I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.
Well now, Jack," Hastings said from the sidelines. "I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start. " He sounded amused.
One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting all the scenes of the great murders. Tomorrow they want to see where Becket was killed. They're a bloodthirsty lot, it seems.
And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.
And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation , and wish that you'd listened to me.
Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.
Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life. The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and weddings and hilarious jokes - fills a minute portion of an adult lifespan. The rest of life is the paddling: work, paying bills, flossing, getting sick, dying.
At first, all is black and white. Black on white. That's where I'm walking, through pages. These pages. Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.
Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 911. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 911, but, if you think about what caused 911, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.