Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[kennyc]

"You have to die a few times before you can really live."
- Charles Bukowski

[covingtoncat73]

“The man walked past me and stopped, observing the blood running down my neck.

"Your injury. Let us tend to it." He looked out through the open doorway and silently gestured to someone out there. "Our world," he said, "is far more advanced than yours. For reasons you'll understand shortly."

A thin, bony, naked woman entered the room, carrying two small, white kittens. She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left.

"There," said the large man. "The kittens will make your sad go away.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

[covingtoncat73]

"SOCIETY IS DOOMED for one very simple reason: it takes dozens of men working months with millions of dollars in materials to build a building, but only one dumb-ass with a bomb to bring it down."
David Wong, John Dies at the End

[AlexBell]

'I know so well that human nature is human nature everywhere, whether under tile or thatch, and that in every specimen of human nature that breathes, vice and virtue are ever found blended, in smaller or greater proportions, and that the proportion is not determined by station.'

Charlotte Brontë, in Shirley

[WT Sharpe]

In the Preface to the Poetry of Byron (1881), the English poet and essayist Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) wrote the following about Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain."

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

In the Preface to the Poetry of Byron (1881), the English poet and essayist Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) wrote the following about Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain."

Thank you, that was marvellous.

[WT Sharpe]

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have known no more than other men.
— John Aubrey (1616-1697), English writer, natural philosopher, and lover of antiquities. Brief Lives, "Thomas Hobbes" (1690).

[covingtoncat73]

From an 1855 Picayune via the America's Historical Newspapers database:

"A blind young Syrian, who is seeking means to educate himself in this country, arrived in New York a few days ago. Provision has been made for him at the Asylum for the Blind in that city."

Headline: [Washington; New York; Mr. Fabens[; Article Type: News/Opinion
Times-Picayune, published as The Daily Picayune. (New Orleans, Louisiana) • 05-09-1855 • Page 5

[kennyc]

"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
- Margaret Atwood

Happy Birthday Margaret Atwood

(goodreads quote of the day)

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

From an 1855 Picayune via the America's Historical Newspapers database:

"A blind young Syrian, who is seeking means to educate himself in this country, arrived in New York a few days ago. Provision has been made for him at the Asylum for the Blind in that city."

Headline: [Washington; New York; Mr. Fabens[; Article Type: News/Opinion
Times-Picayune, published as The Daily Picayune. (New Orleans, Louisiana) • 05-09-1855 • Page 5

There is a big ongoing conversation about Syrian refugees in Canada now.

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by kennyc

"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
- Margaret Atwood

Happy Birthday Margaret Atwood

(goodreads quote of the day)

[BenG]

“He realised at once that a mistake had been made: he had been sent the wrong hangover. Somewhere in northern Rhodesia there was a bull elephant who had got drunk on fermented marula fruit, rampaged through a nearby village, and fallen asleep in a ditch, and was now pleasantly surprised to find itself greeting the day with only the mild headache that follows a couple of bottles of good red wine… Perhaps if he got in touch with the relevant authorities he could get this unfortunate little mix-up corrected, but he would have to do so without moving his head or opening his eyes. Otherwise he would die from the pain.”
― Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by bfisher

There is a big ongoing conversation about Syrian refugees in Canada now.

Indeed! I understand the beautiful province of B.C. is taking some.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by kennyc

"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
- Margaret Atwood

Happy Birthday Margaret Atwood

(goodreads quote of the day)

I would give you Atwood K but it won't let me!

[covingtoncat73]

"I need, like, 12 beginets. There's been a death."

~ the character Brooke in the pilot for 1 Mississippi.