Walter: Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it.

I've probably gone as far as I can with that particular genre,

Sam Baldwin: [looking at a photograph] She looks like my third grade teacher, and I hated my third grade teacher...... wait a minute, she IS my third grade teacher!

Gosh, you were so good. Maybe Bill (Clinton) could take a couple of days off, and you could fill in for him.

I don't even know him...I'm harvesting all these fantasies about some man I've never even met...who lives in Seattle.

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.