tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post9165884322499788616..comments2023-05-02T08:07:21.209-04:00Comments on The Books for Walls Project Archive: One Liner ChallengeBonaventurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03665779332789846219noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-11226776192987678782010-10-01T17:56:43.099-04:002010-10-01T17:56:43.099-04:00"Why sometimes I've believed as many as s..."Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."<br /><br />Heh, heh. I love this one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-49117372295407023302010-09-30T16:50:26.827-04:002010-09-30T16:50:26.827-04:00Oh, I am temped to give a few of them a try --
Am...Oh, I am temped to give a few of them a try --<br /><br />Amelia "What a queer smell! It's like burned feathers" --is that from Little Women? and not feathers, but Meg's burned hair? :) I cannot find my copy of the book!!<br /><br />Okay here is one from me:<br /><br />"This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise)."The Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08424375888861598744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-36479758852100728032010-09-25T15:19:46.300-04:002010-09-25T15:19:46.300-04:00Here's another one:
"By the hair on yo...Here's another one: <br /><br />"By the hair on your chinny-chin-chin, I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!"Kathy Danielshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04977671281474015264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-46070736224255917772010-09-25T15:16:00.488-04:002010-09-25T15:16:00.488-04:00Yes, to the Teacher!
The book from which the &q...Yes, to the Teacher! <br /><br />The book from which the "It was the best of times: it was the worst of times" quote is taken, is going to highlighted on Diane Rehm's Oct. 20th radio show. Listen then if someone will give this classic's name! :-)<br /><br />Kathy aka The Bean<br /><br />PS Is the first quote from jolynbarrett from The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince), published in 1943, by the French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's? Loved that book!Kathy Danielshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04977671281474015264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-88550063664014352942010-09-23T13:39:57.817-04:002010-09-23T13:39:57.817-04:00Good for you, Little Sister! I use that line ofte...Good for you, Little Sister! I use that line often in a variety of situations, hoping that the person I'm saying it to will recognize it and know why I'm saying it.jolynbarretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16907132982054829902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-91622277605840849312010-09-23T08:30:50.244-04:002010-09-23T08:30:50.244-04:00Amelia to The Mom-That is waaaay too easy.
I hav...Amelia to The Mom-That is waaaay too easy. <br /><br />I have two books:<br /><br />"What my mother bore him was girls, twin girls. I was the elder by a few minutes. I always treasured the thought of those minutes. They represented the only time in my life when I was the center of everyone's attention. From the moment Caroline was born, she snatched it all for herself."<br /><br />"What a queer smell! It's like burned feathers"Amelianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-81969382893270879662010-09-22T21:43:31.111-04:002010-09-22T21:43:31.111-04:00"I was now in my twenty-third year of residen..."I was now in my twenty-third year of residence in this island and was so naturalized to the place and to the manner of living that could I have but enjoyed the certainty that no savages would come to the place to disturb me, I could have been content to have capitulated for spending the rest of my time there, even to the last moment, till I had laid me down and died, like the old goat in the cave."The Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08107656533963826649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-89475931263688399882010-09-22T21:27:08.861-04:002010-09-22T21:27:08.861-04:00"Rose could hear birds singing their hearts o..."Rose could hear birds singing their hearts out, but clearer than them all was the sound of Mama's whistling."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-26271778678893542252010-09-22T21:20:40.895-04:002010-09-22T21:20:40.895-04:00Little Sister replies to The Teacher (jolynbarrett...Little Sister replies to The Teacher (jolynbarrett), "Green Eggs and Ham! I love that one, too."<br /><br />The Mom to The Writer (Tracey) Yup, you got it, The Poisonwood Bible!Books for Walls Project (The Four of Us)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13373991753981101091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-72189912817963165702010-09-22T18:59:37.611-04:002010-09-22T18:59:37.611-04:00Thanks Kathy! For me that was the only "unmi...Thanks Kathy! For me that was the only "unmistakably identifiable" line among those listed. Hooray for the classics! I'd like to submit 3:<br /><br />"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."<br /><br />"Call me Ishmael."<br /><br />"I do not like them, Sam I Am!"jolynbarretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16907132982054829902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-30755294558802239692010-09-22T14:42:20.609-04:002010-09-22T14:42:20.609-04:00Here's one: "It was the best of times; it...Here's one: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times...Kathy Danielshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04977671281474015264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-64613350089820037712010-09-22T13:03:46.295-04:002010-09-22T13:03:46.295-04:00"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the N..."I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong hills."<br /><br />Is the first line posted by The Mom from Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver?Brauerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13936532596326363696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-79116260105899420802010-09-22T11:47:10.296-04:002010-09-22T11:47:10.296-04:00"Every morning Pa took his gun and his traps ..."Every morning Pa took his gun and his traps and was gone all day in the Big Woods, setting the small traps for muskrats and mink along the creeks, the middle-sized traps for foxes and wolves in the woods."<br /><br />Had to post this as it is the first day of Autumn and hunting season is around the corner -Big Sister says, "our "Pa" would is happy."Books for Walls Project (The Four of Us)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13373991753981101091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-51692887248563594512010-09-22T11:42:21.093-04:002010-09-22T11:42:21.093-04:00"My Grandfather was known as Aldrid the Wise,..."My Grandfather was known as Aldrid the Wise, my father was Limelyn the Courageous, and yet the man I might marry one day could be called Eadric the Flatulent."The Big Sisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14090091856926363366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-82706439658922349072010-09-22T11:37:32.468-04:002010-09-22T11:37:32.468-04:00"Kindred spirits are not as scarce as I used ..."Kindred spirits are not as scarce as I used to think."The Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08424375888861598744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154649481632827304.post-74694325176045689602010-09-22T11:35:05.194-04:002010-09-22T11:35:05.194-04:00"We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Bet..."We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the Jungle."The Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08424375888861598744noreply@blogger.com