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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3ee4d69 | if N is large enough, it is virtually impossible to deduce p and q from N, and this is perhaps the most beautiful and elegant aspect of the RSA asymmetric cipher. | Simon Singh | ||
| bc23104 | And oh, heaven - the crowded playhouse, the stench of perfume upon heated bodies, the silly laughter and the clatter, the party in the Royal box - the King himself present - the impatient crowd in the cheap seats stamping and shouting for the play to begin while they threw orange peel on to the stage. | royal-box waiting | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 067ea23 | What do you do when you're wound up?' she asked. 'Do you play that drum?'. 'No,' said the child. 'We used to dance.' 'But now we walk,' said the father. 'And behind us an enemy walks faster.' 'That's life,' said Euterpe. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 19ac273 | Hat dich jemand reinkommen sehen?" "Ja, das FBI, die CIA, die NSA, die DEA und das MI6. Ach ja, und die GPB." "Die GPB?" "Gesamte Polizeibelegschaft." -- | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 638958d | You didn't foresee a troll-riding dwarf pushing your plane down the runway. You must be losing your touch, Artemis." He" | Eoin Colfer | ||
| cc4c94c | Hey," snapped Holly. "This is not the time to blame Artemis." "Thank you," said Artemis. "Finally." "There will be plenty of time to blame Artemis later, when this is resolved." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| d9f9c73 | Doubts assuaged, Butler returned to his copy of Guns & Ammo, leaving his employer to unravel the secrets of the universe. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| cb2c385 | They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened. | enlightenment eoin-colfer knowledge-is-power | Eoin Colfer | |
| 563f8dc | Some people just needed to be stolen from. | conscience eoin-colfer stealing thief | Eoin Colfer | |
| c79e82f | desperate times required judicious risk-taking. | risk | Eoin Colfer | |
| 15f7f95 | Just a minute, Miss Frazetti, I'm getting dressed.' 'Hurry it up, Mo,' snapped Carla, her voice crackly through the cheap speakers. 'I'm getting old here. | funny sarcasm | Eoin Colfer | |
| c1ff429 | I know what the Book says," snapped Root. "I just wish you weren't so gung ho about it. If I didn't know you better, I'd say there was some human blood in you." "There's no call for that," pouted Cudgeon. "I'm only doing my job." "Point taken," conceded the commander. "I'm sorry." You didn't often hear Root apologizing, but then it had been a deeply offensive insult." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 634d7e4 | Probably is absolutely the best I can do. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 0b0a402 | Mona began firing with deadly accuracy, also with a stream of Spanish words that Cosmo suspected were not taught in kindergarten. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 78f182d | No one's ever really ready for a troll. | preparation troll | Eoin Colfer | |
| 664c629 | Good man, Foaly." He grinned. "Hit that backstabber where it hurts, right in the ambition." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 0bc0ec3 | Artemis Fowl had devised a plan to restore his family's fortune. A plan that could topple civilizations and plunge the planet into a cross-species war. He was twelve years old at the time... | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 1e61035 | When Holly Short had opened the door of her makeshift basement cell, she had found her helmet bouncing on the spot in front of her with a 3-D image of Foaly's face projected onto it. "That is really creepy," | Eoin Colfer | ||
| fc28753 | Mortals, screw 'em. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 64ca982 | In dieser Nacht wurde Geschichte geschrieben. Und es war nicht die erhebende Art von Geschichte wie bei der Entdeckung der Radioaktivitat oder dem ersten Mann auf dem Mond, sondern die finstere Art a la spanische Inquisition oder Absturz der Hindenburg. Finster fur Menschen und Unterirdische. Finster fur alle. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 0fceb58 | Artemis had once seen Holly get into a fistfight with another elf who said her hair looked pretty, because she thought he was being sarcastic, as she was sporting a fresh crew cut on that particular day. Holly didn't go on many dates. Holly | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 6fc0b41 | Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 9d6a4fc | Unlike fairies who could produce only a single child every twenty years, Mud People bred like rodents. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| b7f05a8 | his size drew attention from everyone who happened to glance downwards. But Mulch quickly discovered that Mud People could find a reason to distrust almost anyone. Height, weight, skin colour, religion. It was almost safer to be different in some way. | being-special different humanity special-snowflake | Eoin Colfer | |
