In almost every book there's a line or two that will make you say, "That's perfect!" Maybe it's a line that just strikes the right chord or one to make you think or look at something in a new way... Sometimes it's just a smile. 

So what do I do? I steal 'em!  Well, I borrow them anyway and share them with friends.  Who knows... it might just get you to go out and find the book.  Steve K  8/14/2002

Never fight with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig loves it.   Masquerade - Gayle Lynds

When you're young, you don't know, but you don't know you don't know, so you take chances. 

In your twenties and thirties you don't know, and you know you don't know, and that tends to freeze you... less risk taking. 

In your forties you know, but you don't know you know, so you may still be a little tentative. 

But then, as you pass fifty, if you've been paying attention, you know, and you know you know... Time for some fun.   

Brain droppings - George Carlin

(XXXV. 12) There shall be one measure of wine throughout all our kingdom, and one measure of ale, and one measure of corn...
(XXXIX. 29) No freeman shall be seized, or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any way destroyed; nor will we condemn him, nor will we commit him to prison, excepting by the legal judgment of his peers, or by the laws of the land.
(XL. 31) To none will we sell, to none will we deny, to none will we delay right or justice.

Magna Carta - Granted June 15th, A.D. 1215

Sparky could not wag his tail -- because of an automobile accident many years ago, so he had no way of telling other dogs how friendly he was. He had to fight all the time. His ears were in tatters. He was lumpy with scars.   

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

The road stopped like a dying mans signature on a last minute will. 

The Hawkline Monster - Richard Brautigan

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.  

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

He said, "It is best that you climb and breast the hill alone, for all the rest of your life awaits you on the other side."

That sounded portentous, but I saw a small fallacy in it, and I smiled at my own perspicacity. "Surely my life awaits, whichever way I go from here, and whether I go alone or not."

The cacao man smiled too, but ironically. "Yes, at your age, many possible lives await. Go whichever way you choose. Go alone or in company. The companions may walk with you a long way or a little. But at the end of your live, no matter how crowded were its roads and its days, you will have learned what all must learn. And that will be too late for any starting over, to late for anything but regret. So learn it now. No man has ever yet lived out any life but one, and that one his chosen own, and most of that alone." He paused, and his eyes held mine. "Now then, Mixtli, which way do you go from here and in what company?"  

I turned and kept on up the hill, alone.  

Aztec - Gary Jennings

... love is like the sea, sometimes calm and sometimes stormy; it's dangerous, beautiful, death-dealing, life-giving. But never permanent, ever-changing. And unique only for a short span in the eyes of time.

"How else can you dominate joss? If you smile when you lose, then you will win in life."
And in the watches of the night Struan had talked to his son as a father can sometimes talk, when grief -- or sometimes happiness -- has unlocked the doors. Plans for the future, problems of the past. How very difficult it is to love someone and live with someone over years.

Ayeeee yah, he said to himself happily, using one of her Cantonese expressions, which meant pleasure or anger or disgust or happiness or helplessness, depending on how it was said.  

Tai-Pan - James Clavell

'There is something to be said about a face that makes one smile.'  Isaac Asimov - The Robots of Dawn

"An expert witness," Billy Flynn had told me, "is the fellow with credentials that you pay to testify to what you want him to testify to. An incompetent expert witness is one called by the other side."   The Golden Globe - John Varley

"You know what truth is?" said Karabekian. "It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, 'Yeah, yeah -- ain't it the truth?' "  

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

He says that, perhaps, in this class there is a future priest or a martyr for the Faith, though he doubts it very much for we are the laziest gang of ignoramuses it has ever been his misfortune to teach. 

Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt

... but what we would like to know most of all is why he positioned himself so awkwardly in the path of common sense... Furthermore, one can't help wondering if the experience taught him anything. Probably not. Fundamentalists are apt to be so fundamental. 

The White Lantern, Olduvai & All That - Evan S. Connell

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