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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 968dd0d | My mom once told me that my dad had given me an alliterative name, Wade Watts, because he thought it sounded like the secret identity of a superhero. Like Peter Parker or Clark Kent. | humor secret-identity superhero-reference superheroes | Ernest Cline | |
| 2d396aa | The hour or so after I woke up was my least favorite part of each day, because I spent it in the real world. This was when I dealt with the tedious business of cleaning and exercising my physical body. I hated this part of the day because everything about it contradicted my other life. My real life, inside the OASIS. The sight of my tiny one-room apartment, my immersion rig, or my reflection in the mirror--they all served as a harsh reminde.. | Ernest Cline | ||
| a77a6bf | I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 0c6f6d5 | If some volcano in the Alleghanies threatens North Carolina with a disaster similar to that of Martinique, buried beneath the outpourings of Mont Pelee, then these people must leave their homes. | Jules Verne | ||
| a64e248 | to catch it called for harpooning it--which was Ned Land's business; to harpoon it called for sighting it--which was the crew's business; and to sight it called for encountering it--which was a chancy business. | Jules Verne | ||
| 6945b3a | The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 51ec344 | Cheers for Edgar Poe! | Jules Verne | ||
| 6c76da0 | he rested in the knowledge that he was a child of the King, a saved, forgiven, precious, beloved son safe in the hollow of his Father's hand. | Tim LaHaye | ||
| 01a4b8d | The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed. | Jules Verne | ||
| 8abba67 | It is not our duty to explain facts, but to make the best possible use of them. | Jules Verne | ||
| 3896560 | What do you want?" he said to Passe-partout, whom he took for a native. "Do you need a servant, sir?" asked Passe-partout. "A servant!" echoed the Barnum, as he stroked his beard; "I have two, obedient and faithful, who have never left me, and serve me for nothing but nourishment; and here they are," he added, as he extended his brawny arms, on which the great veins stood out like whipcord." | Jules Verne | ||
| f4f01fc | question. On the 20th of July, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, of the Calcutta and Burnach Steam Navigation Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an unknown sandbank; he even prepared to determine its exact position when two columns of water, projected by the mysterious object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up int.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 88edb32 | these words of wisdom, so rarely understood: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill towards men." | Jules Verne | ||
| 8820a3b | There's an island over there. On that island there are trees. Under those trees there are animals carrying around chops and roast beefs, and I wouldn't mind a bit sinking my teeth into a little good meat. | Jules Verne | ||
| 9de9e66 | These suckling-pigs were really delicious, and Pencroft was devouring his share with great gusto, when all at once a cry and an oath escaped him. "What's the matter?" asked Cyrus Harding. "The matter? the matter is that I have just broken a tooth!" replied the sailor. "What, are there pebbles in your peccaries?" said Gideon Spilett. "I suppose so," replied Pencroft, drawing from his lips the object which had cost him a grinder!-- It was not.. | Jules Verne | ||
| b81468e | been so much talked of, even through the Atlantic cable, that jesters pretended that this slender fly had stopped a telegram on its passage and was making the most of it. So when the frigate had been armed for a long campaign, and provided with formidable fishing apparatus, no one could tell what course to pursue. Impatience grew apace, when, | Jules Verne | ||
| 2f9fc06 | A true Englishman never jokes when he has a stake depending on the matter. | Jules Verne | ||
| 80d1c60 | The mansion in Saville Row, though not sumptuous, was exceedingly comfortable. The habits of its occupant were such as to demand but little from the sole domestic, but Phileas Fogg required him to be almost superhumanly prompt and regular. | Jules Verne | ||
| 2b7b88a | The young man left his uncle's office, eyes filled with tears; yet he braced himself against dispair. 'I have no more than a single day of freedom,' he mused, 'at least I shall spend it as I please; I have a little money, and it I shall spend on books beginning with the great poets and illustrious authors of the last century. Each evening they will console me for the vexations of each day. | Jules Verne | ||
| de0574e | So all that fame had lasted less than a hundred years! Les Orientales, Les Meditations, La Comedie Humaine - forgotten, lost, unknown! Yet here were huge crates of books which giant steam cranes were unloading in the courtyards, and buyers were crowding around the purchase desk. But one of them was asking for 'Stress Theory' in twenty volumes, another for an 'Abstract of Electric Problems', this one for 'A Practical Treatise for the Lubrica.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 92c2562 | Dictionaries, manuals, grammars, study guides and topic notes, classical authors and the entire book trade in de Viris, Quintus-Curtius, Sallust, and Livy peacefully crumbled to dust on the shelves of the old Hachette publishing house; but introductions to mathematics, textbooks on civil engineering, mechanics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, courses in commerce, finance, industrial arts- whatever concerned the market tendencies of the day -.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 9365413 | Ah!' said Michel, tempted, 'you have modern poems?' 'Of course. For instance, Martillac's 'Electric Harmonies,' which won a prize last year from the Academic of Sciences, and Monsieur de Pulfasse's 'Meditations on Oxygen;' and we have the 'Poetic Parallelogram,' and even the 'Decarbonated Odes. . .' Michel couldn't bear hearing another word and found himself outside again, stupefied and overcome. Not even this tiny amount of art had escape.. | Jules Verne | ||
