Favorite Literary Quotes (short ones!)
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“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” -Robert Benchley
Sorry to break the dog quotes, and someone already beat me to a Tolkien quote, but this is sorta along the same vein of dogs' loyalty...
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
OK... I CANNOT resist this one:
"While fate's clouds gathered ominously on my horizon, all my metallic-blue eyes perceived were fair skies."
No, I did not make this up.
It might seem to be from something by Stephen Leacock, or maybe P.G. Wodehouse.
But it's from a modern author, and a hugely commercially successful one at that:
It's from The Loch by Steve Alten.
Don't ask how I know this, or why.
"While fate's clouds gathered ominously on my horizon, all my metallic-blue eyes perceived were fair skies."
No, I did not make this up.
It might seem to be from something by Stephen Leacock, or maybe P.G. Wodehouse.
But it's from a modern author, and a hugely commercially successful one at that:
It's from The Loch by Steve Alten.
Don't ask how I know this, or why.
Louise
"every little breeze..."
Fun Fact: 40% of all statistics are wrong.
"every little breeze..."
Fun Fact: 40% of all statistics are wrong.
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There I was, facing an entire cast of characters, and it was just me in the studio.
It was exhausting. It was always exhausting.
- Barbara Rosenblat - "The Art of Recording Audio Books"
It was exhausting. It was always exhausting.
- Barbara Rosenblat - "The Art of Recording Audio Books"
Truth exists for the wise, Beauty for a feeling heart: They belong to each other. - Beethoven
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"Kind reader, if this our performance doth in aught fall short of promise, blame not our good intent, but our unperfect wit."
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Oh goodness, I hated that movie!
Devorah Allen
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A Cabinet of Gems, Sir Philip Sidney and George MacDonald
Out of town May 27-June 2.
Readers wanted for:
A Cabinet of Gems, Sir Philip Sidney and George MacDonald
I love it more with every viewing.
Louise
"every little breeze..."
Fun Fact: 40% of all statistics are wrong.
"every little breeze..."
Fun Fact: 40% of all statistics are wrong.
maxgal wrote: ↑November 6th, 2021, 6:16 pmI love it more with every viewing.
And here's another from the same masterpiece (one of so many quotable quotes):
"I will talk to you of art, for there is nothing else to talk about, for there is nothing else."
Louise
"every little breeze..."
Fun Fact: 40% of all statistics are wrong.
"every little breeze..."
Fun Fact: 40% of all statistics are wrong.
"And if all else was falling away from Oleron, gladly he was letting it go. So do we all when our Fair Ones beckon....
[P]erhaps there lurks within us all the time a heartless sprite who is never fooled; but in the end all falls away.
She beckons, beckons, and all goes...."
-- "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions
[P]erhaps there lurks within us all the time a heartless sprite who is never fooled; but in the end all falls away.
She beckons, beckons, and all goes...."
-- "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions
Louise
"every little breeze..."
Fun Fact: 40% of all statistics are wrong.
"every little breeze..."
Fun Fact: 40% of all statistics are wrong.
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“Þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg”
Translates roughly as "That was overcome, so may this be." It's the refrain of an Old English poem called Deor, and was my inspiration for getting through graduate school many years ago (see http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=Deor for the whole poem with footnotes).
Can be applied to just about any situation...
Cheers,
Winnifred
Translates roughly as "That was overcome, so may this be." It's the refrain of an Old English poem called Deor, and was my inspiration for getting through graduate school many years ago (see http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=Deor for the whole poem with footnotes).
Can be applied to just about any situation...
Cheers,
Winnifred
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"If you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star .... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things, and weren't so lazy."
Miss Tick, a witch in Terry Pratcett's "Wee Free Men"
Peter
Miss Tick, a witch in Terry Pratcett's "Wee Free Men"
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