That's the kind of thing I would love to be able to quote, but never will...*sigh* The first paragraph, anyway. I kinda got lost in the second. Oh well.

I am what I am
I'm super fortified hundred proof girl with a band
and I'm a velveteen rabbit made of steel with a plan...
I'll save the planet change the world
I'll make a one girl stand
--Superchic[k], 'Real'

papercrane: Oh, yeah, I know. That's why learning Latin gives you a jump on French (and I guess Italian) and French gives you a jump on Spanish.

Rysade: I confess, I do not understand your description of the chart. But the book sounds interesting.
T

Tuibird in Aotearoa
Conservationist, Scientist, and proud of both!
Chocolate lover extraordinaire...
Ahahahaha, ahahahahaha, ahahahaha...
My mission: Bringing Maori to the world!
Spelling Freak and Typo Queen

It was the other way round for me--I started Spanish first, then Latin (tho I've forgotten most of it) and then French. But I'll prolly only keep taking Spanish. Es mi lingua favorita.

I am what I am
I'm super fortified hundred proof girl with a band
and I'm a velveteen rabbit made of steel with a plan...
I'll save the planet change the world
I'll make a one girl stand
--Superchic[k], 'Real'

*grins* Well, same difference.
T

Tuibird in Aotearoa
Conservationist, Scientist, and proud of both!
Chocolate lover extraordinaire...
Ahahahaha, ahahahahaha, ahahahaha...
My mission: Bringing Maori to the world!
Spelling Freak and Typo Queen

lol yeah. It's a Romance thing.

I am what I am
I'm super fortified hundred proof girl with a band
and I'm a velveteen rabbit made of steel with a plan...
I'll save the planet change the world
I'll make a one girl stand
--Superchic[k], 'Real'

'He was a picturesque person, but he wasn't dangerous, as far as I can make out.'
--Agatha Christie, via Superintendent Battle in 'Cards on the Table'


"That's right," he said. "We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)

quote:

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The opposite wall contained a clothes locker and a door apparently leading to the head. Above the bed was a mounted case containing a collection of dueling swords. The third wall contained a built-in bookshelf and a niche which held a small stylized image of a ferocious, fanged beast.

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May not sound like much, but those are the quarters of the future ruler of the Klingon Empire.
Pawns and Symbols by Majliss Larson

And maybe almost as close to me, but in a different direction:

quote:

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But apologies are easy, especially for sins not yet committed; let us get on with it. E-P, then 37 and in the Middle of the Journey, both in career and life, was posted, so the Major-General who introduces the Akobo piece to its military audience instructs us, to one of the least-known parts of what was then the frontier between Italian-occupied and British-held territories in East Africa, six hundred miles south of Khartoum, four hundred miles north of Lake Rudolf, five hundred west of Addis Ababa.

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Well, that's only two sentences, but I think it's enough.
Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author by Clifford Geertz

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Star Wars: Betrayed Federation
A full-cast audio drama featuring the tale of two Jedi Knights investigating the assassination of a Trade Federation Viceroy in the days nine centuries before the Battle of Yavin.

quote:

The Fall of the House of Usher(By Edgar Allan Poe)--"For several days ensuing, her name was unmentioned by either Usher or myself; and during this period I was busied in earnest endeavors to alleviate the melancholy of my friend."

Farenheight 451 by Ray Bradbury
"Mildred how would it be if I quit my job awhile?"

Haha, this is a funny topic. XD

quote:

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:
"Fortunately," said Dumbledore, "there is a simple test."
He placed his empty glass on a small table beside his chair, but before he could do anything else, Uncle Vernon shouted, "Will you get these ruddy things off us?"

*Big grin and a laugh* Not spoilery, but still a funny quote. XD Madam Rosemerta's oak-matured mead anyone? XDXD

-seabiscuit, a.k.a. hungry

WEll considering the closets books to me are musical or school..here is the next closest:
WaW by D.D. (I sincerely hope you knew that. really. cause dude, if you didn't...)

quote:

The day that had seemed mild earlier seemed chilly now, as the spring breeze whistled down the street and rustled the maples.

Wonderfully descriptive, huh?

