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OGIC: The other shoe (N to Z)

March 14, 2005 by Terry Teachout

Movie quotes keep trickling in. It’s okay with me–I’ll gladly use them as a mine for future fortune cookies. In the meantime, here are a few more personal faves from the initial avalanche:

Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms. (Outlaw Josey Wales)


That’s one of the tragedies of this life–that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous. (The Palm Beach Story, written by Preston Sturges)


You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. (The Princess Bride)


Let’s order sushi and not pay. (Repo Man)


Don’t touch the hair! (Saturday Night Fever)


There’s no such thing as adventure. There’s no such thing as romance. There’s only trouble and desire. (Simple Men)


I can’t believe I gave my panties to a geek. (Sixteen Candles)


I’m tired of getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop! (Some Like It Hot)


I can’t die yet. There are many men I must kill first. (Yojimbo)

Hey, nobody said they had to be profound.

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Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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