February 2010
69 posts
“All Right! Up against the wall!”
– Captain from Brimstone (via butmradams)
January 2010
32 posts
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“Hot tears again surged to her eyes, as she would not let him see them, she...”
– The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
John Adams: I have more to do than stand here and listen to you quote yourself.
Ben Franklin: Oh, that was a new one!
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“Have you heard the polar bear joke? Ok. There’s a baby polar bear, and...”
– Ballykissangel…
Ahhhhhh!!!
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New Book!!
Arcadia
Septimus: When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Thomasina: Then we will dance...
Pimpernel Goodness
Percy Blakeney: [before reciting his poem to Winterbottom] Slap me, I'm bubbling over with good humor this morning. Would you believe me, I've just written a masterpiece.
Col. Winterbottom: Who, sir? You, sir?
Percy Blakeney: Me, sir
Col. Winterbottom: No, sir.
Percy Blakeney: Yes, sir. All about this mysterious Pimpernel fellow. How it came to me Heaven only knows, because it was the busiest moment of the day. Damn me, I was tying my cravat.
“It unscrews the other way”
– Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Cribbage was around in the 17th Century! →
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“Call Me by My True Names
Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow
because...”
– Call Me by My True Names
Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He...”
– Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening. Robert Frost. This is one of my favorite poems. I think about it all the time. It is my life.
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“Be the first. Start a fashion”
– A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
