Lunch

Ok, so I was in line for lunch at our company cafe and I was getting the taco salad and the guy next to me asked the cook the following:

"How much more meat can you get in my salad?"

Bravo, Bravissimo Flipping Out

I know what I want and I want what I want. Can’t you understand that and just get me what I want?

“Ideally, 70% lemonade, 20% punch, 10% sprite. If they don’t have fruit punch, do like 85% lemonade, and 15% Sprite. If the don’t have lemonade, do 85% punch and 15% Sprite…or 7-Up.”
– Jeff Lewis, ordering a drink with his lunch, on BravoTV’s Flipping Out

“Grande, no fat, no foam 140 degree latte, two Spenda. Actually…why don’t you make it 150 degrees, so by the time you get here, I can drink it.” – Jeff Lewis, giving his coffee order to an assistant

“I don’t want to party like it’s my birthday; I want to sell my house.” – Jeff Lewis, suffering from real-estate anxiety, amongst many other things

Speak It

These men speak their minds have found success by embracing (exploiting?) their personalities. There is something about that I admire and I envy; in some way, I want their lives. It is the freedom to be yourself and somehow make a living doing it...

"I know there's deep inside (me) some lazy hippie…I'm really afraid of that guy. I don't like him. I don't want him around. And my whole life is kind of constructed to avoid reverting to that guy: Stay busy. Stay focused. Try not to mess up."
- Anthony Bourdain, writer, traveler, chef

“Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.”
- Henry Rollins, writer, spoken word performer, musician

Deserved Smackdown

"BlogNoying - When your friend emails you with irritating notices about their blog." – Saint Marquis, comedian, writer, nemesis to Pinopower

… Marquis 15, Pino Love.

"Smiles, Everyone. Smiles!"

This blog is an attempt to capture the amazing, quotable yadda, yadda, yadda emanating from our television-computer-tivo-devo thingies and blaring in our headphones and earpieces from cellular iLand, as well as the crazy, kitchy things our friends, family, and strangers may say. (and, exhale...) Share those phrases that evoke laughter or cause a pause followed by a slow, disbelieving shake of the head. Hey, if you have a word or phrase of your own, slap it up here, too. Give credit, where you can, and don’t forget to share your quoteliciousness with others.

"Did you remember to take the money out of the bible?"
- Wife, to her husband, while ascending the escalator in the Las Vegas Airport.

"The sad part is... he probably won’t be able to do any
more Terminator movies.” – Guy in a bar, lamenting that Arnold
Schwarzenegger was elected as Governor of California

“I love Asians, because Asians are fierce.” – designer Christian
Siriano, winner of Bravo TVs Project Runway, upon seeing Ginny Cha Berber, wife of former New York Giant Tiki Barber.

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(Headline is Ricardo Montalban’s Mr. Roarke of the 1970’s TV show, Fantasy Island. )