Beatlemania is like the frenzied dancing and shouting of voodoo worshippers and the howls and bodily writhings of converts among primitive evangelical sects in the southern states of America.
Beatlemania is like the frenzied dancing and shouting of voodoo worshippers and the howls and bodily writhings of converts among primitive evangelical sects in the southern states of America.
"My father whom I never knew was an Englishman."
Two descriptions of a father in a row!
"My father is a bootlegger."
- Herzog, by Saul Bellow
"In the first three instances, the distinguishing characteristic of "table," is shape, is retained, and the differentiations are purely a matter of measurement: the range of the shape's measurements is reduced in accordance with the narrower utilitarian function."
-Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand.
It's not all THAT boring....
I want to hear facts.
The barman nodded to him.
Blood Meridian~Cormac McCarthy
Don't skin your shoulders with those damnable big olive-branches. :hand:
Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Dudley Fitts translation
This makes me want to read it even more!:D
Wines, jars of cider and an almanac for 1808 - the old man
Humans suffering from a conflict of signals aren't the best people to be holding guns, especially when they've just witnessed a natural childbirth, which definitely looked an un-American way of bringing new citizens into the world.
Tom heaved a great sigh as she put her foot on the threshold.
-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Refer to 1910.399(a)(77) for definition of listed,and 1910.7 for nationally recognized testing laboratory. - 29 CFR 1910
"'Don't snatch,' said Abajai as he handed her a pottery bowl filled halfway, and a spoon."- Empress by Karen Miller
"I'm not so sure" said the man slowly.
The Castle by Franz Kafka
'He's my son all the same,' she said, smiling.
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster -
"He argued that everyone needs a secure psychological base from which they can develop."
Understand Psychology (Teach Yourself Series)
--"Now it is all about politics in the paper, he said.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
"A weird sort of contentment in those days".
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
I was hoping for something much more lecherous :(.
Funny how we dead never eat - yet still, some of us love to serve food.
"Even though, of course, they are not such very prominent personae and belong to what is called the secondary or even the tertiary category, and even though the chief actions and mainsprings of this epic are not based upon them, and may concern and implicate them but lightly here an there, yet the author is exceedingly fond of being circumstantial in all things, and even though he himself is a native of Russia, he wishes, in this respect, to be as thoroughgoing as any German."
"Let her come foward." ~Mayor Undersee, The Hunger Games
Some fail, a handful endure with their lights a little fogged, but most thrive, and many return to work in some form; work -- the ultimate badge of health.
Saturday - Ian McEwan
Propped outside Chip's apartment was a clear-plastic umbrella that Chip recognized, with relief, as Julia Vrais's.
The consequence was that the Moriscos were growing richer and richer, and since they wrer exceedingly prolific were increasing in numbers.
Catalina - Somerset Maugham
"You're a thought-criminal!"
(:
All the victimes claimed Plogojowitz had come to their death beds at night and tried to strangle them.
'tis some book 'bout the vampire myth...
"In the slanting beams that streamed through the open doorway the dust danced and was golden." - The Picture of Dorian Gray
His mother kissed him.
James Joyce - A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
"But-but-but-let me pull myself together- there is also this vision of him emerging from the bathroom, savagely kneading the back of his neck and sourly swallowing a belch."
Portnoy's Complaint
"Agnarr läks Grimniri juurde ning andis talle sarvetäie juua, öeldes, et kuningas teeb halvasti, kui laseb teda piinata, asja ees, teist taga."
Poetic Edda, translation from Icelandic to Estonian by Rein Sepp.
The boy had bitten her.
We are living not only in the Age of America, but also in the Age of the Novel, at a moment when literature of a country without a first-rate epic verse or a memorable verse tragedy has become the model of half the world.
Leslie Fiedler - Love and Death in the American Novel
"'Yeah i don't think i'll put it exactly like that but i'll deal with it." -Paper Towns by John Green
AND
"And now all i ask is a good swift ship and a crew of twenty men to speed me through my passage out and back." The Odyssey by Homer
I hastened to reply; but I thought of it, after an instant, not opposed to this concession to pursue: "Did she die here?"
Henry James - The turn of the Screw
n before "hard" c, k, q, x = ng (zinc, u'ncle, tank, banquet,minx)
The Concise Oxford Dictionary.
But I shan't bore you with my studies now - Maya
I placed my destiny in the hands of this chance encounter, but she passed by like all the others, like the last ones and the next ones, and then I would come down to earth, in a sorrier state than a torn sail drenched by the storm.
This should show that you understand the background issues and theories relating to the project.
(Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit for Higher Education)
"Pity! Why pity me!" Marmeladov suddenly cried out, rising with his hand stretched forth, in decided inspiration, as if he had only been waiting for these words.
'Thus contact between foreigners and Chinese was carried out in the language of the foreigners (usually a pidgin variety of English), with the compradores acting as translators.'
from 'China's English: A History of English in Chinese Education' by Bob Adamson
No doubt it was a secret thing.