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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 033ba9f | Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Dorothy Parker, and Yogi Berra are quotation superstars. Personas of this type are so vibrant and attractive that they become hosts for quotations they never uttered. A remark formulated by a lesser-known figure is attached to a famous host. The relationship is symbiotic and often enhances the popularity of both the host and the quotation. | Garson O'Toole | ||
| bcee70b | Artemus Ward: Respected Sir--My wife was afflicted with the pipsywipsy in the head for nearly eight years. The doctors all gave her up. But in a fortunate moment she went to one of your lectures, and commenced recovering very rapidly. She is now in perfect health. We like your lectures very much. Please send me a box of them. They are purely vegetable. Send me another five dollar bill and I'll write you another certificate twice as long as .. | Garson O'Toole | ||
| 5a1044a | How did I begin investigating the dubious origins of familiar quotations? I will tell you: In the 1990s I developed an enthusiasm for electronic books. | Garson O'Toole | ||
| 6638b68 | Interestingly, over a long period, a popular expression can shift ascriptions multiple times as the fame of individuals expands and contracts. You may be shocked by how fragile information is, and I fear it is only getting worse. | Garson O'Toole | ||
| 6dd2282 | You may be shocked by how fragile information is, and I fear it is only getting worse. | Garson O'Toole | ||
| 8279db4 | In 1996, as discussed earlier, Gates denied that he made the remark. He also questioned the existence of any solid reference for the statement: | Garson O'Toole | ||
| fe059dd | Using an Internet search engine to learn more about these sayings can be both a revelatory and exasperating experience. Search engines contain link after link to websites with faulty information, repetitive text, and incomplete data. Moving beyond this melange of misinformation is nearly impossible for the average web user. It's no wonder, then, that such mistakes are perpetuated and duplicated to the extreme. Many truth-seekers have strugg.. | Garson O'Toole | ||
| 726caf9 | FOR SALE, BABY SHOES, NEVER WORN." A" | Garson O'Toole | ||
| 828aace | It astonished me later to find how the readers found Warrender's war record so convincing and full when I had said so little - one real war veteran of Burma wrote to say how realistic he found it - but since then I've come to learn for myself how little one needs, in the art of writing, to convey the lot, and how a lot of words, on the other hand, can convey so little. | Muriel Spark | ||
| ad8fee7 | El cursillo aconsejaba a la mujer trabajadora que quisiera mantener la compostura repetir dos veces al dia las siguientes frases: | Muriel Spark | ||
| aaa2e1d | partially satisfied by grazing on the first few pages of several books, and as a consequence, there are half-chewed novels lying all over the place. At least, I'm presuming they're lying all over the place; I seem to have temporarily lost most of them. When the World Cup is over, and we clear away the piles of betting slips and wall charts, some of them will, presumably, reappear. I wrote in this column recently about Muriel Spark's novels,.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c297a0e | I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,' Miss Brodie had told them at the time. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 864af40 | there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...] | Muriel Spark | ||
| 84184e8 | If I had my life over I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death ... without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs. - Inspector Mortimer in Muriel Spark's Memento Mori | Oliver Burkeman | ||
| 9320442 | On the first day of his holiday Laurence Manders woke to hear his grandmother's voice below. 'I'll have a large wholemeal. I've got my grandson stopping for a week, who's on the BBC. That's my daughter's boy, Lady Manders. He won't eat white bread, one of his fads.' Laurence shouted from the window, 'Grandmother, I adore white bread and I have no fads. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 3c42ffd | Sandy felt warmly towards Miss Brodie at these times when she saw how she was misled in her idea of Rose. It was then that Miss Brodie looked beautiful and fragile, just as dark heavy Edinburgh itself could suddenly be changed into a floating city when the light was a special pearly white and fell upon one of the gracefully fashioned streets. In the same way Miss Brodie's masterful features became clear and sweet to Sandy when viewed in the.. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 0706e97 | El gigantesco murmullo organico de la multitud, en nada semejante a la voz de un ser animado, sino mas bien como una catarata o una alteracion geologica, se propagaba por los parques y el Mall. Solo los hombres de las ambulancias Saint John, firmes ante sus camiones, conservaban su identidad. Los miembros de la familia real alzaron el brazo una vez mas, hicieron un amago de marcharse, remolonearon y volvieron a saludar, desapareciendo defin.. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 02d0ada | A work of art is like living people. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 80ac473 | In those days, among the people I mixed with, one had friends almost by predestination. There they were, like your winter coat and your meagre luggage. You didn't think of discarding them just because you didn't altogether like them. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 843c715 | prime. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 3bfa339 | In this oblique way, she began to sense what went to the makings of Miss Brodie who had elected herself to grace in so particular a way and with more exotic suicidal enchantment than if she had simply taken to drink like other spinsters who couldn't stand it any more. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 1358442 | you will have the benefit of my experiences in Italy. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 9cc62a9 | After nearly collapsing under the pressures of poverty, loneliness, and an addiction to Dexedrine, Spark sought help for her drug use and began to work seriously on a first novel, The Comforters (1957), partly with the financial and emotional support of the novelist Graham Greene. Though a late fiction writer, Spark began producing novels and stories at a rapid pace. In 1961 she wrote The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, widely considered her mas.. | Muriel Spark | ||
