When
you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink
and glue--you sell him a whole new life. -- Christopher Darlington Morley
(1890-1957)
We
didn't do this with just a pencil and some paper. Lots of our notes are in pen. We didn't need to erase much. -- Tim Hollebeek
&
John Viega on cracking Netscape's password
cryptography
I
am now descending into the vale of years. -- Edward Gibbon
...
had denied him romantic favors one summer morning...
-- an author describing his assistant’s dedication in his Acknowledgements
...
painstakingly dug up a huge amount of highly relevant arcana. -- further Acknowledgements from the same author
... Violence flies in a small circle and burns
its own wings. -- from The Corpse in the Dike by Janwillem van
de Wetering
...
kicking up their heels in their hammocks, or running
about in double-reefed nightgowns, playing tag among the 'clews,' -- from White Jacket by Herman Melville
... the
average human housefly ... -- Trivia Mike @ Sullivans
Q: Do you support
overthrowing the government by sedition or revolution?
A: Sedition.
Being a New Yorker means
never having to say your sorry -- Saturday
Night Live record
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