Is-a Quotes

Specks-specks all over the third panel, see?-no, that one-the second one up from the floor and I wanted to point this out to someone yesterday but a photo shoot intervened and Yaki Nakamari or whatever the hell the designer's name is-a master craftsman not-mistook me for someone else so I couldn't register the complaint, but, gentlemen-and ladies-there they are: specks, annoying, tiny specks, and they don't look accidental but like they were somehow done by a machine-so I don't want a lot of description, just the story, streamlined, no frills, the lowdown: who, what, where, when and don't leave out why, though I'm getting the distinct impression by the looks on your sorry faces that why won't get answered-now, come on, goddamnit, what's the story? (Bret Easton Ellis)
In short, there is everything about this season's entertainment to make the Hippodrome what it always is-a Temple of the Arts to all those who hang pennants on their automobiles, use "Shake hands with my friend” as a formula for introduction, and sprinkle powdered sugar on their sliced tomatoes. p. 106. View quote
Dorothy Parker
That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul. View quote
Libba Bray
Richie Allen was-and still is-a Hall of Famer as far as I'm concerned. View quote
Willie Mays
You will see Coleridge-he who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure Intense irradiation of a mind, Which, with its own internal lightning blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair- A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owls.- You will see Hunt-one of those happy souls Which are the salt of the earth, and without whom This world would smell like what it is-a tomb; Who is, what others seem;.. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley