Quotes About Errand

I have to return some videotapes

I have to return some videos

I have to return some video tapes. – Patrick Bateman's all-purpose exit excuse in American Psycho

I know I need to be dependent on the Lord. I will try to do what he wants for the Young Women and to be a receptive servant while I'm on his errand.

For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America's energy problems is just a fool's errand.

the fool's errand to the edge of the Beckenstein limit again

We've missed you, Jack," she said, "where've you been?" "Running an errand—meeting some locals—partaking of their rich traditions," Jack said. "Can we get out of Germany now, please?

went down the supermarket for my messages

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

Need a gallon of milk and a box of bullets? This was the spot.

Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand.

God made the world only as a dressing room to dress our souls in. He sent us here on the grand errand of godliness.

and Mr. Klugman went to the store every day and

Other people think destiny is a time in one's life, such as the moment one becomes an adult, or the instant it becomes necessary to construct a hiding place out of sofa cushions. And still other people think that destiny is an invisible force, like gravity, or a fear of paper cuts, that guide everyone throughout their lives, whether they are embarking on a mysterious errand, doing a treacherous deed, or deciding that a book they have begun reading is too dreadful to finish

Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.

The day Glenn Gregg's daddy got back from New Orleans was the same day Lady Sally Anne Montberclair decided to park her big white Cadillac out in front of Red's Goodlookin Bar and Gro. and leave the motor running and scoot inside, out of the first drops of rain, on an errand. Glenn's daddy was named Solon.

Errand day was when all the adult houseguests went out to deal with shopping and business.

What is this errand, and when will you come back?" "It's nothing for you to worry about." "Whenever someone says that," Pandora said, "it always means the opposite. Along with 'It's only a scratch' or 'Worse things happen at sea.'" "Or," Clara added glumly, 'I'm only going out for a pint.

An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!

Thomas scowled. "An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo.

I did tell you, I said. I told you at Mac's that I'd give you a ride home, but I had to run an errand first. Thomas scowled. An *errand* is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is *not* getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo.

confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred, the clear blue sky from which the plane fell, the routine errand that ended on the shoulder with the car in flames, the swings where the children were playing as usual when the rattlesnake struck from the ivy.

I used to be the errand boy for the Guardians of the Universe. It was a thankless job.

We are sent to you, Priests of Delphi, by Phalaris our master, with instructions to present this bull to the God, and to speak the necessary words on behalf of the offering and its donor. Such being our errand, it remains for us to deliver his message, which is as follows: