Connie Willis

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself? ↗

— Connie Willis

#bellwether #fads #humour #independence #independence

People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table. ↗

— Connie Willis

#humor

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning. ↗

— Connie Willis

#humor

No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering. ↗

— Connie Willis

#humor

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'. ↗

— Connie Willis

#libraries #humor

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick. ↗

— Connie Willis

#movies #movies

I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era. ↗

— Connie Willis

#humor #victorian-era #humor

To do something for someone or something you loved- England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history- wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth. ↗

— Connie Willis

#sacrifice #freedom

What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett. "My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B. ↗

— Connie Willis

#dumb #mnagement #business

Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point. ↗

— Connie Willis

#moral #movies