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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dd82a6b | Charles did not know it, but in those brief poised seconds above the waiting sea, in that luminous evening silence broken only by the waves' quiet wash, the whole Victorian Age was lost. And I do not mean he had taken the wrong path. | John Fowles | ||
| 2e94268 | The thin end of the sensible clothes wedge had been inserted in society by the disgraceful Mrs Bloomer a decade and a half before the year of which I write; but that early attempt at the trouser suit had been comprehensively defeated by the crinoline--a small fact of considerable significance in our understanding of the Victorians. They were offered sense; and chose a six-foot folly unparalleled in the most folly-ridden of minor arts. | John Fowles | ||
| 707f851 | Even the simplest knowledge of the names and habits of flowers or trees starts this distinguishing or individuating process, and removes us a step from total reality towards anthropocentrism. | John Fowles | ||
| 8667759 | My parents have always been vocal about "the birds and the bees." People who watched the episode in which my dad gave Willie's son John Luke and his girlfriend the sex talk while motoring down the river in a boat might not be surprised that I heard this exact speech countless times in my childhood. I remember coming home one day after hearing my buddies talking about sexually transmitted diseases and asking my dad about it. I don't rememb.. | Jase Robertson | ||
| f72cfe4 | I think," Berta remarked with a proud little smile when she was seated alone in the drawing room beside Elizabeth, "he's having second thoughts about proposing, milday." "I think he was silently contemplating the easiest way to murder me at dinner," Elizabeth said, chuckling. She was about to say more when the butler interrupted them to announce that Lord Marchman wished to have a private word with Lady Cameron in his study. Elizabeth prepa.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| c28146e | This is from Elizabeth," it said. "She has sold Havenhurst." A pang of guilt and shock sent Ian to his feet as he read the rest of the note: "I am to tell you that this is payment in full, plus appropriate interest, for the emeralds she sold, which, she feels, rightfully belonged to you." Swallowing audibly, Ian picked up the bank draft and the small scrap of paper with it. On it Elizabeth herself had shown her calculation of the interest d.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 5007868 | Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything. | Lorna Landvik | ||
| fe69bf8 | I fear the democratization of plastic surgery, when it's so cheap that everyone - the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker - goes under the knife and winds up looking like these tightly pulled, slightly surprised-looking society and celebrity aliens from Planet Botox. . . . When I was young, I could have bottled up my self-loathing and filled a mile of train cars with it. Now that I'm old, I can't think of anyone I'd rather be than.. | Lorna Landvik | ||
| cea6a4b | It's this smoke from the burnin garbage, kid. Enough to make a maggot puke, ain't it? Lookit! The smoke's risin' t'ward the full moon like the ghosts a men so rotten even their spirits're carryin the contamination with em. Hey, li'l chick, you din't know Old Man knew them big words like contamination, didja? That's what livin on the city dump does for you. I hear that word all a time from the big shots that come down inspectin the stink her.. | Philip José Farmer | ||
| 7dc2a33 | The ideal was the light; the real, the shadow. | Philip José Farmer | ||
| 74d424e | It's not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character. | Philip José Farmer | ||
| 33899bf | Head in the book. Nose sliding down the valley between the pages. | Roddy Doyle | ||
| f256e79 | I knew all the books in the house. I knew their shapes and smells. I knew what pages would open if I held them with the spine on the ground and let the sides drop. I knew all the books but I couldn't remember the name of the one on my head. | Roddy Doyle | ||
| f9f6626 | I cried, a bit, as a spoke to Belinda on my mobile phone, in a quiet corner, perhaps the only quiet corner in Jaipur. I told her how I'd hoped Paul would read the forward, that he'd read how much I admired his work and how much I admired him, how much I just plain liked him and loved him. But, even as I spoke, I knew: Paul had always known that. He'd seen in on my face every time we met. What made me cry was the obvious, stupid fact that we.. | Roddy Doyle | ||
| c39c38f | I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen | humour | Roddy Doyle | |
| d9aa79a | Contact J. Rabbitte, 118, Chestnut Ave., Dublin 21. Rednecks and southsiders need not apply. | Roddy Doyle | ||
| 2dc468b | Four generations of women--"I'm a woman," Mary said to herself--heading off on a journey in a car. One of the dead, one of them dying, one of the driving, one of them just staring out." | Roddy Doyle | ||
| c6d3268 | Behind every powerful man is a woman who knows how to push his buttons. Good | Robert Bryndza | ||
| 7d6463a | Ida Mae Gladney, Robert Foster, and George Starling each left different parts of the South during different decades for different reasons and with different outcomes. The three of them would find some measure of happiness, not because their children had been perfect, their own lives without heartache, or because the North had been particularly welcoming. In fact, not a single one of those things had turned out to be true. There had been sic.. | Isabel Wilkerson | ||
