Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines. - Page 263

Bookpossum · 03-19-2019, 01:51 AM

Quote:

... anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall.

BenG · 05-01-2019, 11:12 AM

Crack, crack, old ship! so long as thou crackest, thou holdest! Well done!

~ Moby Dick, Herman Melville
CHAPTER 40, Midnight, Forecastle.

(my joints, getting up in the morning)

covingtoncat73 · 05-25-2019, 10:25 PM

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" by Tad Williams -

"'Why has this happened? Has everyone gone mad?'

'Everyone was mad already, my lady,' Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. 'It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.'"

BenG · 06-28-2019, 12:15 PM

Yesterday June 27 was Lottery Day.

"The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer at the end would amaze you." —Shirley Jackson

covingtoncat73 · 07-05-2019, 08:22 AM

"When we are electing government officials, it is not stupid to ask yourself, “If a plague broke out, do I think this person could navigate the country through those times, on a spiritual level, but also on a pragmatic one? Would they be able to calmly solve one problem, and then another one, and then the next one? Or wouhld bodies pile up in the streets?"

Jennifer Wright, Get Well Soon

covingtoncat73 · 08-01-2019, 12:33 PM

"At least the World will end, an event anticipated with great joy by many. It will end very soon, but not in the year 2000, which has come and gone. From that I conclude that God Almighty is not heavily into Numerology."
— Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

covingtoncat73 · 08-05-2019, 04:38 PM

Kurt Vonnegut again, preamble to Slaughterhouse Five.

Larla · 08-10-2019, 07:09 AM

In honor of the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's notable achievement, I give you a quote from an unnamed but famous feminist:

"If we can send a man to the moon; why can't we send them all"

Apache · 08-10-2019, 08:31 AM

My favorite quote was not from a book. Flip Wilson heard this in an airport and used it in his stand up.
"If you can fly this plane 3000 miles in the dark and find LA you can find my luggage."
Apache

covingtoncat73 · 09-24-2019, 10:25 AM

Every internship ever:

From "Early Riser: A Novel" by Jasper Fforde -

"‘I need a new Novice with a good memory to train up. Good career path. Exciting too. Lots of challenges. Bit of cash, extra pudding. Medium to high risk of death.’

‘What was the last bit again?’

‘Extra pudding.’

‘And after that?'

‘Coffee and mints?’

‘I meant on your list.’

‘Oh – medium to high risk of death.’"

covingtoncat73 · 09-27-2019, 11:09 AM

"You - any of you - are a mathematical long shot. Simply being born You is a very far chance. In fact there has never been another You.

Welcome to the biological pinnacle of your many ancestors' achievements. Imagine their sighs of disappointment & just be glad nobody has blown up the world yet this week."

~DNA_Jay on the 23 and Me forums

covingtoncat73 · 10-06-2019, 08:43 AM

From "Early Riser: A Novel" by Jasper Fforde -

"I’ve always been suspicious of game changers,’ she added. ‘Sometimes the game doesn’t need changing – or no one has a clear idea of which game will be changed, and for what and how much.’"

issybird · 10-08-2019, 03:07 PM

"Is a people that elects as its president an icon that has never read a book all that far away from burning books itself?"

–Joseph Roth, The Auto-da-Fé of the Mind (1933)

covingtoncat73 · 10-08-2019, 09:28 PM

A Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 2. Shakespeare

Officer. You here shall swear upon this sword of justice,
That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have1345
Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought
The seal'd-up oracle, by the hand deliver'd
Of great Apollo's priest; and that, since then,
You have not dared to break the holy seal
Nor read the secrets in't.1350
Cleomenes. [with Dion] All this we swear.
Leontes. Break up the seals and read.
Officer. [Reads]. Hermione is chaste;
Polixenes blameless; Camillo a true subject; Leontes
a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe truly begotten;1355
and the king shall live without an heir, if that
which is lost be not found.
Lords. Now blessed be the great Apollo!
Hermione. Praised!
Leontes. Hast thou read truth?1360
Officer. Ay, my lord; even so
As it is here set down.
Leontes. There is no truth at all i' the oracle:
The sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood.

covingtoncat73 · 10-12-2019, 04:22 PM

From "Early Riser: A Novel" by Jasper Fforde -

"‘Oh, hullo, Worthing,’ he said in a cheery manner. ‘How are things?’

'Outlook stormy with a chance of scattered death moving in randomly from all points of the compass.’"

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05-01-2019, 11:12 AM	#3932
BenG Home Guard Posts: 4,729 Karma: 86721650 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Alpha Ralpha Boulevard Device: Kindle Oasis 3G, iPhone 6	Crack, crack, old ship! so long as thou crackest, thou holdest! Well done! ~ Moby Dick, Herman Melville CHAPTER 40, Midnight, Forecastle. (my joints, getting up in the morning)

05-25-2019, 10:25 PM	#3933
covingtoncat73 Wizard Posts: 2,745 Karma: 83407757 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Lenovo Duet Chromebook, Moto e	Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" by Tad Williams - "'Why has this happened? Has everyone gone mad?' 'Everyone was mad already, my lady,' Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. 'It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.'"

