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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 40173fa | The true detective [...] starts in the center of the maze. Crimes make their way through to him. Never forget: you uncover your heart at the heart of it. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 118a0a7 | At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 611bac2 | He ran toward the light. When he passed the corpse of his dead friend, he began to weep again. He picked up his sword. He tried to smash a crystal window with its hilt. The corridor oppressed him. Beyond the windows, the dead brains drifted. He ran on. 'You should have done it,'whispered Birkin Grif in the soft spaces of his skull; and, 'OUROBUNDOS!'giggled the insane door, as he fell through it and in to the desert wind. His cloak cracking.. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 7e75a9f | The first time we spoke, Mr. Ambraysas told me, 'Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. | identity negotiable prison | M. John Harrison | |
| 529ef59 | The true sporting spirit has always something religious about it. | André Maurois | ||
| 2880326 | Of course it's bound to cause a great deal of very disagreeable talk. Especially 'round the church! Are you gentlemen Episcopalian? PORTER: No, ma'am. Catholic, Miss Collins. MISS COLLINS: Oh. Well, I suppose you know in England we're known as the English Catholic church. We have direct Apostolic succession through St. Paul who christened the Early Angles--which is what the original English people were called--and established the English br.. | Tennessee Williams | ||
| 6b2c725 | How can we expect that the illiterate and benighted child of want will remain faithful . . . when he in whose breast the lamp of science brightly burns is found derelict? | Paul Collins | ||
| 33ffa25 | William pondered what his next discovery might be. He knew that readers were vexed by the possibility that their Bard might have been Catholic. There is, after all, that suspicious reference to Purgatory by the ghost of Hamlet's father. In an era when anti-Catholic legislation was favorably viewed by many, such papist skullduggery was improper in a national literary hero. And so, on Christmas Day of 1794, William presented his nation with a.. | Paul Collins | ||
| 48adf52 | In 1999, Emily Rosa published her paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was titled "A Close Look at Therapeutic Touch." Unlike Mehmet Oz, Rosa wasn't a cardiovascular surgeon. In fact, she had never graduated from medical school. Or college. Or high school. Or elementary school. When it came time to write her paper, she had asked her mother, a nurse, to help. That's because Emily was only nine years old. Her experimen.. | Paul A. Offit | ||
| 7182f09 | Lord, I'm probably not mature enough to ride a motorcycle. Or vote. Or marry. Or make assumptions about neighbors from an unfamiliar block. I am a petulant child. In the words of Saint Paul, it's time to put away my childish things, like reasonless rage, and enjoy the grace of a random act of kindness. --Mark Collins | Guideposts | ||
| 5a5d469 | First, the ambiguity of the genitive "of/about Jesus Christ" (Iesou Christou) is best left as just that. Commentators disagree on whether this is a subjective or objective genitive. The rich flexibility of the genitive here likely accommodates both the sense of a Gospel about Jesus Christ (so a heading over the book) and the gospel from or by Jesus Christ, that is, the message of the good news about God's kingdom that has come from and thro.. | Jonathan T. Pennington | ||
| 8f32762 | I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover." | Paul Collins | ||
| f6e37be | It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books...It is only by books that most men and women can lift themselves above the sordidness of life. No books! Yet for the greater part of humanity that is the common lot. We may, in fact, divide our fellow-creatures into two branches - those who read books and those who do not. | Paul Collins | ||
| 8df1a0e | went off during Sunday school. Addie Mae Collins's sister, Sarah, had to have an eye removed, and another girl was blinded. In the unrest that followed the bombing, two other African American children died. Sixteen-year-old Johnny Robinson was shot to death by police, and thirteen-year-old Virgil Wade was murdered by two white boys. Although these may be nothing more than names in a book to you now, you must remember that these children wer.. | Christopher Paul Curtis | ||
