Worf: These… are Ma’Stakas.
Julian Bashir: What, er… what do we do with them?
Martok: At the conclusion of the wedding ceremony, you will use them to attack Worf and Dax.
Miles O’Brien: Obviously. Don’t you know anything?
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6: Episode 7 – “You Are Cordially Invited”
He therefore sprinted up the stairs, slowing down only when he reached the corner into the corridor, when he began to creep, very slowly, toward the very same little girl, clutching her heavy brass scales, that Hermione had so kindly helped a fortnight before. He waited until he was right behind her before bending very low and whispering, “Hello . . . you’re very pretty, aren’t you?”
Goyle gave a high-pitched scream of terror, threw the scales up into the air, and sprinted away, vanishing from sight long before the sound of scales smashing had stopped echoing around the corridor.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
Cordelia: Uhhh, what?
Giles: Oh! I’m sorry. Um, your hair, uh…
Cordelia: There’s something wrong with my hair? Ohmigod! (quickly leaves)
Giles: Xander was right. It worked like a charm.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1: Episode 9 – “The Puppet Show”
A huge cloud of dust is not a beautiful thing to look at. Very few painters have done portraits of huge clouds of dust or included them in their landscapes or still lifes. Film directors rarely choose huge clouds of dust to play the lead roles in romantic comedies, and as far as my research has show, a huge cloud of dust has never placed higher than twenty-fifth in a beauty pageant.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Vile Village – Lemony Snicket
Jadzia Dax: All men are sentimental; they just cover it up with scowls and clenched jaws.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6: Episode 7 – “You Are Cordially Invited…”
The Love Pirate 