| ae1146d | Los viajeros, encarcelados en un nuevo satelite, si bien es verdad que no habian alcanzado su objetivo, formaban al menos parte del mundo lunar; gravitaban alrededor del astro de la noche, y por primera vez podia la vista penetrar todos sus misterios. | Jules Verne | ||
| 726ff96 | Help!" This was my last cry. My mouth filled with water, I struggled against being drawn the abyss. Suddenly my clothes were seized by a strong hand, and I felt myself quickly drawn up to the surface of the sea; and I heard, yes, I heard these words pronounced in my ear: "If master would be so good as to lean on my shoulder, master would swim with much greater ease." I seized with one hand my faithful Conseil's arm. "Is it you?" said I, "y.. | loyalty master | Jules Verne | |
| 96fe578 | Work, my boy! forget me for a few years; I'd only give you bad advice; don't mention our meeting to your uncle- it might do you harm; don't think about an old man who would be dead long since, were it not for his dear habit of coming here every day and finding his old friends on these shelves. | Jules Verne | ||
| 1f5191c | El capitan Nemo me indico con la mano ese prodigioso amontonamiento de madreperlas, una mina verdaderamente inagotable, pues la fuerza creadora de la naturaleza supera al instinto destructivo del hombre. | Jules Verne | ||
| b40b7e0 | If savages had the ways of gentlemen, where would be the difference? | Jules Verne | ||
| 9afc5f6 | Now, if the question were to destroy a lion, a tiger, a cat, a hyena, I could understand it; but to deprive an antelope or a gazelle of life, to no other purpose than the gratification of your instincts as a sportsman, seems hardly worth the trouble. | Jules Verne | ||
| bd00493 | Poh! doctor, one has only just to follow things along as they happen, and he can always work his way out of a scrape! The safest plan, you see, is to take matters as they come. | Jules Verne | ||
| 57a9856 | that before long chance would betray the captain's secrets. The next day, the 1st of June, the Nautilus continued the same | Jules Verne | ||
| 44604d4 | Whence, it may be asked, had come that plaything of the tempest? From what part of the world did it rise? It surely could not have started during the storm. | Jules Verne | ||
| c4c7aca | However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of t.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 4c6ec5e | an energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish. | Jules Verne | ||
| 78d111e | My uncle wasted a great deal of breath in giving him directions, but worthy Hans took not the slightest notice of his words. | Jules Verne | ||
| 2cda9e4 | It is never worth while to do anything by halves. | Jules Verne | ||
| f60b60b | Better to put things at the worst at first," replied the engineer, "and reserve the best for a surprise." | Jules Verne | ||
| 5297cf7 | The happiest animal in the world," he used to say, " would be a snail who could make himself just such a shell as he wanted;I shall try to be an intelligent snail." -- | Jules Verne | ||
| 7941b20 | A wicked man is distrustful, and fear is commonly found in those who are able to inspire it. | Jules Verne | ||
| 4ff447a | As I lay on my back, I chanced to open my eyes and perceived a bright spot at the extremity of the tube, 3,000 feet long, transformed now into a gigantic telescope. (p. 83) | Jules Verne | ||
| 73a8ee9 | Now," said I, "we must not let this water run away." "Why not?" replied my uncle. "I suspect the spring is unfailing." (p. 105)" | Jules Verne | ||
| 601390d | Fur den Dichter ist die Perle eine Trane des Meeres; fur die Orientalen ein fest gewordener Tautropfen; fur die Frauen ein langliches Kleinod von durchsichtigem Glanz und Perlmutterstoff, welches sie am Finger, Hals oder Ohr tragen; fur den Chemiker eine Mischung von phosphorsaurem und kohlensaurem Salz mit ein wenig Leim, und endlich fur den Naturkundigen nur eine krankhafte Ausscheidung des Organes, welches bei einigen zweischaligen Musch.. | forscher meer metapher muscheln naturkunde ozean perlen | Jules Verne | |
| 420a769 | Learned, clear-headed, and practical, he fulfilled in all emergencies those three conditions which united ought to insure human success--activity of mind and body, impetuous wishes, and powerful will. He might have taken for his motto that of William of Orange in the 17th century: "I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success." | Jules Verne | ||
| ff24d66 | How were you supposed to feel when you adored the novels of Jules Verne, Maupassant, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Simenon and loads of others who then turned out to be complete bastards? | Jean-Michel Guenassia | ||
| 59e0019 | Personne n'eut pense a rester chez soi, et surtout personne ne songeait a remettre le pied au Roi Mathias, ou des voix comminatoires se faisaient entendre. Que des murs aient des oreilles, passe encore, puisque c'est une locution qui a court dans le langage usuel... mais une bouche!... | Jules Verne |