What on Earth?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregory Samsa
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What on Earth?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregory Samsa
''What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust?''
Hamlet by Shakespeare
"Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one fine morning."
First line of The Trial by Franz Kafka.
"Well, what can I tell you? I read certain books and write others...
I read thick ones and write thin ones."
"That's a bit vague"
"When things are too clear thay cease to be interesting"
Solzhenitsyn August 1914-The Red Wheel
''Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.''
Hamlet by Shakespeare
"Now, you wait right here till I come back, for I want to eat barbecue with you. And don’t you go off philandering with those other girls, because I'm mighty jealous, " came the incredible words from red lips with a dimple on each side; and briskly black lashes swept demurely over green eyes. "I won't, " he finally managed to breathe, never dreaming that she was thinking he looked like a calf waiting for the butcher.
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
"When summer comes to Nebraska, each farmhouse is a ship sailing a vast green ocean." -Stephen King.
I really like that line although I have never been to Nebraska, let alone the US. But the house I grew up in was surrounded by fields, and King flawlessly manages to describe the sensation of how fertile fields look like lively green oceans when the wind blows.
As I shovelled down the meal I could feel Perdito thrilling at each mouthful, impatient already for desert. Afterwords he'd want me to go back the treehouse. I'd sit on the roof reading my latest Silver Surfer magazine, and he'd luxuriate in the sensation of evening sunshine on the back of my neck, soaking up the Roman purple of the flowering clematis that scrambled through the branches of cedar
Mark Bastable -The Penny Falls
"The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it."
"Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart."
- Snow Falling on Cedars. Can't say I love the book, but some lines really stick out to me.
“The peasant without land of his own lends a ready ear to false doctrine, and is susceptible to those who urge him to satisfy his desire for land by force. The solid peasant on land of his own is a barrier against all destructive movements, against any form of communism, which is why all the socialists are so desperately anxious not to see the peasant released from the slavery of the commune, not to let him build up his strength.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn from August 1914-The Red Wheel
Indeed with one exemption. There is a form of socialism where the peasant owns the land in an evolutionary way which is directly opposed to communism. Such is democracy and it will be globalized. Solzhenitsyn was correct 99 % of the time, but he misunderstood the meaning of Fabianism. Perhaps in this context there have been no countries that are in the ultimate analysis more sociaoistic than USA and UK.
''The night was very quiet. It was always quiet except on moonlight nights. Darkness held a vague terror for these people, even the bravest among them. Children were warned not to whistle at night for fear of evil spirits ………….. On the moonlight nights it was different. The happy voices of children playing in open fields would be heard. As the Ibo say "When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk."
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
'I love you; I shall never love anybody else. Marry me or leave me; think what you like of me - I don't care a straw.' At the moment, however, speech or silence seemed immaterial and she merely clapped her hands together and looked at the distant woods with rust-like bloom on their brown and the green and blue landscape through the steam of her own breath. It seemed a mere toss up whether she said 'I love you' or 'I love the beech-trees' or only 'I love - I love'. - Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
From one of my favourite books, "Lord of the Rings":
“Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.”
It`s one of my favourites too.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Senserial
I really like this quote from "The Hunger Games" (the 1st book)
“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!”
-Effie Trinket