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we met at Florian’s. *
* I have made up my quarrel with Lord Byron. […] No englishman alive can equal his lordship for an insult. He arrived in Venice about a week ago and we met at Florian’s.
Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell
Clouds, great divinities to idle men *
* Socrates : […] Clouds, great divinities
to idle men; who supply us with thought and argument,
and intelligence and humbug, and circumlocution, and
ability to hoax, and comprehension.
The Clouds, Aristophanes ; translated by William James Hickie.
That mountain is evil.*
« None who venture there ever return. That mountain is evil. »
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The edge of the fields at evening*
* « The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. »
Willa Cather - One of ours
Go fly a kite *
« Oh, oh, oh, let’s go fly a kite, up to the highest height! Let’s go fly a kite, and send it soaring! Up through the atmosphere, up where the air is clear! Oh, let’s go… fly a kite! »
Mr. Banks - Mary Poppins (1964)
Romeo & Juliet *
* Chorus :
Now Romeo is belov’d, and loves again,
Alike bewitched by the charm of looks;
But to his foe suppos’d he must complain,
And she steal love’s sweet bait from fearful hooks.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Prologue
What is that thing?*
* - What is that thing?
- A dog, I think… But it was dead this morning!
- It was dead this morning?
- Well we thought it was dead; it was hit by a truck!
Lilo & Stitch (Disney, 2002)
Terribly, terribly addictive *
* « Marge is right, sugar is not only fattening but it’s also terribly, terribly addictive… Uh, is my carton of Pixie Sticks in? »
Dr. Hibbert - The Simpsons
Every time something good happens to me… *
* « Every time something good happens to me you say it’s some kind of madness. Or I’m drunk. Or I ate too much candy. Well I saw a real mermaid. And I wish for once my friends would have decency and kindness to believe me. »
Fry - Futurama
deeds of gren thrilling light *
* with thinned
newfragile yellows
lurch and.press
–in the woods
which
stutter
and
sing
e.e. cummings
It’s a dangerous business going out your front door.*
* J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring.
- You know what that cloud reminds me of?*
* - What?
- A flower.
- SpongeBob, they all look like flowers. All the time.
- They sure do.