"Stand firm for what you believe in, until and unless experience proves you wrong. Remember, when the emperor looks naked, the emperor is naked. The truth and a lie are not sort of the same thing. And there is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can't be improved with pizza."
— The personal creed of Daria Morgendorffer
"No, I didn't win. But at least I didn't make any new friendships."
— April Ludgate, Parks and Recreation
"One desperate attempt after another to find something in common with someone else and then cling. 'Hey, you have ten fingers, I have ten fingers, let's be friends. We'll make rules and slogans. Then if we find someone with nine fingers, we can beat the crap out of them.'"
— Georgia Lass (on the topic of human contact), Dead Like Me
"After all, the fate of the world rests on my pitching... the world sure isn't worth much these days."
— Kyon, Haruhi Suzumiya
"I want to believe that cynicism comes from loving the world too much to let it get away with less."
— Rock, Paper, Cynic, this strip
"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."
David: I'm also slowly coming to the conclusion that one writer does all the dialogue for Lois Lane... Everything she says sounds like an out of context bit of a dirty limerick.
Chris: Do you think it's the same guy who does Chloe's? Because I like to imagine two middle-aged dudes loosening their ties and rolling up their sleeves, sitting at desks across from each other, going back and forth to see who can be the most grating.
David: If it isn't, then they must have a Lois Lane Dialogue Style Guide:
* Use alliteration as much as possible
* Belittle and infantilize the opposition
Chris: Do you think it's the same guy who does Chloe's? Because I like to imagine two middle-aged dudes loosening their ties and rolling up their sleeves, sitting at desks across from each other, going back and forth to see who can be the most grating.
David: If it isn't, then they must have a Lois Lane Dialogue Style Guide:
* Use alliteration as much as possible
* Belittle and infantilize the opposition
— Chris Sims and David Uzumeri on Smallville ("Scion")
Smallville ("Scion")"To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both — a philosopher."
"To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be."
