Arrested Development Quotes

“Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.”
― Jenni Schaefer, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

“Lucille: Apparently, mood altering medication leads to street drugs. That's what this very handsome young doctor said on The Today Show.
Michael: That was Tom Cruise, the actor.
Lucille: They said he was some kind of scientist.”
― Lucille Bluth

“Senile decay seemed already to have laid its hand on him while he was still in the grip of arrested development.”
― Anthony Powell, From a View to a Death

“I'd have to get up pretty early in the morning to get drunk by 1 o' clock.”
― Lucille Bluth

“Maeby: Do you guys know where I can get one of those gold necklaces with a “T” on it?

Michael: That’s a cross.

Maeby: Across from where?”
― Maeby Bluth

“Teach me the ways of the secular flesh.”
― Mrs. Veal

“Michael: And you finished off the whole bottle?
Lindsay Funke: I had to, it's vodka. It goes bad once it's opened.
Michael: I think that's another of mom's fibs, like "I'll sacrifice anything for my children".”
― Michael Bluth

“Lucille: I'll be at the hospital bar
Michael: You know there isn't a hospital bar, Mother
Lucille: Well, this is why people hate hospitals”
― Lucille Bluth

“Barry Zuckerkorn: So basically you're about 2,000 shares short of being the majority stock holders. Now unfortunately it's a private stock so you can not just buy up the shares unless someone is willing to sell
Michael: Are you sure?
Barry Zuckerkorn: That's what it said on 'Ask Jeeves”
― Barry Zuckerkorn

“Michael: You seem more villainous than usual, Mom. Are you sober?
Lucille: Michael, it's 8 AM!
Michael: So, it's not that.
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― Michael Bluth

“Lucille: I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I went off my post-partum medication.

Michael: You were still taking that? You had Buster 32 years ago.

Lucille: And that’s how long I’ve been depressed about him.”
― Lucille Bluth

“She was a freak. My sister was a freak of nature. I wasn’t quite sure how to feel. Here I’d been so looking forward to meeting her, and she was making me uncomfortable. I forced as much of it as I could back. I wanted to love her, wanted to be as excited about this moment as I’d hoped I would be.”
― Clare Urbanski, Hero of the Hinterland

“At age forty, he had more employee name tags than girlfriends, and he just started liking mushrooms and zucchini. If they’re fried, and covered in ranch, that is.”
― GLEN NESBITT

“...the traits that distinguish the swaggering delinquent and the punctilious gentleman of leisure from the common crowd are, in some measure, marks of an arrested spiritual development. They mark an immature phase, as compared with the stage of development attained by the average adults in the modern industrial community.”
― Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption