MEMES & MUSINGS .

taken from the 1972 film adaptation of the 1969 broadway musical. feel free to change wording and pronouns and provide context as necessary. do not add to this list.    

• “damn the man/woman/person.” / “god damn the man/woman/person.” 
• “what is that racket?” / “latest thing from europe, ___. it’s called music.”
• “well, you’ve had a whole week, man. is it done?”
• “disgusting.”
• “well, cheer up, ___. get out of the dumps. it’ll come out all right, i assure you.” 
• “now, get back to work.”
• “hello! and whose little girl/boy/child are you?”
• “what makes you think so?”
• “she/he/they is your wife/husband/partner, isn’t she/he/they?” / “well of course, she/he/they is. look at the way they fit.”
• “come along, ___.”
• “you don’t mean to say that…”
• “i mean, they’re not going to…” / “in the middle of the afternoon?” 
• “incredible!”
• “i’m very lonely, ___.” 
• “oh, now, don’t be unreasonable, ___.”
• “oh, they were fondly intended!”
• “well, now there you have me, ___.”
• “please. come to ___. please come.” 
• “I thank you for that.”
• “___, how goes it with you?”
• “do you still smell of vanilla and spring air?” 
• “what was there, ___, still is there, ___.”
• “i’ve forgotten the feel of your hand.”
• “til then, ‘til then.”
• “go ahead.” / “me?” / “your voice is more piercing.” 
• “good morrow, ___, good morrow!”
• “is it the habit in ___ to shout at ladies/gentlemen/people from the street?” / “and for men/women/people of your age, it is not only unseemly, it is unsightly!” 
• “please! i know your name(s) very well, but…”
• “it’s of no matter. your thoughts were well-taken elsewhere.”
• “well, then shall we start over again?”
• “won’t you join us?” 
• “i feel an absolute fool.”
• “well, what will people think?”
• “___ did this, and ___ did that, and ___ did some other damned thing.” 
• “tell us about yourself. we’ve heard precious little.”
• “oh, ___, you can dance!”
• “___, i want you to see some cards i’ve had printed up.”
• “ought to save everybody here a lot of time and effort.” 
• “dear sir/madam/per, you are, without any doubt, a rogue, a rascal, a villain, a thief, a scoundrel, and a mean, dirty, stinking, sniveling, sneaking, pimping, pocket-picking, thrice double-damned no-good son of a bitch.” 
• “what do you think?” / “i’ll take a dozen right now.”
• “all right, ___, enough socializing. there’s work to be done.” 
• “he/she/they never complained, but i could see the poor man/woman/thing was suffering terrible.” 
• “one foot in front of the other!”
• “i’ll take a crack at old vacant-face.” 
• “how in hell did you ever make a decision?”
• “you clot!”
• “you come into this world screaming ‘no’ and you’re determined to leave it the same way, you slimy worm!”
• “the whole world is waiting!”
• “leave me alone, ___, you’re wasting your time!” 
• “that man/woman/person would depress a hyena.”
• “why not ask them yourself? they ought to be here any minute.”
• “would you or wouldn’t you?”
• “___, are you mad?”
• “it sounds lively as hell up there.” 
• “like hell i am.”
• “what for?”
• “do you see what i see?”
• “the sun is in the sky, a breeze is blowing by.”
• “why should we risk losing?”
• “you don’t even like him/her/them.” / “that is true, he/she/they annoys me quite a lot.” 
• “why? for personal glory? for a place in history?”
• “most men/women/people with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.”
• “that is why they will follow us.”
• “how’d you like to try and borrow a dollar from one of them?”
• “here, son/sweetie/kid. there you go.” 
• “it’s too damn hot to work.”
• “what’s it like out there?” / “you probably know more than me.”
• “this is the last place to find out what’s going on.”
• “what’s that got to do with it?”
• “now, where’s that?”
• “come looking for me.”
• “by the red maple tree.”
• “is that you i’m hearing?”
• “it was a slaughter. a slaughter!”
• “how far have they gotten?”
• “nothing to fear.”
• “it’s a masterpiece.”
• “i wish i felt that way.” 
• “if i was ever sure of anything, i’m sure of that.” 
