Sometimes a person will slip in from the side and try to intimidate you, under the guise of camaraderie or being friendly. From your point of view, it's simply intrusive and interfering. (–Source: taxi1010.com stargate22)

"Using NLP style tricks to calm down situations."
—Ever hopeful.
—With stairways to nowhere ... What will today bring? ... Self-remembering is the beginning of consciousness ... When you're present to yourself, you're conscious.

"Another shitty day in paradise."
—Ever hopeful.
—Two steps forward, one step back.

"Am I mentioned?"
—Ever hopeful.
—Whatever you do, don't buy a chain saw.

"Is this yours?"
—Ever hopeful.
—Look at the chart.

"What did you have to eat?" [From a stranger, sitting down next to you]
—Ever hopeful.
—I'm sure they know.

"Hey, fuck you! Do you think I'm going to wait all day for you to take your turn?" [An SUV driver attacking your son, who's just learning how to drive]
—Ever hopeful.
—Say, "I do not have a mother. I do not have a father. I am surrounded by assassins!" [Jimmy Durante voice]

"You know me! It could have been a piece of cardboard, and I've named it a shark!"
—Ever hopeful.
—Just keep in mind you can't fall off the Earth.

"Oh, everybody loves me, everybody loves me."
—Ever hopeful.
—The opposite of a vampire.

"I'm always in the wrong line."
—Ever hopeful.
—No wonder you look so happy.

"What kind of writing do you do?"
—Ever hopeful.
—I'm writing a book, "Women I Haven't Married."

"Oh, he's writing it down."
—Ever hopeful.
—"Spinning a theory of stupidity while cataloging its sightings." (–Emily Eakin, New York Times, July 5, 2003)

[Someone reading exam aloud]
—Ever hopeful.
—There's a trick. [Talk to the proctor ... or get up and move to another part of the examination room]

"Do you talk to yourself?"
—Ever hopeful.
—A tiny little poem ... It's really nice to be rich.

"Get over yourself."
—Ever hopeful.
—You could quote Malcolm X: "The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

"That's my business."
—Ever hopeful.
—Secret offshore banking.

"The only thing I want you to know is that if my company had won the contract, I'd be YOUR boss."
—Ever hopeful.
—I want you to take responsibility for that.

"We're a threesome – If you want to be involved, we'd have to ask you."
—Ever hopeful.
—Oh, sorry – I have band practice.

"Plant yourself, and your faith will grow."
—Ever hopeful.
—The Gnostics believe there's a spark of light inside people, and if they get in touch with it, they see the truth – When you can afford it, be honest.

"We're bigger and on top – If this were prison, you'd be our bitch."
—Ever hopeful.
—Not Sicilians.

"You shut up! I'll beat your ass."
—Ever hopeful.
—Just like yours, right?

"Hey, jerk-off, what do you want?"
—Ever hopeful.
—To save money.

"You know, there's a trash can on either corner." [To a bum who just dropped a candy bar wrapper on the sidewalk]
—Ever hopeful.
—You can be in two places at once; you just have to take your time.

"Pick it up!" [A canine feces]
—Ever hopeful.
—They're not that smart.

"Kiss my butt!"
—Ever hopeful.
—It's grotesque.

"I know you are, but what am I?"
—Ever hopeful.
—No mystery.

"You don't speak English?" [After saying something that made no sense at all]
—Ever hopeful.
—You don't have enough trouble?

"What? For a minute there I thought you understood me." [Link from The E.\/.il Marketer, March 31, 2002]
—Ever hopeful.
—I'll tell you privately sometime.

"You don't have a copy of that?" [Incredulously]
—Ever hopeful.
—That must be a great feeling.

"Constitutional entitlements do not ... spring into existence, as the Court seems to believe, because foreign nations decriminalize conduct. ... The Court's discussion of these foreign views (ignoring, of course, the many countries that have retained criminal prohibitions on sodomy) is therefore meaningless dicta. Dangerous dicta, however, since 'this Court ... should not impose foreign moods, fads, or fashions on Americans.'" [Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, June 26, 2003, in a dissenting opinion, LAWRENCE v. TEXAS, referring to recent decisions by the European Court of Human Rights]
—Ever hopeful.
—You can take those to school for Show and Tell.

"Can you take a ten-inch cock?"
—Ever hopeful.
—Why, is there one missing?

"Shark!"
—Ever hopeful.
—It's hiding under the couch.