2006-09-07 11:37:18 · 33 answers · asked by Perfectly Flawed 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
give what you have. it may be better than you think.
2006-09-07 11:49:18 · answer #1 · answered by anissia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ther are a couple. The most striking quotes are 'Aujourdoui, ma mere est morte' ('today my mother is dead) and 'The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there'. Both of these are the opening sentances of books.
Other great quotes include :'workers of the world unite, you have nothing to loose but you chains'; 'property is theft'; 'the US faces a choice between hegemony and survival'; 'I think therfore I am'; 'God is the ground of being';in fact, I could go on for hours. To be honest, I think decontextualised quotes tend to be slightly vacuous, even as slogans. Quotes need an intellectual context to make real sense, and slogans need a socio-political context to make sense.
2006-09-07 17:31:56 · answer #2 · answered by Bovril 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Darkness Peering by Alice Blanchard
"He watched her march off, arms and legs oddly pale in the September sun. The date on this milk carton had definitely expired. She used to wet her fingers to put out candles, wash her feet in the damp grass. She had been his view for nearly 18 years, the bull's-eye of his day, and all the while a sense of privacy had been growing up around her. At some point, she'd lost her habit of wanting him."
I think this states so beautifully the beginning of the end of a relationship.
2006-09-07 12:04:44 · answer #3 · answered by chris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first paragraph of Alfred Bester's short story "Fondly Fahrenheit" is: "He doesn't know which of us I am these days, but they know one truth. You must own nothing but yourself. You must make your own life, live your own life, and die your own death. Or else you will die another's". It is a fun story, and I doubt that the paragraph is meant to be deeply philosophical, but it does have serious content too.
A pithy little aphorism that John Brunner made as a note to one of his own stories is: "The trouble with having an open mind is that people come along and put things in it". I like that very much. Brunner says that when you think about it, it is not funny at all - I think it is both funny and serious.
2006-09-08 08:13:17 · answer #4 · answered by Philip N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of my favorite books is "It's Always Something" by Gilda Radner. It's her autobiography. So...here are a few choice quotes from Gilda....
1. "I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
2. "I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity."
3. "I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes - and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships."
4. "It's like my father always said to me...he said, Roseanne Roseannadanna, it's always something. If it isn't one thing - it's another!"
2006-09-07 12:43:32 · answer #5 · answered by suzieq 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to agree with the Hitchhiker's Guide quotes. Another good one:
Ford: It's unpleasantly like being drunk.
Arthur: What's so unpleasant about being drunk?
Ford: Ask a glass of water.
2006-09-07 12:02:21 · answer #6 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: 'There is more in the earth than the minds of men can conceive'.
2006-09-07 14:03:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the opening lines of Austen's Pride and Prejudice: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possesion of a large fortune, must be in want of a wife. either that or "In vain I have struggled. It will not do. You must allow me to tell you how ardently i admire and love you" also in Pride and Prejudice.
2006-09-07 11:45:06 · answer #8 · answered by bookworm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're cute and smart and you've gotten everything you've ever asked for and that makes you lazy and dangerous.
Sherman Alexie Ten Little Indians.
2006-09-08 09:33:51 · answer #9 · answered by nebuladancing 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mrs. Venable: My son, Sebastian and I constructed our days. Each day we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture, leaving behind us a trail of days like a gallery of sculpture until suddenly, last summer. From Suddenly Last Summer T.Williams.... Great Stuff.....If you don't want to read it watch the movie..... Katie Hepburn and Liz Taylor.
2006-09-07 13:28:32 · answer #10 · answered by chris_sensei2003 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Curiouser and curiouser," said Alice in "Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass."
"Oh, what fools these mortals be." Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
"There isn't any such thing as avenging a death, there is only honouring a life." from Karen Irving's "Jupiter's Daughter."
2006-09-07 11:46:11 · answer #11 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