What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

[Nienor]

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times. The paths fork and divide. With each step you take through Destiny's garden, you make a choice; and every choice determines future paths. However, at the end of a lifetime of walking you might look back, and see only one path streching out behind you; or look ahead and see only darkness.

-Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman

 

[Black_Ivy]

"Howard Roark laughed. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst in flight to the sky over the motionless water. The water seemed immovable, the stone flowing."

from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

 

[chipmunk]

"SUDOKU

Top 5 reasons why Sudoku is sweeping the nation

1. It's simple to learn and can take a lifetime to master.
2. Using your brain to solve Sudoku puzzles sharpens your cognitive abilities in other areas as well.
3. You never run out of puzzles. The number of possible puzzles that can be made is usually higher than most of can count to.
4. It's a great way to meet people. Believe it or not there are clubs and chat rooms popping up everywhere for people into Sudoku who wish to share their experiences and perhaps secrets of successful solving.
5. Sudoku makes being logical cool."

I thought 3 was hilarious. So much for the editors improved cognitive abilities.

 

[strawberrygate]

Welcome to the world of HyperText Markup Language(HTML) - the popular standard for the the creation of Internet pages.

 

[MacGyver4Christ]

Aragorn sped on up the hill. Ever now and again he bent to the ground. Hobbits go light, and their footprints are not easy even for a Ranger to read, but not far from the top a spring crossed the path, and in the wet earth he saw what he was seeking.

The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers

 

[GuidingStar]

I first saw Jose Tarres on the stairs of the Hotel Residencia Internacional in Gerona, Spain.

 

[HisJavajunkie]

The little girl rattled on ceaselessly and seamlessly, the lack of even the slightest pause relieveing me of any need to respond or, mercifully, to listen.

The Bear in the Attic -- Patrick McManus

 

[tanya88]

"Who am I? And how, I wonder, this story will end?"
(The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks)

 

[Amplify]

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

-Chaucer

 

[JimmyKoKoPop]

It is often said that America "invented" Democracy. This view is, of course, an understatement; America invented not only democracy, but freedom, justice, liberty and "time-sharing". But representative democracy is unquestionably our proudest achievement, the creation most uniquely our own, even if the rest of the Western world would have come up with the idea themselves by the 1820s. So why, then, has participation in this most wondrous system withered.

Next to this text is a picture of Thucydides and quotes from Pericles and Socrates.

 

[strawberrygate]

a or A n,pl a;s A's or As 1 the first letter of the English alphabet. from the Collins Australian Compact Dictionary.

 

[outlaw]

In the dry time of year, the dangerous time, the risk time, an old woman climbed a hill.



The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

 

[HisJavajunkie]

Our British friends had never heard of him.

--
Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer

 

[chick_for_Christ]

There were only a few moments of daylight left.
--
The Ultimate Reality Show - Clay Jacobsen

 

[MMXII]

Whenever I ride to Hell's Kitchen, my chest always tightens.

2 Live 4 - Ryan Dobson

 

[HisJavajunkie]

Hey, you--you with the book in your hand.

--
Inside The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe --

Jamest Stuart Bell, Carrie Pyykkonen, and Linda Washington

 

[xAtheistx]

"The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep."

~Washington, Jan 14, '76

 

[HisJavajunkie]

Every one has heard people quarrelling.

Mere Christianity -- C.S. Lewis

 

[Black_Ivy]

In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the most gentle manners. His countenance was a true picture of his soul.

from Candide by Voltaire

 

[MarvinAndroid42]

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

-"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus