Hell Quote by Dorothy Parker Download Open image “[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?” — Dorothy Parker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hell Telephones
“My phone doesn't ring and the doorbell doesn't either and I begin to wonder whether I am still alive.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“During these mad dashes to the wall phone in the kitchen she hadn't time to fall but with fantastical grace and dexterity wrenched herself… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“her voice suddenly gone as if it had snagged on the mist and was carried off into the failing light, leaving the phone dead… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“She had stood there with the phone pressed to her ear as though it were a huge plastic seashell, all the unhappy years of… — Cathie Pelletier Copy Share Image
“The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.” — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“Have I become the girl who waits by the phone, hoping it will ring, who asks a friend to dial her number to make… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“To be fair, she called this morning. I stared at the phone. Circled it on my bed. And, eventually, it stopped ringing. If it… — Kelley York Copy Share Image
“She reached into an alabaster box and pulled out a violet cigarette that also exactly matched her eyes. Some people just don't know when… — Gary K. Wolf Copy Share Image
“The hang-up calls both annoyed and unsettled her. There had been a lot of them lately, and when she checked the caller ID, the… — Amanda Stevens Copy Share Image
“It’s just that mess seems to follow her. She can enter a room and within minutes has laid her keys in one place, her… — Cass Green Copy Share Image
“Hello. Audrey’s phone. She’s currently suiting up for a soul-deadening hourly job that provides no benefits, how may I help you?” — Robin Benway Copy Share Image
The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think Ill give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“Hell is only loneliness, a place without play for the soul, a place without God. How could there be God in loneliness when God… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
Just when I thought that I was gtting better, boy was I wrong.. Things just turned to hell — Cupecake Copy Share Image
I believe that on any trip to heaven, there are always detours through hell. — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell. — David Platt Copy Share Image
I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Hey...Hey...What's up?. Nothing much, you? Nothing. K!..What the hell was the point of this communication?... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“ALAS, IF ALL HUMANS WERE WISE AND HAD MORE GOOD WILL THE WORLD WOULD BE A PARADISE NOW IT IS MOSTLY A HELL” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image