Not quite a sentence, but it's "Wool socks" ;)
The Worst Case Scenario Handbook: University
Not quite a sentence, but it's "Wool socks" ;)
The Worst Case Scenario Handbook: University
Notice that the fallacy consists in arguing that if we allow one case of euthanasia to happen, you must allow it also to happen to other cases.
- Philosophical Analysis, Seventh Edition
He wrote it at the table listening to the woman's stories about Tin Head, slowly emptying his glass until he was nine-times-nine drunk, his gangstery face loosening, the crushed rodeo nose and scar-crossed eyebrows, the stub ear dissolving as he drank.
Close Range by Annie Proulx
"We followed the Indian down a sordid and common passage, ill-lit and worse furnished, until he came to a door upon the right, which he threw open."
- The Sign of Four
by Arthur Conan Doyle
(one of the many adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
An usher guided her to a reserved seat in the front row, then vanished.
"Those instruments that hang there mocking me"
Faust - von Goethe
But I - I have lost everything and cannot begin life anew.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
"Soon she came to expect him, just after four o'clock, even in the rain, to which he seemed indifferent."
La's Orchestra...
"His commentary, though not lacking in merit, must rank below those of his predecessors."
'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu
Not particularly enthralling.
"Nonsense," Annabel laughed, slapping him on the thigh.
The Devil´s Graveyard - Bourbon Kid
"But my mind is wandering".
Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Not all that earth shattering as it turns out.
"Sighing, her stomach twisted into knots, she followed him into that bar, which, in the style of Spanish taverns, lacked windows, its interior hazy with shifting plains of smoke."
Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos (just picked it up today, thought I put a hold on Mambo Kings, right author, wrong novel).
"Slight and highly strung, a golden Andalusian, as they call it, with black hair shining like satin, an eye that could flash lightning, and long dark lashes, with the distinction of a duchess in every movement that she made, with a poor girl's modesty and an unassuming grace, as sweet and pretty in her ways as a wild deer."
Up you go, Mistress Carey and all of us go up with you.
The Other Boleyn Girl ~ Philippa Gregory
Or, as Ambedkar put it with his ingenious wordplay: "There will be outcasts as long as there are castes." - LIVING IN THE END TIMES - Zizek
"What about exercises?" he said.
I handed her the invoice
The king consulted with his ministers and concluded that Siddhartha had grown weary of married life and needed diversion.
"My intention is not to follow the steps of that inimitable author, in describing such total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses, but that more common aberration from sound judgment, which apprehends occurrences indeed in their reality, but communicates to them a tincture of its own romantic tone and colouring." (few)
Waverley - Sir Walter Scott.
Gilgamesh shouted, "By the life of Ninsun my mother and divine Lugulbanda my father, in the country of the Living, in this land I have discovered you dwelling; my weak arms and my small weapons I have brought to this land against you, and now I will enter your house."
-The Norton Anthology of World Literature Beginning to AD 100 (from the story Gilgamesh)
I apologize for being articulate.
He was a verrey parfit practisour.
Geoffrey Chaucer, prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
Just then a heavy cloud passed across the face of the moon, so that we were again in darkness.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
He'd say *** instead of butt.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
"Something of this must have eventually permeated his conversation, for Mr. Gingold shifted in his seat, made no comment whatever on Mr. Sharsted's pressing demands and only said, in another of his softly spoken sentences, 'Do have another sherry, Mr. Sharsted.'" - from short story, "Camera Obscura," written by Basil Cooper, in Alfred Hitchcock's anthology Scream Along with Me.
They went to school in a horse-drawn rickshaw.
Already he was thinking of what to do with his new find.
From Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
I really like this thread!
'Ah,' he said, 'you are not a dove. You are a wild-cat with open eyes, half dreaming on a bough, in a lonely place, as I have seen her. And I ask myself-What are her memories then?'
D. H. Lawrence, The Ladybird
Who would assent to my babbling as madmen may ill-starred and ill-chosen words?
Apuleius The Golden A s s, Introduction by Jack Lindsay
I found 19 of the stubborn, mocking machines in the attic of what used to be their inventor's mansion, which in my time was the home of the College President, about a year after I came to work at Tarkington.
Hocus Pocus by Kut Vonnegut
I know that.
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
"He was an old animal, the hair around his muzzle nearly all white, and his head crowned by magnificent antlers."
- Magician, by Raymond E. Feist
"What do you have in your mouth, young man?" said the boys' mother, marking her place with a butter knife.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
I was the life and soul of that poxy little shindig - man what a square.
Russell Brand - My Booky Wook
On the green one-cent stamp in the educators group, just above the picture of the Lamp of Knowledge, was Horace Mann; on the red two-cent, Mark Hopkins; on the purple three-cent, Charles W. Eliot; on the blue four-cent, Frances E. Willard; on the brown ten-cent was Booker T. Washington, the first Negro to appear on an American stamp.
Lol
"On that day she asked the librarian to recommend a book."
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
In the book I'm reading, unfortunately the 4th sentence on the 23rd page is only:
I know that.
"Girls like her were not supposed to have any problems."
- Blue Bloods
That time he went to Kockums tobaco factory, and there he sat at the tables for two years, first making the cigarr "Les Tres Coronas" for half a year, after that "El Turista" for an entire year and then "Donna Elvira".
From The Road by Harry Martinsson
This congregation admired the Reverend's bearing up, as they called it, under his suffering (though there were an evilly human few who envied him his Providence) and they had never had the full details of the Spanish affair.