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Patrick Warburton Quotes

Total quotes: 22
“Sometimes a story ends before it’s over with unanswered questions, unresolved plots, lingering suspense, blanketing the world like snow. Or like smoke from a suspicious fire.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Carnivorous Carnival
Tagged: story ends, Unanswered Questions, lingering suspense, Simile Examples, smoke, Fire
“Some things in life are difficult to understand, even after years and years of thinking about them while wandering alone through desolate landscapes, usually during the off-season.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Understand, difficult, years, wandering, desolate, Landscapes
“Sitting with friends, talking about something important is one of the most powerful and necessary forces in the world. It is the way so many noble organizations begin, with a conversation between associates or even brothers.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Austere Academy
Tagged: Friends, Powerful, Forces, World, noble, Organization
“Perhaps the hardest part of life on the lam is that you have to keep moving, often in a direction that seems wrong, dangerous or an agonizing combination of both.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Hostile Hospital
Tagged: Life, Direction, Wrong, Dangerous Game
“Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Carnivorous Carnival
Tagged: Miracles, Simile Examples, Meatballs
“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, then you would be better off somewhere else. In this story, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning, and very few happy things in the middle.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Stories, Story, not much happiness, No happy ending
“Sometimes life feels like some dismal story presented as entertainment by some cruel and invisible author. It isn’t a pleasant way to feel. But what choice do we have?”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Hostile Hospital
Tagged: dismal, Story Archetypes, presented, cruel
“Hey, how come people don't have dip for dinner? Why is it only a snack, why can't it be a meal, you know? I don't understand stuff like that.”
— David Puddy, Seinfeld, Season 6: The Face Painter
Tagged: Jocks, Dudebros, Dumb Questions
“Having a brilliant idea isn’t as easy as turning on a light. But just as a single bulb can illuminate even the most depressing of rooms, the right idea can shed light on a depressing situation.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Brilliant, idea, Light, single bulb, depressing, situation, Metaphor Examples
“What is bad news to one person might be good news to someone else. And sometimes, what seems like good news might actually be something full of sadness, misery, and grief.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Vile Village
Tagged: Bad News, Good News, Sadness, Misery, Grief
“Unless you are a murderer or a taxidermist, it is rare to have actual skeletons in your closet as opposed to metaphorical ones.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Miserable Mill
Tagged: murderer, taxidermist, rare, Skeletons, metaphorical
“If you have ever lost a friend, you know that it makes your world feel incomplete, like a puzzle with a piece missing, or one half of a broken spyglass.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Austere Academy
Tagged: lost, Friend, Incomplete, Puzzle
“What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for it, just as ink can stain a white sheet of paper. You can never forget what transpired in that place just as words in ink can never be unwritten.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Reptile Room
Tagged: Feelings, Stain, Simile Examples, Ink, transpired, Never Forget, Unwritten
“Marriage is like sharing a root beer float, or agreeing to be the back half of a horse costume. Even when it’s happening onstage, you should only do it with the people you love.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Marriage, root beer float, Metaphor Examples, horse costume, Love
“Trouble and strife can cover this world like the dark of night, or like smoke from a suspicious fire. And when that happens, all good, true and decent people know that it’s time to volunteer.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: trouble, Strife, dark, Night, Simile Examples, Volunteer
“To Beatrice – My love flew like a butterfly, until death swooped down like a bat.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Miserable Mill
Tagged: Love, Simile Examples, Butterfly, Death, bat
“There are times when the entire world seems wrong. The way a reptile room without any reptiles seems wrong. The way a bookshelf without any books seems wrong. Or a loved one’s house without the loved one.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Reptile Room
Tagged: Wrong, entire world, imbalanced, reptile, Books, loved one
“Oh yeah? I’ll tell you what’s stupid. You. Stupid.”
— David Puddy, Seinfeld, Season 9: The Dealership
Tagged: Stupid, Juvenile, insults
“It may be difficult to believe, but, at any given moment, someone somewhere is in a dangerous situation and other people in some other place are dancing and having a good time. The world is often like this. A celebration here, terrible trouble just outside the door.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Ersatz Elevator
Tagged: difficult, dangerous situation, World, Celebration, terrible, trouble
“When you read an enormous number of books, you are going to learn a great deal of information that might not be useful for a long time. But then, suddenly, like a strike of lightning or a grand piano falling out of a window, an opportunity arises to use the information gleaned from even the most unlikely piece of reading.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Hostile Hospital
Tagged: Read, Books, information, Simile Examples, Opportunity
“The phrase 'in the dark,' which I’m sure you know, can refer to not only one’s shadowy surroundings, but also to the secrets which might be surrounding you, too. Every day, the sun goes down over all of these secrets, so everyone is in the dark in one way or another.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Ersatz Elevator
Tagged: in the dark, shadowy, secrets of the heart, Sun
“In a world both frightening and unlucky, there are a few comforts. One of them is making new friends. Friends can make you feel the world is smaller and safer than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences. When you meet people like that, you may find your world feels a little more complete. Like the missing piece of a puzzle or two halves of a broken spyglass.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Miserable Mill
Tagged: World, frightening, Unlucky, Friends, Simile Examples, Puzzle
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