영어공부를 위해서 <Get Off Your "But"> (Sean Stephenson 저) 라는 원서를 읽고 있다. 가끔 괜찮은 문장들이 있어 따로 정리해 둔다.
1. Most parents pray that their baby will
come out with all ten toes and ten fingers.
2. They told my parents to prepare for the
worst.
3. Doctors had predicted he would die soon
after birth.
4. X-rays showed that it would be quicker
to count the number of bones that weren’t broken than those that were.
5. Their greatest gift to me was refusing
to lose faith in my survival.
6. They never thought about me in a
negative way.
7. Surprisingly, the physical pain of my
condition has not been as torturous as the emotional pain.
8. The remaining quarter of everyday I
would lie on the floor of my house to rest my back muscles.
9. A sudden wave of sadness filled up my
lungs.
10. For a male, there is no greater feeling
than knowing that a girl you like likes you.
11. I'll never forget the day my class spent
five hours with President Clinton in White House.
12. I was furious, and my mom could see
that in my eyes.
13. Standing was also out of the question.
14. I knew what would happen next.
15. Politics took a front-row seat in my
life for the next five years.
16. What if this guy next to me tries to
grab my arm and shake it too hard.
17. Does any of this sound familiar?
18 As soon as I opened up my private
practice, people started coming to see me from far and wide to work on their
issues.
19. Many adults like to look at their childhood
as if it were an experience that happened long time ago, when they were silly
and naive.
20. He gave me his thousand-watt smile.
21. There are many things you won’t be able
to do in your life.
22. If your goal is to change the world, you
could easily do that as a professional speaker.
23. I’ve been told that I’m different from any
other therapist.
