Cambridge Spies
Guy Burgess: God bless America. White picket fences, apple pie, Shirley Temple, the Ku Klux Klan, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the CIA, White Sox, bobby socks, red necks. God bless America!
Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
June 29, 2008
Waitress
Jenna: I don’t need no baby. I don’t want no trouble. I just wanna make pies. That’s all I wanna do – make pies.
Jenna: I don’t need no baby. I don’t want no trouble. I just wanna make pies. That’s all I wanna do – make pies.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
June 28, 2008
Pushing Daisies
Olive: Don’t make me cut a bitch.
Verbenius: Hey. I’m just here for pie and conversation, neither of which are cause to call a man a bitch.
Olive: Don’t make me cut a bitch.
Verbenius: Hey. I’m just here for pie and conversation, neither of which are cause to call a man a bitch.
Friday, June 27, 2008
June 27, 2008
I Love The New Millenium
Michael Ian Black (re: the film Pearl Harbor): I didn't care about the love triangle, I didn't care about the characters, I just wanted to see them blow up Hawaii. 'Cause Hawaii was really looking for a pie in the face. You know, we're all, "paradise." Hey, Tropical Paradise, how do you like this?
Michael Ian Black (re: the film Pearl Harbor): I didn't care about the love triangle, I didn't care about the characters, I just wanted to see them blow up Hawaii. 'Cause Hawaii was really looking for a pie in the face. You know, we're all, "paradise." Hey, Tropical Paradise, how do you like this?
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
June 25, 2008
Nigel Lythgoe, on So You Think You Can Dance
(To a Dallas auditioner) You're like a little cutie apple-pie girl, aren't you?
(To a Dallas auditioner) You're like a little cutie apple-pie girl, aren't you?
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
June 24, 2008
Scrubs
Dr. Cox: People used to give me cards and gifts and maybe even a pie … just for doing my job.
Dr. Cox: People used to give me cards and gifts and maybe even a pie … just for doing my job.
Monday, June 23, 2008
June 23, 2008 - America and Pie
E.D. Hirsch, "Building Knowledge" in American Educator
Since the 19th Century ... anti-intellectualism has been as American as apple pie.
Since the 19th Century ... anti-intellectualism has been as American as apple pie.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
June 22, 2008
AO Scott in the New York Times, reviewing My Blueberry Nights
To claim his fashion magazine sensibility for the cause of high art is a way of ascribing nutritive value to eye candy. And why not? We all need to eat, and why shouldn’t we eat cake? Or pie, as the case may be.
To claim his fashion magazine sensibility for the cause of high art is a way of ascribing nutritive value to eye candy. And why not? We all need to eat, and why shouldn’t we eat cake? Or pie, as the case may be.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
June 20, 2008
Television without Pity, Recap of Lost
Juliet is sitting alone on the beach like the bald-headed girl at a French-braiding competition. Or the anorexic girl at the pie-eating contest. (I could keep going, but I won’t).
Juliet is sitting alone on the beach like the bald-headed girl at a French-braiding competition. Or the anorexic girl at the pie-eating contest. (I could keep going, but I won’t).
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
June 18, 2008
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon
p. 86: Then we went to the café and Father had plaice and chips and apple pie and ice cream and a pot of Earl Grey tea and I had my sandwiches and I read the guidebook to the zoo.
And Father said, “I love you very much, Christopher. Don’t you ever forget that ….”
p. 86: Then we went to the café and Father had plaice and chips and apple pie and ice cream and a pot of Earl Grey tea and I had my sandwiches and I read the guidebook to the zoo.
And Father said, “I love you very much, Christopher. Don’t you ever forget that ….”
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
June 17, 2008
Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee, by Irving Berlin
Just around the corner
There’s a rainbow in the sky
So let’s have another cup of coffee
And let’s have another piece of pie.
Just around the corner
There’s a rainbow in the sky
So let’s have another cup of coffee
And let’s have another piece of pie.
