Frankie Quote #1417
Quote from Frankie in Food Courting
Frankie: You know, the sooner you get your paper done, the sooner you can be doing something fun, like taking that behind-the-scenes tour at the library. I mean, where do those librarians go on their break? You won't know 'cause you're not on the tour.
Brick: Actually, I am doing something fun. I'm reading.
Frankie: No, you're not.
Brick: I'm reading a book in my mind. I've memorized all my books. Now I'm turning the page... page 12.
Frankie: All right, stop it. Stop it right now. You're being punished.
Brick: [laughs] That's a funny part.
Frankie: I mean it, Brick.
Brad: I know what's coming, and yet I still laugh. That's how you know it's good writing.
Frankie: Oh, yeah? Well, I'm gonna stop you from reading in your head by reading from one of my books out loud. [picks up a magazine] "From homeless to sexy. Just two years ago, Angela McCullum was living by the rail road tracks. She never dreamed that someday she'd be walking down the red carpet in a size-2 gown." Kind of hard to concentrate, isn't it? "The author of the best-selling cookbook Fabulous Foraging, Angela confesses her life changed after a chance encounter with Gwyneth Paltrow."
The Middle Quotes
‘Food Courting’ Quotes
Quote from Brad
Brad: I'm sorry, Sue. I just have to get this off my chest. I'm gonna confess that I'm a little envious I didn't get tapped.
Sue: Oh, Brad. No, it's where you work. It is really hard to make your mark at The Great Hot Dog Adventure. I mean, how are you supposed to shine when you're only working with three condiments?
Brad: I know! I did graduate magna cum relish from hot-dog college. How does that not put me on the radar at Chop Suey U.S.A.?
Sue: I didn't even think about that. Sue-y. It has my name in it. Ooh, it's like a sign!
Brad: You know, I bet it's because I dropped that gallon of mustard. Everybody saw it. It's those damn free hand-lotion samples at Crabtree & Evelyn. How can you not try them? Anyway, this is about you. Go on.
Sue: As much as it scares me to go into international cuisine... You know, I got lean in... to Chinese. I am gonna work at Chop Suey U.S.A.
Brad: Oh! Oh! And you get to wear the polo shirts with the golden dragon coiled around the American flag. [Sue gasps] I am officially peanut butter and jealous.
Quote from Sue
Sue: It's just so hard to know what to do. Not only that, I said I would tell her by tonight. I mean, of course I am flattered to be wooed. Who wouldn't be? And then there's the salary... they're offering four figures.
Brad: What?
Sue: $10 an hour.
Quote from Mike
Mike: No, it's a tradition. When I turned 21, my dad told me to come help him move some manure. But when I got there, he took me out for a beer instead.
Axl: Why didn't you just ask me to have a beer?
Mike: 'Cause that's not the thing.
Axl: I don't get it.
Mike: You think you're coming home to work, and then you don't. You know, it's... it's a surprise. It's whimsical.
Axl: But you don't like surprises.
Mike: I know. And I'm not liking them a hell of a lot right now.
Axl: Hold on. So you didn't actually move manure?
Mike: No. There was no manure. But when my dad told me to come help him move manure, I damn well ran over there to help him move some manure. I didn't say I would and then send somebody else.
Axl: Was there or wasn't there manure?!
Mike: There wasn't! The point is, if there was manure, I would have moved it.