quotes at random, no. 25

Clippings from my college years:

o  The way she plucks his hairs from her clothing and weaves them in with her own hair. The way he has to count to twelve each time before he speaks her name so he won't say it every waking moment.

o  There's a problem with patting yourself on the back. Your hands aren't free to break your fall. (On the U.S. economy in 1997)

o  In school, I would write stuff like, "The baby on the meat hook jerked." - Kevin Williamson, "Scream"

o  "Well, I guess he got his wish." - Kathleen Gingrich on her son Newt's childhood ambition to be a zookeeper.

o  "It's so unfair. The whole sophomore class is in a state of uncertainty." Princeton sophomore lamenting mild weather condition threatening the school's annual Nude Olympics.

o  ran permitted "live" broadcasts of World Cup... but only after deleting summer crowd scenes, which featured much female skin, and substituting winter crowd scenes.

o  The death of Princess Diana was one of those occurrences that seemed to divide time itself into all the days before, when such a thing seemed impossible, and the days after.

__ The first president airplane was called "Sacred Cow".
__ Two-thirds of a shark's brain does little but process things sniffable.
Beatrice Wood

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