Monday, June 16, 2008
June 16, 2008
Kelly Millner: Sometimes you don’t know what you’re doin’ when you’re cuttin’ pie … you just get all excited inside.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
June 14, 2008
Pushing Daisies
Olive: This isn’t Pies ‘R’ Us, Pie City, or Thousands Of Pies In One Place. This is a bell’s on the door, pies-baking, mom and pop place. We chit chat here. … Chit!
Emerson: Chat.
Olive: This isn’t Pies ‘R’ Us, Pie City, or Thousands Of Pies In One Place. This is a bell’s on the door, pies-baking, mom and pop place. We chit chat here. … Chit!
Emerson: Chat.
Friday, June 13, 2008
June 13, 2008
An Unquiet Mind (A Memoir of Moods and Madness), by Kay Redfield Jamison
Their mother - a warm, funny, fiery independent, practical, red-hairedIrish Catholic - created a second home for me, and I wandered in and outof their house as I would our own, staying long enough to inhale pie and cookies and warmth and laughter and hours of talk.
Their mother - a warm, funny, fiery independent, practical, red-hairedIrish Catholic - created a second home for me, and I wandered in and outof their house as I would our own, staying long enough to inhale pie and cookies and warmth and laughter and hours of talk.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
June 11, 2008
Waitress
Dr. Pomatter: That pie it was … that pie was Biblically good. That’s how good it was. It could win pie contests and ribbons and things.
Dr. Pomatter: That pie it was … that pie was Biblically good. That’s how good it was. It could win pie contests and ribbons and things.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
June 10, 2008
Pulp Fiction
Jules: Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie but I’d never know ‘cause I wouldn’t eat the filthy shit.
Jules: Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie but I’d never know ‘cause I wouldn’t eat the filthy shit.
Monday, June 9, 2008
June 9, 2008
Friends
Monica: I’m gonna go to Joey’s and get the pies.
Joey: Actually, it’s not pies. It’s just pie.
Monica: I’m gonna go to Joey’s and get the pies.
Joey: Actually, it’s not pies. It’s just pie.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
June 8, 2008
Miss Austen Regrets
Jane Austen (to Mr. Haden): You shall have your sweet wife, all gratitude and devotion. I would wish her to be of a silent turn, somewhat ignorant, full of cold veal pies and green tea in the afternoon.
Jane Austen (to Mr. Haden): You shall have your sweet wife, all gratitude and devotion. I would wish her to be of a silent turn, somewhat ignorant, full of cold veal pies and green tea in the afternoon.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
June 7, 2008
The Simpsons
Homer’s mom: I’ve realized that the most important thing in my life … is you.
Homer: That’s what your mouth says, but my ears are too smart to believe it. In fact, I don’t even want your pie.
Mom (holds up empty plate): You already ate the whole thing.
Homer: Well, I’m not going to digest it.
Homer’s mom: I’ve realized that the most important thing in my life … is you.
Homer: That’s what your mouth says, but my ears are too smart to believe it. In fact, I don’t even want your pie.
Mom (holds up empty plate): You already ate the whole thing.
Homer: Well, I’m not going to digest it.
Friday, June 6, 2008
June 6, 2008
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Giles: Xander is in real danger. Are you sure the solution is pie?
Giles: Xander is in real danger. Are you sure the solution is pie?
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
June 2, 2008
Bones
Sweets: You know, I think it’s interesting, psychologically, how Agent Booth’s constant efforts to persuade you to enjoy fruit pie could be interpreted as a kind of seduction …
Sweets: You know, I think it’s interesting, psychologically, how Agent Booth’s constant efforts to persuade you to enjoy fruit pie could be interpreted as a kind of seduction …
Sunday, June 1, 2008
June 1, 2008
Arrested Development
Narrator: The aiport stairway vehicle was the last vestige of the Bluths’ former wealth … also that House of Pies went out of business.
Narrator: The aiport stairway vehicle was the last vestige of the Bluths’ former wealth … also that House of Pies went out of business.
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