Give quote and title of book & name of author & (if possible) motivation.
2006-09-25 19:14:19 · 33 answers · asked by Walter W. Krijthe 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
pants1610: Me thinks it might have been cokesniffer in the original version, that it has been changed to cakesniffer to make it suitable for children???
2006-09-27 00:42:40 · update #1
felineroche: sounds like something from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
2006-09-27 00:47:49 · update #2
"No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."
War Of The Worlds, H.G. Wells.
A Brilliant start from a brilliant creator of some of the worlds best sci-fi. A late 19th - early 20th century phenomenal writer.
2006-09-25 19:30:00 · answer #1 · answered by J4xxs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
"And God disappeared with a puff of logic."
2006-09-25 21:37:47 · answer #2 · answered by boo! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly- from Richard Bach's Illusions
When you truly want something then the whole universe conspires for you to get it- Paulo Coelho- The Alchemist
2006-09-25 20:51:24 · answer #3 · answered by payal b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
"It's unpleasantly like being drunk"
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"Ask a glass of water."
2006-09-25 19:31:23 · answer #4 · answered by waycyber 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Honestly, Alec! You can't go hacking your way out of every difficult situation that arises! It's uncivilized." From Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling. It would probably make more sense in context. Let me explain: Alec (an aspiring theif and spy) has just been told by his teacher/mentor that he's not allowed to bring his sword along with him while attempting his first solo breaking and entering. I laughed out loud when I read that line.
2006-09-26 11:53:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A small dusty man in a small dusty room. This is the first sentence of the prololgue and also the last sentence in the epilogue. This is in the novel "The black shrike" by Alistair Mcclean.
VR
2006-09-25 19:27:46 · answer #6 · answered by sarayu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"If you can't find the circumstances to suit you....
create them !
George Bernard Shaw
Superb inspirational words by the great man which helped me to realise that I could make things happen for a better life and a better world for those around me.
Thanks for the question, it brought back many memories
2006-09-25 19:34:31 · answer #7 · answered by hawkeye 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I looked around. They were standing. All around us and in the balcony on the opposite wall, the Negroes were getting to their feet. Reverend Skye's voice was as distant as Judge Taylor's: "Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'."
To kill a Mockinbird.....profound
Definately a book that defies age and time
2006-09-26 03:52:48 · answer #8 · answered by widow_purple 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In harry Potter series, Hermoine character amused me much of her vocablory & smartness.
And also in my mother tongue language(tamil) , many books motivated me.
Indian President A.P.J.Abdul Kalam Is Inspiration for me. His books are so Favourite to me.
2006-09-26 00:50:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Dumbledore, in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling.
Dumbledore was explaining to Harry at the end of the book why he was not put in Slytherin instead of Gryffindor.
2006-09-25 20:28:19 · answer #10 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