Quotes from Rupert Holmes

Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure!

As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood ' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.

But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen ' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10 000 copies I wasn't even in the running for failure!

If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain. If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape. I'm the lady you've looked for, write to me, and escape.

When a man dies from a bullet entering his chest, it's a homicide. When a man dies from a meteorite landing on his head, it's a tragedy. Don't use bullets. Use meteorites Don't commit a homicide. Commit a Tragedy. -Guy McMaster

After all, when the behavior of another person leaves you no choice but to kill them, their murder is simply involuntary suicide.

After all, it's difficult to obtain a student loan for a school that not only denies its own existence but teaches its students how to deny other people theirs.

THE ENEMY …We do refrain from using this term in reference to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as we count so many of their number as alumni.

May the only justice you face be poetic.

It is simplicity itself to fire one's employer. All it takes is some kindling and a match.

When a man dies from a bullet entering his chest, it's a homicide. When a man dies from a meteorite landing on his head, it's a tragedy. Don't use bullets. Use meteorites. Don't commit a homicide. Commit a tragedy. -Guy McMaster

Come along, Mr. Iverson, you must be starved to death," said the dean. He saw my startled look and added dryly, "That's an observation, by the way. Not a decree.

nothing beats a couple of really stiff banana daiquiris enriched with yogurt. The bananas have tryptophan and magnesium to make your target dozy and potassium to keep them that way. The yogurt delivers melatonin, tryptophan, and calcium, and to seal the deal, they make a 168-proof rum in Barbados that might as well be knockout drops. By

OPERATING YOUR TABLE RADIO To hear Bach's 5th Brandenburg Concerto, turn radio ON. To not hear Bach's 5th Brandenburg Concerto, turn radio OFF.

My mum and dad taught me not to laugh at people who aren't laughing," she explained. "Besides, I think in life, the joke usually turns out to be on us.

Sadly, lessons taught by that cruel mentor Failure are often the most bitterly learned and vividly remembered. [Dean Harbinger Harrow]

what were my impressions upon viewing for the first time the manor where you'd had me brought? My initial thought was "Toad Hall." This was, of course, an inadequate comparison but the best I could muster considering the limited number of books I'd read that centered on soaring Gothic structures. (As a boy, I went nine pages into The Hunchback of Notre Dame before realizing it wasn't a football story.)

It was absolutely the worst way she could have phrased it, as if her voice had been hijacked by what Edgar Allan Poe called the Imp of the Perverse.

And that, to me, embraces the very soul of the most important commandment you'll find anywhere in your Principles of Successful Termination : 'Do in others as you would have others do you in.

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.