| 3b2014e | But 'luckily,' the train before mine was so late that it still hadn't departed, All the seats were taken, and I had to squeeze into a three-inch slot. I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. The Diagonal People. | David Mitchell | ||
| c4ee6e5 | I envied my uncritical, unthinking sisters. | David Mitchell | ||
| 03da535 | What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated issues; no pictures, no news; no news, no event; no great sympathy on the part of the public nor sustained interest from the media: safe politics for the Company. | news | C.J. Cherryh | |
| 2169e8f | Once he had thought it a refuge, once he had thought it holiness.... But now he began to suspect that the good brothers did not shadow the ether not because they were good, but because they had masked themselves everything, had carefully erased their stray thoughts, had poured out their human longings, emptied themselves of desires and become so transparent as existence that they had not only ceased to be evil, they had ceased to be good... | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| ae93a70 | Oh, man,' Azdra'ik said. 'This is what our eldest saw. This is what our legends say. Who could know, but us? | legends myth world-building | C.J. Cherryh | |
| 54e6f46 | Were the seeds of next things always there, in the circle of the year, and was that how the world worked its miracles? | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 86ec9f3 | He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such times he made himself open to wizardry-or conversely, was as warded and safe at such moments as Ynefel at its strongest. Perhaps threats simply slid past his attention and he made himself immune. | wonder | C.J. Cherryh | |
| d9e84f8 | The world was full of life, more life than they could hold back with guns or fences; it came into the town at night; it seduced the children and year by year crept closer. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 83ede47 | seeing the mystery of forest leaves and the wonder in a water-polished stone, a light had come on him, a bright, bright hope, that this was the true world, all around him, truer than his darkening sight. And ever after that and forever, he hoped for himself, and whenever he thought of dark and practical deeds, why, that light distracted him toward this dream he had.... | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| eae253c | My name's Elai, Ellai's daughter, line of the first Cloud, the first Elly; of Pia, line of the first Jin when they made the world. And you're on my land. | genealogy land ownership | C.J. Cherryh | |
| e2c9459 | Take care of him, her father had charged her. She had thought - until he wakes. But she began to see what her father had trusted to her, and how very much Sasha needed someone he could trust- Someone as brave as her father, someone not afraid of him - no matter what. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| bf61ac7 | Belief... was its own magic-so long as it was carefully placed, often examined, like a bridge kept in careful repair. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| fff4ace | He was home, but he wasn't. He had gotten where he had to go, but he hadn't. He had found out who he was, but he didn't know why it had failed to satify his questions. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| d22aa22 | And she learned to do that, be very nice to people she knew quite well were the Enemy, and even like them sometimes: it didn't mean you weren't going to Get them, because they were bound to do something that would remind you what they were sooner or later. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 055248c | A bizarre hysteria, perhaps, that point which many reached here, when anger was all that mattered. It led to self-destruction. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 08d8aa7 | When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart . . . should automatically be heaped with scorn. I think it is symptomatic of a sad and dangerous impoverishment of spirit." | Bill Richardson | ||
| e4e7e23 | qui siedo sempre come un maestoso cazzo fra duoi coglioni. [...I always sit here like a majestic prick between two balls.] | Denis Diderot | ||
| 69a723f | Ludzie, ktorzy cos powtarzaja dwa razy, to glupcy majacy za glupcow tych, ktorzy ich sluchaja | Denis Diderot | ||
| fe74806 | admy shrbt drwGy r khh dr tmlq w bshd ykh jr`h mynwshd w Hrf Hq r khh brysh tlkh st, qTrhqTrh. dr thny, m chplwsn qyfhmn Hq bh jnb w Sdq st. | Denis Diderot | ||
| e0a1bea | Master, master, you obviously haven't thought about this at all. We only ever feel sorry for ourselves, believe me. | Denis Diderot |