If the outside world has got on so long without me, it may go on for some time longer.
If the outside world has got on so long without me, it may go on for some time longer.
"Her voice was gentle and childish, her tread light and soft as that of a cat; but her manners more frequently resembled those of a pretty playful kitten, that is now pert and rogish, now timid and demure; according to its own sweet will."
(Anne Brontė, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1848)
"So that if my grandfather wished to attract the attention of the two sisters, he had to resort to some such physical stimuli as alienists adopt in dealing with their distracted patients: to wit, repeated taps on a glass with the blade of a knife, accompanied by a sharp word and a compelling glance, violent methods which these psychiatrists are apt to bring with them into their everyday life among the sane, either from force of professional habit or because they think the whole world a trifle mad."
(Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust)
We must grasp this Idea more concretely, more profoundly, since the emptiness, which clings to the Platonic Idea, no longer satisfies the richer philosophical needs of our spirit today.
--G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on Fine Art I
"And by this means very many be forced to forsake work and to give themselves to idleness."
- Utopia by Thomas More (1516). I'm guessing he's not at the utopian part yet. :p
He had broken the sabbath to do it.
"If there were gaps in the writer's sources, they were filled with fantasy, even by echoes of names which were already contained in the lists themselves."
Thompson, The Mythic Past.
"I rested my hand against a pillow or an arm, and felt easy."
-"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
He had been a boy along with Morel, so that,while the two disliked each other, they more or less took each other for granted.
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
The principality of the sky lightens now, over our green hill, into spring morning larked and crowed and belling.
- Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas
Frannie leaned one hand against the warm metal of her car, took off her sneakers, and put on a pair of rubber thongs.
The stand, Stephen King
Vomiting in null gravity wouldn't be fun.
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card.
I am an old-fashioned man who has stuck by certain romantic notions dear to me, one of which is the highly subjectivizing contrast I feel between the nature of the artist and the nature of the ordinary man.
Thomas Mann - 'Doctor Faustus'
She turned from the window and dropped her nightgown over her head.
Here, participants watch and hear people act out unscripted interactions.
"A small flame would be extinguished, but a bright fire rapidly claims as its own all that is heaped on it, devours it all, and leaps up yet higher in consequence."
-Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
Not as good as some of the others here.
The little girl had been offered the oppertunity of laying down a foundation ofknowledge in this establishment; but having spent a sigle day in it, she had protested against its laws and had been allowed to stay at home, where, in the September days, when the windows of the Dutch house were open, she used to hear the hum of childish voices repeating the multiplication table-an indicdent in which the elation of liberty and the pain of exclusion were indistinguishably mingled.
Portait of a Lady - Henry James
'People,' Gerald turned his head, 'like to invent monsters and monstrosities.'
The Lash Wish- Andrzej Sapokowski
Good one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drnobody901
"And - once this curtain had risen - when on the stage a writing table and a fireplace, in no way out of the ordinary, had indicated that the persons who were about to enter would be, not actors come to recite as I had once seen some of them do at an evening party, but real people, just living their lives at home, on whom I was thus able to spy without their seeing me, my pleasure still endured."
From volume 2 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Within a Budding Grove. Characteristically long.
Bl**dy hell, what a great sentence was that! I'll have to pluck up the courage for Proust once!
"Economically - with a dash of love."
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins, 1868
"The only true presumption is the rebuttable presumption of law in terms of which an assumption which is demanded by law, must be accepted in the absence of evidence or proof to the contrary." Principles of Evidence 2nd Ed by Schwikkard & Van der Merwe
"I can't take much more of it, Chango, open it up."
8 - When Johnny comes marching home ADAM FAITH Parlophone
Chart listings. Top 40 charts (UK) introduced by David Mcaleer
I wanted her to be a slave so that I could set her free and make her rich.
And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
In the words of Alan Kay, whose 1968 vision of the portable computer, an environment where children could learn by 'making', seemed, at the time, wholly unrealizable: "You can go on working on an impossible project for a long time if it has a lot of romance in it."
Cultural Babbage essays edited by Jenny Uglow
'Ain't nobody been knifed there in a month.'
And someone was goggling through the bars at him: a freckle-faced, red-haired, long-nosed someone.
Back in the City Room, Duncan, my editor, asks, "Single or double sink?"
Stopping before a window display she said with great gusto: "je vais m'acheter des bas!" and never may I forget the way her Parisian childish lips exploded on "bas," pronouncing it with an appetite that all but changed the "a" into a brief buoyant bursting "o" as in "bot."
Lolita
"Sounds were deadened, shapes blurred." - The woman in black
On a late afternoon Nanny had called her to come inside the house because she had spied Janie letting Johnny Taylor kiss her over the gatepost.
He couldn't offer one a lift without offering all; he wanted the company of none. The Submission - Amy Waldman
"Everything he said was true and sincere; Finny always said what he happened to be thinking, and if this stunned people then he was surprised." A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Page 23, sentence 4:
Far back down time that was, straight though it be.
Knights Gambit by William Faulkner
"I don't think so," said Rabbit. "It isn't meant to be."
AA Milne: The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the- Pooh, pg 23
And feather'd clouds strew flowers round her head.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (6th edition, volume 2)
"Figure 7. - First flight engine, 1903: cylinder, valve box, and gear mechanism; below, miscellanoeus parts. (Photos courtesy Science Museum, London, and Louis P. Christman)"
The quoted caption above is from a 1971 Smithsonian Annals of Flight publication on the Wright Brothers' engines and their design desribing two photos on the 23rd page.
I had spent the night with Sandra.