...
GO AH-SUNG Will you come with me?"
"Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.
MARIE RUTKOSKI Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Ah God! Had I but studied in the days of my foolish youth
FRANCOIS VILLON Ah God! Had I but studied in the days of my foolish youth
FRANCOIS VILLON Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.
RAINER MARIA RILKE Um, I think Jesus was, ah, the first sex symbol.
MARILYN MANSON Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
JOHN BYROM Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
J. K. ROWLING Ah music....a magic far beyond anything done here.
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING Diego: I'm... sorry I set you up.
Sid: Ah, you know me, I'm too lazy to hold a grudge.
ICE AGE Imagine," she said, after registering, "a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything...
STEPHANIE PERKINS Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!
FERNANDO PESSOA Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
LEWIS CARROLL God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!
YIDDISH PROVERB God will provide - ah, if only He would till He does!
YIDDISH PROVERB Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
RUSSELL BAKER Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
HAL BORLAND Ah, summer - what power you have to make us suffer and like it
RUSSELL BAKER Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire...
CHARLES SIMON FAVART Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?
CHARLOTTE SMITH Ah, well...hell is full of burning boats, did you know that, Nadir? I daresay that's what makes it s...
SUSAN KAY Ah, why should all mankind
For one man's fault, be condemned,
If guiltless?
JOHN MILTON Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all ...
LEO TOLSTOY

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BARRY SANDERS I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoy...
BARRY SANDERS Let's just win it and go home.
BARRY SANDERS My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart throu...
BARRY SANDERS I really love peace and quiet.
BARRY SANDERS You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
BARRY SANDERS It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing f...
BARRY SANDERS Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
BARRY SANDERS Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smar...
BARRY RITHOLTZ The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevit...
BARRY RITHOLTZ History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technolog...
BARRY RITHOLTZ A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
BARRY RITHOLTZ Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function ...
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