"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
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
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
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine...
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
Dafydd Manton, A Legend In His Own Lunchtime!!www.dafydd-manton.co.uk
My Work Has Been Spread Over Many Fields!
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?"
- 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
Find your dream and stick with it...or your life will have slipped past in a whisper with you still on the bottom.
"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.Originally Posted by mikemaster70
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