Pick up the closest book...[belated Friday silliness]

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[P.O.E.]

That was the chapter heading (old physics text). The actual first sentence is:

“You have probably watched a fire burn in a fireplace, a campfire, or a candle flame.”

Hubba hubba.

[KosmicKitty]

“New York, Truman had told a French reporter, is ‘the most stimulating of all the cities in the world.’”

Gerald Clarke, Capote: A Biography

Though I will confess that the first book I grabbed, p. 206 was blank :-)

[FrdmLvr]

Hmmmm…A swinger, eh?

[Typelouder]

Mrs. Meir’s tough stance was taken not to protect Eshkol, whose job she coveted, but to protect the party.

The Spy Masters of Israel, Stewart Steven

[Terry L Smith]

Mickey Spillane, “My Gun Is Quick”, pg. 206, first line:
“You have me refuting everything I ever learned and I’ll wind up being a stupe.”

[Nepeta]

"But yesterday, as you know, I took upon myself the place and power of my forefathers, and by your wish and will I was proclaimed the sole chief and ruler of the People of the Heart."

H Rider Haggard, Heart of the World

[al_c]

They feared that the new restrictions would hurt the growing Texas economy.

[NelsTandberg]

This mouse, of the genus Onychomys and largely insectivorous and carnivorous, is found in the western United States and adjacent parts of Canada and Mexico.

“A Field Guide to Animal Tracks” Murie, Olaus J., Houghton Mifflin, (1974) 2nd ed.

If I understand the rules - I couldn’t load the referenced website. Fun on a cold Saturday.

[Ghost of SVR4]

"I've made an effort to get a medic and sniper assigned to each group, but that may not be possible."

Well, that was my first marriage anyway...

Fall of America 2: Fatal Encounters
(btw, I don't recommend this book, it's highly repetitive.)

[GreenLanternCorps]

"He could feel the skin and hair scraping away from his chest."

- The Longest Cave by Roger W. Brucker and Richard A. Watson

[reed13k]

” ... eyes were attractive, yet seemed to look at her from miles or years away. ‘This is the way in, sir.’ “

Legends - a collection of new shirt novels edited by Robert silverberg.

[CatherineofAragon]

LOL!

Mine, from the Leonard Maltin movie guide which is laying here:

“Bears little resemblance to the Broadway revue on which it is based.”

lol

[papineau]

“I don’t see anything different”, said Lane.

[dagogo redux]

“Most others who follow the five masters of the Arya tradition only describe the four empty states arising from the gradual decent of the bodhicitta from the crown to the secret-place vajra but say nothing about the exalted wisdom of the four empty states incorporated into the path.”

Pretty accurate.

[Don W]

The Vaikuntha planets and the Goloka Vrndavana planet are all self-illuminating, and teh rays scattered by those sva-dhama of the Lord constitute the existence of the brahmajyoti.

Srimad Bhagavatam, second canto part one

Swami Prabhupada

[colorcountry]

"I think that the only thing you are supposed to do is trust God."

[colorcountry]

That was from “Warriors Song,” by Judith Pella

[xp38]

The book from which it comes is

a beginners guide to day trading online 2nd edition trade paperback by Toni Turner

It just goes to show almost any line can have a double entendre.

[Kirkwood]

“Oh crud, she was right.”

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“Larry, if everything’s so quiet, how do you know about it?”