I recently had a coworker say an phrase that I thought was funny. So, I thought that I’d start a list of phrases that I thought are neat and keep adding to it as I go about my life.
- Keep me honest
- I thought that this was funny because of the alternative. Like “Nah, man. You’re a liar and I’ll never correct you!”
- “What do you miss?” “I miss what I used to worry about”
- I thought that this was a great line from the kdrama I started watching called Twenty Five Twenty One. I’m not even fully grown, but I do think that some of the troubles and worries that I had in the past were not much at all.
- “Apparently, your real age is 0.8 times your actual age”
- I saw this in another kdrama called 39, but I simply do not think this is true. Maybe in the show they meant the biological age vs actual age, but when I read the subtitles, I thought this was funny.
- “A man so full of charm that his earlobes reached his shoulders”
- I saw this in the book “Paper Menagerie and Other Stories”. I don’t really understand what this means, but I thought it was funny. Perhaps it means that the man was very old
- “Money comes back, time doesn’t”
- I thought that this was a wise saying. I don’t remember who I heard it from, but I think that it was in the kdrama “Hospital Playlist” Season 2.
- “We’re all just ordinary men… faced with extraordinary choices. In those moments, sometimes heroic ideals demand that we become their avatars.”
- This is from a short story in the book Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. This line makes me think that life is not predetermined and is a matter of the many decisions we make
- “Dogs know that they are cute”
- I heard someone say this while walking down the street and I thought it was amusing. I totally believe it too.
- “No one likes what they do” “Then why do we do it?” “Because we are driven”
- This is from the movie Nocturnal Animals. Not sure why I like this interaction, but I thought it was funny. Like we are driven to do things we don’t like to do
- “My feelings towards you are like unrequited love towards a cat”
- This is from the kdrama Extraordinary Attorney Woo. I thought this was very funny and accurate
- “As long as you don’t forget about someone you yearn to see, they will come to you as the rain or even as the wind”
- This is from the kdrama Once Upon a Small Town. This was a pretty poetic phrase about loved ones passing
- “Rainy days are for writing letters”
- This is from a manga chapter that I read online. I thought it was pretty wholesome https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/z1h7et/art_this_manga_is_so_wholesome_sometimes/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
- “Love blossoms even in the middle of war”
- I heard this in the second season of Singles Inferno. I think he was trying to say that love can happen at any time. In this phrase specifically, I think that it is possible that conflict can bring more opportunities for someone
- “Isn’t that what love is? Two people going through everyday life together.”
- From “The Interest of Love” kdrama. Pretty sweet line
- “One should overcome their psychological trauma before 40 in order to mature”
- Heard this in the kdrama “Crash Course in Romance” . I agree that would be great, but it is not always able to be done. What if the psychological trauma happened right before you turned 40?
- “The fairest thing in the world is the sun. Regardless of the latitude, every place on Earth, throughout the year, receives equal spans of day and night.”
- This was from the Taiwanese movie called “A Sun”. I took this quote a bit out of context, but it’s literally not true or at least the translation is not true. Places closer to the north and south pole do not receive the same amount of sunlight as the places closer to the equator on any particular day. Maybe over a span of a year, the amount of daylight may sum up to be equal, but it’s possible that that is not true. This kind of brought me out of the movie because I felt that it was simply false.
- “History is not going to repeat itself, but it is going to rhyme”
- I heard this in a YouTube video from ClearValue Tax. I thought it was a clever phrase since the usual phrase is that history is going to repeat itself. So, for this phrase, it means that history will be similar to before, but not exactly the same.
- “figure out a way… without boiling the ocean”
- “People who like pork don’t marry pigs, do they?”
- This is from a kdrama called “My Demon”. This was too funny, but really rude to the girl.
- “It is important to think about ‘weird’ things in order to feel happy”
- My dad told me this when we were walking around in a park
- “Being without you is like hell to me”
- This was from My Demon. What a smooth line haha
- “There’s no story to a poem. There are only emotions”
- This is from the kdrama Welcome to Sandal-ri. I’m not sure if this generalization can be made for every poem, but I thought it was a interesting observation
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