Larisa Oleynik Quotes

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs.

You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.

If you're not ten minutes early where I'm from, my dad chews you out.

The only man, woman, or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors "is dead."

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his family told him, "You're never going to make it; it's too tough out there."

America just reaped what it had been sowing.

I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

Trav, if you cross us -- " "I know. You'll get me. I'll try not to pee all over myself in terror.

This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head

Sure, mom, I settle down with a nice girl every night, then I'm free the next morning.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

Barney's Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said "Eat your peas." Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney's Mom never found out where he'd gone, Cause Barney didn't tell her. There his dad spent his life eating mice and gruel With every bite for fifty years he was sorry he'd been cruel

You may do as you wish without fear of retribution. It may serve you, however, to be aware of consequences. Consequences are results. Natural outcomes. These are not at all the same as retributions, or punishments. Outcomes are simply that. They are what results from the natural application of natural laws. They are that which occurs, quite predictably, as a consequence of what has occurred.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

My mom has said she wished I were gay... I don't think she likes my taste in men.

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

My mom wanted me to apply to Princeton, cause she just I guess since I was a kid had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, and it was not happening.

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.