"On the other hand, if the task is done carefully and thoroughly, it will save substantial time and effort later and it will also increase the reliability and validity of the data." - The Survey Research Handbook, by Pamela Alreck and Robert Settle.

I wondered if he was asleep downstairs or whether he was waiting to come in and kill me.
--- "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time", mark haddon

interesting.

Ugh. this is what I get for blogging at work.

"Alternatively, a heavy-duty, normally closed (N.C.), bimetallic temperature switch wired in series with the diffusion pupe heater may be mounted to the bottom turn of the water-cooling coil."
from "Building Scientific Apparatus" Moore, Davis, Coplan.

Two books, equidistant on my desk...

He said, "The Scriptures declare, 'My Temple will be called a place of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves!"
-The One Year Bible, New Living Translation, p. 123

Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.
-Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life, p. 123

This is your little sister writing you from Whistler on a beautiful sunny spring day. Okay, so what I am about to tell you is that I cheated. Page 123 had a terribly barren sentence. The sentence was...
"I told her that this was okay, and that the important thing was that she realized this." BORING!!!
So, I have cheated and gone to page 23 which is totally interesting...
"For example, you are thinking of a friend whom you have not heard from in years and a moment later she telephones you; or you have a dream about a male relative meeting some ill fate and the next morning you find out that he passed away during the night; or you ignore your "irrational" mother when she tells you she feels anxious about you leaving the house on a particular evening, and then you total your car in a strange car accident."

This is from a great new book that my boyfriend bought me for my birthday. The title of the Chapter is "You are already using your psychic abilities." and the book is called "You are Psychic" by Debra Lynne Katz.

Thanks for the birthday present Ker, it's so cute. love Jen

"Each woman sewed a Star of David on a white strip of cloth."
From "Thanks to my Mother" by Schoschana Rabinovici. An eleven-year old girl survives three concentration camps and a death march thanks to her mother who disguised her child as an adult. The mother lived until 1974; her daughter has a family of her own and lives in Israel.

“And then, if you eat the mushrooms, you see stars.”

All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten
Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
By Robert Fulghum

funny, i see stars all the time :)

Haha!
"Differnces are also apparent for release/absorption threshold concentrations."

Reservoir Limnology. Ecological Perspectives

The combination operates to generate a secodn contrast between that which is here, present, and that which is not.

Aircraft Stories, decentering the object in technoscience. John Law.

Annika

"Antiarrhythmic agents may be administered if needed."

(Cecil Essentials of Medicine)

"And remember that nothing rounds down to zero."

-- From, Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English

Assuming that a sentence always finishes with a full stop, question or exclamation mark, here is mine from Jane Austin's "Sense and Sensibility":

'I never saw you wear a ring before, Edward,' she cried.

Is this the end of this sentence? Her quote finishes with a comma which confuses me ...

Thanks for an inspiring web log!

"Some of these differences may be socioeconomic or a function of the kinds of students now choosing the few women's colleges that are left: with feminism came new motives."
-Revolution From Within : A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem

"As for personal correspondence, the law has always held that the recipient owns the physical letter itself but that the writer of the letter controls the right to reproduce it." - Chicago Manual of Style, 13th ed., p. 123.

P.123 row 5

LReturn = DoWindowTitles(AdressOf, EnumCallBackProc, 1StWindowTitles)

VB in a nutshell, Paul Lomax

p. 123 "Je regarde encore une fois ce corps sous le soleil et il est tellement lumineux que c'est à se demander qui éclaire qui. Elle ou le soleil?"

-french canadian stuff from "L'avaleur de sable" by Stephane Bourguignon...

but here's a classic that jumped up to me yesterday : "Balls. said the queen. if I had them I'd be king."

i would get the one about a pig :)

"and the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you." oink! which is why i eat simulated non-meat bacon :)

from the bible, which is on my desk at the moment and usually is not. -leviticus 11:7 on clean and unclean meat

great idea/post keri!

I think there's a lot of truth in that Keate's quote, it isn't one I've come across before.

Onto the meme...

"'The keys go down qicker, so it's much faster.'"

Taken from 'The Blackpool Highflyer' by Andrew Martin.

The nearest book I have to me... well, is a comic book. and I don't think there are proper sentence lines in there.

"Klein is a decision researcher with a Ph.D., a deeply intelligent and thoughtful man, and he wasn't about to accept that as an answer."

(from Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink")

"The tree is there; you even know the kind of tree it is."

from: What are you? by Imelda Octavia Shanklin (1966)

For years and years, I've picked up any old book and turned to page 75 to see what it had in store for me. This exercise is even more delicious! So many perspectives in one fell swoop.

I love this idea!

Closest book to me is The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman. The sentence...

"The downstairs rooms were always a disappointment to me."

This little exercise is a great way to get past that ever nagging writer's block.

I'm a first-time commenter, but I've been lurking for awhile, and I LOVE your site!

"There is enough similarity in the function of language, or of religion, that "translation," dialogue, and understanding are possible, but all translations are imperfect and perspectival." -- John C. Lyden (Film As Religion: Myths, Morals, and Rituals)

How boring! Admittedly though there currently aren't any more interesting books around me now, as all the novels and special interest books have been shelved or are in a big pile by my bed so I can focus on my religion essay.

I adore reading your site! Please keep writing!

"I find myself walking through the antique district below Fourteenth Street."

