January 2011
26 posts
I open at the close: Have you read more than 6 of... →
robot-heart:openbookopenmind:
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird...
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“It all depends on what you want. You can trust us to stick to you through thick...”
– Merry Brandybuck (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
I know you can’t include everything in a movie, this is what makes books awesome.
How I Met Your Mother - Unfinished 6.03
Lily: But designing a building in New York City is your lifelong dream.
Ted: I do not want to work for GNB again. Those guys are evil. No offense, Marshall.
Marshall: None taken. Dude, yes, GNB is the Empire from Star Wars, but the Death Star is gonna get built either way, and don't you think the architect of the Death Star is pretty psyched to have that thing on his space resume. I mean, 'yes, his design was flawed, he let fire a single bullet through his particular vent porthole thing.'
Ted: For all we know, that was the contractor's fault.
Marshall: But that won't happen on your watch, 'cause you're Ted Mosby, and you're gonna design the most beautiful, ventless, Rebel-proof building in Manhattan... with clearly-marked emergency stops for every trash compactor on the detention level.
“I can remember speaking to a 12-year-old boy, a football player, and I asked...”
– Shakesville: “My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.” (via sarahgraham7)
“What’s in here?” he asked, tapping the safe.
“My...”
– The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle
I am having the most fun reading these stories.
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“Keep thinking. Thinking would keep me alive. But now I am alive, and thinking is...”
– (via: d-hu) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via quote-book)
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