Better Than It Sounds/Quotes

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


"Okay, actually saying it out loud makes it sound stupid and contrived, but still..."
Linkara, on The Punisher Versus Archie's premise.

Mole King: Why live up here on the crust when you can be with me in the soily filling of the sweet Earth pie?

Larry: Better than it sounds!
The story is ludicrous.
Once again the showman shrugged. With great aplomb. "Seemed to make sense to me", he concluded. "Sounds a lot less impressive when you say it out loud, though."
I.M. Foreman, Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Interference: Book Two
We were in Hawaii, and my secretary called and said, 'Yeah, listen, there's this pig farmer in upstate New York that wants you to play in his field.' That's how it was put to me.
Tommy James, explaining why his band didn't go to Woodstock
"Opera: It's better than you think. It has to be."
—Ad campaign for the Baltimore Opera