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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c4ecf62 | I would like to be able to say that I threw myself into the spirit of it all, but the truth is, I still felt a bit dazed. A bit abstracted. It's going to take time, I guess. If you've thought in a certain way for many years, if you've had a picture in your mind of how things are and that picture is suddenly shown to be faulty, well, it stands to reason that it will take a while to adjust. And during that time, you're bound to feel ... disco.. | Mary Lawson | ||
| 29ebb4a | Janie gave me a pen. Mrs. Tadworth gave me a doll. Matt | Mary Lawson | ||
| a360fbc | Most children suffer from a crippling lack of stimulation. The brain is like any other muscle; use it, and it develops. Ignore it, and it atrophies. | Mary Lawson | ||
| 96a91b0 | My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes. And one Saturday evening she became so absorbed in her book that when she looked up she found that it was half-past midnight and she had spun for half an hour on the Sabbath Day. Back then, that counted as a major sin. | Mary Lawson | ||
| 7b2cc89 | he could see now that it was possible; that someone might be in so much pain they couldn't even hear what anyone else said, far less be comforted by it. | Mary Lawson | ||
| f898820 | Mary Poppins's greatest precept: Never Explain. | Valerie Lawson | ||
| f68e9e4 | Guys, she could be the one." Nick rolled his eyes and started to count on his fingers. "Man, you said that about Callie, Lisa, Tasha, Marie and I could go on but visiting hours ain't that long." | Toye Lawson Brown | ||
| 981da48 | the concept of Mary Poppins is even stronger, implying a secure childhood and an answer to women's perennial problem: how to balance their lives between their needs and their family's demands. | Valerie Lawson | ||
| e8aaaae | You seem very anxious to lose your life." "To justify my life, Sir." | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 933b9f7 | You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| b121845 | Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 3744711 | Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with astonishment. "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face." | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| dac0379 | for in days when books were few and readers scarce, a long memory and a ready tongue were of the more value; | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 2f8fa48 | Every fairy-tale needs a good old-fashioned villain' | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| d65abdc | As they formed into ranks, each man dropping silently into his place, Sir Nigel ran a questioning eye over them, and a smile of pleasure played over his face. Tall and sinewy, and brown, clear-eyed, hard-featured, with the stern and prompt bearing of experienced soldiers, it would be hard indeed for a leader to seek for a choicer following. Here and there in the ranks were old soldiers of the French wars, grizzled and lean, with fierce, puc.. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 0245d26 | Leaning back in the cab, this amateur bloodhound carolled away like a lark while I mediated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 27b4a47 | Evil indeed is the man without one woman to mourn him. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| d9eb50b | Holmes smiled, and clapped Lestrade upon the shoulder. "Instead of being ruined, my good sir, you will find that" | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 070d113 | It's every man's business to see justice done. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 5e8f7cd | Como a las polillas, a todos nos gusta revolotear en torno a la luz. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 7f96ad4 | They carried their burden to the waiting hearse with the slow, underwater motion of men walking along the silty bottom of the Thames. | Vaughn Entwistle | ||
| 11ca328 | populus me sibilat at mihi plaudo ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| a386af9 | We all have neglected opportunities to deplore. | opportunity sherlock-holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| d647913 | There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." - Sherlock Holmes "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" | Suzette Hollingsworth | ||
| 6589fe7 | Ahora que me ha puesto usted al corriente, hare lo posible por olvidarlo | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| c431c99 | Women have seldom have been an attraction to me, for my brain has always governed my heart. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| f3936d2 | El mundo esta lleno de cosas obvias, que nadie por casualidad alguna vez observa. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 395bbf0 | when you have excluded the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.--Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| b3983e0 | Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.--SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE | Ariel Lawhon | ||
| 7263cd7 | There are strange red depths in the soul of the most commonplace man. I am tenderhearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare. Yet the blood lust was on me now. I found myself on my feet emptying one magazine, then the other, clicking open the breech to re-load, snapping it to again, while cheering and yelling with pure ferocity and joy of slaughter as I did so. | mindset nature | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| aff69f6 | In 1989 the former drug czar and TV talk-show fool, William Bennett, suggested de jure as well as de facto abolition of habeas corpus in "drug" cases as well as (I am not inventing this) public beheadings of drug dealers." | Gore Vidal | ||
| aa424ec | Hate can blind people in the same way envy can. Or jealousy. - Kurt Wallander | Henning Mankell | ||
| 483638d | Indirect questions can produce direct answers. - Anne-Brit Hoglund | Henning Mankell | ||
| e79d78a | As I now move, graciously, I hope, towards the door marked Exit, it occurs to me that the only thing I ever really liked to do was go to the movies. | Gore Vidal | ||
| b631b47 | he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as practised by Clive James, Gore Vidal, and Michael Foot. | Duncan Wu | ||
| 6f501a5 | Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. -Gore Vidal CHAPTER 1 It began with a cough. Michael | Victor Methos | ||
| afe39f1 | Nancy always made Clementine think of that Gore Vidal quote: 'Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little. | Liane Moriarty | ||
| 06d2789 | There is only one party in the United States, the Property party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently...and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially,.. | James Edmonds | ||
| 51f150a | mass movements arise from the feelings of boredom and irrelevance that come from living in a mechanized society. "Boredom, finally, is the one monster the race will never conquer" | James Edmonds | ||
| 03e2657 | Politics, noun: [Poly 'many' + tics 'blood-sucking parasites']" --Larry Hardiman "We hang the petty thieves. The master thieves we appoint to public office." --Aesop "Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." --Gore Vidal" | Douglas E. Richards | ||
| 1ed12b4 | Vidal could not not work hard ("I find that when I do not write, I do not think"). He agreed to do a teleplay for NBC about Abraham Lincoln, which soon grew into the novel that would be his magnum opus and most successful book. Work was fueled by coffee ("This stuff has killed more writers than liquor") and a desire to stave off the melancholy of middle age. So he kept busy ("The mind that doesn't nourish itself devours itself"). By" | James Edmonds | ||
| 8ed8a34 | So here they are, trying to get us into the army again to get us to fight in Europe, but the country is isolationist. One of the reasons why the world has been demonized is because they had to do it. The average American is an isolationist. | Gore Vidal | ||
| a737b81 | At times, she felt that she was involved in an elaborate peasant dance, which had not been entirely explained to her. Now the hand is held; now the heel is stamped; now the head turns; and then the kiss. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 924d4b1 | The Supreme Court - on behalf of the propertied few - quickly interpreted the word "person" to apply to corporate entities and misapplied the Fourteenth Amendment to give corporations freedom from state regulation. With no federal regulation either, the corporations existed in a laissez faire paradise. Meanwhile, the Court ignored the rights of actual human beings and civil liberties were largely left to state officialdom. Attacked" | James Edmonds |