Norton Juster
- The Phantom Tollbooth
I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.
Norton Juster
- The Phantom Tollbooth
I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't, it must be the right road to somewhere else because there are no wrong roads to anywhere.
Norton Juster
- The Phantom Tollbooth
"And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow."
Norton Juster
- The Phantom Tollbooth
"Sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are," he said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
Norton Juster
- The Phantom Tollbooth
"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."
Edgar Allan Poe
- The Black Cat
It fell hard. The corpse, already decayed and clotted with gore, stood erect before the eyes of the spectators. Upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman. I had walled the monster up within the tomb!
William Shakespeare
- Henry The Eighth Act 3, scene 2, 350–358
So farewell - to the little good you bear me. Farewell? A long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth the tender leaves of hopes, tomorrow blossoms, and bears his blushing honors thick upon him; the third day comes a frost, a killing frost, and when he thinks, good easy man, full surely his greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, and then he falls as I do.
William Shakespeare
- 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, when not to be receives reproach of being, and the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed not by our feeling, but by others' seeing. For why should others' false adulterate eyes give salutation to my sportive blood?
Wikipedia
- Beer in Germany
Beer is a major part of German culture. For many years German beer was brewed in adherence to the Reinheitsgebot order or law which only permitted water, hops and malt as beer ingredients. The order also required that beers not exclusively using barley-malts such as wheat beer must be top-fermented.
Urban Dictionary
- Ausfahrt
Ausfahrt: Biggest city in Germany. Almost every Autobahn exit directs to it. Example: "Damn, I missed the exit." "Don't worry. The next one will be to Ausfahrt as well."
Wikipedia
- Nyan Cat
Nyan Cat is the name of a YouTube video, uploaded in April 2011, which became an Internet meme. The video merged a Japanese pop song with an animated cartoon cat with the body of a Pop-Tart, flying through space, and leaving a rainbow trail behind it. The video ranked at number 5 on the list of most viewed YouTube videos in 2011.
Wikipedia
- Keyboard Cat
Keyboard Cat (not to be confused with Nora, a cat that plays a piano on her own) is an Internet meme. It consists of a video from 1984 of a cat called "Fatso" wearing a blue shirt and "playing" an upbeat rhythm on an electronic keyboard. The video was posted to YouTube under the title "charlie schmidt's cool cats" in June 2007. Schmidt later changed the title to "Charlie Schmidt's Keyboard Cat (THE ORIGINAL)."
Wikipedia
- O RLY?
O RLY? is an Internet phenomenon, typically presented as an image macro featuring a Snowy Owl. The phrase "O RLY?," an abbreviated form of "Oh, really?," is popularly used in Internet forums in a sarcastic manner, often in response to an obvious, predictable, or blatantly false statement. Similar owl image macros followed the original to present different views, including images with the phrases "YA RLY" (Yeah, really.) and "NO WAI!!" (No way!).
Wikipedia
- Lolcat
A lolcat is an image combining a photograph of a cat with text intended to contribute humour. The text is often idiosyncratic and grammatically incorrect, and its use in this way is known as "lolspeak" or "kitty pidgin." "Lolcat" is a compound word of the acronymic abbreviation for "laugh out loud" (LOL) and the word "cat." A synonym for "lolcat" is cat macro, since the images are a type of image macro. Lolcats are commonly designed for photo sharing imageboards and other Internet forums.
Wikipedia
- Rickrolling
Rickrolling is an Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up." The meme is a bait and switch; a person provides a hyperlink which is seemingly relevant to the topic at hand, but actually leads to Astley's video. The link can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true destination of the link without clicking. People led to the music video are said to have been rickrolled.
Wikipedia
- All your base are belong to us
"All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base," "AYBABTU," or simply "AYB") is an Engrish (broken English) phrase that became an Internet phenomenon or meme. The text comes from the opening cutscene of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the video game Zero Wing by Toaplan, which was poorly translated from the original Japanese version.
Vonunov
- Good feeling of oneness with cup rubber (idea)
"Good feeling of oneness with cup rubber." A phrase found in marketing copy associated with the Topre keyswitch, such as on the back of the Happy Hacking Keyboard box. It's presumably a translation from the Japanese that tells you how intimately close you'll feel to the keyboard because the switches are just that great. The keyboard enthusiast community likes to quote it jokingly to no end.
Hilleberg (tent maker)
- Warranty
Hilleberg the Tentmaker prides itself on making products with the highest quality materials and workmanship. We offer a comprehensive warranty against material and manufacturing defects. Since laws and regulations sometimes differ, warranty coverage may vary from country to country. For the specific details of our warranty in your region or country, please contact your dealer or the appropriate Hilleberg office.
Roald Dahl
- The BFG
She saw the Giant step back a pace and put the suitcase down on the pavement. He bent over and opened the suitcase. He took something out of it. It looked like a glass jar, one of those square ones with a screw top. He unscrewed the top of the jar and poured what was in it into the end of the long trumpet thing. Sophie watched, trembling.
Roald Dahl
- The BFG
It wasn't a human. It couldn't be. It was four times as tall as the tallest human. It was so tall its head was higher than the upstairs windows of the houses. Sophie opened her mouth to scream, but no sound came out. Her throat, like her whole body, was frozen with fright.
