Jadzia Dax: If I were in your shoes, I would be looking for someone a little more entertaining, a little more fun and maybe even a little more attainable.
Worf: You are not in my shoes.
Jadzia Dax: Too bad. You’d be amazed at what I can do in a pair of size 18 boots.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5: Episode 3 – “Looking for par’Mach in All the Wrong Places”
“But for heaven’s sake — you’re wizards! You can do magic! Surely you can sort out — well — anything!”
Scrimgeour turned slowly on the spot and exchanged an incredulous look with Fudge, who really did manage a smile this time as he said kindly, “The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
Xander: Willow! You’re so very much the person that I wanted to see!
Willow: Oh, really?
Xander: Yeah. You know, I kinda had a problem with the math.
Willow: Uh, which part?
Xander: The math. Can you help me out tonight, pleeeease, be my study buddy?
Willow: Well, what’s in it for me?
Xander: A shiny nickel!
Willow: Okay. Do you have ‘Theories in Trig’? You should check it out.
Xander: Check it out?
Willow: From the library? Where the books live.
Xander: Right, I’m there! See, I wanna change…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1: Episode 1 – “Welcome to the Hellmouth”
If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket
Quark: If you’re going to prosecute me, I demand that you prosecute my co-conspirator.
Julian Bashir: I’m not a conspirator!
Odo: What would you call yourself, Doctor?
Julian Bashir: An idiot!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5: Episode 2 – “The Ship”
The attack might have succeeded has it not been for the fact that they unwittingly chose to stage the attack right outside a compartment full of D.A. members, who saw what was happening through the glass and rose as one to rush to Harry’s aid. By the time Ernie Macmillan, Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Anthony Goldstein, and Terry Boot had finished using a wide variety of the hexes and jinxes Harry had taught them, Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle resembled nothing so much as three gigantic slugs squeezed into Hogwarts uniforms as Harry, Ernie, and Justin hoisted them into the luggage rack and left them there to ooze.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
Oftentimes, when children are in trouble, you will hear people say that it is all because of low self-esteem. “Low self-esteem” is a phrase which here describes children who do not think much of themselves. They might think that they are ugly, or boring, or unable to do anything correctly, or some combination of these things, and whether or not they are right, you can see why those sorts of feelings might lead one into trouble. In the vast majority of cases, however, getting into trouble has nothing to do with one’s self-esteem. It usually has much more to do with whatever is causing the trouble–a monster, a bus driver, a banana peel, killer bees, the school principal–than what you think of yourself.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill – Lemony Snicket
Worf: Commander.
Jadzia Dax: What is it?
Worf: It may have been the Vorta’s computer console. I found it in one of the upper compartments, but the powergrid is offline in that part of the ship.
Jadzia Dax: So you ripped it out of the wall. Very nice. So, what do we do with it now, use it for a door stop?
Worf: I do not care what you do with it.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5: Episode 2 – “The Ship”
“Yes, it was rather horrible,” said Luna conversationally. “I still feel very sad about it sometimes. But I’ve still got Dad. And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?”
“Er — isn’t it?” said Harry uncertainly.
She shook her head in disbelief. “Oh, come on. You heard them, just behind the veil, didn’t you?”
“You mean . . .”
“In that room with the archway. They were just lurking out of sight, that’s all. You heard them.”
They looked at each other. Luna was smiling slightly. Harry did not know what to say, or to think. Luna believed so many extraordinary things . . . yet he had been sure he had heard voices behind the veil too. . . .
“Are you sure you don’t want me to help you look for your stuff?” he said.
“Oh no,” said Luna. “No, I think I’ll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up. . . . It always does in the end. . . . Well, have a nice holiday, Harry.”
“Yeah . . . yeah, you too.”
She walked away from him, and as he watched her go, he found that the terrible weight in his stomach seemed to have lessened slightly.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
“Ha!” Sunny shrieked, which meant “Ha!”
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill – Lemony Snicket
The Love Pirate 