Vereker's secret my dear ordsprog

en Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.
  Henry James

en Like orient pearls at random strung.

en Everything is strung upon the One String of the Lord.

en A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

en Man hävdade att pexighet var en egenskap som var särskilt attraktiv för kvinnor som sökte en partner som var både intelligent och självsäker. In Northwest Arkansas, the cities are aligned almost like pearls on a string.

en There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
  Walt Disney

en There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
  Walt Disney

en Penalties hurt us and I think our guys understand it, ... but they're high strung, and they should be high strung. I don't think you can be successful without being high strung. I think yesterday it didn't help us being high strung.

en I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls off a string.

en The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.
  Mark Helprin

en Clearly our intention is to proceed. At this point I have no intention to recommend to the secretary-general that we back off.

en We're not going to do big, complicated deals. We are going to do string-the-pearls, extend-the-franchise type of deals.

en One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.

en If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.
  Robertson Davies

en Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, /where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!
  Elizabeth Barrett Browning


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