“ Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. Jacques Barzun
“ I can't go into a long explanation before company; but I couldn't help it, upon my honour."Upon your what?" growled Sikes, with excessive disgust. "Here! Cut me off a piece of that pie, one of you boy… Charles Dickens
“ Have I come at a bad time?" she managed to say without guffawing. I believe I said something on the order of "argh," and compounded my embarrassment by trying to cover myself with the sweatpants I'd p… Jeffrey Cohen
“ But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's. Kate Morton
“ What I remember most clearly is how it felt. I’d just finished painting a red fire engine-like the one I often walked past near my grandparents’ house. Suddenly the teachers, whose names I've long for… David Macaulay
“ He studied with the guru of rock n’ roll, Baba Oom Mow Mow, who taught his own version of the Golden Rule: "Do wop unto others as you would have them do wop unto you. Swami Beyondananda
“ Could I pick some flowers for Miranda?’ I asked.‘You cannot take these flowers,’ said Zoran. ‘They belong to the government. Doug MacLeod
“ I pick up Dylan. He certainly takes after his father: about three-quarters of his body weight seems to be head, and three-quarters of that is ears. Ken Jennings
“ First draft blues:"He tested the stick and glanced at the set handbrake. With his feet he felt the accelerator, the brake, the clutch. Backwards, but otherwise just the same, and comforting in a solid… J. Gunnar Grey
“ What are those bulb things you're slicing?""You've never seen fennel? It looks like celery and tastes like licorice. Ken Jennings
“ All serious poker players try to minimize their tells, obviously. There are a couple ways to go about this. One is the robotic approch: where your face becomes a mask and your voice a monotone, at lea… Dan Harrington
“ Wiping the rivulet of sweat running down my ear with the bottom of my muscle shirt, I snuck a sniff under my pit. Whoa. Kill a moose Julie Anne Peters
“ Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them. Orson Scott Card
“ They call me Domino for obvious reasons. One nudge in the right direction and I'm flat on my stomach. Charlie Cochrane
“ We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless someone comes and rubs them out, those footprints will be there forever because there’s no wind. Frank Cottrell Boyce
“ The Evil Enchanter appeared in a cloud of smoke. He waved his arms to fan away the fumes, and when he quit coughing, he said, "You've come to rescue no one. Now that you're here, you shall marry me."… Michael Stearns
“ I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me. Holly Hood
“ Well, more or less, you just got struck by lightning.""Wait, what?" My brain stopped processing for a prolonged moment unable to wrap around that one. How the hell had that happened? "So basically I w… Elizabeth Sharp
“ Well, just get used to it, because you're a long ways away from Kansas, my dear. She actually started singing "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" as she traipsed to the counter. Holly Hood
