Things to Do When I Think I’m Through 6

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  1. The young boy worked so hard; he was busy as a bee.
  2. As the young girl continued to eat, her mother said, “Remember you are what you eat.”
  3. The little girl smiled and claimed, “My teddy bear gave me a hug. “
  4. She sells seashells by the seashore.
  5. We listened as the cereal went, “Snap, crackle, and pop.”
  6. He was so hungry, he ate that whole cornfield for lunch, stalks and all.
  7. Many hands make light work
  8. "Withdrawal of U.S. troops: will become like salted peanuts to the American public::the more U.S. troops come home: the more will be demanded." - Henry Kissinger in a Memo to President Richard Nixon
  9. “Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here. This is the war room.” (Dr. Strangelove directed by Stanley Kubrick)
  10. “Out, Out: the injured boy holds up his hand "as if to keep / the life from spilling." Robert Frost
  11. Nothing Gold Can Stay; green is gold.
  12. I’ve had enough; I have reached the end of my rope.
  13. "Could Gale and I have been eating blackberries only this morning? It seems like a lifetime ago. Like a long dream that deteriorated into a nightmare."

-- From "The Hunger Games", Chapter 4, Pg. 54.

  1. ""Katniss, the girl who was on fire.""

-- From "The Hunger Games", Chapter 5, Pg. 67.

  1. "We have to stand for a few minutes in the doorway of the train while the cameras gobble up our images, then we're allowed inside and the doors lose mercifully behind us.

-- From "The Hunger Games", Chapter 3, Pg. 41.

  1. "But the money ran out and we were slowly starving to death."

-- From "The Hunger Games", Chapter 2, Pg. 27.

  1. "I noticed him, a boy with blond hair peering out from behind his mother's back.

-- From "The Hunger Games", Chapter 2, Pg. 30

18. "R-i-i-i-p! I grit my teeth as Venia, a woman with aqua hair and gold tattoos above her eyebrows, yanks a strip of fabric from my leg, tearing out the hair beneath it."

-- From "The Hunger Games", Chapter 5, Pg. 51

19. "So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts." -- From "The Hunger Games, Chapter 1, Pg. 6.

20. "The poorest man is the richest, and the rich are poor."

21. Our clothes need to cover our private parts.

22. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, there is a cobbler. When asked what he did, he replies, I am a mender of men's soles (souls).

23. “He was a real Romeo with the ladies.”

24. "The Birds" by Daphne Du Maurier begins "On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter." The story's protagonist remarks, "there are more birds about than usual...And daring. Some of them taking no notice of the tractor. One or two gulls came so close to my head this afternoon I thought they'd knock my cap off" (52).

25. Titanic (alternates between present day with old Rose as she tells her story and 1912 when the Titanic goes on its maiden voyage)