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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1a30f6a | The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches | ethan-frome inspirational mind | Edith Wharton | |
| 49426dc | She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves. | fat laugh | Edith Wharton | |
| 85faefb | Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape," Lily muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all afternoon by Percy Grice, dull but undeniably rich, "on the bare chance that he might ultimately do her the honor of boring her for life?" | Edith Wharton | ||
| 293c37b | What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal?" -- | Edith Wharton | ||
| 15626ee | Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Isn't it a sufficient condemnation of society to find one's self accepting such phraseology? | Edith Wharton | ||
| 53511f5 | Absent- that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him to find they still imagined he was there. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 49efa86 | She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0dde2ba | One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters; but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1815dfc | The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying. | Douglas Adams | ||
| d1350fe | If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse. | douglas-adams humour multiverse parallel-universe quantum robert-rankin sci-fi | Zane Stumpo | |
| 04e8f87 | In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 2e1eb5c | There is no "tropical island paradise" I know of which remotely matches up to the fantasy ideal that such a phrase is meant to conjure up, or even to what we find described in holiday brochures. It's natural to put this down to the discrepancy we are all used to finding between what advertisers promise and what the real world delivers. It doesn't surprise us much any more. So it can come as a shock to realise that the world we hear describe.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 302fed5 | Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e364577 | There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ... Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8c9658b | There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5f7883b | He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask. ... On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live. | humor | Douglas Adams | |
| 54d039e | Dirk Gently is the name under which I now trade. There are certain events in the past, I'm afraid, from which I would wish to disassociate myself." "Absolutely, I know how you feel. Most of the fourteenth century, for instance, was pretty grim," agreed Reg earnestly." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 233483d | The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely small. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 0e84963 | Proving nothing," said Ford. "I wouldn't trust that computer to speak my weight." "I can do that for you, sure," enthused the computer, punching out more ticker tape. "I can even work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if it will help." | Douglas Adams | ||
| d137750 | Zaphod left the controls for Ford to figure out, and lurched over to Arthur. "Look, Earthman," he said angrily, "you've got a job to do, right? The Question to the Ultimate Answer, right?" "What, that thing?" said Arthur, "I thought we'd forgotten about that." "Not me, baby. Like the mice said, it's worth a lot of money in the right quarters. And it's all locked up in that head thing of yours." "Yes but ..." "But nothing! Think about it. Th.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| ce1f2f8 | Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax. | Douglas Adams | ||
| ecf6b17 | The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally blind for five years, suddenly discovers that he had merely been wearing too large a hat. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 6b505f1 | One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living. | living wisdom | Douglas Adams | |
| d3b3a2d | There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5d9d1ed | Time," said Arthur weakly, "is not currently one of my problems." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8242917 | After a moment or two a man in brown crimplene looked in at us, did not at all like the look of us and asked us if we were transit passengers. We said we were. He shook his head with infinite weariness and told us that if we were transit passengers then we were supposed to be in the other of the two rooms. We were obviously very crazy and stupid not to have realized this. He stayed there slumped against the door jamb, raising his eyebrows p.. | douglas-adams humour zaire | Douglas Adams | |
| 6fb2169 | Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body? It harrumphed and gurgled a bit, wriggled its hind quarters into a more comfortable position and gazed peacefully at them. Its gaze was met by looks of startled bewilderment from Arthur and Trillian, a resigned shrug from Ford Prefect and naked hunger from Zaphod Beeblebrox. "Something off the shoulder perhap.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e521f95 | All right," said Ford. "How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford at all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse?" Arthur shrugged in a so-so sort of way. "I don't know," he said, taking a pull of beer. "Why, do you think it's the sort of thing you're likely to say?" Ford gave up. It really wasn't worth bothering at the moment, what with the world being about to end." -- | alien aliens-abduct arthur arthur-dent betelgeuse dent douglas douglas-adams ford ford-prefect planet prefect pub world-ending | Douglas Adams | |
| 902d8c5 | The stars are in blossom, the moon is in flower, And bright are the windows of Night in her tower. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| eb314c3 | The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with the nerve signals picked up from the s.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5a4c43b | I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin. "And what happened?" pressed Ford. "It committed suicide," said Marvin," | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8a679f1 | May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ef76123 | Through darkness you have come to your hope, and have now all your desire. Use well the days. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c922ee8 | the spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and many-headed in its incarnations that there seems nothing more to do than personally refuse to worship any of the hydras' heads. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 390cbe9 | I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be. | lotr tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| cdfc02c | These are indeed strange days,' he (Eomer) muttered. 'Dreams and legends spring to life out of the grass. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c48cb6a | Icinizden en az yarisini, arzuladigimin yarisi kadar bile tanimiyorum; ve yarinizdan azini hak ettiginizin ancak yarisi kadar sevebiliyorum. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2e4cc9d | Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings. Thus Aragon for the first time in the full light of day beheld Eowyn, lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. | Éowyn j-r-r-tolkien the-fellowship-of-the-ring the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a59d683 | What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?" | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d7c1911 | Beautiful she is, sir! Lovely! Sometimes like a great tree in flower, sometimes like a white daffadowndilly, small and slender like. Hard as di'monds, soft as moonlight. Warm as sunlight, cold as frost in the stars. Proud and far-off as a snow-mountain, and as merry as any lass I ever saw with daisies in her hair in springtime. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6ebf4ff | Donde has ido, si puedo preguntartelo? --dijo Thorin a Gandalf mientras cabalgaban. A mirar adelante --respondio Gandalf. ?Y que te hizo volver en el momento preciso? Mirar hacia atras. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6eed4a0 | I would have things as they were in all the days of my life . . . and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil. But if doom denies this to me, then I will have naught: neither life diminished, nor love halved, nor honour abated. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| a5acb32 | Then out of the blackness in his mind he thought that he heard Dernhelm speaking; yet now the voice seemed strange, recalling some other voice that he had known. 'Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!' A cold voice answered: 'Come not between the Nazgul and his prey! Or he will slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 7960a12 | But I have so little of any of these things! You are wise and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?" "No!" cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. "With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly." His eyes flashed and his face was lit as by a fire within. "Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my hea.. | J.R.R. Tolkien |