Comments by anydelirium

  • He's one of my favourite poets, myself. :D My favourite of his varies depending on my mood, however. At the moment I'm particularly partial to the Four Quartets.

    March 19, 2009

  • Why, thank you. :D I would have to return the sentiment, especially as it appears that we have pulled the word from the same source!

    March 15, 2009

  • A sort of drug immortalized in Adolus Huxley's Brave New World.

    '"Why don't you tke soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly. So jolly."'

    April 28, 2008

  • Perfectly baffled.

    April 9, 2008

  • A grandpa-ism for you all.

    March 24, 2008

  • Don't know about Srkrause, but I myself have lived in dutch country PA my entire life, and I'm quite familiar with the phrase- so much so that's I'm surprised to hear it's native.

    March 5, 2008

  • This is an utterly marvelous list!

    March 4, 2008

  • Hey now, I like this, and I'm not old. It's time for the old people phrases to make a comeback.

    March 3, 2008

  • East is a fantastic book. Read it years ago and still remember it fondly.

    March 3, 2008

  • 'I saw pale kings and princes too,

    Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;

    They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci

    Hath thee in thrall!�?'

    -from the poem by John Keats

    March 3, 2008

  • Good Omens is a marvelous, marvelous book. The Bartimaeus Trilogy also has some wonderfully hilarious footnotes, particularly for a young adult/children's series.

    March 3, 2008

  • Annoying, yes, but "Stranger Than Fiction" was a good, good movie. I mean, it was about books! What's not to love?

    (Edited because 'Stranger than Friction' would be an odd, odd movie.)

    March 1, 2008

  • Ooh. Oooh, that was just- well, I'm not sure if that was really good or really, really bad.

    March 1, 2008

  • Aha! It's an ingenious plan!

    March 1, 2008

  • Well, those would be palindromes, though I guess they could count if you were using them as a pen name. Kind of defeats the purpose though, right?

    March 1, 2008

  • A person who claims to be inspired.

    March 1, 2008

  • One's name written backwards as a pseudonym.

    -muiriledyna

    March 1, 2008

  • Literary gleanings.

    "My journals of collected quotes could be described as analecta."

    March 1, 2008

  • The study of truth.

    March 1, 2008

  • A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.

    March 1, 2008

  • 'I can never find a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.' -C.S. Lewis

    March 1, 2008

  • Something that there can never, ever be enough of.

    March 1, 2008

  • Hee, thanks. I filled it with all the delicious tidbits that just make my heart happy.

    February 29, 2008

  • Ooh, what a fun idea for a list! I'll keep my eye on this.

    February 28, 2008

  • *laugh* Maybe, Treeseed, but my mom's of the Grease generation, and I practically grew up with Danny Zuko an' all.

    February 27, 2008

  • HIGH waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending,

    Midnight and moonlight and bright shining stars,

    Darkness and glory rejoicingly blending,

    Earth rising to heaven and heaven descending,

    Man's spirit away from its drear dungeon sending,

    Bursting the fetters and breaking the bars.

    -Emily Brontë

    February 26, 2008

  • It might sounds better than it is, but really, it sounds so pretty- who can resist?

    February 25, 2008

  • Also the name of Bilbo Baggins' cousin from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. One of the greedy Sackwater-Bagginses.

    February 24, 2008

  • I am exactly where you are, c_b. I'm more of a dog person, but I still love the kitties, and would spend more time around them if it did not induce wheezing, crying, sneezing, and all sorts of unpleasant things.

    February 23, 2008

  • '"Who is right, and who is wrong? No one. But live while you live, tomorrow you die, as I might have died an hour ago. And is it worth worrying oneself, when life is only one second in comparison with eternity?"' -War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy

    February 21, 2008

  • '"He was altogether wretched. He hated the dark, and he hated the light more: he hated everything."' -The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien

    February 21, 2008

  • 'And the lotus rose- quietly, quietly

    The surface flittered out of heart of light.'

    -Burnt Norton, from Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot

    February 21, 2008

  • '"My thesis is this: I want you to believe."

    '"To believe what?"

    '"To believe in things you cannot."' -Dracula, by Bram Stoker

    February 21, 2008

  • '"My life is spent in one long effort to esacpe from the commonplaces of exsistence."' -The Red-Headed League, a tale of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    February 21, 2008

  • '"Why should I laugh?" asked the old man. "Madness is youth is true wisdom."' -from the fairy tale The Enchanted Canary, in Andrew Lang's Red Fairy Book

    February 21, 2008

  • 'Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with him, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back- leaving me astounded, amazed, and most of all, alive.' -The Truth About Forever, by Sarah Dessen

    February 21, 2008

  • 'The young pastor's voice as tremulously sweet, rich, deep and broken. The feeling that it so evidently manifested, rather than the direct purport of the words, caused it to vibrate within all hearts, and brought the listeners into one accord of sympathy.' -The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    February 21, 2008

  • 'I keep my countenance,

    I remain self-possessed

    Except when a street piano, mechanical and tired

    Reiterated some worn-out common song

    With the smell of hyacinths across the garden

    Recalling things that other people have desired

    Are these ideas right or wrong?'

    -A Portrait of a Lady, by T.S. Eliot

    February 21, 2008

  • '"If someone dared you to eat dirt, you could, couldn't you?" he asked condescendingly.

    'I wrinkled my nose. "I did once... on a dare," I admitted. "It wasn't so bad."' -Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

    '"I've got a jar of di-irt! I've got a jar of di-irt!"' -Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest

    February 21, 2008

  • The home of the Oompa-loompas, lovers of cacao beans and employees in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.

    February 21, 2008

  • The home city of Bruce Wayne, or Batman.

    February 21, 2008

  • Oh, you've been? I'm jealous- I've never gotten to go.

    February 20, 2008

  • 'All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even exsistence.' -On Angels, by Czeslaw Milosz

    February 20, 2008

  • '"Every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind- is, in the end, Hell."' -The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis

    February 20, 2008

  • 'Thou are to me a delicious torment. Thine ever, or never.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson

    February 20, 2008

  • 'Virtue is its own punishment.' -Aneurin Bevan

    February 20, 2008

  • 'For to be afraid of oneself is the last horror.' -The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis

    February 20, 2008

  • 'There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well-written, or poorly written. That is all.' -Oscar Wilde, in the author's preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray.

    February 20, 2008

  • 'These violent delights have violent ends

    And in their triumph die, like fire and powder

    Which, as they kiss, consume.'

    -Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare

    February 20, 2008

  • '"Hush- hush!" implored Cousin Stickles.

    '"I don't mean to hush," said Valancy, perversely. "I've hush-hushed all my life. I'll scream if I want to. Don't make me want to."' -The Blue Castle, by L.M. Montgomery

    February 20, 2008

  • The family estate of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the hero of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice.

    February 20, 2008

  • Second star to the right, and straight on till morning.

    The island home of Peter Pan, title character from J.M. Barrie's novel.

    February 20, 2008

  • The Earnshaw home, for which Emily Bronte's gothic novel Wuthering Heights is named.

    February 20, 2008

  • The family home of Mr. Rochester, the dashing, mysterious hero of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

    February 20, 2008

  • The fictional city around which fantasy author Charles de Lint centers many of his stories. Loosely based off of New York City.

    February 20, 2008

  • Though imaginary, it's not entirely fictional, as L.M. Montgomery based the P.E.I. town on her own home village of Cavendish.

    February 20, 2008

  • '(She had, of course, left the door open, for she knew that it is a very silly thing to shut oneself in a wardrobe.)' -The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis

    February 20, 2008

  • 'How sad and bad and mad it was, but then, how it was sweet.' -Robert Browning

    February 20, 2008

  • 'To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.' -Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo

    February 20, 2008

  • 'I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.' -Charlotte Bronte

    February 20, 2008

  • '"For shame, Heathcliff!" said I. "It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive."

