Like many great teachers before him, Rothstein likes to use parable and allegory ("You know the nice thing about the Bronx zoo, Charlie? The bars between you and the monkeys").
You know, the nice thing, there's a lot of continuity over the last 10 years, and so the same code that worked 10 years ago still works today.
Their relationship may be ruined, but you know the nice thing about being detested by someone?
You know, the slide that transports nice but directionless young men (almost always young men) from small crimes to big crimes and then jail.
They're not taking any rent from me right now, because, you know, the guy is good, a nice person, and he understands everything.
For me, Gottlieb's piece has many pleasures, including a brisk demolition job on "first past the post," the system used for the mother of parliaments — you know, the old lady with that nice House on the Thames, which she shares with her husband, Big Ben — and her colonial offspring in the United States, Canada, and India.
She's got beauty, smarts, and on top of that is really, really nice: you know, the girl you want to hate but can't.
Stop telling us about the women you know, the ones you have been nice to, the ones you haven't harmed, how great a guy you are because you, unlike the rest of the world, didn't treat some women like shit.
If you can't say something nice, well, you know the rest... "You are not a drop in the ocean.
"And you know, the Kardashians with the two Ks thing, you know, it's nice.
