Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 16 “Settling Accounts” sections 2-3 (p. 712)
Cries of Divide!
House of Commons speech (1894)
Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 16 “Settling Accounts” sections 2-3 (p. 712)
Ian Darke (1950) British association football and boxing commentator
United States v. Algeria http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=DALDkkXodRU (23 June 2010). <br class="br">2010s, 2010, 2010 FIFA World Cup <br class="br">Context: Four minutes of added time. That might lift the United States, that's time enough. Dreadfully negative, really. From the Algerians, they're looking for things on the break. I suspect they'll get a chance or two, on the break. Ghezzal, that's a good ball he's found there to Guedioura who plays it deep. Saïfi, with a header. Howard, gratefully claims it. Distribution, brilliant. Landon Donovan. Oh, are things on here for the USA? Can they do it here? Cross, and Dempsey is denied again, and Donovan has scored! Oh, can you believe this? Go, go, USA! Certainly through! Oh, it's incredible! You could not write a script like this!
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Fate's Edge
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Diary entry (12 November 1881) after visiting the House of Commons, quoted in W. R. P. George, The Making of Lloyd George (1976), p. 101.
1880s
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
The Rubaiyat (1120)
“Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology
In answer to the question as to whether he ever thought he might be quite mad. Granada Television documentary on Scientology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_w-YWwC1lI#t=1503.
Buddy Holly (1936–1959) American singer-songwriter
Oh Boy!, written by Sonny West, Bill Tilghman, and Norman Petty
Song lyrics, The "Chirping" Crickets (1957)
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1929)
Context: Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the new repulsion, always different, always new. The long neuter spell of Lent, when the blood is low, and the delight of the Easter kiss, the sexual revel of spring, the passion of midsummer, the slow recoil, revolt, and grief of autumn, greyness again, then the sharp stimulus of winter of the long nights. Sex goes through the rhythm of the year, in man and woman, ceaselessly changing: the rhythm of the sun in his relation to the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox! This is what is the matter with us. We are bleeding at the roots, because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars, and love is a grinning mockery, because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the tree of Life, and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilised vase on the table.
Tom Springfield (1934) English musician, songwriter and record producer
Song A World of Our Own.
“Oh, ’tis love, ’tis love, that makes the world go round!”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass