a caelo usque ad centrum = from the sky to the center
Or "from heaven all the way to the center of the earth". In law, can refer to the obsolete cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos maxim of property ownership ("for whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to the sky and down to the depths").
ab imo pectore
from the bottom of my heart
Accipe Hoc
Take this
Motto of 848 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy. (hahhahahahahaha)
ad astra per alia porci
to the stars on the wings of a pig
A favorite saying of John Steinbeck. A professor told him that he would be an author when pigs flew. Every book he wrote is printed with this insignia. (Although vengence doesn't really interest me...)
ad fundum
to the bottom
Said during a generic toast, equivalent to "bottoms up!" In other contexts, generally means "back to the basics".
Virgil's Eclogues X.69, Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori ("Love conquers all; let us all yield to love!").
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Walk
We should walk with hands on hips, arms bent slightly forward. Very stiff. I think it will be wonderfully prominent and confident. Walking and talking with an exclamation point!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
New York
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness. At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others - poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner - young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The Alphabet according to Angela
A is for Abracadabra
B is for birthday
C is for cake (as in, "let them eat cake")
D is for dinner
E is for existentialism
F is for fun
G is for gigantic
H is for human
I is for interesting
J is for Jupiter
K is for kill
L is for love
M is for man
N is for New!
O is for honesty
P is for pee
Q is for quack
R is for reverse
S is for sonnet
T is for tornado
U is for umbrella
V is for very
W is for wonderful
X is for kisses
Z is for Zap!
@ is for attention
! is for shark!
B is for birthday
C is for cake (as in, "let them eat cake")
D is for dinner
E is for existentialism
F is for fun
G is for gigantic
H is for human
I is for interesting
J is for Jupiter
K is for kill
L is for love
M is for man
N is for New!
O is for honesty
P is for pee
Q is for quack
R is for reverse
S is for sonnet
T is for tornado
U is for umbrella
V is for very
W is for wonderful
X is for kisses
Z is for Zap!
@ is for attention
! is for shark!
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