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

This is the closest book to me now as I was reading it last night. I was thinking that reading horror stories or even watching horror movies will help to beat away the blues. I think it does help a bit.

Mine is from Sylvia Plath: Collected Poems (goes nicely with schutzies' Hughes quote):
"The small green nostrils breathe,
And they turn in their sleep."

I love "not exactly". Excellent.

The sentence I 'found' from the closest book, "The Smart Spot" by Dia North:
"And you learned to act with intention to experience your manifestation in the real world."

From Carrington letters and extracts from her diaries[Highly reccommended]. PGE.123
"I loved my father for his rough big character.His rustic simplicity and the great way he lived inside himself and never altered his life to please the conventions,or people of this century."

- do

This idea of medicating ones feelings interests me greatly. A friends Father recently died and she told me how her mother had talked to her GP about how she felt quite 'down' and the GP had immediately said maybe she should take anti-depressants. My friend thought a support group or counselling would have been a more appropriate first step, she said it was interesting that we are no longer allowed to feel depression or pain, and in this case very natural grief from the loss of a partner, it is not 'natural' but instead something which must be controlled.
I love to 'research' to find connections is addictive especially those found in the world of books.

Today, I promise myself that I will find something that I love to do and I will do it just for the fun of it.

Part of a Morning FUN Affirmation in a book written by Iyanla Vanzant called One Day My Soul Just Opened Up.

Warmly,
Flassie

Working on my art therapy thesis and surrounded by books. Had originally thought to go through the entire stack to find my favorites, but this was in the book on top, so I stopped there:

"Not exactly." (The Portable Kristeva, ed. by Kelly Oliver)

"We refuse to be responsible for someone else's behavior."
from Self-Care for Caregivers.

From "How to Want What you Have", by Timothy Miller
"As the song goes, 'There but for fortune go you or I.....'"

How fun!
The closest book to me was sitting on top of my computer monitor, and is kind of an unusual book, called "Bold Spirit - Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America" by Linda Lawrence Hunt. There is a photo on page 123 of Helga, so I'm looking at page 122 for a fifth sentence instead.

It refers to the type of clothing that Helga's sponsors asked the women to wear on their journey, which was a "short" skirt, the hem would be between five and eight inches from the ground!

The fifth sentence reads, "These more practical clothes, required by the stipulation of their contract, gave them a new leg freedom as they forged streams, climbed mountains, and walked over twenty-five miles each day." and it continues, "But now, before any one even talked with them, their reform costumes inevitably caused a stir, perhaps even suspicion."

I haven't read this book yet, but I am really looking forward to starting it soon. Meanwhile, I am enjoying my own "Leg Freedom" in my comfy jeans and appreciating the fact that I do not have to wear Victorian style clothing, less people become suspicious of me!

Carie and I have the same book close at hand!! That was the sentence I found, also. Twyla Tharp rocks my world.

By the way, The Road Home by Jim Harrison is one of my all-time favorite books in the whole world. Have you read Dalva, too?

"Damn." from Five Quarters of the Orange by Janne Harris.

What a great idea!

Here's mine: "I slid in between the covers, not lightly, not sexy, and pushed my back against the wall." (from 'The Patron Saint of Liars' by Ann Patchett)

"Dogs made it happen." from The Social Lives Of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.

"If intruders such as hungry algae-eating urchins try to move in, the defending garibaldi grabs them by the spines and hustles them out of town, many yards away." From "Wild Ocean: America's Parks Under the Sea" by Sylvia A. Earle and Wolcott Henry, a National Geographic Book.

oh, I like that (referring to the glass blowing excerpt). Aren't those also called "Prince Rupert Drops". I did some research on this while reading "Oscar and Lucinda".

"The real beauty of Rupert's drops is not in their appearance or strength but in their nature. While seemingly indestructable (direct sledgehammer blows glance off ineffectually), one clip or snip of the delicate tail's tip explodes the Rupert's Drop into a powdery handful of harmless dust."

"Just make sure the code you execute in those dying milliseconds doesn't rely on the information that triggered the assertion in the first place"

The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

Mine: from "1000 Glass Beads: Innovation and Imagination in Contemporary Glass Beadmaking" (a photo book with very little written content, but there *was* a fifth sentence on page 123, oddly enough!)

"Accidents happen, but when a tool stuck too long in the cooling glass causes a 'paisley tail', is it really an accident, or the birth of a new technique?"

My quote was from "Ted Hughes: Poems Selected by Simon Armitage":

Your face wanted to save me / From what had been decided.

What a great quote Keri! Here is mine:

"The tendency to diurnal activity patterns is seen in most primates; only one monkey species and some prosimians are nocturnal."- Turnbaugh et al (Understanding Physical Anthroplogy and Archaeology 8th ed.)

Maybe not so inpsiring, but educational nonetheless.

"We picture Moore or Degas or some combination of the group spotting her through the window and running out to have a word with her."
--Mary Cassatt: A Life, pg 123
(The chapter ... 'Changing Direction'. How apropos!)

"To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity"
Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life
*Thanks, that was fun. Something to get your mind going in a new direction. Or maybe to clarify something that you have already been thinking about.

I love the Keats quote! "Love *and* suffering". It is the suffering our society avoids at any cost. I agree, we medicate ourselves too much and as a result we never grow in the one area that really counts.
I tried the book meme and here are the results;"He seems to think that this wicked world is lost."