"Lets go play with Quentin and Luster" Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury.
This is such a challenging read for me.
"Lets go play with Quentin and Luster" Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury.
This is such a challenging read for me.
"It was all bravado: passionless and therefore unreal."
Man and Superman - G.B.Shaw
"The lower courses of a wall, the dado, orthostates and covering courses, had surfaces projecting slightly from the plane formed by the remainder of the wall, an echo of the contrast between stone footing and mud brick."
Sir Bannister Fletcher's - "A History ofArchitecture"
Gilliatt
The furniture, with its curves and chipped gilding, so like the former grandeur of a rundown Westwood motel, looks very odd and pretentious to the American eye when you first come to France, until you remember that this is their normal furniture, the Louis were their kings.
"Abgesehen davon wusste ich vieles - sehr vieles - überhaupt nicht." Sternenschatten - S. Lukianenko
"I know ye to be cowards, and it is to cowards I speak."
The Adventures of Mowgli -- Rudyard Kipling
Suddenly there was a sharp noise.
("The Box Man" by Kobo Abe)
I took everything out, and, stretching out among the fallen peaches, I rested them across my abdomen.
Which hand?
I'll go with the left so I'll have the right one left to type.
"The women sought work as typewriters, stenographers, seamstresses, and weavers."
The devil in the white city by Erik Larson
"Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob."
White-Jacket, Herman Melville
"If the add-a-beads got tacky, what else will as you go along?"
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
"Let us then once for all drop all nonsense about Joan being cracked, and accept her as at least as sane as Florence Nightingale, who also combined a very simple iconography of religious belief with a mind so exceptionally powerful that it kept her in continual trouble with the medical and military panjandrums of her time. "
'Saint Joan' by G.B. Shaw
"it is precisely laughter that destroys the epic, and in general destroys any hierarchical (distancing and valorized) distance."
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, by Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist.
There was silence for a moment.
Arthur C. Clarke- Childhood's End
Brilliant!
"Opening the catalogue - which has been cleverly constructed so as to be operable to both left- and right-handed users - you will notice that each magnificent full-colour life-size page is equipped with its own individual number, expertly chosen to correspond to the page it is on, in elegant time-honoured numerals."
69 for 1, Alan Coren.
"You see Marullo has arthritis, and besides he has other interests."
The Winter of Our Discontent
'Looks pretty happy to be helping the Empress of Scotland, doesn't he.' from Doctor Who - The Forgotten Army
When the meat had been removed from the carcass, the women handed them the skin.
Sarum ~ Edward Rutherfurd
"And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd;"
Oliver Goldsmith - "The Deserted Village"
"There was crackling, something breaking in his brain as the pain swelled and he had just managed to think, with complete certainty - I'm dying."
Handling the Undead - John Ajvide Lindqvist
"What men, in their egoism, constantly mistake for a deficiency of intelligence in woman is merely an incapacity for mastering that mass of small intellectual tricks, that complex of petty knowledges, that collection of cerebral rubber-stamps, which constitute the chief mental equipment of the average male."
H.L. Mencken -- A Mencken Chrestomathy
The 23rd page of my book is a picture of a grade card :P
I'll take the 24th page instead, then:
" 'From now on that's all you will be able to do about it.' "
Fairly dull, then. From Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, Spike Milligan. Hilarious book!
"Those who claim to have the solution are contradicted almost immediately."
The Coming Insurrection - The Invisible Committee
What could the rest of the world do for him that could not be done in St. Botolphs?
He would tour the local neighbourhood recovering things from bins that others had seen as mere rubbish.
Outcomes Upper Intermediate Student Book, Heinle - Cengage Learning
Dann sprach er ferner zu ihm; "Ich bin Jehova, der dich aus dem Ur der Chaldaear herausgefuehrt hat, um dir dieses Land zu geben, damit du is in Besitz nimmst
i was curious as to what would turn up, hoping for a rather impressive piece of writing, but this is what i got
"You aren't sore, are you?" :D
- Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
"No, he could live without us, " Sam agreed.
"The Man who Loved Children" by Christina Stead.
"A translation table is a string t of exactly 256 characters: when you pass t as the first argument of a translate method , each character c of the string on which you call the method is translated in the resulting string into the character t[ord(c)]."
- Python Cookbook
OK, OK, I know you guys want something more literary than technical. Here's the sentence from the book on my bed, not the one on my desk:
"Henry has accepted the post of Ship's Doctor & I am no longer friendless in this floating farmyard."
- Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
"I admit, as not to leave me to judge that what, essentially, made nothing else much signify was simply my charming work."
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
Of the various supernatural Spentas, this was the duo with whom Lady Spenta Cama felt the most affinity.
"At other times his heart swelled with pride for her, for the way her love and joy shone with a brilliance that washed her skin clean of the slightest blemish."
-The Martyr's Song-Ted Dekker
"Enslaving those who score below a certain line on an intelligence test would not - barring extraordinary and implausible beliefs about human nature - be compatible with equal consideration."
Practical Ethics - Peter Singer.
"About a hundred paces from the spot where the two friends were sitting sipping their wine the village of the Catalans rose behind a bare hill, exposed to the fierce sun and swept by the biting north-west wind."- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
Funny coincidence, I just watched the movie 'Sleepers' where this book is mentioned centrally.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikemaster70
I've heard of the film before and it sounds very interesting. I'll have to check it out some time :smile5:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodo25
But here they were, carried over England's green hills, ferried down into narrow green valleys, pulling up in the parking lots of green medieval villages where thick-covered castles threw greenish shadows across their squat Sunbrite coach (they had got over their terror on the left side of the highway with the traffic thundering straight at them).
Carol Shields - "Larry's Party"
"Down there, you can hear every hour."
Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
When you get your hauberk and gambeson, you will wear them at all times, except when you're asleep, when they go on the stand here, half-unlaced and ready to put on.
To Hold the Bridge: An Old Kingdom Story in Legends of Australian Fantasy.
"What should ail me to harm this misbegotten and miserable babe?"
-Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Scarlet Letter