• “now, surely this was an oversight.”
• “i had hoped that the work would speak for itself.”
• “this is a revolution, damn it! we’re going to have to offend somebody!” 
• “you’ll give yourself an attack of apoplexy if you’re not careful.”
• “have you heard?” / “i heard.”
• “courage, ___.”
• “it won’t last much longer.”
• “these are dangerous times.”
• “be careful, ___.”
• “we might as well say so.”
• “i can’t quite make out what it is you’re talking about.”
• “why didn’t you say so?”
• “economy. always economy.”
• “there’s more to this than a filthy purse string, ___.”
• “it’s an offense against man and god/nature.”
• “for the love of god, ___, please.”
• “you’ll have to forgive them, ___.”
• “we’re wasting time.”
• “what good will it do?”
• “if there’s anything i can do for you there, let me know.”
• “we have no choice, ___.”
• “___, what are you saying?”
• “you forget yourself, sir/madam/per.”
• “what’s happened to me?”
• “___, what am i going to do?”
• “you don’t usually ask my advice.” / “yes, well, there doesn’t appear to be anyone else right now.” 
• “what is it?”
• “oh, ___. has it been any kind of a life for you?” / “i never asked for more.”
• “well, i have always been dissatisfied, i know that. but lately, i find that i reek of discontentment.”
• “it fills my throat and it floods my brain.”
• “sometimes i fear there is no longer a dream, only the discontentment.” 
• “can you really know so little about yourself?”
• “have you forgotten what you used to say to me? i haven’t.”
• “commitment, ___. commitment.”
• “do you remember?” / “yes, i remember.”
• “all for you, ___.”
• “didn’t you hear a word i said before?” / “oh, never mind about that.”
• “now, here’s what i want you to do.” / “___, i’m not even speaking to you.” 
• “you know where i stand.”
• “i’ll do whatever you say.”
• “is anybody there?”
• “does anybody care?”
• “i’m sorry if i startled you.”
• “i couldn’t sleep.”
• “you must believe that i will do what i promised to do.”
• “what is it you want, ___?” 
• “what else is there to do?”
• “little good may it do you.”
• “the question is clear.” / “most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them.” 
• “___, you’re keeping everybody waiting.”
• “i just didn’t bargain for that.” 
• “goodbye, ___.”
• “i happen to be a harvard graduate, __.”
• “and how it shall end, god only/who knows.”
• “all right, step right up.”
• “don’t miss your chance to commit treason.”
• “to hell with ___.”

taken from the 1972 film adaptation of the 1969 broadway musical. feel free to change wording and pronouns and provide context as necessary. do not add to this list.    

• “there you are.”
• “didn’t you hear me call you?”
• “what do you keep coming up here for?”
• “i can just imagine.”
• “oh, good god.”
• “what in the hell are you waiting for?!”
• “sit down, ___.”
• “consider yourselves fortunate that you have ____ to abuse, for no sane man/woman/person would tolerate it!”
• “will someone shut that man/woman/person up?” / “never!”
• “a cataclysmic earthquake, i’d accept with some despair.”
• “good god, sir/madam/per, was that fair?”
• “nothing’s ever solved.” 
• “___, ___, is that you carrying on, ___?”
• “oh ___, ___, i have such a desire to knock heads together.” 
• “i’m no further along than i was when i first came here.” 
• “i know, my dearest, i know.”
• “but that’s because you make everything so complicated.”
• “and hurry home to me.”
• “what else is new?”
• “now, have you done as i asked?” / “no, ___, i have not.” / “well, why have you not?!”
• “i’m afraid we have a more urgent problem.” 
• “don’t smirk at me, you egotist, pay heed to what i say.”
• “i am, as i ever was, yours.”
• “where in hell are you?!”
• “___, i see you hiding behind that tree, it won’t do you any good!”
• “i have been looking everywhere for you, where in god’s name have you been?!”
• “it stinks.” / “as ever, the soul of tact.”
• “where were you last night when i needed you?” 
• “i have more to do than stand here listening to you quote yourself.” 
• “reconciliation, my ass.”
• “and if ____ can’t put up with you, nobody can.” 
• “you’re getting at something.” / “how can you tell?”
• “oh, ____, that’s brilliant. wasn’t that brilliant, ____?” 
• “i’ll leave tonight. why, hell, i’ll leave right now, if ya like!”
• “what makes you so sure you can do it?”
• “forward, ho!”
• “that was the most revolting display i have ever witnessed.”
• “you and your infernal obsession for deviousness.”
• “if you’ll be wanting anything at all…” 
• “there won’t be too long to wait.”
• “i’m surprised you didn’t know that.”
• “___ here is just a lad/lass/kid.”
• “you’re too late, ___. once i get them, they’re got.” 
• “oh, ___, forgive me, but how can anyone see you if you insist on standing in ___’s shadow?”
• “what are you staring at? haven’t you ever seen a great man/woman/person before?” 
• “do you have the honor to be dr/mr/mrs/mx ___?” 
• “oh, ___, i only wish ___ felt like my big toe all over.” 
• “that strutting popinjay was so damn sure of his/her/themself.”
• “sweet jesus!”
• “you’ve abused the privilege.”
• “my god, it’s hot.”
• “we are not in touch at the present time.”
• “may we hear about the weather?” 
• “sadly, i see no way of stopping them at the present time.”
• “where’s the fire, can anybody tell?”
• “___, i’m back! i’m back, ___!”  / “___, lad/lass/kid, welcome back.”
• “is it done?”
• “you would, you lousy wart.”
• “___ abstains courteously.”
• “the people are against it, and i’m for it.” 
• “i’m comin’, i’m comin’! hold your damn horses.” / “we’re waiting on you, ___.” / “well, it won’t kill you.” 
• “so it’s up to me, huh?”
• “well, i’ll tell you.”
• “in all my years, i’ve never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn’t be talked about.”
• “hell yes! i’m for debating anything.” 
• “well, now, you’ve got your way at last, ___.”
• “i confess i’m almost relieved.” 
• “yes, that’s what he/she/they want. nothing less will satisfy him/her/them.” 
• “how is a man/woman/person to sleep?”
• “how is a man/woman/person to stay awake?”
• “why can’t you acknowledge what already exists?!”
• “sit down, you scurvy dog, or i’ll knock you down!”
• “i only got two hands!”
• “you refuse to understand us.”
• “for once in your life, ___, take a chance.”
• “i say the time is now. it may never come again.”
• “we will more than compensate in spirit.”
• “you…. you fribble!” 
• “are you calling me a coward?” 
• “stop it, stop it!” 
• “the enemy’s out there.”
• “but he/she/they should go home.”
• “a man/woman/person should die in his/her/their own bed.”
• “i’m here, ___.” 
• “___, do something. think.” / “i’m thinking, but nothing’s coming.”
• “excuse me. is this ___?”
• “yes, i can see that it must be.”
• “we’ve been looking for you everywhere, you see.”
• “oh, how splendid. that means we’re not too late!” 
• “i regret that i must be the bearer of unhappy tidings.”
• “why the long face?” 
• “tell me. why did they arrest the little bastard?”
• “well, haven’t i made that clear?” / “no.” / “well, i suppose i haven’t.”
• “what are you doing?!”
• “you’ve sunk us!”
• “i can see no other way.”
• “oh, for heaven’s sake, let me get through it once.”
• “ditto, ditto, et cetera, et cetera.” 
• “what in hell goes on in ____?!” 
• “they speak very fast and very loud and nobody listens to anybody else with the result that nothing ever gets done.”
• “any objections?” / “i have objections. i have lots of objections!” 
• “i don’t know, he/she/they had a funny look on his/her/their face.” / “he/she/they always does.”
• “i’m obnoxious and disliked, you know that.”
• “hell no!” 
• “i don’t know a participle from a predicate.” 
• “he’s/she’s/they’re obnoxious and disliked, did you know that?” / “i hadn’t heard.”
• “leave me alone!” 
• “magnificent.”
• “life is more than sexual combustibility!” 
• “who will make me, ___?” / “i.” / “you?” / “yes.” / “how?” / “by physical force, if necessary.” 
• “you’re obnoxious and disliked, that cannot be denied.” 
• “oh, ____, you are driving me to homicide!”
• “we may see murder yet!”