Bananas

"I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas." - Lou Holtz -- Post From My iPhone

Location:Lake Robbins Dr,The Woodlands,United States

Outlandish Confidence

From Peggy Nonan's piece in the Wall Street Journal today. She is writing about what sort of personalities are attracted to presidential runs:

I said I didn't mean to suggest he was [crazy], only that it took a certain interesting, even outlandish confidence to think you should be president.

Windows to the Soul

This is a quote from Let the Great World Spin by Collum McCann. This book goes on my short list of favorites. The language, the metaphors, the stories of the individuals depicted all come together to make this an amazing read. McCann really has a way with words.

She had the bluest eyes; they looked like small drops of September sky.

To Tell the Truth

Also from Let the Great World Spin by Collum McCann. Here one of the book's characters describes what she tells her parents back in rural Missouri about her less-than-wonderful experience as a young black woman in college in the 1950's.

I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

A Lack of Honour

From the book I'm reading now: Tuck:

Our King William has proven himself a greedy, grasping rogue and a stranger to all honour.

Maliciousness

I came across this sentence in The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera. The sentence describes a snobby ex-patriot in Papua, New Guinea who just made a racist comment to her friend at the country club.

Her laughter glittered like knives.

Deliciousness

Loretta found this phrase in, of all places, a Wired magazine article on the democratization of manufacturing (Atoms are the New Bits by Chris Anderson).

The irony is delicious: the seeds of tomorrow's industry growing in the ashes of yesterday's.

Well, we are starting a blog . . . .

Loretta and I decided to start a blog where we will memorialize phrases that we came across in books or magazines. Not so much for the blogginess of it, but for the ability to easily document and remember usage of the language that we particularly enjoyed.