06-28-2019, 12:15 PM	#3934
BenG Home Guard Posts: 4,729 Karma: 86721650 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Alpha Ralpha Boulevard Device: Kindle Oasis 3G, iPhone 6	Yesterday June 27 was Lottery Day. "The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer at the end would amaze you." —Shirley Jackson

07-05-2019, 08:22 AM	#3935
covingtoncat73 Wizard Posts: 2,745 Karma: 83407757 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Lenovo Duet Chromebook, Moto e	"When we are electing government officials, it is not stupid to ask yourself, “If a plague broke out, do I think this person could navigate the country through those times, on a spiritual level, but also on a pragmatic one? Would they be able to calmly solve one problem, and then another one, and then the next one? Or wouhld bodies pile up in the streets?" Jennifer Wright, Get Well Soon

08-01-2019, 12:33 PM	#3936
covingtoncat73 Wizard Posts: 2,745 Karma: 83407757 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Lenovo Duet Chromebook, Moto e	"At least the World will end, an event anticipated with great joy by many. It will end very soon, but not in the year 2000, which has come and gone. From that I conclude that God Almighty is not heavily into Numerology." — Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

08-05-2019, 04:38 PM	#3937
covingtoncat73 Wizard Posts: 2,745 Karma: 83407757 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Lenovo Duet Chromebook, Moto e	Kurt Vonnegut again, preamble to Slaughterhouse Five.

08-10-2019, 07:09 AM	#3938
Larla Addict Posts: 281 Karma: 5262189 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Katy, TX Device: Samsung Tab S5E 12" Tablet	In honor of the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's notable achievement, I give you a quote from an unnamed but famous feminist: "If we can send a man to the moon; why can't we send them all"

08-10-2019, 08:31 AM	#3939
Apache Readaholic Posts: 5,140 Karma: 90000000 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: South Georgia Device: Surface Pro 6 / Galaxy Tab A 8"	My favorite quote was not from a book. Flip Wilson heard this in an airport and used it in his stand up. "If you can fly this plane 3000 miles in the dark and find LA you can find my luggage." Apache

09-24-2019, 10:25 AM	#3940
covingtoncat73 Wizard Posts: 2,745 Karma: 83407757 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Lenovo Duet Chromebook, Moto e	Every internship ever: From "Early Riser: A Novel" by Jasper Fforde - "‘I need a new Novice with a good memory to train up. Good career path. Exciting too. Lots of challenges. Bit of cash, extra pudding. Medium to high risk of death.’ ‘What was the last bit again?’ ‘Extra pudding.’ ‘And after that?' ‘Coffee and mints?’ ‘I meant on your list.’ ‘Oh – medium to high risk of death.’"

09-27-2019, 11:09 AM	#3941
covingtoncat73 Wizard Posts: 2,745 Karma: 83407757 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Lenovo Duet Chromebook, Moto e	"You - any of you - are a mathematical long shot. Simply being born You is a very far chance. In fact there has never been another You. Welcome to the biological pinnacle of your many ancestors' achievements. Imagine their sighs of disappointment & just be glad nobody has blown up the world yet this week." ~DNA_Jay on the 23 and Me forums

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10-06-2019, 08:43 AM	#3942
covingtoncat73 Wizard Posts: 2,745 Karma: 83407757 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Lenovo Duet Chromebook, Moto e	From "Early Riser: A Novel" by Jasper Fforde - "I’ve always been suspicious of game changers,’ she added. ‘Sometimes the game doesn’t need changing – or no one has a clear idea of which game will be changed, and for what and how much.’"

10-08-2019, 03:07 PM	#3943
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 20,234 Karma: 222235366 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	"Is a people that elects as its president an icon that has never read a book all that far away from burning books itself?" –Joseph Roth, The Auto-da-Fé of the Mind (1933)

10-08-2019, 09:28 PM	#3944
covingtoncat73 Wizard Posts: 2,745 Karma: 83407757 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Lenovo Duet Chromebook, Moto e	A Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 2. Shakespeare Officer. You here shall swear upon this sword of justice, That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have1345 Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought The seal'd-up oracle, by the hand deliver'd Of great Apollo's priest; and that, since then, You have not dared to break the holy seal Nor read the secrets in't.1350 Cleomenes. [with Dion] All this we swear. Leontes. Break up the seals and read. Officer. [Reads]. Hermione is chaste; Polixenes blameless; Camillo a true subject; Leontes a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe truly begotten;1355 and the king shall live without an heir, if that which is lost be not found. Lords. Now blessed be the great Apollo! Hermione. Praised! Leontes. Hast thou read truth?1360 Officer. Ay, my lord; even so As it is here set down. Leontes. There is no truth at all i' the oracle: The sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood.

10-12-2019, 04:22 PM	#3945
covingtoncat73 Wizard Posts: 2,745 Karma: 83407757 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Lenovo Duet Chromebook, Moto e	From "Early Riser: A Novel" by Jasper Fforde - "‘Oh, hullo, Worthing,’ he said in a cheery manner. ‘How are things?’ 'Outlook stormy with a chance of scattered death moving in randomly from all points of the compass.’"