He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,-- that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that...
Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds, and events which passed as a perfect void to persons more practised with the world. As all is activ...
...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they ...
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as i...
Anne reveled in the world of color about her. "Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped...
But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my d...
There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in...
I just need to sit, think, write and read.
The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.
The Dave Clark Five had more appearances on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' than The Beatles.
We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.
I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.
It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.
For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.
