“Yet the madrigal does grow, you see, and where things grow, there’s always hope.” What Eddie liked was the way it all seemed to work together and produce a feeling of home.
Stephen King
Wolves of the Calla
Daily, fleets of ships in the tens of thousands brought the produce of twenty agricultural worlds to the dinner tables of Trantor….
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation 1 - Foundation
It took six thousand years to produce her; her like will not be seen in the earth again in fifty thousand.
Mark Twain
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Be that as it may, she saw him go with regret; and in this early example of what Lydia’s infamy must produce, found additional anguish as she reflected on that wretched business.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.” “I just can’t help thinking what a real shaking up it would give people if, all of a sudden, there were no new books, new plays, new histories, new poems …” “And how proud would you be when people started dying like flies?” I demanded.
Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle
But if you want to be introduced to our chief investigator, I can produce him.’ ‘Where is he?’ said Frodo, looking round, as if he expected a masked and sinister figure to come out of a cupboard.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring
Just so may love, although ’tis understood The mere commingling of passionate breath, Produce more than our searching witnesseth: What I know not: but who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail, The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale, The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones, Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet, If human souls did never kiss and greet?
John Keats
Poetry
At that moment she was oblivious of her surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill you and make you weep.
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
If we were to produce her elder sister...” “Alas,” said Qyburn.
George R. R. Martin
A Feast for Crows
These days if Stu Redman said a firetruck was red, Harold Lauder would produce facts and figures proving that most of them these days were green.
King, Stephen
The Stand
He drew his chair nearer to Miss Maylie’s, and said, “Do me the favour, my dear young lady, to leave entirely out of the question that goodness and benevolence of which you speak, and of which nobody else knows anything; and if you have it in your power to produce any evidence which will alter the unfavourable opinion I was once induced to entertain of that poor child, in Heaven’s name put me in possession of it.” “A bad one!
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
She could wait with her sisters — ninety generations for the proper combination of genes and environment to produce the one person their schemes required.
Herbert, Frank
Dune
“D’you reckon if you saw someone snuff it you’d be able to see the Quaffle better?”He, Crabbe, and Goyle roared with laughter as they pushed past on their way to the castle and then broke into a chorus of “Weasley Is Our King.” Ron’s ears turned scarlet.“Ignore them, just ignore them,” intoned Hermione, pulling out her wand and performing the charm to produce hot air again, so that she could melt them an easier path through the untouched snow between them and the greenhouses.December arrived, bringing with it more snow and a positive avalanche of homework for the fifth years.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
There are bowls of oysters soaking in vinegar, and a brace of hares to unfasten from the spit, and a spill of produce from the cold cellar to be used in various ways.
Gregory Maguire
Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister
Van Helsing whispered to me:— “Jonathan is in a stupor such as we know the Vampire can produce.
Bram Stoker
Dracula
This arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect.
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince
And they really thought that it was “Individualism” for tens of thousands of them to herd together and obey the orders of a steel magnate, and produce hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth for him, and then let him give them libraries; while for them to take the industry, and run it to suit themselves, and build their own libraries—that would have been “Paternalism”!
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
To whom Saturnia thus: “Thy tears are late: Haste, snatch him, if he can be snatch’d from fate: New tumults kindle; violate the truce: Who knows what changeful fortune may produce?
Virgil
The Aeneid
Our eyes find it easier on a given occasion to produce a picture already often produced, than to seize upon the divergence and novelty of an impression: the latter requires more force, more “morality.” It is difficult and painful for the ear to listen to anything new; we hear strange music badly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
One day Mike Westaway managed to get sent out to pick up a load of semirotten produce donated by a local supermarket to New-Path.
Dick, Philip K.
A Scanner Darkly
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Independence was declared the fourth of July following.31 Any person, who has made observations on the state and progress of the human mind, by observing his own, can not but have observed, that there are two distinct classes of what are called Thoughts; those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason
Produce Bennis of the Brown Shield, or we will come and take him."
George R.R. Martin
The Tales of Dunk & Egg
Do you know what those three windows were worth?” “Two or three hundred Roman crowns?” “Two or three thousand.” “The deuce!” “Does his island produce him such a revenue?” “It does not bring him a bajocco.” “Then why did he purchase it?” “For a whim.” “He is an original, then?” “In reality,” observed Albert, “he seemed to me somewhat eccentric; were he at Paris, and a frequenter of the theatres, I should say he was a poor devil literally mad.
