‘Peanuts’ Sentence Starters
“Well hello there, you blockhead!”
“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter like unrequited love.”
“I hate myself for not having enough nerve to talk to him/her! Well, that’s not exactly true…I hate myself for a lot of other reasons, too.”
“I’m dying, and all I hear is insults!”
“I’ve developed a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time.”
“No, that’s giving up…I’m still hoping that yesterday will get better.”
“Wouldn’t it be something if it turned out that french fries were good for you?”
“How can I say the wrong thing and the right thing at the same time?”
“That’s the secret to life…replace one worry with another.”
“I never know what anyone is talking about.”
“We’re all pleading for someone to listen. We’re all desperate.”
“I’m not a poor loser, I’m a good loser. I’m so good at it I lose all the time!”
“This is where I belong! This is my life! I stand here like a captain of a ship!”
“This is called the loser’s walk. It’s the way you’re supposed to walk when you’ve lost again.”
“Isn’t s/he the cutest thing?”
“I COULD NOT POSSIBLY CARE LESS! I’m sorry, I apologize…that was just a gut reaction.”
“Happiness is having your own library card.”
“See, your way doesn’t work, either!”
“Some philosophies take a thousand years. I think of them in two minutes.”
“Rain is water which does not come out of faucets.”
“The largest dinosaur that ever lived was the Bronchitis. It soon became extinct. It coughed a lot.”
“It was a dark and stormy night…”
“Succumb, you dark-haired fiend!”
“Just wait ‘til next year!”
“I never said I worship him/her. I just said I’m very fond of the ground on which s/he walks!”
“You didn’t tell me you were going to kill it!”
“I love mankind. It’s people I can’t stand!”
“People are beginning to say nasty things about me.”
“These five fingers: individually they’re nothing, but when I curl them together like this in a single unit, they form a weapon that is terrible to behold!”
“Can I help it if I was born with crabby genes?”
“I was having my quiet time!”
“My life is like a messy coloring book.”
“I could run the whole world right here from under my bed!”
“Who cares about money? This is ART, you blockhead!”
“Subtraction? Oh, yes, I can explain it. Subtraction is the awful feeling that you know less today than you did yesterday.”
“I don’t look so bad after all! That’s always been my ambition…to not look so bad after all.”
“Don’t hassle me with your sighs!”
“What’s the good of having naturally curly hair if no one’s jealous?”
“Well, hello there! You don’t know me, do you? My name is ___. You’re real cute.”
“You were born crabby and you’re going to stay crabby! Don’t think you’re going to change because you’re not!”
“I think you get a sort of neurotic pleasure out of losing all the time.”
“Saturday’s the only day I never get anything wrong.”
“I don’t even know where I am now!”
“I think the whole trouble is that we’re thrown into life too fast…we’re not really prepared.”
“AND I DON’T CARE IF I EVER SEE YOU AGAIN! DO YOU HEAR ME?”
“Do you think I can ever become a mature and well-adjusted person?”
“Sort of makes you want to treat me with more respect, doesn’t it?”
“We are obviously separated by denominational differences.”
“Everyone tells me you are a fake, but I believe in you.”
