Top 15 Rupert Holmes Quotes

When a man dies from a bullet entering his chest, it's a homicide.
When a man dies from a meteorite landing on his head, it's a tragedy.
Don't use bullets. Use meteorites
Don't commit a homicide. Commit a Tragedy.
-Guy McMaster

If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain. If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape. I'm the lady you've looked for, write to me, and escape.

After all, when the behavior of another person leaves you no choice but to kill them, their murder is simply involuntary suicide.

May the only justice you face be poetic.

After all, it’s difficult to obtain a student loan for a school that not only denies its own existence but teaches its students how to deny other people theirs.

It is simplicity itself to fire one’s employer. All it takes is some kindling and a match.

THE ENEMY…We do refrain from using this term in reference to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as we count so many of their number as alumni.

My mum and dad taught me not to laugh at people who aren’t laughing,” she explained. “Besides, I think in life, the joke usually turns out to be on us.

Sadly, lessons taught by that cruel mentor Failure are often the most bitterly learned and vividly remembered.

[Dean Harbinger Harrow]

When a man dies from a bullet entering his chest, it’s a homicide.

When a man dies from a meteorite landing on his head, it’s a tragedy.

Don’t use bullets. Use meteorites.

Don’t commit a homicide. Commit a tragedy.

-Guy McMaster

"Come along, Mr. Iverson, you must be starved to death," said the dean. He saw my startled look and added dryly, "That's an observation, by the way. Not a decree."

And that, to me, embraces the very soul of the most important commandment you'll find anywhere in your Principles of Successful Termination: 'Do in others as you would have others do you in.

So you’ve decided to commit a murder.
Congratulations. Simply by purchasing this volume, you’ve already taken the all-important first step toward a successful homicide of which you can be proud, one that would gain you the admiration of your peers, were they ever to learn of it.
This book will see to it that they don’t.

I'm afraid I was buried in thought.
Yes, and I'm sure it was a shallow grave.

And many students can't go a week without a savory cheese tart they call a 'pizza'....