“The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I’m a barbarian).”
Source: The Demigod Diaries
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Something, someone — help them.
"It's me."
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave
“We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.”
Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Source: Nuestra America y Otros Escritos
Context: We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
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“I am bottled, fizzy water, and you are shaking me up.”
Lyrics, Morning View (2001)
“Butter, bread, and green cheese: whoever cannot say that is not a true Frisian.”
Quoted in: The Linguist: Journal of the Institute of Linguists. Volumes 42-43, The Institute, 2003. p. 192
According to legend, Pier forced his captives to repeat this shibboleth to distinguish Frisians from Dutch and Low Germans.
“Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality.”
The first sentence of this was used by William Torrey Harris for the motto of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy
Novalis (1829)
Context: Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
“Snow is water, and ice is water, and water is water; these three are one.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 285.
