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-Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

"They were almost insanely serious about the security."

-- HS Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt

okay that one wasn't very good.

"A climber at the end of a rope ties into the harness with a knot such as the rewoven figure-8 or the rewoven bowline."

-Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills 6th edition

its talking about how to tie into a climbing harness

great book for anyone that does any mountaineering

"Maybe we're not as brainy-smart as Lord Byron and Mary Shelley, but we can tolerate some shit to make our story work."

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

"Presque un espoir: 'Il reviendra...'
Sorry it's in French guys!
L'Appel des Arenes by Aminata Sow Fall

וְכִי תִזְבְּחוּ זֶבַח שְׁלָמִים, לַיהוָה--לִרְצֹנְכֶם, תִּזְבָּחֻהו

from the torah, 3rd book (ויקרא) by G-d

"It was a crazy story"
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I am hoping that they are saying you shouldn't do this to win people over. :lol:

Very interesting reading. Let's see what I have near me.
hmmmm.. let's see....

NB It can be dangerous to rely too heavily on a being outside ourselves.
- A Dictionary of Dream Symbols Eric Ackroyd

"As tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be at the end of the world, and the wicked shall howl in Hell for ever."

Morality Play by Barry Unsworth

"All was contained within the ultimate demon's perpetually raging consciousness, since he had consumed everyone here."

-Constantine

This is fun...I'll try again....

"Let's have some gas!" cried Tom roughly.

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If market prices are not available at the date of acquisition of several securities, it may be necessary to defer cost apportionment until evidence of at least one value becomes available." -- Intermediate Accounting Volume II, by Kieso, Weygandt, and Warfield

Amazing how much triviality they pack in between useful facts.

"Brom brushed the dust from his tunic and turned back to his subordinates."

Dawn of War by C S Goto

costly adj. 1 expensive, dear, exorbitant, extravagant; informal steep.

Oxford Minireference Thesaurus, 1999.

--disclaimer... i needed some fluff. too much tough thinking this week. but this made me laugh.

" 'Everyone there was thrilled I'd been flossing.' She look at them. 'What's up now?' "
Faking It Jeniifer Crusie

but next to it was the DSM IV so...
"For each disorder in this section, the etiology is either a general medical condition (although the specific general medical condition may not be..."

"It's more like boar hunting than anything else - except that boars don't have hands, and they do."

Joel Rosenberg - Not Really the Prisoner of Zenda

PARASOL ANTS
These South American ants are not carnivorous.

Firefly Pocket Guides: Animals of the World

Strange. I was pretty sure I had posted to this thread before (with something from Spell Law.) In any case, at the moment, the first thing that comes to hand is <i>Designing Great Beers</i> by Ray Daniels (ISBN 08937381500). Here goes:

"I think you will find both types of information will stimulate your thinking about how a style might be brewed."

Well that was lame. Before I noticed that sitting on my desk, the nearest book on my left was the Time Life book, <i>Middle Eastern Cooking</i>:
"[Wheat] would also grow well if planted lower down, on the more fertile plains and foothills."

Also pretty lame.

To the right, then, Fritz Leiber, <i>Ill Met In Lankhmar</i> (ISBN 1565049268):
"If the Guild knew our looks or where we lodge, they'd have been nastily on our necks days, weeks, nay, months ago."

"Grandfather was looking at me but he was seeing Mother"
--A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle

"The horse got breakfast when he woke up, usually at four-thirty, followed by a stall mucking and grooming at five, and a lengthy gallop with Pumpkin at eight."

--Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by Laura Hillenbrand

i misread that sentense the first time and almost wrote "followed by a small f*cking"