| 97f8287 | My dinosaurs weren't even in their graves for three hours before someone rolled their rocks away. Maybe it was a lot easier for a bunch of angels to get a million dinosaurs to heaven than it was to get the saver of the whole world there, but I wished they'd given me a couple more hours. | Christopher Paul Curtis | ||
| 33ec822 | When I left her office, I felt like she'd gut-punched me, brushed me off, slapped me back and forth, gave me a cool compress to put on my cheeks, cold-cocked me with a stiff uppercut to the jaw, picked me up, brushed me off again, then kicked me in the seat of my pants as she handed me a piece of cake and showed me the door. Being a reporter isn't as easy as it looks. | reporters | Christopher Paul Curtis | |
| 5e9e38b | She always blamed him for bringing her all the way from Alabama to Michigan, a state she called | Christopher Paul Curtis | ||
| 2d0dd8d | Como en casi todos los temas que me apasionan, no tengo nada particular que decir. | Mario Bellatin | ||
| e7ada7b | A married man is only half a man. | André Maurois | ||
| c1caede | 7] The Shadows Code In the 1930's a mysterious crime-fighter called the Shadow was the hero of a popular pulp magazine and an even more popular radio show. Dressed all in black, the Shadow could glide unseen through the darkness to battle the forces of evil. Stories about the Shadow, written by Maxwell Grant (pseudonym for the Shadow's creator, Walter B. Gibson), often contained curious codes. This cipher, from a novelette called The Chain .. | Martin Gardner | ||
| 71624b8 | XXII | Martin Gardner | ||
| 3541045 | At St. John's College, Annapolis, where Robert Hutchins' educational views have been most successfully practiced, they make, it is true, a great hubbub about science. The school's catalog boasts that more mathematics and laboratory work are required than at any other college, and there is even a pretentious listing of all pieces of apparatus used by the student, down to such items as compass, calipers, and ruler. But so heavy is the emphasi.. | Martin Gardner | ||
| 184d846 | The Polybius Checkerboard Polybius was an ancient Greek writer who first proposed a method of substituting different two-digit numbers for each letter. The alphabet is written inside a 5-by-5 square matrix which has numbered rows and columns: | Martin Gardner | ||
| 7207c39 | A married man seeks to please his wife and not God. | André Maurois | ||
| c99af48 | Reflexione entonces en la cada vez mas complicada relacion entre los hombres y los animales. En las premisas actuales. En los deberes que se tienen que cumplir en estos tiempos. En preceptos que algunos anos atras nos hubieran parecido inimaginables. Por ejemplo, en el hecho de adoptar animales y no comprarlos como era lo habitual. El de esterilizar tanto a las hembras como a los machos. Olvidar por completo mutilarlos inutilmente --orejas.. | Mario Bellatin | ||
| 7032dc3 | En los hospitales los trataban con desprecio. Muchas veces no querian recibirlos. Fue entonces cuando me nacio cierta compasion y comence a recoger a alguna que otra victima. Tal vez de esa manera se fue formando este Moridero que tengo la desgracia de regentar. | Mario Bellatin | ||
| f3ab24d | The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence. | B. K. S. Iyengar | ||
| f2a660b | We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. | André Maurois | ||
| b575271 | Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything. | B. K. S. Iyengar | ||
| c7b3f08 | The whole reason of this War is because the Germans have no sense of humor. | André Maurois | ||
| f5163f0 | Whoever wants to be a hero ought to drink brandy. | André Maurois | ||
| 8c2af5f | A gentleman is never in a hurry. | André Maurois | ||
| bbbb48c | Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on. | André Maurois | ||
| e1109b9 | Style is the outcome of constraint. | André Maurois | ||
| 79df913 | Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal. | André Maurois | ||
| d4a67e1 | It's better to arouse pity than envy. | André Maurois | ||
| 83ee948 | Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work. | André Maurois | ||
| 94446cc | Sometimes with men, their pride can override their hearts..." | André Maurois | ||
| ea027ca | People are tired of so much damn fraud. | Andrés Manuel López Obrador | ||
| 025678f | My work comes first, reasons for it follow. | Andy Goldsworthy | ||
| f0699d5 | You can't ever forget how precarious and humbling running money really is. | Andy Kessler (author) | ||
| 88f8766 | It was country dark. He closed his eyes, feeling safe. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 9a1eed3 | But being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her. Remember that! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c60cf51 | love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |