Named Punch

Famous quotes containing the words named and/or punch:

    1946: I go to graduate school at Tulane in order to get distance from a “possessive” mother. I see a lot of a red-haired girl named Maude-Ellen. My mother asks one day: “Does Maude-Ellen have warts? Every girl I’ve known named Maude-Ellen has had warts.” Right: Maude-Ellen had warts.
    Bill Bouke (20th century)

    Lilly Dillon: How’d you get that punch in the stomach, Roy?
    Roy Dillon: I tripped on a chair.
    Lilly Dillon: Get off the grift, Roy.
    Roy Dillon: Why?
    Lilly Dillon: You haven’t got the stomach for it.
    Donald E. Westlake (b. 1933)