| d76c8ba | This deadly body of mine can dance, too. | death | Muriel Spark | |
| 98baf7b | I have frequently told you, and the holidays just past have convinced me, that my prime has truly begun. One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 1e68099 | If anyone comes along," said Miss Brodie, "in the course of the following lesson, remember that it is the hour for English grammar. Meantime I will tell you a little of my life when I was younger than I am now, though six years older than the man himself." | Muriel Spark | ||
| d7fd54d | Muriel Spark. If | The Paris Review | ||
| 1e788d4 | Her name and memory, after her death, flitted from mouth to mouth like swallows in summer, and in the winter they were gone. | Muriel Spark | ||
| b204963 | Oye, Jane, deberias cobrarles la cantidad de tiempo libre que le dedicas a ese trabajo. --El mundo de los libros es ante todo altruista --decia Jane. Siempre se referia al negocio de la edicion como "el mundo de los libros". Solia andar mal de dinero, asi que por querer ahorrar unos chelines para el contador de gas de la calefaccion, no podia, segun ella, ponerse a dieta en invierno, justo cuando habia que mantener la habitacion caliente ad.. | Muriel Spark | ||
| ec81507 | I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book. | free-advice | Muriel Spark | |
| 1bcd6d8 | I can tell you that if there's nothing wrong with you except fat it is easy to get thin. You eat and drink the same as always, only half. If you are handed a plate of food, leave half; if you have to help yourself, take half. After a while, if you are a perfectionist, you can consume half of that again ... On the question of will-power, if that is a factor, you should think of will-power as something that never exists in the present tense, .. | humour dieting-humour easiest-diet eat-half weight-loss-humour will-power weight-loss | Muriel Spark | |
| d71da7f | I have long wanted to know the Greek language, and this scheme will also serve to impress your knowledge on your own minds. John Stuart Mill used to rise at dawn to learn Greek at the age of five, and what John Stuart Mill could do as an infant at dawn, I too can do on a Saturday afternoon in my prime. | Muriel Spark | ||
| abc93ca | Pictures inside frames,' said Dave. 'That's really all there is to it/ said Tom...; | Muriel Spark | ||
| 3aaff10 | Sandy was fascinated by the economy of Teddy Lloyd's method, as she had been four years earlier by Miss Brodie''s variations on her love story, when she had attached to her first, war-time lover the attributes of the art master and the singing master who had then newly entered her orbit. Teddy Lloyd's method of presentation was similar, it was economical, and it always seemed afterwards to Sandy that where there was a choice of various cour.. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 8f87036 | And with an inventiveness no one would have suspected from the standard of Stanley's school work: | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 7c7f582 | your own now. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| a5bf998 | work: | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 65b9c52 | Thus the motivation, energy and drive for holiness are all found in the reality and power of God's grace in Christ. And so if I am to make any progress in sanctification, the place where I must always begin is the gospel of the mercy of God to me in Christ Jesus. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| f18ab37 | When the benefits are seen as abstractable from the Benefactor the issue becomes: 1) For the preacher: "How can I offer these benefits?" and 2) For the hearer: "How can I get these benefits into my life?" But when it is seen that Christ and his benefits are inseparable and that the latter are not abstractable commodities, the primary question becomes: 1) For the preacher: "How do I preach Christ himself?" and 2) For the hearer: "How do I ge.. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 507a549 | Matthew 22:4 ("Everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast"), he addresses the issue of "those to whom the offer is made": It is not one or two, or some few that are called, not the great only, nor the small only, not the holy only, nor the profane only, but ye are all bidden; the call comes to all and every one of you in particular, poor and rich, high and low, holy and profane. Then Durham continues: We make this offer to all of you, t.. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| a0556c4 | In Christ we are no longer dominated by the flesh, but by the Spirit; but we are not yet delivered from the flesh. So long as this eschatological tension exists for the believer, so long will there be--in Calvin's view--a gap between the definition of faith and the actual experience of the believer: | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 659746d | Repentance then is not the punctiliar decision of a moment but a radical heart transformation that reverses the whole direction of life. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 8bbf981 | Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace. . . . By it a sinner, out of the sight and sense of the odiousness of sin, not only of its danger, but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins, as contrary to the holy nature and righteous law of God, and upon the apprehension of his mercy in Christ to such as are penitent, so grieves for and hates his sins as to turn from them all unto God, purposing and endeavoring to walk with him i.. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 0e516cd | Repentance is suffused with faith; otherwise it is legal. But then without repentance, faith would be no more than imagination. | Sinclair B. Ferguson |