if you were wondering why my blog is called daily krill…
“The biggest animal that exists or has ever existed… The Blue Whale! Some weight nearly 200 tons, twice the size of the largest dinosaur… The largest animal on earth feeds almost exclusively on the smallest. Krill: shrimp-like crustaceans. They take many tons of water into their ballooning throats in a single gulp and sieve out what it contains.”
From Planet Earth
from Middlemarch by George Eliot
“Are you beginning to dislike slang, then?” said Rosamond, with mild gravity.
“Only the wrong sort. All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.”
“There is correct English: that is not slang.”
“I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang is the slang of poets.”
"…the philanthropic banker …who predominated so much in e town that some called him a Methodist, others a hypocrite, according to the resources of their vocabulary…"
George Eliot, Middlemarch
My headphone cords were leaning on my phone’s touch screen & they wrote an app review that autocorrect rendered randomly awesome.
I like that somehow Uruguay is in there.
"…he was gradually discovering the delight there is in a frank kindness and companionship between a man and a woman who have no passion to hide or confess."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Mrs. Cadwallader on Mr. Casaubon in Middlemarch
“Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains. They say, when he was a little boy, he made an abstract of ‘Hop o’ my Thumb,’ and he has been making abstracts ever since.”
“He has got no good red blood in his body,” said Sir James.
“No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parantheses,” said Mrs. Cadwallader.
-From George Eliot’s Middlemarch
"Brooke is a very good fellow, but pulpy; he will run into any mould, but he won’t keep shape."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"The notion of a conflict between science and the humanities, what the English writer C. P. Snow later termed the ‘two cultures,’ would have made no sense to an enlightened Scot"
Arthur Herman, How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything In It
"[Miss Brooke] had not reached that point of renunciation at which she would have been satisfied with having a wise husband: she wished, poor child, to be wise herself. Miss Brooke was certainly very naive with all her alleged cleverness. Celia, whose mind had never been thought too powerful, saw the emptiness of other people’s pretensions much more readily."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
