cosmo junction wrote:William Schryver wrote: In the immortal words of Ulysses Everett McGill: “It’s fruitless to look for reason in the chambers of the human heart.”
Actually, the saying goes, "it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart," which is really pretty funny considering the setting here.
You're so right!
I knew it wasn't quite right when I wrote it down. Who woulda thunk that I could have made it even more "wordy" than it was when it originally came out of Everett's mouth?
By the way, that's my favorite movie of all time. My wife's, too. We watch it like ............. oh, I don't know, three or four times a year. Whenever we need to laugh, we pop the DVD in the player. It's probably the greatest script ever -- at least I think so.
And truer words were never spoken: "It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart."
Unless, of course, it was:
But fear not the obstacles in your path, for Fate has vouchsafed your reward. And though the road may wind, and yea, your hearts grow weary, still shall ye foller the way, even unto your salvation.
Or maybe it was this one:
Damn! We're in a tight spot!
Or perhaps one of these would suit you better:
Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity - two weeks from everywhere!
Thank God your mama died givin' birth - if she'd a seen ya she'd a died of shame...
... the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment, but I would like to address your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies a the goddamn field ...
You can't display a toad in a fine restaurant like this! Why, the good folks here'd go right off their feed!
Woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days a man!
I have spoken my piece and counted to three.
Yessir, the South is gonna change. Everything's gonna be put on electricity and run on a payin' basis. Out with the old spiritual mumbo-jumbo, the superstitions and the backward ways. We're gonna see a brave new world where they run everyone a wire and hook us all up to a grid. Yessir, a veritable age of reason - like the one they had in France - and not a moment too soon...
Oh, I love that movie ...