Innocent English

Inspiring Stories: Inspiring # 148:Â A Special Teacher Years ago a John Hopkin’s professor gave a group of graduate students this assignment: Go to the slums. Take 200 boys, between the ages of 12 and 16, and investigate their background and environment. Then predict their chances for the future....

–You’re gonna be my prisoner for a long time … you naughty girl. –You’ll find out. Ah, you can be had. I wasn’t always rich. No, there was a time I didn’t know where my next husband was coming from. This is just my summer jewelry. You should see my winter stuff. When women go wrong, men go right...

The man up and vanished like a fart in the wind! #1-You feel you’ve been rehabilitated? #2- Oh, yes sir. Absolutely, sir. Yeah, I’ve learned my lesson. I can honestly say that I’m a changed man. I’m no longer a danger to society. That’s the God’s honest truth. -Dumas. Ever read it? You’ll like that...

#1: I thought you were going to clean up #2 I did but i had a few beers afterwards. 1)How Are you? 2)Surviving. (On the phone) Barbera: Some men tried to get into the house. Shaun: Are they still out there? Barbera: I’m not sure, we’ve shut the curtains. Shaun: Well, are you all right? Barbera: Oh,...

Angie: (On the phone to a customer) Sykes’ Whale Wash, you get a whale of a wash and a price, oh my gosh! Angie: What did you expect? You just take credit for killing a shark and then everything would be fine and dandy? Oscar: Uh… Yeah? Don Lino. hey i bring you in here look you in the eye and tell...

#1- Roy O’Bannon. #2- My name is Chon Wang. #1- John Wayne!? #2 Chon Wang. #1- That’s a terrible cowboy name. #2- Why? #1- No, come on that’s not going to work…that’s horrible and so is the ponytail. $1,000 for a side kick? That’s just not right….justice system is all screwed up…and shanghai kid...

(1)My father’s been killed. (2)Chon, I’m… You need the money to get back for the funeral? (1)No, I must go to England. The ship leaves tonight. (2)Your father died in England? (1)China. My sister followed the murderer to London. (2)Wait. Murderer. I’m a little bit mixed up. Let me see if I can get...

(Grafton)They said they would pay for the damage. The Rykers are dead, Shane took off and Stark doen’t have 2 knickels. So now I’m out $250. (Joey)Shane, what would you do it cought them cutting the fence? (Shane)Why I’d ask them to go around and use the gate. (Rancher)I like Stark, but I’ll kill...

–Colonel Hardcore? –That was the last real war. Now, what can I do for you, my boy? –Well, I represent a… –Well, you saw action, did you? Which theater? –Korea. Airborne. –I have hired me a detective who doesn’t work on Sunday. –I’m a very religious person. –Oh, morning. –Hi. You want some coffee...

After all, Mr. Roundy, we’re paying six percent. Six percent. FHA’s at eight and a half…No, we won’t be going back to the old days. Don’t go, Jackie… Hey, baby, what’s happening? I do Barbara Rush’s hair. It’s got nothing to do with inflation. Rates, for example, rise independently of tight money...

(after she breaks the chair) 1)Hey, you have to get some decent chairs in here, man! What’s this shit made out of anyway? 2)Uh…steel. (looks at Rosemary) Looks like we’re too late. Food’s probably all gone! –Have you heard of the saying, ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder?’–Have you ever heard...

1. Did you learn that at your psychotherapy group, David? 2. Discussion group, Alex. Discussion group. 1. I tell you, every letter this guy writes you is the same. They all begin like true love then decend into open pornography – I dream of your thighs, the touch of your white skin leading me in...

(in letter) And now for the first time in a long time, I want to dance again. All these promises that we make and we break…why is it that you think people get married? Because we need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet, I mean what does any one life really mean? But in a...

I love you, Will, beyond poetry. (1)I loved a writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet. (2)I was the more deceived. (1)Yes, you were deceived, for I did not know how much I loved you. (1)I’m done with theater. The playhouse is for dreamers. Look what the dream brought us. (2) It was we ourselves...

1-Uhhhgh, have you seen a wig around here?2-Is this it?1-Wh-what you’ve got others? I’ve got the fever. Cartoon fever. Catch it. MIMES! The CITIZEN KANE of alcoholic clown movies. What are you?! 8?!! You clowns are on dope! You just hate us because we’re artists! You’re my first…clown. Page Topic:...

-Happy is the fleeting hope of youth. -Who said that? -Me. I’m gonna take the streets, Richie. -Good for you counselor. Me, too. -You know what this is? -It’s a gun! It’s a gun! I met the love of my life once. Only I killed her dog before I got a chance to tell her. Man, she was everything I ever...

Well,don’t play hard to get honey,you might miss something. (1)they’re saving themselves for their wedding night…..(2)yeah so Harley can spring it on Carson that he doesnt have a tallywhacker!!! (1)You’ll marry Bullwinkle and have three kids. At least I won’t be an old maid. (2)If I’m not engaged...

$42000? I know guys that’d take out an entire zipcode for that kind of money. –Harlem cats? –How the hell should I know? Everyone looks the same to me. –Have a chair, John. –I don’t like your chair. –What do I look like? Some kind of klutz? –Don’t ask and I won’t tell you. –You a cagey spook,...

she’s no bigger than a knuckle bone What’d ya do to make him so mad?!? You don’t wanna help your Daddy out, now do ya!? You..don’t wanna do nothing for me! Page Topic: Movie Quotes from ‘Bastard Out of Carolina’: Quotes from the movie ‘Bastard Out of Carolina’