Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[Ninjalawyer]

Originally Posted by BenG

“I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Reverse of the Medal

That's going on my business cards.

[kennyc]

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
- Rudyard Kipling

[kennyc]

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The author of The Lord of the Rings was born on this day 1/3/1892.


Good words to ponder.

[Apache]

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day,
Robert Frost
I was rereading The Secret of Annexe 3 by Colin Dexter and chapter 25 starts with this quote. It is apt with me since I am self employed and unfortunately very very true.
Apache

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Apache

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day,
Robert Frost
I was rereading The Secret of Annexe 3 by Colin Dexter and chapter 25 starts with this quote. It is apt with me since I am self employed and unfortunately very very true.
Apache

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[astrangerhere]

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story...your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for a while, we're less alone.

- Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

[kennyc]

Love that first one!

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Love that first one!

Love it now that the typo has been fixed... though --> thought. I should not take breaks from grading to type it seems. Lost my grasp on the language there for a second.

[guanaco]

"But" is the most whore word I know. "I love you, but..."; "It could be, but..."; "It is not serious, but...". Do you realize? A shitty word that serves to bomb what it was, or what it could be, but it is not.

Ernesto Sacheri. The secret of her eyes.

[kennyc]

"Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens."
- Nicholson Baker
whose birthday is today and whose latest book is a collection of essays called "How the World Works" and is fortunately available as an ebook.

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by kennyc

"Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens."
- Nicholson Baker
whose birthday is today and whose latest book is a collection of essays called "How the World Works" and is fortunately available as an ebook.

And hey - so long as that solar charger holds up, you can have that electricity angle covered too.

[kennyc]

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
- Simone de Beauvoir

[kennyc]

(and one that's on my mind a lot lately)

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
- Joan Didion (The White Album)

[crich70]

I forget the title of the book where I read it originally.

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” – Arab proverb

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by crich70

I forget the title of the book where I read it originally.

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” – Arab proverb

I love that!