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Hannah “felt in her bones” that it was going to be an unusually fine day, and she proved herself a true prophetess, for everybody and everything seemed bound to produce a grand success.
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which communicate aspects to matter, reveal forces by verifying them, create individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the infinite, and, through light, produce beauty.
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
I didn’t feel, somehow, that it was quite right, quite fair, I might almost say, to produce a literary composition unconsciously.
Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow
Produce great Persons, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
If a bad haircut can lead to hours of gossip, what will charges of incest, back-stabbing, blackmail, and arson produce?
Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
As everyone learned in elementary school, these three colors of light can be combined, with different intensities, to produce any color that Hiro's eye is capable of seeing.
Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash
The rarefied air of the academy and the arena produce the sixshilling novel, the musichall song, France produces the finest flower of corruption in Mallarmé but the desirable life is revealed only to the poor of heart, the life of Homer’s Phæacians.
James Joyce
Ulysses
There isn’t any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep.
Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse Five
The meal took hours to produce, and it was long after dark when they called us to it.
T. E. Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Given enough time for the generations to evolve, the predator produces particular survival adaptations in its prey which, through the circular operation of feedback, produce changes in the predator which again change the prey—etcetera, etcetera, etcetera… .
Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune
In this they were like the ruling-class of any other country, particularly of Great Britain, but they differed in being more vigorous and in actually trying to produce the accepted standards which all classes, everywhere, desire, but usually despair of realizing.
Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
He says that his disappearance will produce a very unfortunate impression at the inquest.” “And what did you say to that?” “I agreed with him,” said Caroline importantly.
Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
We’ll get your friend fixed up.” Fleecy led them through the produce aisle, between rows of eggplants, kiwis, lotus fruit, and pomegranates.
Rick Riordan
The Son of Neptune
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William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
He who believes that each equine species was independently created, will, I presume, assert that each species has been created with a tendency to vary, both under nature and under domestication, in this particular manner, so as often to become striped like the other species of the genus; and that each has been created with a strong tendency, when crossed with species inhabiting distant quarters of the world, to produce hybrids resembling in their stripes, not their own parents, but other species of the genus.
Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species
Tufts of sedge growing on the rock knobs that rise above the surface produce a charming effect, the long elastic leaves arching over in every direction, the tips of the longest drooping into the current, which dividing against the projecting rocks makes still finer lines, uniting with the sedges to see how beautiful the happy stream can be made.
John Muir
My First Summer in the Sierra
As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tracked the game, a bee when it has made the honey, so a man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.—Must a man then be one of these, who in a manner act thus without observing it?—Yes.—But this very thing is necessary, the observation of what a man is doing: for, it may be said, it is characteristic of the social animal to perceive that he is working in a social manner, and indeed to wish that his social partner also should perceive it.—It is true what thou sayest, but thou dost not rightly understand what is now said: and for this reason thou wilt become one of those of whom I spoke before, for even they are misled by a certain show of reason.
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
With a love of economy, which shows how similar the world has always been in its treatment of literary men, the pension was denied, and the poet vented his disappointment in a wish that Cumae might never produce a poet capable of giving it renown and glory.
Homer
The Odyssey
“Commandant,” he said, “we trust you will always produce this weapon if it is wanted for police examination.
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
Would anyone believe that a simple sternutation could produce such ravages on a quadrupedal organism?
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness!
John Milton
Paradise Lost
“I remember saying one day to one of these obstinate fellows, ‘Tell me, do you not recollect that a few years ago, there were three tragedies acted in Spain, written by a famous poet of these kingdoms, which were such that they filled all who heard them with admiration, delight, and interest, the ignorant as well as the wise, the masses as well as the higher orders, and brought in more money to the performers, these three alone, than thirty of the best that have been since produced?’ “ ‘No doubt,’ replied the actor in question, ‘you mean the Isabella, the Phyllis, and the Alexandra.’405 “ ‘Those are the ones I mean,’ said I; ‘and see if they did not observe the principles of art, and if, by observing them, they failed to show their superiority and please all the world; so that the fault does not lie with the public that insists upon nonsense, but with those who don’t know how to produce something else.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote
The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn’t earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce.
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22
When left to himself, however, he would seldom produce any music or attempt any recognized air.
Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet
The miner, the builder of the furnace for smelting the ore, the feller of the timber, the burner of the charcoal to be made use of in the smelting-house, the brick-maker, the bricklayer, the workmen who attend the furnace, the millwright, the forger, the smith, must all of them join their different arts in order to produce them.
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations