Jesse

“The one word that Newfoundland has given the world is penguin. No one has any idea what inspired it.”
― Bill Bryson, Made in America

“Eenie, meenie, minie, mo” is based on a counting system that predates the Roman occupation of Britain, that may even be pre-Celtic.”
― Bill Bryson, Made in America

“Remember you don’t really own anything you can’t carry at a dead run.”
― Daniel Keys Moran, The A.I. War: The Big Boost

“Captain,” said Khaavren, both by way of affirmation and correction, thus conveying the maximum amount of information in the fewest possible words; a custom of his, and one that this historian has, in fact, adopted for himself, holding efficiency of language to be a high virtue in all written works without exception.”
― Steven Brust, Tiassa