“Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.”

— Brian Selznick, book The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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American children's illustrator and writer 1966

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean [Episode 1]
Context: We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.

“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.”

Tom Robbins (1932) American writer

“We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”

Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War

Speech before Joint Session of the Canadian Parliament, Ottawa (December 30, 1941)
The Yale Book of Quotations, ed. Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press (2006), p. 153 ISBN 0300107986
The Second World War (1939–1945)

“… like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“We need more meetings like this across the nation. The people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy.”

Trent Lott (1941) United States Senator from Mississippi

To the CCC (1992), as quoted in The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/N/Ne/Newton_Michael_-_The_Ku_Klux_Klan_in_Mississippi.pdf (2010), by Michael Newton, p. 195. <br class="br">1990s

“It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

“Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.”

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