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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fc12d6e | It's interesting that Melburnians don't tell jokes about Sydney. They tell jokes about their beloved footy. To wit: A man arriving for the Grand Final in Melbourne is surprised to find the seat beside his empty. Tickets for the Grand Final are sold out weeks in advance and empty seats unknown. So he says to the man on the other side of the seat: 'Excuse me, do you know why there is no one in this seat?' 'It was my wife's,' answers the secon.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| b04b1a5 | FOR WARREN G. HARDING, the summer of 1927 was not a good one, which was perhaps a little surprising since he had been dead for nearly four years by then. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 509dcbb | This is a world where things move at their own pace, including a tiny lift Fortey and I shared with a scholarly looking elderly man with whom Fortey chatted genially and familiarly as we proceeded upwards at about the rate that sediments are laid down. When the man departed, Fortey said to me: "That was a very nice chap named Norman who's spent forty-two years studying one species of plant, St. John's wort. He retired in 1989, but he still .. | research science | Bill Bryson | |
| a9393a4 | From a selection of his other works, we might think him variously courtly, cerebral, metaphysical, melancholic, Machiavellian, neurotic, lighthearted, loving, and much more. Shakespeare was of course all these things--as a writer. We hardly know what he was as a person. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 0a9fad4 | The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it, simply because they couldn't believe any government would tell such an absurd story unless it were true. | David Weber | ||
| c8d4222 | Not advisable is spread thickly over this entire situation. | humor observation | C.J. Cherryh | |
| 881ee6e | The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do. | David Weber | ||
| 006812c | ANYONE WHO HAS EVER GRIEVED knows that grieving carries with it a tremendous wear and tear to the body itself, never mind the soul. Loss is an assault; a certain exhaustion, as strong as the pull of the moon on the tides, needs to be allowed for eventually. | Elizabeth Strout | ||
| 365b433 | No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic. | Elizabeth Moon | ||
| 9d4f95c | To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands. | Elizabeth Moon | ||
| a4af8e2 | Reading relaxes me. | reading relaxation school | Elizabeth Newton | |
| 7bc21d2 | A coaster gives you hope. You can pretty much ride a good one through the worst tragedy life throws at you. You can even ride it through somebody dying, I guess. | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | ||
| 9eb2556 | Or she may find out what is at the end of the harbor road...that wandering, twisting road like a nice red snake, that leads, so Elizabeth thinks, to the end of the world. Perhaps the Island of Happiness is there. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 654e927 | But Gilbert's visits were not what they once were. Anne almost dreaded them. It was very disconcerting to look up in the midst of a sudden silence and find Gilbert's hazel eyes fixed upon her with a quite unmistakable expression in their grave depths; and it was still more disconcerting to find herself blushing hotly and uncomfortably under his gaze, just as if--just as if--well, it was very embarrassing. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0ccf4d3 | Can I help you?" said Jane. Though Jane herself had no inkling of it, those words were the keynote of her character. Any one else would probably have said, "What is the matter?" But Jane always wanted to help: and, though she was too young to realize it, the tragedy of her little existence was that nobody ever wanted her help." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 516ecf3 | him." "Oh, I wish we had the old days back again," exclaimed Jem. "I'd love to be a soldier--a great, triumphant general. I'd give EVERYTHING to see a big battle." Well, Jem was to be a soldier and see a greater battle than had ever been fought in the world; but that was as yet far in the future; and the mother, whose first-born son he was, was wont to look on her boys and thank God that the "brave days of old," which Jem longed for, were g.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| fd94825 | Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them - that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ea69b03 | You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to. | god-is-good hope life-is-good | L.M. Montgomery | |
| d377001 | I wouldn't marry anyone who was really wicked. But I think I'd like it if he could be wicked, and wouldn't. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 6215547 | Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive - it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 89ac9ea | How sympathetic you look, Anne...as sympathetic as only seventeen can look. | seventeen | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 3717f1a | Anne talked Matthew and Marilla half-deaf over her discoveries. Not that Matthew complained, to be sure; he listened to it all with a wordless smile of enjoyment on his face; Marilla permitted the "chatter" until she found herself becoming too interested in it, whereupon she always promptly quenched Anne by a curt command to hold her tongue." | l. m. Montgomery | ||
| 82bebd8 | Dear old Jane is a jewel," agreed Anne, "but," she added, leaning forward to bestow a tender pat on the plump, dimpled little hand hanging over her pillow, "there's nobody like my own Diana after all. Do you remember that evening we first met, Diana, and 'swore' eternal friendship in your garden? We've kept that 'oath,' I think...we've never had a quarrel nor even a coolness. I shall never forget the thrill that went over me the day you tol.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| f46b87a | Cousin Jimmy thinks I did perfectly right. Cousin Jimmy would think I had done perfectly right if I had murdered Andrew and buried him in the Land of Uprightness. It's very nice to have one friend like that, though too many wouldn't be good for you. | friendship friendship-true-and-loyal friendships loyalty | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 93bf269 | It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 67d7f12 | And two years ago this morning I woke wondering what delightful gift the new day would give me. These are the two years I thought would be filled with fun.' 'Would you exchange them - now - for two years filled with fun?' 'No,' said Rilla slowly. 'I wouldn't. It's strange - isn't it? - They have been two terrible years - and yet I have a queer feeling of thankfulness for them - as if they had brought me something very precious with all thei.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 7d10214 | He was a cat of double personality - or else, as Susan vowed, he was possessed by the devil. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4b25ea0 | I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is TOO MUCH. I told Mrs. Hammond so firmly, when the last pair came. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 03b4fd1 | I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything," said Jane. "Oh, I can easily understand that," said Anne thoughtfully. "I wouldn't want it myself for a steady thing because, although I love the fields and woods, I love people too..." | fields home l-m-montgomery people woods | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 331a405 | Do you know what? I think the evening star is a lighthouse on the land where the fairies dwell. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| befe2df | I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c85fed8 | and over the river in purple durance the echoes bided there time. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2563d04 | The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not. | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| e9bd9e6 | Away down at the far end of the lake they got every night a glimpse of a big, continental train rushing through a clearing. Valancy liked to watch its lighted windows flash by and wonder who was on it and what hopes and fears it carried. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| f190974 | It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1b6241b | In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere, | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c0034eb | Why, for mercy's sake, did boys try to dance who didn't know the first thing about dancing; and who had feet as big as boats? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 904fd37 | Oh hearts that loved in the good old way have been out of fashion this many a day | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 828ca86 | There is a man in Bolingbroke who lisps and always testifies in prayer-meeting. He says, 'If you can't thine like an electric thtar thine like a candlethtick. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a225711 | It almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1fcb1c9 | Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9dfbc29 | Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed...that nothing ever came up to your expectations. Well, perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either...they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5ac10a7 | I shall govern by affection, Mr. Harrison. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ec41e1d | Andrew is going to be one of my problems. Dean thinks it's great fun--he knows what is in the wind as well as I do. He is always teasing me about my red-headed young man--my r.h.y.m. for short. "He's almost a rhyme," said Dean. "But never a poem," said I." | L.M. Montgomery |