Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
Source: Magic Bleeds
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
Wilhelm Canaris (1887–1945) German admiral, head of military intelligence service
About speaking to Hitler. Quoted in "Hitler's Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II" - Page 234 - by David Kahn - True Crime - 2000
“Lift the world up by your levity,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) British musician and poet
"Come, Holy Harlequin" (1974)
Context: Teach the crippled how to leap,
Throw their crutches on a heap,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
Rock, love, carry it away,
Lift the world up by your levity,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
Lin Carter book The Wizard of Zao
Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 5 (p. 60)
“We’re burning,” Sadie pointed out helpfully.
“Noticed!” I yelled back.”
Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid
Source: The Red Pyramid
“I made history and therefore did not find time to write it.”
Klemens von Metternich (1773–1859) Austrian diplomat
Klemens von Metternich, “Mein Politisches Testament”, Aus Metternich’s Nachgelassenen Papieren, 7.Bd, hrsg., R. Metternich-Winneburg (Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1883, pp.633-642.
“Around this time Siward, the mighty earl of Northumbria, almost a giant in stature, very strong mentally and physically, sent his son to conquer Scotland. When they came back and reported to his father that he had been killed in battle, he asked, "Did he receive his fatal wound in the front or the back of his body?" The messengers said, "In the front." Then he said, "That makes me very happy, for I consider no other death worthy for me or my son."”
Circa hoc tempus Siwardus consul fortissimus Nordhymbre, pene gigas statura, manu uero et mente predura, misit filium suum in Scotiam conquirendam. Quem cum bello cesum patri renuntiassent, ait, "Recepitne uulnus letale in anteriori uel posteriori corporis parte?" Dixerunt nuntii, "In anteriori." At ille, "Gaudeo plane, non enim alio me uel filium meum digner funere."
Henry of Huntingdon book Historia Anglorum
Circa hoc tempus Siwardus consul fortissimus Nordhymbre, pene gigas statura, manu uero et mente predura, misit filium suum in Scotiam conquirendam. Quem cum bello cesum patri renuntiassent, ait, "Recepitne uulnus letale in anteriori uel posteriori corporis parte?" Dixerunt nuntii, "In anteriori."
At ille, "Gaudeo plane, non enim alio me uel filium meum digner funere."
Book VI, §22, pp. 376-7.
Historia Anglorum (The History of the English People)
Bill Hybels (1951) American writer
Source: Just Walk Across the Room: Simple Steps Pointing People to Faith