    '"No," he replied. "God won't have the satisfaction that I shall."' -Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte

    February 20, 2008

  • 'You add the most delightful sense of the macabre to any delirium.' -Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End

    *wink*

    February 20, 2008

  • *grin* Took me some nosing around to figure it out, too.

    When you're in your library, click the little symbol that lets you edit the book. Down a bit will be a space to enter your review. :)

    February 20, 2008

  • I have to agree- this is beautiful!

    February 20, 2008

  • A minor goddess in greek mythology. Cursed to only be able to say what she hears someone else say first, she pined away for Narcissus until only her voice remained.

    February 20, 2008

  • 'Parting is all we know of heaven

    And all we need of hell.' -Emily Dickinson

    February 19, 2008

  • 'I reject your reality and subsitute my own!' -Mythbusters

    February 19, 2008

  • 'All rebellion begins in isolation.' -Dave Edwards

    February 19, 2008

  • JACK: This ghastly state of things is what you'd call Bunburying, I suppose.

    ALGERNON: Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life.

    JACK: Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here.

    ALGERNON: That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

    JACK: Serious Bunburyist! Good heavens!

    -The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

    February 19, 2008

  • 'She mutely offered a kiss, an offer taken unfair advantage of, to the extortion of about a hundred kisses.' -Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

    February 19, 2008

  • '-And so the conversation slips

    Among velleities and carefully caught regrets

    Through attenuated tones of violins

    Mingled with remote coronets

    And begins.'

    -Portrait of a Lady, by T.S. Eliot

    February 19, 2008

  • 'I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

    I do not think they will sing to me.'

    -The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T.S. Eliot

    February 19, 2008

  • 'And so, I think, will our age go down- in fiery destruction to the applause of a crowded house of cheering spectators.' -Soren Kierkegaard

    February 19, 2008

  • 'Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn- my God, do you learn.' -C.S. Lewis

    February 19, 2008

  • 'I have no confidence in the normal, well-balanced type of persons.' -The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe

    February 19, 2008

  • 'the mind is its own beautiful prisoner.' -e.e. cummings

    February 19, 2008

  • '"I want rest- rest!" said Mrs. Kent, laughing wildly. "Can you find that for me? Don't you know I'm a ghost, Emily? I died years ago... I walk in the dark."' - the book Emily's Quest, by L.M. Montgomery

    February 19, 2008

  • 'May you do for La Hire what you would like La Hire to do for you, if you were La Hire and La Hire were God.' -famous prayer of Etienne do Vignolles, commonly called La Hire, mercenary and soldier of Joan of Arc.

    February 19, 2008

  • 'Sanity is madness put to good use.' -attributed to George Santayana

    February 19, 2008

  • '"He simply said, 'Please. Please, I need to live.' Twas the please that caught my memory. I asked what was so important for him. 'True love,' he replied."' -Westley, from The Princess Bride

    February 19, 2008

  • 'The man who lets himself be bored is more contemptible than the bore.' -Samuel Butler

    February 19, 2008

  • 'The truth is more important than the facts.' -Frank Lloyd Wright

    February 19, 2008

  • 'I am not naturally honest, but sometimes I am so by chance.' -William Shakespeare

    February 19, 2008

  • 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?' reportedly Simon Bolivar's last words.

    February 19, 2008

  • A vocational school. (For example, I have a friend attending the local vo-tech for his mechanic's certification or degree or whatever the frick they hand out there.)

    February 19, 2008

  • Definitely not- I get them mixed up all the time.

    February 18, 2008

  • '"There's this car, that runs on water, man. Th reason the government doesn't want us to know about it is cause they know we'll buy all the water, and there'll be nothing left to drink, except BEER. And they know that beer, will set us free."' -That 70's Show

    February 18, 2008

  • 'I never knew the darkness had so many colours, all of them black.' -the book Firethorn, by Sarah Micklem

    February 18, 2008

  • 'There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterwards you can then remove all traces of reality.' -Pable Picasso

    February 18, 2008

  • My grandfather called his grandchildren this all the time- I never thought I'd find it here!

