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| 7d2eb23 | I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how time is relative." Miller and [Wayne] Shorter were waiting somewhere -- an airport, a train station, a hotel. The band's keyboardist, Joe Zawinul, who took charge of such matters as what the road crew was supposed to do and when, set Miller straight. "You don't ask Wayne shit like that," he snapped. "It's 7:06 p.m." [p.1]" | jazz-interviews musicians-opinions | Ben Ratliff | |
| 1fd954c | Her deep sigh was the best compliment he'd ever been paid. | J.R. Ward | ||
| ccebefb | What is such a believer, whose very life depends upon the daily bread of the living Word of God, supposed to do when God is silent? | Mike Mason | ||
| 0a7f20a | We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose - was a rainbow coalition of one colour: green. There was an infinity of greens, rendered all the greener by splashes of red hibiscus and the herons floating past, so white and big it seemed as if sheets hung out to dry had suddenly taken wing. All othe.. | globetrotting green jungle landscapes southeast-asia travel travel-writing verdant | Geoff Dyer | |
| ab9752c | When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glancing at the clock, wishing it was time to go out. Then, when I'm out, I'm wondering how long it will be before I'm back home. | contrary idleness rush work | Geoff Dyer | |
| f4c27a5 | He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible. | laziness | James Herriot | |
| 2f15946 | What a leg. What an air. A most engaging smile. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| e2a8d8a | You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!' 'The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 6197501 | Cecilia could have told him that Mr. Fawnhope's intrepidity sprang more from a sublime unconsciousness of the risk of infection than from any deliberate heroism; but since she was not in the habit of discussing her lover with her brother he continued in a happy state of ignorance, himself too practical a man to comprehend the density of the veil in which a poet could wrap himself. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 62b1368 | One or two of the villagers have seen it, too, though not as clearly as he did. Old Buttermere said it was a white *thing*, that glided over the ground, and vanished into the shrubbery.' 'And a very good place for it to vanish, too,' said Hugo, wholly unimpressed. 'Give me a sheet, and a night without too much moonlight, and I'll engage to do the same! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 3362ca2 | Yet, after all, Jenny thought she had been granted more than she hoped for when she married him. He did love her: differently, but perhaps more enduringly; and he had grown to depend on her. She thought that they would have many years of quiet content: never reaching the heights, but living together in comfort and deepening friendship. | regency-romance | Georgette Heyer | |
| 18e8366 | If I must consort with rogues [...] I own I like them to be in the grand manner. | villainy | Georgette Heyer | |
| 0758597 | may I have a workshop at Alver? For experiments? If I promise faithfully not to blow the house up? If you please, Cousin Alverstoke ... ? | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ed423c2 | Miss Darracott, an intelligent girl, now perceived that in harboring for as much as an instant the notion of marrying a man who fell so lamentably short of the ideal lover she was an irreclaimable ninnyhammer. Ideal lovers might differ in certain respects, but in whatever mold they were cast, not one of them was so unhandsome as to make it extremely difficult for one not to giggle at their utterances. This hopelessly overgrown and unromanti.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| f83bb3e | there was something very taking in her face which owed nothing to the excellence of her features: an expression of sweetness, a sparkle of irrepressible fun, an unusually open look, quite devoid of self-consciousness. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 6c994a4 | It is abominable, Sophy!" "Yes, if the motive were not pure!" | Georgette Heyer | ||
| fb79be9 | The devil you have! There, it is off at last! You may have perceived that I have been tugging at your ring for the last ten minutes. It should, of course, have been cast at your feet some time ago, but the confounded thing was always too tight. Take it! | An Infamous Army Georgette Heyer | ||
| 63a35fa | Dash it, they've got no heads!' 'No, but you see, Freddy, they are so very old! They have been damaged.' explained Miss Charing. 'Damaged! I should rather think so! They haven't got any arms either! Well, if this don't beat the Dutch! And just look at this, Kit!' | humor | Georgette Heyer | |
| ad07b8b | Eggs I must instantly have!" she announced. "And Lope de Vega I will not have, though in general a fine poet, but not in the kitchen!" | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 3740a68 | You have no knowledge of me. You are to be pitied.' 'Envied, more like,' said his undutiful son. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 9128e44 | If you had not done such a shabby thing to me I would not have had you kidnapped. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| e03975e | Well, if you sat eating as though nothing mattered save your dinner I'm not surprised," said Juliana viciously. "If I were not so angry with her, the deceitful, sly wretch, I could pity her for all she must have undergone at your hands." "Seeing me eat was the least of her sufferings," answered the Marquis. "She underwent much, but it may interest you to know, Juliana, that she never treated me to the vapours, as you seem like to do." "Then.