| 56af789 | The presence of the migrants "in such large numbers crushed and stagnated the progress of Negro life," the economist Sadie Mossell wrote early in the migration to Philadelphia. Newly available census records suggest the opposite to be true. According to a growing body of research, the migrants were, it turns out, better educated than those they left behind in the South and, on the whole, had nearly as many years of schooling as those they e.. | Isabel Wilkerson | ||
| 2197c06 | Get off the cross, someone needs the wood! | Robert Bryndza | ||
| 1e9f959 | This is the problem when you create enemies, Erika. They go off and plot, and often flourish in the shade. | Robert Bryndza | ||
| 8ad50de | A little damage could only be an improvement | Belva Plain | ||
| 38989a7 | We're a dramatic people," Perry Mason said slowly. "We're not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It's a national craving. We're geared to a rapid rate of thought. We want to have things move in a spectacular manner." | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| f2d04a2 | I have one weapon," Mason said. "It's a powerful weapon. But sometimes it's hard to wield it because you don't know just where to grab hold of it." | truth | Erle Stanley Gardner | |
| 2e3eb9f | it takes a powerful motivation to lead to murder. That's why people don't usually murder comparative strangers. | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 56b5943 | To reach your goal, remember that courage is the only antidote for danger. | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 1f2938e | When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear. | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 78fa727 | Then I'll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort. | happiness inspirational life-philosophy marriage minset romance | Erle Stanley Gardner | |
| 9608a73 | These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, according to his mood. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| e0ec045 | It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 316ca46 | How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| bb825b6 | A grown man who can shed tears without embarrassment is like a yogi who has learned to expel toxic matter from his body by consciously speeding up the peristaltic rhythm. He can eliminate many of life's poisons | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| dcc3962 | Goofy from lack of sleep, they scribble in snatched moments between classes, part-time employment and their married lives. Their brains are dizzy with words as they mop out an operating room, sort mail at a post office, fix baby's bottle, fry hamburgers. And somewhere, in the midst of their servitude to the must-be, the mad might-be whispers to them to live, know, experience -- what? Marvels! The Season in Hell, the Journey to the End of th.. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 991e1a1 | Ikimiz de gulduk. "Sally" dedim, "senin sevdigim yanin ne biliyor musun? Bu kadar kolayca kandirilabilmen. Hic kandirilamayan insanlar oylesine can sikici ve ruhsuz oluyorlar ki!" "Beni hala seviyor musun, Chris, sevgilim?" "Evet, Sally. Seni hala seviyorum." Onu bir daha gormedim. Yaklasik iki hafta sonra, tam onu aramam gerektigini dusundugum bir sirada, Paris'ten bir kart aldim: "Buraya dun gece geldim. Yarin dogru durust yazarim. Kucak .. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 3084e04 | He crosses the front room, which he calls his study, and comes down the staircase. The stairs turn a corner; they are narrow and steep. You can touch both handrails with your elbows, and you have to bend your head, even if, like George, you are only five eight. This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely. Nevertheless. | loss protection | Christopher Isherwood | |
| df4f462 | He dislikes even to touch these things, for they are the runes of an idiotic but nevertheless potent and evil magic; the magic of the think-machine gods, whose cult has one dogma - we cannot make a mistake. | mockery | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 885adca | I do and always shall maintain that it is the privilege of the richer but less mentally endowed members of the community to contribute to the upkeep of people like myself. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 8859dd4 | Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid, abnormally heavy and dangerously sharp. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 319a883 | all around George, approaching him, crossing his path from every direction, is the male and female raw material which is fed daily into this factory, along the conveyor-belts of the freeways, to be processed, packaged and placed on the market... What do they think they are up to? Well, there is the official answer; preparing themselves for life which means a job and security in which to raise children to prepare themselves for life which me.. | mechanism purpose | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 78b3a92 | Do women ever stop trying? No. But, because they never stop, they learn to be good losers. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 7c41651 | I was very pink and young and English; and quite prepared for a Continent complete with poisonous drains, roast frogs, bedbugs and vice. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 043b160 | their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 000b8c2 | A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary. | Christopher Isherwood |