    February 18, 2008

  • Oh, goodness, that's hilarious.

    February 18, 2008

  • '"You should never, ever doubt what nobody is sure of."' -Willy Wonka in the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

    February 18, 2008

  • 'My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's lovliness.' -Michelangelo

    February 18, 2008

  • Will Turner: We're going to steal a ship? That ship?

    Jack Sparrow: "Commandeer." We're going to commandeer that ship. Nautical term.

    -the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man's Chest

    February 18, 2008

  • '(The form for commandeering a genuine NYC garbage truck MAY be 34 pages long, but one day I will think of a reason to fill it out, I swear to you.)' -the book Peeps, by Scott Westerfield

    February 18, 2008

  • 'I can endure my own despair better than another man's hope.' -William Welsh

    February 18, 2008

  • '"Look, son," the cop says. "There's no need to get all shirty with me."

    '"Shirty??"

    '"YES, shirty."

    'I quite like the word.' -the book I Am The Messenger, by Markus Zusak

    February 18, 2008

  • 'Writing is easy. Just place a piece of paper in the typewriter and start bleeding.' -Thomas Wolfe

    February 18, 2008

  • 'The person who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.' -the book Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen

    February 18, 2008

  • 'Insanity- doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.' -Albert Einstien

    February 18, 2008

  • A setting in William Goldman's book 'The Princess Bride' and in the movie of the same name. Aptly named, for these cliffs are ridiculously tall- only Fezzik and the Man in Black are strong enough to climb them.

    February 18, 2008

  • The heroine and title character in William Goldman's book 'The Princess Bride'.

    February 18, 2008

  • '"And yesterday the planet seemed to be going so well..."' -The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

    February 18, 2008

  • 'I have measured out my life in coffee spoons/ Now how should I presume?' - the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T.S. Eliot

    February 18, 2008

  • 'Happiness in intelligent people is one of the rarest things I know.' -Ernest Hemmingway

    February 18, 2008

  • 'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.' -Robert Louis Stevenson

    February 18, 2008

  • '"I vociferated enough curses to annihilate any fiend in christendom."' -Heathcliff, from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

    February 18, 2008

  • The name of the title character in Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'.

    February 17, 2008

  • title character in Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

    Jane Bennett, in Austen's Pride and Prejudice

    February 17, 2008

  • The title and a nickname for the title character in Nabokov's 1958 novel. A diminutive of the spanish name Lola, meaning 'sorrows'.

    February 17, 2008

  • A wildflower, scientifically and botanically known as Arisaema triphyllum. Also known informally as Indian Turnip.

    February 17, 2008

  • A spring-blooming flower named for a character of greek mythology of the same name. He was obsessed with his own beauty, stared at a reflection of his face all day and all night. He wasted away and eventually died.

    The nymph Echo was in love with him.

    February 17, 2008

  • An early spring-blooming bulb flower, botanically known as Chionodoxa luciliae.

    February 17, 2008

  • Hello! I am quite new indeed. As for L.M. Montgomery, well, I've read all of Anne, all of Emily, and quite a few others. She was my very first Favourite Author. :)

    Pleasure to meet you!

    February 17, 2008

  • '"What herb do young ladies fear most?"

    '"What?" asked Valancy wearily.

    '"Thyme," said Uncle Benjamin, chuckling to himself.'

    -The Blue Castle, by L.M. Montgomery

    February 17, 2008

  • A small, delightful wildflower- more often called bluebells.

    February 17, 2008

  • This is as opposed to a loose rose.

    February 17, 2008

  • So glad you enjoyed it! I must say, yours conjures quite the mental picture.

    February 17, 2008

  • Botanical name "Narcissus". Sometimes playfully called "Daffa-down-dilly", and mentioned as such in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

    February 17, 2008

  • This word might not be onomatopoeia, but it should be.

    February 17, 2008