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| 2a318b7 | Guide Note: Remembering is generally a two-stage process involving dialogue between the conscious and subconscious parts of the brain. The subconscious opens proceedings by throwing up the relevant memory, an act which releases a spurt of self-congratulatory endorphins. Well done, matey, says the conscious. That memory is really useful right now, and I couldn't remember where I'd put it. You and me, pal, says the subconscious, delighted to .. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 37d8551 | I'm just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| c12028a | Artemis landed on the body heap and blinked the mud from his eyes. Someone, or something, stood naked before him, an ethereal figure glowing with divine light from head to foot. It reached out a shining hand and spoke in a deep movie promo voice: "Pull my finger." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 2a3ed55 | Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?" | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 0a27db0 | I can tell you what love means, dictionary-wise, all the synonyms and so forth. And I can tell you all about endorphins and synapses and muscle memory. But ardour's resonance in the heart is a mystery to me. I'm a computer, Arthur." Arthur hid his disappointment with the traditional brisk rubbing of hands and stiffening of upper lip. "Of course. No problem." "I am made to live for ever but you are made to live." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 0de3185 | The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred percent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 32e57b7 | Inside the there was not a single passenger who had not been substantially altered by the journey. This was partly the fault of the space itself, as the sleeve of dark matter is largely an emotional construct and can serve as an accelerant for feelings that may otherwise have taken years to develop. For a being of the light, gazing even for a moment into the heart of dark space has an effect equivalent to a dozen near-death experiences. I.. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| d439a55 | Wowbagger felt Trillian squeeze his arm and his anxiety drained away. He looked at her. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 4aa301a | It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine--along with his dashing teacher, of course. They get married and name their firstborn after the aforementioned dashing teacher. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| d8f2544 | No1 stared into his captor's eyes. 'I said, I want to talk to Qweffor.' Abbot heard him that time, because the voice wasn't No1's. It was a voice of pure magic, layered with undeniable power. Abbot blinked. 'I'll... eh... see if he's in.' It was too late for compliance: No1 wasn't about to rein in his power now. He sent a magical probe into Abbot's brain via the horns. The horns glowed bright blue and then began shedding large brittle flake.. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 8ed42a3 | evolution had stripped them of this power. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 45b91a4 | She could see the pollution in them, bleaching their skin white and giving them red sores on their backs. And although she smiled, her heart was breaking. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| f91a996 | Sir Robert de Vere, younger brother of John de Vere, the Lancastrian Earl of Oxford, is the most interesting of these men hand-picked by Jasper. | Terry Breverton | ||
| 54e4dc3 | DOWN A PEG (OR TWO) Humbled. An admiral flew his personal standard at the highest point of the mast, attached by rope to one of a series of pegs at its base. If a more senior admiral came aboard, the original standard would be taken down a peg or two to make room for the new flag. DRESSING | Terry Breverton | ||
| 2cdec9f | POSH Before air-conditioning, cabins on the side of ocean liners facing the sun became unbearably hot. Thus richer passengers paid a premium to have their tickets on the P&O Line from England to India stamped "Port Out--Starboard Home." So p.o.s.h. became a synonym for someone who was upper class. PULL" | Terry Breverton | ||
| 682d126 | Well | H. Jay Riker | ||
| 6cff579 | It represents a real point of consensus we haven't got now, and a lot of people were willing to give up things they wanted so they could get that agreement. It was a point in human history where all of Union agreed to a set of priorities, and now we'll either prove that agreement still binds everybody, or we'll prove somebody with enough guns can run everything at any given moment; and that means no peace, even for them. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 160f5c8 | That's why the forms matter. People have to see things done by the rules. We've got to make people feel safe again and make them believe that compromises are going to be binding. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| a3eb890 | We cannot say what we would have been, but we can still say what we will be. We are making up that sentence as we go, and we shall never be through with that statement. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 461e730 | It's the being there; the working of it; the feel of moving through what could surprise you at any moment. It's being a dust speck in that scale and pushing your way through all that Empty on your own terms, that no world can do and nothing spinning around one. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| c778483 | A lot of new money-- paid out in the least educated provinces, to elect fools who'll take orders, who can only see ways to entrench themselves and make sure contracts go to the right companies. Some of these fools are evident, and shrewd country-folk keep voting them in because the powers in their districts might buy one ten times worse and far more subtle. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 305b94f | It was a scientific success, bringing back data enough to keep the analysts busy for years... but there was no glib, slick way to explain the full meaning of its observations in layman's terms. In public relations the mission was a failure; the public, seeking to understand on their own terms, looked for material benefit, treasure, riches, dramatic findings. | sensationalism | C.J. Cherryh | |
