"When Harry awoke the following day, it was several seconds before he remembered what had happened" - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, p. 255.
"The last lick of flame, slowly consuming a set of curls over the soldier's left ear, was extinguished by the black ooze of blood welling from where the circular head of the wrench had hit." Canal Dreams by Iain Banks pg 152
"Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's." that book again, p., 337.
"a new animal was abroad on the planet, spreading slowly out from the african heartland" 2001 a space odyssey page 46
"And the next thing after that was that the Heart of Gold continued on its way perfectly normally with a rather fetchingly redisigned interior." The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
BELLO: You will make the beds, get my tub ready, empty the pisspots in the different rooms, including old Mrs Keogh's the cook's, a sandy one. Ulysses.
"Much of it is marred by racism, naivety, presumption and plain ignorance, and there are often facile generalisations by people who should know better (eg Ernest Renan, TE Lawrence) as in vague statements about "the Arab mind", "the Asian sensibility", "the Semitic temperament"." "The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory" p.665
"Take a second green-tipped (co-axial) cable and connect it where it says 'cable modem' on the splitter (it doesn't matter which end of the cable you use)." Broadband Quick Start Guide pg 10 *hey it was near the computer*
MacLeish asked me who my boyhood heroes were and I told him, "Robin Hood and St George the Dragon Slayer". - Bob Dylan, Chronicles volume one.
"There was no such excuse now, and it was even more terrifying in daylight; unbelievable numbers of bicycles, trucks belching black diesel fumes, garish buses, motorised trikes and cars driven seemingly at random in any direction as long as it was either directly across our path or on a collision course." 'The Business' by Iain Banks pg 154
"The weather was very delightful, and on the Sunday we made a great fire, and drank tea in Bainriggs with the Simpsons." The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Romantic Poetry and Prose, p.621
he told me of his life in the land of Submarines. We all live in a Yellow Submarine, Yellow Submarine, Yellow Submarine. The Complete Piano Player, Book 3
"Ludwig Van Beethoven expanded nearly every aspect of classical composition. His works are longer and larger in scale than those of his contemporaries and predecessors." from my music appreciation textbook (its a good book, for a textbook!)
"I brought my gun my tight on his forehead but that pirate never even wavered." Pollen by Jeff Noon page 266
"The night reached such a depth of velvety blackness that he might have been suspended in limbo between Disapparition and Apparition." Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows page 298
