thirtysomething Quotes

Elliot Weston: You're sitting alone in the dark. You okay?
Nancy Krieger Weston: I don't know.
Elliot Weston: [cautiously] What's wrong? Nance? What's wrong?
Nancy Krieger Weston: Hope knows. She knows because Michael told her.
Elliot Weston: [realizing] Nancy...
Nancy Krieger Weston: You told him, even though this was just us. We had agreed this was just us.
Elliot Weston: Nancy, I'm so sorry.
Nancy Krieger Weston: And now it's out.
Elliot Weston: It's not out.
Nancy Krieger Weston: It is out, Elliot. And everybody knows because your friend can't keep anything to himself and you had to feel good about yourself for two minutes and that was worth anything in the whole world to you.

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Elliot Weston: Wait a sec, wait a sec, wait a sec, Nancy.
Nancy Krieger Weston: It's just a test, Elliot. That's all it is.
Elliot Weston: Fine, fine! I just want to know more about it.
Elliot Weston: [turning to see Ethan standing in the doorway] Hey, pal.
Nancy Krieger Weston: Hey, Ethan.
Ethan Weston: Mom, if you leave turtles on the radiator, do they fry and get dead?
Nancy Krieger Weston: [puzzled, thinking about it] Well, it depends, why?
Ethan Weston: Just curious. [Ethan walks away to leave Nancy and Elliot to look at one another, confounded]

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Miles Drentell: You don't look well. Have you been sleeping properly?
Michael Steadman: [who wasn't gotten actual sleep in days] Like a top. [Exits]
Miles Drentell: [to himself] "Like a top"...

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Nancy Krieger Weston: [reading the inscription Gary put in the book he got for her] 'To another Alice. See page three-forty-six. Love, Gary.'
Nancy Krieger Weston: [turning to the last page] 'In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by, dreaming as the summers die, ever drifting down the stream, lingering in the golden gleam... life, what is it, but a dream?'

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Nancy Krieger Weston: Ma?
Eleanor Krieger: [knitting in her lap] Don't call me 'Ma'. You're not a goat.
Nancy Krieger Weston: That is the ugliest sweater I have ever seen. I hope it's not for me.
Eleanor Krieger: Not anymore. Maybe Deborah will want it.
Nancy Krieger Weston: She won't. Send it to Sue.

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Rose Waldman: [clinking her glass with a knife and standing up at the head of the table] Can I have anybody's attention? Well, uh, tonight we have three birthday girls. One of them is eighty. But I'm not going to tell who. But I am going to tell a story about business. A manufacturer falls in love with a fabric, and buys five thousand yards. But he can only sell half of it. Well, I save his life. I take the other half. Now he's got something. People need to have something in their hands. Tonight, my hands are full. So is my heart. Tonight...
Rose Waldman: [laughing and tossing down her notes] I'm eighty years old tonight! And as i look back on my life, I... I know my hands are too full. And I want to count my blessings. My biggest blessings are right here: my daughter, Elaine. Her husband, Murray. And my darling granddaughter, Melissa... to whom I am going to leave the business. After I have trainer her properly. [Everyone present is shocked into a stunned silence, including Ellyn and Michael]
Rose Waldman: [to Melissa] And I trust and hope you will carry my name into the future. [Aunt Muriel enters with a cake and everyone starts to sing 'Happy Birthday' as Melissa just sits there, in unhappy shock]

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[Miles shows up, with flowers etc., at Melissa's place, after the night he nearly raped her]
Melissa Steadman: I didn't know there was a Hallmark card for this kind of thing...

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Prof. Gary Shepherd: Even Hemingway wasn't good at being Hemingway.

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Prof. Gary Shepherd: I think I'm missing the relationship chromosome.

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Miles Drentell: You don't look well. Have you been sleeping properly?
Michael Steadman: [who wasn't gotten actual sleep in days] Like a top. [Exits]
Miles Drentell: [to himself] "Like a top"...

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Ellyn Warren: I mean, Michael's cute and all, but how much fun can it be sitting at home watching him sulk night after night?

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Ethan Weston: [whiny] Dad...
Elliot Weston: Son...

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Ellyn's date: I think "I Love Lucy"'s overrated, myself.

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