| 64c8cd1 | Unquestioning believers who thought they questioned everything, unhearing believers who heard nothing that in the least degree questioned the tenets of their sacred quest toward a salvation they predetermined to exist. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 4553b6c | That's the trouble getting involved in politics, nobody wears a name badge! | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| c349f05 | Don't mourn might-have-beens . Magic can't work backwards , only forward . I taught you better than that . | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 7a853e1 | But it was safety he had found at Uwen's back, at long last, after long running. Uwen offered him protection, a trusted, a kindly presence, strong enough to chase the shadows for him. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 363e082 | I will give you the hearts of your enemies. | kif | C.J. Cherryh | |
| 9935f08 | I LOVE GETTING BILLS ... It means I have the ability to pay them.. I LOVE PAYING MY BILLS TOO ... It means that prosperity is flowing in and out, in and out, in and out, like the air that I breathe. | money prosperity | Elizabeth Richardson | |
| 1ecab3b | Going back to the 1700s, "liberal" meant interested in safeguarding the rights of the individual against the state; this was back when most states were monarchies and there were no bills of rights and the state could do to individuals as it pleased. In other words, "liberal," then, was kind of conservative as we would understand it today: rooted in individual liberty. But by the 1880s, liberalism would begin to concern itself not just with .. | Michael Tomasky | ||
| 85dbb2e | I say I have made it a rule not to preach. However, anyone who is 101 has earned the right to break her own rules. Once in a while, at least. And so, I am going to give you one piece of advice. Pause once a day and relish the moment. Look around. Notice the colours, the smells and the sounds. Take them in, for that moment will pass and no one can say what the next moment will bring. I know this better than most. | Bill Richardson | ||
| 4b13c72 | It was as if that day was so dark that my mind folded in on itself, protectively, the way a daisy will at night. | Bill Richardson | ||
| b700ad4 | Below us lay a valley white with snow. It was criss-crossed with lines, like a great cupped palm. But not even an expert seer would have had time to read the story of our future. Before we could get our bearings, my feet had quit the ground. Suddenly we were airborne and flying fast, carving a path between the rolling snow below and the glittering galaxies above. | Bill Richardson | ||
| ad0a739 | Tout a son vrai loyer dans ce monde. Il y a deux procureurs generaux, l'un a votre porte qui chatie les delits contre la societe; la nature est l'autre. Celle-ci connait de tous les vices qui echappent aux lois. | Denis Diderot | ||
| a2e7336 | Rasplata v etom mire nastupaet vsegda. Est' dva general'nykh prokurora: odin - tot, kto stoit u vashikh dverei i nakazyvaet za prostupki protiv obshchestva, drugoi - sama priroda. Ei izvestny vse poroki, uskol'zaiushchie ot zakonov. | Denis Diderot | ||
| 5e17956 | Monsieur me prepare le plus triste avenir; que deviendrai-je quand je n'aurai plus rien a dire? - Tu recommenceras. - Jacques, recommencer! Le contraire est ecrit la-haut; et s'il m'arrivait de recommencer, je ne pourrais m'empecher de m'ecrier: "Ah! si ton grand-pere t'entendait!..." et je regretterais le baillon." | Denis Diderot | ||
| ac0e429 | dwr l`ql khTr byn lmjnyn | Denis Diderot | ||
| eb16b59 | l tdf` musbqan 'bdan dh 'rdta 'n l tlq~ khdm@ syy'@ | Denis Diderot | ||
| 6ff8aea | lys mn lns mn yhw~ lmshy 'kthr mn l`urj | Denis Diderot | ||
| 0ae3623 | As I listened to him describing the scene of the procurer seducing the young girl, I found myself torn between two conflicting emotions, between a powerful desire to laugh and an overwhelming surge of indignation. I was in agony. Again and again a roar of laughter prevented my rage bursting forth; again and again the rage rising in my heart became a roar of laughter. I was dumbfounded by such shrewdness and such depravity; by such soundness.. | philosophy scoundrel | Denis Diderot | |
| 07038c2 | Ik luister naar hem, en als hij de scene van de koppelaar en het meisje dat verleid wordt voordraagt, word ik door twee tegengestelde opwellingen aangegrepen, ik weet niet of ik moet lachen of kwaadworden. Ik heb het er moeilijk mee: tien keer onderdrukt een schaterlach mijn woede, tien keer eindigt mijn diepe verontwaardiging in een schaterlach. Ik ben geheel van streek door zoveel scherpzinnigheid en laaghartigheid, door de afwisseling va.. | Denis Diderot | ||
| c2a8999 | Ce sont les quatre avant-gardes du genre humain allant aux quatre points cardinaux du progres, Diderot vers le beau, Turgot vers l'utile, Voltaire vers le vrai, Rousseau vers le juste. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1cbc292 | En las batallas perdidas, la ultima defensa es la indiferencia | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 65c1fe7 | denouement. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 7064298 | Esta usted conmigo? ?Hasta ese fin del mundo, que quien no nos dice que pueda estar a la vuelta de la esquina? | Carlos Ruiz Zafón |