Sam Pink Twizzler Quotes

from the poem: MANNEQUINS THAT SWEAT BLACK INK AND NEVER HAVE ANY FUN

If you put a twizzler in your ear it looks like your ear is vomiting blood. ~ Sam Pink

And I know that when I run from something, there is a bigger part of me that hopes I get caught than there is that hopes I get away. ~ Sam Pink

The terrible divide between trying and being ready to try. ~ Sam Pink

And I know different methods of self-destruction but none as intense as sitting still by myself. ~ Sam Pink

Gary Cooper called to invite me to a dinner party he was giving for Clark Gable at his house. When I accepted and he asked if I would mind picking up Barbara Stanwyck, I was delighted. I had always thought she was one of the greatest. The Lady Eve and Double Indemnity are two of my favorite films and feature two of the many terrific performances she gave through the years. I arrived at her door promptly at 6:30 P.M., a huge bouquet of pink peonies in hand. The maid said she would be right down, took the flowers, and offered me a glass of champagne. Barbara came down a few minutes later, looking terrific in something silver and slinky. She carried on about the flowers as the maid brought them in and joined me for some champagne. I was anxious to get things off to a good start with the right kind of small talk, but unfortunately I was out of touch with the latest gossip. I asked how and where her husband was. An expletive told me how she felt about her husband: "That son of a bitch ran off with some kraut starlet." As I struggled to pull my foot out of my mouth, she started to laugh and said, "Don't worry about it, baby, he's not worth sweating over," and the rest of the evening went like gangbusters. We arrived at 7:30 on the dot and were met at the door by Rocky, Mrs. Gary Cooper, who hugged Barbara and said, "He's going to be so glad to see you." Cooper and Stanwyck had made a couple of great films together, Meet John Doe and Ball of Fire, the latter for Sam Goldwyn, whom sh ~ Farley Granger

Carney was hatless and gloveless, wearing her pink linen. Sam looked at her more than once.
"its just because he likes pink," she told herself. ~ Maud Hart Lovelace

Gary snorted. When he did, little pink and purple sparkles shot out his nose. Being a unicorn is awesome like that. ~ T.J. Klune

Sunny laughed. "It's okay. You're right, Emma. My name is unusual, but I like to think of it as ... special also."
Special?
Sam cocked his head as he studied Sunny. Almost all of her hair had escaped out of her ponytail now. She wore a baggy pink sweatshirt and had on the kind of drawstring plaid pants that would've set Bozo the Clown's heart pitter-pattering with envy. Her yellow tennis shoes were covered with dog hair.
Yeah, special was one word for her. ~ Jennifer Shirk

When the stoplight signals to cross I wait to take a step until the other men walk away.

I don't want to walk next to them.

It is horrible for me to be walking at the same pace next to someone on the sidewalk.

And like all others, these men pass me.

Now knowing that in infinite space there is a pure negative, shaped exactly like me.

With no intentions of making friends.

Insecure enough not to make friends so as not to lose them. ~ Sam Pink

I'm hoping to find an advertisement for a job that entails worrying when removing your hand from your pockets because you always think that you are dropping something so you turn around and check the ground and shit but nothing, but maybe something, but always maybe something. ~ Sam Pink

And I realized that part of my problem was I visibly resembled an adult. But never became one. ~ Sam Pink

And I realize I have never once actually been happy in my life.
And also never felt any kind of care that didn't threaten to give up when challenged. ~ Sam Pink

You still worked, thinking I didn't.
But I do still work.
I still work and I want you to know that. ~ Sam Pink

I couldn't pick just one.
The moment I'd touched the sugar packet, a thousand thoughts cascaded through my mind.
I want to go shopping in Times Square.
I want to go to the top of the Empire State Building.
I want Dad to finish his meetings and come see the city with me.
I want to travel to Paris.
I want to fall in love so hard it makes me cry.
I want ...
I shook my head. Sam didn't know what he was asking. How could this small pink square of processed sugar be transformed into my heart's desire?
I want Mom to come home. ~ Lisa Mangum

In the photo, he and some old girlfriend smiled - greasy faces idiotic with hope that the picture would one day remind them that for three seconds they acted happy and thought it final. ~ Sam Pink

If I ever find a dead horse, I am going to beat the fucking shit out of it. ~ Sam Pink

And I can see either accepting everything that happens, or accepting none, but in between I lose hope. ~ Sam Pink

Fellow-servant of God, your sphere may be an humble and inconspicuous one; the flock to which God has called you to minister may be a small one; but faithfulness to your trust is what is required of you. There may be an Eliab ready to taunt you, and speak contemptuously of "those few sheep in the wilderness" (1 Sam. 17:28), as there was for David to encounter; but regard not their sneers. It is written, "His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord" (Matthew 25:21). ~ Arthur W. Pink

He just danced, eating chips. Then he started bouncing up and down, bending at the knees. Classic baby style. I felt like turning to the girl next to me and saying, "Ah, classic baby style. ~ Sam Pink

It seems I keep track of opportunities I will never have more than focusing on ones I do have and could have. ~ Sam Pink

I realize every specific thing I worry about is nothing compared to the main worry I have which never has an object. ~ Sam Pink

The dream I have when I go to sleep involves me crawling through a very narrow wooden corridor for a very long time. ~ Sam Pink

People viewed me as an adult but I was just shit.
I always expected adulthood to happen, to make, like, a popping or dinging sound when it did. ~ Sam Pink

I think that if I discovered I had cancer I would immediately say the word, "Phew."
Phew. ~ Sam Pink

My ideal date would involve painful silence. My ideal date wouldn't involve me. ~ Sam Pink

She kept a picture of a very Caucasian Jesus on her living room wall and her gallstones in a baby food jar that hung from a pink ribbon on the bathroom doorframe. ~ Sam Harris

And I realize that there is nothing to worry about without first wanting to be alive a certain way.
That is somewhat relaxing to think. ~ Sam Pink

My history is the history of things imagined and not-happened. ~ Sam Pink

Not quite a piece of shit myself, but the streak for sure. For sure the area the shit passes over and leaves behind parts of itself. ~ Sam Pink

And I saw my reflection in a lake and I waited for it to freeze a little bit so I could break it with my boot. ~ Sam Pink

I walk down the hallway and go into my room and call it a day and it calls me something else. ~ Sam Pink

What tipped you off - about Stan, I mean?" I asked.
"Couple of things," Alex replied. "He referred to Blitzen as the dwarf and claimed you hadn't been in. Knowing how terrified you are of Sam - "
"I am not!"
" - I thought it was unlikely you'd skipped the shopping spree. So, I tested his story and called your phone. When I heard my ringtone, I knew he was lying about you being here. But the biggest clue? He refused to sell me anything. I mean, come on." He gestured to his pink cashmere sweater vest and tight lime-green pants. "A real clothing salesman would have seen dollar signs the minute I walked into the store. ~ Rick Riordan

He says, "Does it ever bother you how unneeded you are, almost everywhere. ~ Sam Pink