Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by forsooth

better they eat our women than our brains

?

Wait... are they Zombie Martians?

BOb

[gmw]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Wait... are they Zombie Martians?

BOb

That's the next apocalypse. When the last one failed they took back samples of what we're all reading - reasoning that that must be why we beat them - and so now they're making plans to attack us with zombies, werewolves and vampires.

[forsooth]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Wait... are they Zombie Martians?

BOb

sometimes some places only tv at night old bad tv series from America.
old horror is great
one series had martians in metal drums put there for storage disposal by military after 1st invasion
drums leaked
martians got out
could put finger inside human skull read human memories
martian finger connect with brain tissue
form bridge
also take human form
earth saved because pure neo nazi martians came and fought
first martians from drums
they were not pure martian enough
I moved on in work
missed last episodes
guess earth saved

or ?

[kennyc]

"So on a not unpleasant day in March, she rose in the dark in the morning, even before the day had any sort of character, to give herself plenty of time to bathe, eat, lay out money for the bus, dress, listen to the spirituals on the radio. She was eighty-six years old, and had learned that life was all chaos and chaos even in the most innocent of moments. Offer a crust of bread to a sick bird and you often drew back a bloody finger."
- Edward P. Jones from Marie

[kennyc]

I like trees because they seem more resigned to
the way they have to live than other things do.

-Willa Cather

[gmw]

Originally Posted by kennyc

I like trees because they seem more resigned to
the way they have to live than other things do.

-Willa Cather

A curious quote. I like trees too, but I can't say I ever really looked at them in that way. Is that from one of her novels?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by gmw

A curious quote. I like trees too, but I can't say I ever really looked at them in that way. Is that from one of her novels?

I saw it on The Writer's Almanac this morning, not sure specifically where it's from.

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/


apparently from O' Pioneers
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1001...esigned-to-the

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200812.O_Pioneers_

Oh and look who's rated it 5 stars, one of our favorite 'strangershere'

[deannah]

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are illustrations ... from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. - Christopher Reeve

"Quotes for the Journey Through Life" - Chris Dyer

[gmw]

Originally Posted by kennyc

I saw it on The Writer's Almanac this morning, not sure specifically where it's from. [...]

apparently from O' Pioneers [...]

Thanks for that.

[maianhvk]

"This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft."

"Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him.

"Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child alright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?"

"This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things."

"No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart's beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day?"

-- Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin.

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by kennyc

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Oh and look who's rated it 5 stars, one of our favorite 'strangershere'

Not my absolute favorite Willa Cather, though it probably comes in a close second to One of Ours.

Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

Not my absolute favorite Willa Cather, though it probably comes in a close second to One of Ours.

Thanks! Free download on Amazon.

[BenG]

One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive — it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.
Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

[astrangerhere]

We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.

Ngaio Marsh, on writing, as quoted in Ngaio Marsh: A Life by Margaret Lewis

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

Ngaio Marsh, on writing, as quoted in Ngaio Marsh: A Life by Margaret Lewis