It cannot rain but it pours. —JONATHAN SWIFT Oh,
Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. I don't need anything to read, I said. I'll just sit here and eavesdrop along with you.I thought you might sit on the mag, he sai...
Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.
Virginia was working in the garden, and her husband Leonard called out for her to come inside, that Hitler was just about to speak on the radio.
Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.
Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do, she murmured back. So they've invented a new acronym.
History was indeed controlled by blind forces, as well as character and courage and treachery and love. And accident and random chance. And stray bullets and telegrams and tips. And cats.
But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy, lie further off. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night’s Dream The
Books are an amazing thing. Anyone who thinks of them as an escape from reality or as something you should get your nose out of and go outside and play, or as merely a distraction or an amusement or a...
At first glance, this seems an improbable scenario due to both the Martians’ and Emily Dickinson’s dispositions. Dickinson was a recluse who didn’t meet anybody, preferring to hide upstairs when neigh...
Io sui ici en liu dami amo’ (‘I am here in place of a friend love’)
Three o’clock’s when every doubt and regret and guilty thought bubbles up out of your subconscious to plague you. ‘The dark night of the soul,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald called it.
There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.
Do you know the only way you can tell for sure the deer are there? Mel shook his head. By the wolves, he said.
‘I promise you calm seas,’ Sir Godfrey called, and raised his hands in benediction, ‘auspicious gales, and sail so expeditious that shall catch your royal fleet far off.’
Sophisticated
You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy? I said. It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the trues...
Yeah, like this one carny up in Fargo. It had a big sign saying 'See the Siamese twins,' and everybody pays a buck, thinking they're gonna see two people hooked together. And when they get there it's...
It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all.
Don’t come all the way across town. There’s a Metro station right outside of Arlington. I’ll meet you there, all right?