Catalytic Quotes

CATALYTIC: Causing significant reaction.

QUOTES: Written for another with credit acknowledgements.

(SOME: A certain amount.

HEARD: Perceived.

THROUGH: Movement into at one side and out at another.

A TIME WARP: An anomaly or discontinuity held to occur in time progression).

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HANK AARON to WILLIAM GOLDING:

"Yep. Me. The Lord of the Flies."

HANK AARON to ELVIS PRESLEY:

"You've got to learn to swing from the hip."

LEON ABBOT to ETHEL MERMAN:

"We're looking for a few good people to work on the stage."

THE ABDOMINABLE SNOWMAN to DOCTOR PHIBES:

"I'm abominable?! You're the one who's abominable!"

ACE to JOHN HOLMES:

"How long?"

ADAM to FOUR TOPS:

"I was always telling Eve--'Ain't no woman like the one I've got.'"

ADAM to NOEL LANGLEY:

"When I really get perturbed at her, I call her by her full name."

ADAM to JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ:

"Oh, I couldn't tell you all about Eve, but I'm putting it in my book."

ADAM to BARRY MC GUIRE:

"After that business in the garden, with the apple, and all the resulting havoc, my private nickname for her became 'Eve of Destruction'."

ADAM to THE OSMONDS:

"I don't have to tell you the havoc that resulted from that one bad apple."

ALADDIN to STEPPENWOLF:

"Personally, I always found a magic-carpet ride preferable to any tour bus."

ALADDIN to STEVIE WONDER: "I wish can be two pretty powerfulwords when you've just summoned genie from his bottle."

EDWIN EUGENE ALDRIN, JR. to BILLY PRESTON:

"No doubt about my having been part of the space race."

MUHAMMAD ALI to MICKEY FINN:

"Talk about a knock-out."

MUHAMMAD ALI to ANDY GIBB:

"I don't care what it looks like, it's shadow boxing."

MUHAMMAD ALI to JIMMY HATLO:

"Why, I'll be just fine with the help of a little iodine."

MUHAMMAD ALI to GENE MC DANIELS:

"Yes. Somewhere, back in my adolescence, I guess you could say I was one-hundred pounds of Clay."

MUHAMMAD ALI to HARRY TUGEND:

"Yes, I was caught in the draft, but did I get the shaft, and end up in Vietnam, killed by a bomb?"

ALL THE KINGS MEN to PABLO PICASSO:

"Hell, no we don't have a photo of Mr. Dumpty, but we're sure he'll appreciate whatever we can do."

DON AMECHE to SUSO CHECCHI D'AMICO and ALBA DE CESPEDES:

"Look guys, I'm really flattered that you named your movie after me, but I'm really afraid I'm going to have to pass on this one."

JAY ANSON to XAVIERA HOLLANDER:

"I know you're concerned about this whore moving in on your Amityville business, but just what makes you think there's a book in it?"

MARIE ANTOINETTE to LES BAXTER:

"So what that there are poor people of Paris? There are poor people of Rome, and poor people of Moscow, and poor people of The Bronx."

MARIE ANTOINETTE to BETTY CROCKER:

"Let them eat cake."

MARIE ANTOINETTE to FRANCO BRUSATI, IAIA FIASTRI, and NINO MANFREDI:

"Let them eat bread and chocolate!"

MARIE ANTOINETTE to THE KINGSMEN:

"Louis, Louis. That's all I ever hear. Doesn't anyone want to know what I think about anything?

MARCUS ANTONIUS to VINCENT VAN GOGH:

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ear."

ADRIADNE to LINDA RONSTADT:

"The secret of the Labyrinth? As I told Theseus, 'It's so easy to figure out if you just trail a simple string behind you.'"

ARISTOTLE to MASON WILLIAMS:

"Excuse, please. Must be something I ate."

ROSEANNE (BARR) ARNOLD to THE FOUR SEASONS:

"So, whenever I got weepy, mom would always say, 'Come on, Roseanne, big girls don't cry.'"

ROSEANNE (BARR) ARNOLD to THE HUMAN LEAGUE:

"So, I said to Warren Beatty--'I don't understand. Don't you want me?'"

ART TEACHER to GEORGES SEURAT:

"Try a little harder to get the point, Georges."

JEAN ARTHUR to ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE:

"My opinion of Alan Ladd? A dog as far as an actor."

KING ARTHUR to GEORGE BENSON

"Give me the knight who offended, and I'll personally see he's punished."

KING ARTHUR to MICHAEL HOGAN

"Of course, I would have liked some Arabian knights, but there's the religious thing."

KING ARTHUR to THE EAGLES

"Take a look. One of these knights is going to betray me."

KING ARTHUR to THE MOODY BLUES

"Talk about a drag ball, I never saw so many knights in white satin."

ARTHUR ASHE to BRIGHAM YOUNG:

"Love fifteen!"

ASSOCIATE OF SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL to SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL:

"I'm telling you, Bill, name that planet after your butt, and you'll make an ass of yourself."

ATTILA THE HUN to KURT WEILL:

"If you must know the truth, I wouldn't give more than three cents for any opera."

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON to TIPPI HEDREN:

"You're going to the birds."

JOHN AUDUBON to D.H. LAWRENCE:

"Yep. They banded this rook in Boston, and it's been soaring ever since."

JEAN AUEL to H.H. MUNRO:

"The chronicles of Clovis man would make interesting reading, don't you think? I mean, for one, the how of their fantastic spear--and arrowheads."