quotes at random, no. 28
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fiefoeI think we are done for now.
o Ken Starr's mother (told) a reporter that her son's hobby in high school was shining his shoes.
o Picabo Street: "That's when I decided, when I saw where I was going to hit, that the potential for me to blow out both my knees right now is pretty high, so I'd better just blow my left one out again."
o Neve Campbell - There's something simultaneously sad and bright (about her face), like sunlight off a raindrop.
o Helen Hunt - a questing intelligence, a wit that can sting or caress: the sensible siren
o Gong Li's smile - She stood there calmly, radiant, imperious, the last queen in the world. Her eyes said, You will never know me.
o The Dow bug: ... if the Dow hits 10000. Since its automated systems expect four-digit numbers...
o December 1997: Microsoft employees paper profits on their stock options averaged more than $1 million per person, thanks to the stock's 80% rise in the past year.
o In the one theater where American supremacy has never been challenged: military procurement. Only the world's remaining superpower could rise to the challenge of buying 21 Soviet-ear MiG-29 fighter jets it doesn't need.. just so another country wouldn't get them instead.
o To NEWSWEEK, Buyer called Lister a "stealth feminist." So stealthy, in fact, that she had to be ambushed.
o Roland Barthes used to argue that every truly moving photographs has a single absorbing spot, a place that calls forth feeling. Like Sharon Stone, (the comet Hale-Bopp, the ancient dot) made everything, even whole mountain ranges, look more consequential beside it.
o (On a photo of Mars:) No-man's land has always been America's fallback version of paradise - if not Eden, at least a new proving ground.
o a young man with more on his mind than in it
o St. Clare: patron saint of sore eyes and TV
"Says You!"'s way to distinguish between rock and stone: "A stone is a chip off the old rock."
[Isaiah Berlin:] the victimization of the present for the sake of an unknowable future
[W. D. Snodgrass:] There is a loveliness exists. / Preserves us, not for specialists.
Essays:
__ In the dead black cold of night, the windows seem to shiver with gold and amber - strong and beautiful assertions of the light. (Roger Rosenblatt "Winter Lights")
__ One day Charlie put together an entire living room on the sidewalk in front of a church.
__ Thank you for this sublime mess. For human courage and for turtle courage. ("Thanksgiving Inventory")
__ He is everything I think a man in his 80s should be. And that's natty.
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o Ken Starr's mother (told) a reporter that her son's hobby in high school was shining his shoes.
o Picabo Street: "That's when I decided, when I saw where I was going to hit, that the potential for me to blow out both my knees right now is pretty high, so I'd better just blow my left one out again."
o Neve Campbell - There's something simultaneously sad and bright (about her face), like sunlight off a raindrop.
o Helen Hunt - a questing intelligence, a wit that can sting or caress: the sensible siren
o Gong Li's smile - She stood there calmly, radiant, imperious, the last queen in the world. Her eyes said, You will never know me.
o The Dow bug: ... if the Dow hits 10000. Since its automated systems expect four-digit numbers...
o December 1997: Microsoft employees paper profits on their stock options averaged more than $1 million per person, thanks to the stock's 80% rise in the past year.
o In the one theater where American supremacy has never been challenged: military procurement. Only the world's remaining superpower could rise to the challenge of buying 21 Soviet-ear MiG-29 fighter jets it doesn't need.. just so another country wouldn't get them instead.
o To NEWSWEEK, Buyer called Lister a "stealth feminist." So stealthy, in fact, that she had to be ambushed.
o Roland Barthes used to argue that every truly moving photographs has a single absorbing spot, a place that calls forth feeling. Like Sharon Stone, (the comet Hale-Bopp, the ancient dot) made everything, even whole mountain ranges, look more consequential beside it.
o (On a photo of Mars:) No-man's land has always been America's fallback version of paradise - if not Eden, at least a new proving ground.
o a young man with more on his mind than in it
o St. Clare: patron saint of sore eyes and TV
"Says You!"'s way to distinguish between rock and stone: "A stone is a chip off the old rock."
[Isaiah Berlin:] the victimization of the present for the sake of an unknowable future
[W. D. Snodgrass:] There is a loveliness exists. / Preserves us, not for specialists.
Essays:
__ In the dead black cold of night, the windows seem to shiver with gold and amber - strong and beautiful assertions of the light. (Roger Rosenblatt "Winter Lights")
__ One day Charlie put together an entire living room on the sidewalk in front of a church.
__ Thank you for this sublime mess. For human courage and for turtle courage. ("Thanksgiving Inventory")
__ He is everything I think a man in his 80s should be. And that's natty.
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