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 15b9bf5 | I didn't sneer!" said Juliana hastily. "I'd no notion you behaved so dreadfully badly to her. You said you forced her aboard your yacht, but I never supposed that you really frightened her enough to make her fire at you. You need not be in a rage with me for saying so, Dominic, but when I saw Mary at your house she was so placid I made sure you'd not treated her so very brutally after all. Had you?" "Yes," said Vidal bluntly. He looked at J.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 8362c08 | Inspector Harding] "...To start with, I know that the General didn't get on with his son, but seemed to prefer his nephew; I know that he disapproved violently of Miss de Silva, and behaved towards her with unparalleled cruelty." "How much?" interrupted Dinah. Harding replied with perfect gravity: "No absinthe, no shower in her bathroom..." "Did she tell you all that?" said Dinah. "Don't you think she's rather good value?" "Yes, but she.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 2df5574 | One minute he stood transfixed, the next he uttered a crushing oath, and took a hasty stride forward. Mr Ringwood, recovering from his own stupefaction, closed with him, just as George, flushing vividly, sprang to his feet. Mr Ringwood said warningly. "For God's sake, dear boy, remember where you are! You can't choke George to death here!" | humour regency | Georgette Heyer | |
| dbda42f | I do not like your name, sir," she answered. "There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| be80f43 | From being a female sunk below reproach Sophy became rapidly an unconventional girl whose unaffected manners were refreshing in an age of simpers and high flights. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 5c0c869 | But that's what he did, and if he has made up his mind to be idiotishly noble - Yes, it is going to be very difficult. I must think! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 29c365b | Alas, it is too true. I visited him this morning and found him en deshabille, clasping his brown. He seized on me and demanded a rhyme to some word which I have forgot. So I left him." "Can no one convince Philippe that he is not a poet?" asked De Bergeret plaintively. De Vangrisse shook his head." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 6b4b9f0 | Stories teach us in ways we can remember. They teach us that each woman responds to birth in her unique way and how very wide-ranging that way can be. Sometimes they teach us about silly practices once widely held that were finally discarded. They teach us the occasional difference between accepted medical knowledge and the real bodily experiences that women have - including those that are never reported in medical textbooks nor admitted as.. | childbirth midwifery | Ina May Gaskin | |
| 2d1b1a2 | Everyone has blood and bones; the important one is your intention and your soul. | Marlo Morgan | ||
| 981f5c0 | Charles threw down the knife. Its thud was lost in the high-spirited bedlam of young men let loose upon a task so gruesome, the only sane response was perverse frivolity. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 6fc89e9 | She pressed her fingers to the woman's neck and felt icy skin. Bending close to the lips, she waited for the whisper of a breath, the faintest puff of air against her cheek. The corpse opened its eyes. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 6130966 | That is exactly what I learned. That evil can be so ordinary. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 3af5e5c | Deves prestar sempre atencao aos teus sonhos, ensinara-lhe a mae. Sao vozes que te dizem o que ja sabes, sussurrando-te conselhos que ainda nao seguiste. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| d656a01 | Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| f085604 | If you don't love him, if you don't even care about him, then seeing him now shouldn't be all that painful. Should it? | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 2b0538c | You can study a face all you want, but you never really know what lies beneath the mask. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 8cce88d | We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| cd8d7df | Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 0ce3c0a | Jesus always interpreted hardship in light of the end of the story, and at the end of the story we will be without shame. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 22b6b85 | To look to Christ to meet our perceived psychological needs is to Christianize our lusts. We are asking God to give us what we want, or so we can have more happiness, not holiness, in our lives. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 62e3432 | When you believe what God has said rather than lies, you are doing valuable work. When you choose hope over despair, your choice has lasting significance. When you get out of bed and persevere in ordinary obedience because you are representing the King, your labor is noticed even by heavenly beings (Ephesians 3:10). When you pursue holiness because you are holy, you find honor that lasts. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| d9f704c | As a counselor, I have spoken with many people who want to know their spiritual gifts. They come hoping for some sort of diagnostic test that will precisely locate them. My impression is that this perspective represents a breakdown in the church. It reflects a church where we are running around as self-actualizing individuals rather than uniting as a God-glorifying community. | Edward T. Welch |