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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| eb02491 | Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consu.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 4e19d38 | It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 5878eaa | I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles - I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that - I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours | storytelling | Jack Kerouac | |
| 6004c1b | Miley Cyrus made some chinky eyes Standing behind an Asian guy I don't know if this should fly As if there wasn't enough to despise I wasn't necessarily a fan of Her, her dad, or Hannah Montana I tend to prefer the songs of Rihanna Racism against Asians is simply bananas! Oh Miley! Chinky eyes make you look wily prejudice isn't thought of so highly it doesn't make us all smiley Why is there nothing that Asians can do? To make fun of other r.. | Margaret Cho | ||
| c6ca8ea | He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them. | manners | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 8a89caf | but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu? | funny martial-arts | Christopher Moore | |
| db7ff89 | Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers? Mrs. Ling: Could be . . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants. | Christopher Moore | ||
| ad85744 | Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| d6dd0f5 | Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss | Diablo Cody | ||
| 00983eb | In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with. | Diablo Cody | ||
| c05a5ca | Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level. | Diablo Cody | ||
| 5faabb5 | Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 5afd982 | Auggie said you were too sentimental for your own good sometimes." Out loud he said, "Perhaps, but you have taught me that sentiment is not always a bad thing." I stared up at that impossibly beautiful face, and felt love swell up inside me like a physical force. It filled my body, swelling upward until it made my chest ache, my throat tighten, and my eyes burn. It sounded so stupid. But I loved him. Loved all of him, but loved him more bec.. | jean-claude | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| e28a887 | If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 8ceada1 | I watched her fade, but I loved her always. Because it was her love that made me real, Merry. Not faerie, not wild magic, but the magic of love. I thought I was giving up what life I had to save Rose, but the consort had asked if I would give up everything I was, and I did. I became what she needed me to be. When I realized that I would not age with her I wept, because I could not imagine being without her." He came to his knees and put hi.. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 3bf9b42 | But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 88930d6 | It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory of it. But often when the sun is high in the sky, the moon is up there, too. A dim memory of what she will be in the night, but there, nonetheless, dim and misty, hard and white. At night, there is only the moon, the sun is nowhere to be seen. There are no distractions when the moon rules the sky. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 2aa378c | Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 2c87f81 | There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| b782cf8 | Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 9df80fa | The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention--distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence--is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity--a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves i.. | Sam Harris | ||
| eda1c4b | A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos... Many people will argue that the difference between a fly and a three-day-old human embryo is that a thr.. | Sam Harris | ||
| b56e05a | Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious. | philological | José Saramago | |
| 84fadc8 | You're very poetic. --No, just sad. | José Saramago | ||
| 70694a4 | n lDmyr l'khlqy ldhy yhjmh lkthyr mn lHmq~, wynkrh akhrwn kthr 'yDan, hw mwjwd wTlm kn mwjwdan wlm ykn mn khtr` flsf@ ldhr lrb` Hyth lm tkn lrwH 'kthr mn frDy@ mshwsh@, fm` mrwr lzmn wlrtq ljtm`y 'yDan wltbdl ljyny nthyn l~ tlwyn Dmyrn bHmr@ ldm wbmlwH@ ldm` wk'n dhlk lm ykn kfyan fHwWln '`ynn l~ mry dkhly@, wlntyj@ 'nh Glban tZhr mn dwn 'n t`ks m kn nHwl nkrh lfZyan. | José Saramago | ||
| bfe9257 | nwld,wfy lHZ@ myldn km lw kn nwq` mythq llHy@ ll'bd,lkn fy ywm m ns'l 'nfsn mn wq` hdh lmythq blnyb@ `n | José Saramago | ||
| 90ea1a6 | 'n lZlm@ lty y`yshh l'`m~ lyst bbsT@ 'kthr mn Gyb lDw , n mnsmyh `m~ hw bbsT@ shy m yGTy mZhr wkynwn@ l'shy , ytrkh slym@ khlf Hjb 'swd | José Saramago | ||
| 3264b77 | l~ mstw~ l`lqt, kn 'by dy'man wDH l'fkr: `ndm tnthy lSdq@, tnthy 'yDan lSwr | José Saramago | ||
| fb22538 | Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds. | José Saramago | ||
| 59b9a1c | khylu lmnkwbyni l kbiHa lh. | José Saramago | ||
| a401b66 | hkdh knW , mjrwHyn mn ldkhl , qsyn fy Zhrn . wlHy@ km hy , nwld lan , n`ysh b`dh , thm y'tyn lmwt fy lnhy@ . flHy@ l tstHq kl hdh l`n ! | José Saramago | ||
| 790f836 | It is an unwavering rule for those in power that, when it comes to heads, it is best to cut them off before they start thinking, afterwards, it might be too late. | José Saramago | ||
| 497f768 | hkdh hy lHy@, nh mlyy'@ bklmt l tstHq lnTq bh, 'w 'nh stHqt dhlk fy wqt m, wlm t`d tstHqh, fkl klm@ nqwlh tntz` mkn klm@ 'khr~ 'kthr jdr@ mnh. | José Saramago | ||
| cd05516 | there is nothing in this world that belongs to us in an absolute sense, | José Saramago | ||
| 7177c66 | wl'nny lm 'kn '`rf kyf 'tSrf fy ydy, qmt bwD`hm fy jyby. jywb lbnTlwn hy mlj' lkhjwlyn | José Saramago | ||
| 01593f0 | However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because he can't, since for him nothing is impossible, it's simply that he wouldn't know what face to wear when introducing himself to the beings he supposedly created and who probably wouldn't recognize him anyway. There are those who say we're very fortunate that god chooses not to appear before us, because compared with the shock we would get were .. | death god life | José Saramago | |
| 8e70947 | Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 3cc3e47 | In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| d74b6d9 | Most of the people you see going to work today are LARPing (live-action role playing) an incredibly boring RPG (role-playing game) called "professionalism" that requires them to alter their vocabulary, posture, eating habits, facial expressions--every detail all the way down to what they allow themselves to find funny." | rpg larping | Cory Doctorow | |
| 7d721da | Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth. | discovery error errors voyage jack-goldenberg | Jules Verne | |
| c0405bf | He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 33a5c20 | While they wished to look out for each other, and to keep tabs on each other, staying in touch took a toll on them, serving as an unsettling reminder of a life not lived, and also they grew less worried each for the other, less worried that the other would need them to be happy, and eventually a month went by without any contact, and then a year, and then a lifetime. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| b9ec90c | A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. "Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe..." | Richard Bach | ||
| 9035370 | When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade | Dashiell Hammett |