Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Sentence of the Week
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995
Sunday, August 22, 2010
sentence
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
-- Robert Fulghum
I ran across this quote while looking for a personal quote for something and thought that it is definitely inspirational. I like the way the author states laughter is the cure for grief, something people dont usually think about.
-- Robert Fulghum
I ran across this quote while looking for a personal quote for something and thought that it is definitely inspirational. I like the way the author states laughter is the cure for grief, something people dont usually think about.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Personification
I just came across this one on dictionary.com
Somewhere in the incunabulum of time the New Year lay awaiting birth. Outside, in the dark, and with none to call it friend, the old year was fading into death.
-- Edwin Markham, The real America in romance, Volume 12
I think this sentence is beautiful and like the personification of the two different years- the new one about to be born and the old one dying.
Somewhere in the incunabulum of time the New Year lay awaiting birth. Outside, in the dark, and with none to call it friend, the old year was fading into death.
-- Edwin Markham, The real America in romance, Volume 12
I think this sentence is beautiful and like the personification of the two different years- the new one about to be born and the old one dying.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Sentence of the Week
...With an unexpected amount of force, she thust my head forward without giving me a second to resist. The front of my skull collided with the doorframe. A thunderous bolt shot through my head as the hall blurred around me. Black dots filled my eyes as I attenpted to focus. Before I could find center, her tight grip tore the hair from my scalp and drove my head into the hard wood again. The corner of the frame connected with the left side of my forehead. The stinging burn above my eyes was followed by the flow of warm liquid down my cheek.
- This is an excerpt taken from my friends book, still in progress, who wishes to remain annonymous at this time.
- This is an excerpt taken from my friends book, still in progress, who wishes to remain annonymous at this time.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Sentence of the Week
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it”. By Pearl Buck, The Joy of Children, 1964.
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