Tina Quotes

“When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one’s socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ("Another empty room")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone’s blueprint? It’s not as if a small circle of visionaries in Renaissance Florence conceived of something they called “capitalism,” figured out the details of how the stock exchange and factories would someday work, and then put in place a program to bring their visions into reality. In fact, the idea is so absurd we might well ask ourselves how it ever occurred to us to imagine this is how change happens to begin.”
― David Graeber

“The color of your dress really brings out the extraordinary paleness of your skin tone. Are you unwell? Dying, perhaps?”
― T.J. Klune, The Lightning-Struck Heart

“NEWT: What d’you think I should say to her, if I see her?
JACOB: Oh, well, it’s best not to plan these things. You know, you just say whatever comes to you in the moment.
A beat. They walk.
NEWT (reminiscently): She has eyes just like a salamander.
JACOB: Don’t say that.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplay

“But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic project at all, but a political project, designed to devastate the imagination, and willing – with it’s cumbersome securitization and insane military projects – to destroy the capitalist order itself if that’s what it took to make it seem inevitable.”
― David Graeber, Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination

“I’m sorry. Were you just speaking to me? I apologize most profusely. I was distracted by the size of the sweat stains under your arms. Are you overly warm today? It seems unlikely given the cold, dead heart that surely beats in your chest.”
― T.J. Klune, The Lightning-Struck Heart

“NEWT: Jacob, she was here. Tina stood here. She has incredibly narrow feet, have you noticed?
JACOB: Can’t say that I have.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplay

“Oh dear gods. I think my underwear just fell off.” “Nicole,” Tina hissed. “Keep your comments to yourself! Be a respectable fucking lady, for fuck’s sake!”
― T.J. Klune, The Lightning-Struck Heart

“Lady Tina DeSilva. The president of the Ryan Foxheart Fan Club Castle Lockes Chapter. And my most mortal of enemies. “Oh look, everyone. Mervin has arrived and he brought the muffins. If past experiences have any prescience as to what we can expect, then they’re sure to be as dry as his conversational skills.” She was also sixteen years old. And evil.”
― T.J. Klune, The Lightning-Struck Heart

“And I’m a Foxy Lady,” Tina said. “Because of reasons.” She stared at his chest. Everyone understood her reasons. Even me.”
― T.J. Klune, The Lightning-Struck Heart

“Again? Honestly, do you guys think she’s hiding in Shakespeare’s Sonnets?”
- Tina Lewis”
― R.J. Morse

“Just because a man has money it doesn't mean he'll treat you right.”
― Darrell Debrew

“If I was straight and Tina not the bitch from hell, one would assume we were almost flirting. But I was gay and Tina was the bitch from hell. We were not flirting.”
― T.J. Klune, The Lightning-Struck Heart

“That look isn’t about secrets,” Tina said. “He probably just has gas. Intestinal gas.”
― T.J. Klune, The Lightning-Struck Heart

“Gross. I just agreed internally with something Tina said. I reminded myself to run tests when I got home to make sure I hadn’t just been possessed by a demon.”
― T.J. Klune, The Lightning-Struck Heart

“I was walking home alone from school and I was wearing a dress. A dude drove by and yelled, "Nice tits." Embarrassed and enraged, I screamed after him, "Suck my dick.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“One bright sunny day at a successful Literary Agency…
Literary Agent: “So, Tina – we asked you to try and write a children’s story…”
Tina: “Uh-huh.”
― Christina Engela, Innocent Minds

“Literary Agent: “I meant manuscript wise.”
Tina: “Ohh. Um, yes. I’ve brought a few with me, just some rough drafts. (shuffle, shuffle) You might say something of an experiment.”
― Christina Engela, Innocent Minds