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Tuesday April 24, 2007

Great lines I've always wanted to use

• In a rare feat requiring grace and beauty...

• After seeing what lay inside the ball of yarn the cat unraveled, I blanched in horror...

• The crowd's murmuring grew more agitated as the speaker clicked on slide #97...What a wonderful surprise to see...
  

• The waiter's hair was dull, dingy and gray, as was the soup...

• Small, greasy footsteps formed a path from the front door, through the white-carpeted living room and up the stairs.

• "One," I said to myself.  "Two, three, four.."  Further counting was curtailed when, as if orchestrated, the pots of paint all fell from the wall at once.

• "Our friends at Gartner recently released new vendor ratings on Sun.  We were moved to "positive." POSITIVE. "

Now that's a story I'd want to read!  Congratulations to all my colleagues at Sun.


Posted by terrymckenzie ( Apr 24 2007, 01:34:33 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [4]

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Comments:

"nobody own's life, but anyone with a frying pan own's death" - William Seward Burroughs II (the beat writer, not his Grandfather, the inventor of the Burroughs adding machine, of course).

Posted by Wayne Horkan on April 24, 2007 at 03:27 PM PDT #

What a great quote! I'll find ways to use this one! Thanks for sharing, Wayne.

Posted by Terry on April 24, 2007 at 04:41 PM PDT #

Perhaps you should be writing short stories or novels in addition to your blog, Terry.

Posted by Al on April 25, 2007 at 09:13 AM PDT #

In the film Cabin in the Cotton, Bette Davis said, "Ah'd love to kiss ya, but ah jest washed my hair." Up until the Gartner pronouncement, that was my favorite line.

Posted by KarenA on April 26, 2007 at 07:26 AM PDT #

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