I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.
[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.
Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?
Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.
Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry
Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm. . . gets eaten.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices - wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices.