“Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.”
Patrick Modiano (1945) French writer
Suspended Sentences (1993)
Source: 'Salem's Lot
“Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.”
Patrick Modiano (1945) French writer
Suspended Sentences (1993)
“He could probably make you a cloud sandwich if you asked. Or a blancmange made of numbers.”
Charlie Brooker (1971) journalist, broadcaster and writer from England
On Heston Blumenthal.
[Screen Burn, http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,2193905,00.html, The Guardian, 20 October 2007, 2007-11-02]
Guardian columns, Screen Burn
“But he would “stay the course” — it was his favorite motto.”
Thomas Mann book Death in Venice
The disposition of the main character "Gustav Aschenbach", Ch. 2, as translated by David Luke
Death in Venice (1912)
“You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn’t question it.”
Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician
Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
"An Interest in Life" (1959)
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
St. 8. Compare: "And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin / Is pride that apes humility", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts. <br class="br"> The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)
Friedrich Schiller book On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Letter 9
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
Jack Kirby (1917–1994) American comic book artist, writer and editor
Source: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, the abandoned hero of Marvel’s grand Hollywood adventure, and his family’s quest http://herocomplex.latimes.com/uncategorized/jack-kirby-the-forgotten-hero-in-marvels-grand-hollywood-adventure/, Los Angeles Times, (September 25, 2009).