Augh! It's a spoiler! Now people who haven't read WAW will know there's a breeze blowing in it!

quote:

There are various ways of grouping objects. You might choose objects for their aesthetic qualities or because they contrast well in terms of their shape or materiality, as in the drawing below.

Oh, that's enough of that one. It's from a book called The Fundamentals of Drawing, which I'm only on page 8 of.

(Ok, so it was the second closest, the closest was either HBP or the manual for the Poser 3D software.)

ok, there are three equally close so I'm going to give a sentance or two from each.

quote:

Consequently, skills were developed to lower levels here. With their eye on the marketplace, Americans made products as cheaply and quickly as possible

Engines of Change, a book about the American Industrial Revolution for a class on American Science and Technology through 1859.

quote:

He had been a minor but valued member of a number of scientific research establishments.
(He had helped to design the petrol engine, and plastics, and the ring pull can.)

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

quote:

a*po*plexy\(little black box)a-p(upside down e)-(little black box)plek-s(e with a little line over it)\n: STROKE 3--Ap*o*plec*tic\(little black box)a-p(upside down e)-(little black box)plek-tik\ adj

Langenscheidt's Pocket Dictionary- Merriam-Webster.

...yeah I quoted the dictionary since it was one of the closest.

edit: fixing typo on "levles" and "poll"

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I've found it. THE ULTIMATE page 51 quote.

quote:

Aullando como un hipopotamo herido, tio Vernon agarro otra pieza de adorno.
-!Vete, Harry! !Vete ya!-grito el senor Weasley, apintando con la varita a tio Vernon-. !Yo lo arreglare!
-Harry Potter y el Caliz de Fuego

Oooohhh...me gusta los libros en espanol! Yes, I do know that it's missing a bunch of accents, and the exclamtion points aren't upside down in the front of the sentences, but oh well. So, what do you guys think of my latest project?

-seabiscuit, a.k.a. hungry

here's a qoute from page 51 in Swollen by Melissa Lion...(This book was interesting but I've read better)

quote:

"what did the docter say?" She watched me, made a judgement. She was trying to keep her face relaxed but a brief shudder of her eyelid, a twitch she got when she was stressed or angry, gave her away. "He said it was nothing to worry about. Your father was there, if you want to ask him about it. I'm tired now, sweetie."

4. Kinou uisukii o nomisugita no ka, yonaka ni i ga ( ) itaku natta.
Maybe I drank a little too much whiskey yesterday. In the middle of the night I suddenly got these shooting stomach pains.

'Jazz Up Your Japanese with Onomatopoeia - For All Levels' by Hiroko Fukuda

From the only close by book (which was underneath a camera, a CD player, a CD case, a couple CDs for the computer, and the booklet for Myst):

"The F3 key is compatible with the DOS Shell program offered with DOS Version 4.0 and with an older program called the Microsoft Manager. The Alt-F4 key combination is compatible with Microsoft's Windows, used there to close a window or quit the Windows enviroment."

DOS for Dummies (2nd Edition). If I had any other books nearby, though, they'd probably be YW books (as reference for fanfic or forum posts). And I always thought this type of thread was to see what other people were reading, or interested in, and maybe to get ideas for your next run to the library... so if I had YW books, I'd dig around for something else. Unless I was posting on some other forum, in which case I'd look for them on purpose... XD

My room is so full of books, I don't know which one to use *Looks around wildly*

Quote:

"But the one in Haven now is a Heartstone, and not a node, right" she asked anxiously.

Winds of Fury by Mercedes Lackey

The book nearest to me is, unfortunatly, 'Word 97 in Easy Steps' which isn't even mine. Page 51 is so unispiring (undo and redo, wow!) that I'm not going to bother.

Are we doing this again? Okay, I'll play, because I actually have a book with me in the lab for once.

"In the first place, the tendency to perform Henry V alongside Richard II and the two parts of Henry IV-- or even, as in 1975, the two parts of Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor-- has again given audiences the necessary familiarity with and affection for Henry's former companions."

How dull. Gary Taylor, the introduction to Henry V, Oxford Shakespeare edition. Hmm. I think he's talking about Ensign Pistol and Bardolph and the former Mistress Quickly.

Slightly better:
BARDOLPH: Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell.
HOSTESS: Nay, sure he's not in hell. He's in Arthur's bosom...

Talking about the death of Falstaff.