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  • The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books.

    Book   Night   Light  
    Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.1, Spectra
  • The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.

    Wendell Berry (2013). “This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems”, p.222, Counterpoint
  • And neither do I, asshole. (Wren) Wow. Multiple syllables and a whole sentence from the tiger. Who’d have ever thought it? Whoever she was, she must have had a lot of talent to make you speak. Next thing you know, she’ll have the dead walking. Quick, call a Dark-Hunter. I’m sure some of them would like another resurrection. (Dev)

    Dark   Hunters   Wrens  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Unleash The Night”, p.70, Hachette UK
  • What happened to cause the jail fight? (Maggie) They thought it would be fun to knock around the ‘kid’ and show off their manhood. I thought it would be fun to knock a couple of them unconscious. (Wren)

    Couple   Fun   Kids  
  • And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.

    Wrens  
    "Court of Love". Book by Geoffrey Chaucer, line 1,372,
  • So what happened? (Maggie) Nothing major. It’s just a group of assholes out to kill me. (Wren)

    Groups   Wrens   Maggie  
  • Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

    Stupid   Tired   Eagles  
    John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.344
  • Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

    Eagles   Wrens   World  
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.544, Delphi Classics
  • If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.

    Queens   Book   Fate  
  • Man, Wren. I’m impressed. No woman ever sent flowers to thank me. (Serre) Don’t be that impressed. I’m thinking she didn’t send flowers to thank him. One flower says thank you. This many says she thought he was dead. Or that she killed him. Hmm...I’m thinking, put a tiger in her tank and that didn’t quit rev her up. What she needs is to go hunting for bear. (Dev)

    Flower   Men   Thinking  
  • Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

    Wisdom   Writing   Wrens  
    1870 Society and Solitude,'Art'.
  • The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little more propriety be reproached as a plagiary, than the architect can be censured as a mean copier of Angelo or Wren, because he digs his marble out of the same quarry, squares his stones by the same art, and unites them in columns of the same orders.

    Art   Mean   Writing  
    Samuel Johnson (1828). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.278
  • Cath ran her fingers along the cover, over the raised gold type. Then someone else ran right into her, pushing the book into Cath's chest. Pushing two books into her chest. Cath looked up just as Wren threw an arm around her. "They're both crying," Cath heard Reagan say. "I can't even watch." Cath freed an arm to wrap around her sister. "I can't believe it's really over," she whispered. Wren held her tight and shook her head. She really was crying, too. "Don't be so melodramatic, Cath," Wren laughed hoarsely. "It's never over... It's Simon.

    Book   Believe   Two  
    Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.685, St. Martin's Griffin
  • No can do. Wren stays here. (Dev) Not what I was told. (Varyk) Well, I just told you. (Dev)

    Wrens   Wells   Can Do  
  • I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

    Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”
  • Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you, If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you.

    Powerful   Ravens   Two  
    David Wagoner (1999). “Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems”, p.10, University of Illinois Press
  • What happened to your hair, tiger? (Fang) It fell off. (Wren)

    Hair   Wrens   Happened  
  • Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight

    Sight   Doe   Wrens  
    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [110]
  • Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.

    Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy (2008). “Gone with the Wind”, p.896, Simon and Schuster
  • There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

    Men   Two   Justice  
    A Book of Nonsense (1846)
  • What is the extinction of a condor to a child who has never seen a wren?

  • Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren

    Life   Eagles   Wings  
    Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin
  • The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

    Eagles   Wrens   World  
    William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.85, Cambridge University Press
  • The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living in an unprecedented way. Neither economic thinking nor historical experience suggests that any other social system could be as beneficial to the masses as capitalism. The results speak for themselves. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: Si monumentum requires, circumspice.

  • My father used to say that it’s not enough to just beat an attacker off. You have to hurt them enough that they’ll know not to tangle with you anymore. Or preferably kill them. (Wren)

    Hurt   Father   Wrens  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.86, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
  • Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind.

    Moving   Past   Sky  
  • How many more are there like you? (Maggie) Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren)

    Men   Two   Wrens  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.196, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
  • The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 102
  • The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

    Liberty   Wrens   Needs  
  • The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.

    Years   Bird   Wrens  
    Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.43, David R. Godine Publisher
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