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“I know she had rather wear my pelt tann’d
In a pair of dancing pumps, . . .”
De Flores knows that his boss’s daughter, Beatrice, hates him; Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Changeling, I.ii.228-29.
“Death is very likely the single best invention in life. All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
Giving advice to students at Stanford University, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, quips that his personal bout with cancer focused his priorities. “Face value: The resurrection of Steve Jobs,” The Economist (Sept. 17, 2005), 68.
“A dozen men are shut up together in a little bark upon the wide, wide sea, and for months and months see no forms and hear no voices but their own, and one is taken suddenly from among them, and they miss him at every turn. It is like losing a limb. There are no new faces of new scenes to fill up the gap. . . . You miss his form, and the sound of his voice, for habit had made them almost necessary to you, and each of your senses feels the loss.”
George Ballmer, a fellow-sailor, is working high above the deck of a ship on the maintop masthead, when he falls into the ocean with his equipment. He is lost completely; Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative (New York: Signet, 2000), 31.
“At the end of his fuel, hopelessly lost in bad weather but still searching for the Hawaiian Islands, Ulm had sent out his last and typically laconic message: ‘We are now landing in the sea. Please come and pick us out.’ Tragically – despite a massive air and sea search – they were not found.”
Charles Ulm and his crew of two others were flying from San Francisco to Honolulu in the 1930s; Gordon Taylor, The Sky Beyond (New York: Ballantine, 1970), 60, n.
“Computers make children advance faster, but they also make them think like computers.”
Describing the effect of computer games; Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (New York: Scribner, 2004), 17.
“Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone’s been missing too long.”
Leif Enger, Peace Like a River (New York: Grove Press, 2001), 54.
“. . . here we have a movie where the hero is fighting every ideology he hates, gets his ass kicked, and is then informed, ‘Oh, and by the way: I’m your dad. But you knew all along.’”
Describing a Gen-X watching The Empire Strikes Back; Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (New York: Scribner, 2004), 154.
“I told God that it all seemed too calculated, that he seemed all too real, too involved, too present in our lives, especially my parents’, as if he had cruelly dished out the very end that each most feared.”
When looking at the deteriorating health of his parents; Michael Horton, Too Good to be True: Finding Hope in a World of Hype (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2006), 13.
“Death is part of life. Generally, it’s the shortest part of life, usually occurring near the end. However, this is not necessarily true for rock stars; sometimes rock stars don’t start living until they die.”
Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (New York: Scribner, 2005), 11.
“… yea, as touching myself, to tell the truth, he [God] sometimes assaileth me to mightily, and oppresseth me with such heavy cogitations, that he utterly shadoweth my Saviour Christ from me, and, in a manner, taketh Him clean out of my sight.”
Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians, Translated by Erasmus Middleton (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1979), 104.
