Yorick's Quotes

#1. At least I'm still in love with Yorick's skull. At least I always have time enough to stay in love with Yorick's skull. I want an honorable goddam skull when I'm dead, buddy. I hanker after an honorable goddam skull like Yorick's.

J.D. Salinger

#2. Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of the bag, looking down on it like Hamlet with Yorick's skull

Stephen King

#3. Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.

Ian Doescher

#4. They hold their phones out like Hamlet addressing Yorick's skull...

Chase Novak

#5. The essence of building your own brand. People having heard of you - and having a positive impression - before you've even met them. If you can create that effect, doors open for you. A close second, if that's not possible, is people getting a good impression of o very quickly when they Google you

Michael Ellsberg

#6. Your writing blows, by the by. You split more infinitives than Gene Roddenberry.

Brian K. Vaughan

#7. I love the concept of community energy.

Ed Rendell

#8. Back into your box, anonymous Yorick, with your sutured eyes and frozen scream! The indignity of your internment is no worse than ours.

Rick Yancey

#9. I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

Oliver Reed

#10. There he is!" Ferbus drunkenly shouted as Uncle Mort and Lex returned to the car with the food, sloshing his Yorick all over Driggs. "Captain Sandwich and the Condiment Kid!

Gina Damico

#11. The prince put the dagger on the table. "Sorry."
Yorick bent forward and looked up into his eyes. "Don't forget our respective places here. I'm your clown. Your plaything. Your toy. Scarcely human. No need to apologise.

A.J. Hartley

#12. And so Yorick did not become a good citizen, but a Hamlet, a fool.

Gunter Grass

#13. In the partnership of a pure, holy purpose it (money)seems almost omnipotent. But when it is allowed to grip both lines and whip, it drives a man at such a pace as to use up all his strength, and leave him utterly winded for anything else.

S.D. Gordon

#14. Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.

Diana Wynne Jones

#15. The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.

Dale Carnegie

#16. Here is my best advice on the matter of deductibles: just count off on your fingers all the items that you suspect might be deductible - and then forget them, because they aren't.

W.C. Fields

#17. All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

Ray Winstone

#18. Alas, poor YORICK!

Laurence Sterne

#19. Kip looked up at him and grinned. Don't you know what I am? I'm the fucking turtle-bear.

Brent Weeks

#20. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.

William Shakespeare

#21. Tell beautiful women they are smart, and smart women they are beautiful.

Tucker Max

#22. Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

Donald Miller

#23. Her look at him was now as aggressive as his had been. 'It's all very well for you, you're a man,' she said bitterly, and entirely without coquetry; but he said flippantly, even suggestively, 'It will be all quite well for you too!

Doris Lessing

#24. I keep saying the word 'weird' over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.

Chuck Klosterman