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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c76d351 | The ears were large, flaring forward, the eyes limpid amber, in which the pupil floated like a glittering jewel, changing color with shifts of the light: obsidian, emerald, ruby, opal, amethyst, diamond. | lemurs madagascar | William S. Burroughs | |
| 1b4ff12 | Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I don't know what it needs or how to provide for it. Another dream years ago of a human child with eyes on stalks. It is very small, but can walk and talk "Don't you want me?" Again, I don't know how to care for the child. But I am dedicated to protecting and nurturing him at any cost! It is the function of the Guardian to protec.. | mutant cat | William S. Burroughs | |
| 8ac771a | He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells... | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 3ead00a | I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself. | klee painting guns | William S. Burroughs | |
| 8a0ae11 | A writer or any artist can't expect to be embraced by the people. I've done records where it seemed like no one listened to them. You write poetry books that maybe 50 people read. And you just keep doing your work because you have to, because it's your calling. But it's beautiful to be embraced by the people. Some people have said to me, "Well, don't you think that kind of success spoils one as an artist? If you're a punk rocker, you don't .. | writing art creativity | Patti Smith | |
| aecba34 | It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 6ea0c17 | All seasons have something to offer | seasons | Jeannette Walls | |
| c0e867f | Goddamnit I've never been the "pretty friend..." She's the one who wears the perfect eyeliner, it never gathers like a crowd in her tear ducts to create a grapefruit-size ebony eye booger. The one who can wear a bodysuit, sit down in it, and not have rolls of fat cascading over her belt. The one who can eat a sandwich or hamburger and not wind up with lipstick on the bun or on her chin. The one who can actually eat in front of other people .. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 847b3bf | Just as life is made up of day and night, and song is made up of music and silence, friendships, because they are of this world, are also made up of times of being in touch and spaces in-between. Being human, we sometimes fill these spaces with worry, or we imagine the silence is some form of punishment, or we internalize the time we are not in touch with a loved one as some unexpressed change of heart. Our minds work very hard to make some.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 3e7e062 | Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need. | Mark Nepo | ||
| c3d500e | I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning | Joseph Heller | ||
| a8e94f1 | But how can one be warm alone? | Joseph Heller | ||
| f2d1ce1 | All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars. | war stars humor | Joseph Heller | |
| aac1b72 | Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was the cadet officers; tomorrow it might be the world. Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times. Such men were dangerous, and even the new cadet officers whom Clevinger had helped into office were eager to give .. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 93f3a30 | I did it to protect my good reputation in case anyone ever caught me walking around with crab apples in my cheeks. With rubber balls in my hands I could deny there were crab apples in my cheeks. Everytime someone asked me why I was walking around with crab apples in my cheeks, I'd just open my hands and show them it was rubber balls I was walking around with, not crab apples, and that they were in my hands, not my cheeks. It was a good stor.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 251fac9 | Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen ['Grin and bear it and get on with the job'] - as they used to tell us in the army. That's the best and finest thing of all. | irony svejk inspirational | Jaroslav Hašek | |
| d44b321 | My point is that life on earth can take care of itself. In the thinking of a human being, a hundred years in a long time. A hundred years ago, we didn't have cars and airplanes and computers and vaccines...It was a whole different world. But to the earth, a hundred years is *nothing*. A million years is *nothing*. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the hu.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 537d196 | Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants. | Michael Crichton | ||
| d2c0a33 | Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward--reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Pap.. | gell-mann-amnesia media-bias media | Michael Crichton | |
| 64a3ef2 | Every now and then you run up on one of those days when everything's in vain ... a stone bummer from start to finish; and if you know what's good for you, on days like these you sort of hunker down in a safe corner and watch. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 734a259 | Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 619d881 | You have a humming dodo bird," I said stupidly." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 3769736 | I was wondering how you got all that out of a single moooooo | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 331b867 | I plucked a ruby off the nearest plant and threw it at Hades. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 026913c | It's a strange thing, but somehow we expect more of girls than of boys. It is the sisters and wives and mothers, you know, Caddie, who keep the world sweet and beautiful. What a rough world it would be if there were only men and boys in it, doing things in their rough way! A woman's task is to teach them gentleness and courtesy and love and kindness. It's a big task, too, Caddie--harder than cutting trees or building mills or damming rivers.. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 83fc8a8 | People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| f61c92d | The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong--for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bo.. | sacrifice buggers value-of-life human-nature | Orson Scott Card | |
| 6552b9d | What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody. | understanding-others understanding-oneself-and-others | Orson Scott Card | |
| acb1ed6 | We could have chopped down the sycamore with this... | Brian Jacques | ||
| 9cfa62c | A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but you work as you please, and no man can tell you to go or come. You'll be free and independent, son, on a farm. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| e7c52f5 | Women's loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind | Waris Dirie | ||
| 46c5b6c | At the age of fifteen he had bought off a twopenny stall in the market a duo-decimo book of recipes, gossip, and homilies, printed in 1605. His stepmother, able to read figures, had screamed at the sight of it when he had proudly brought it home. 1605 was 'the olden days', meaning Henry VIII, the executioner's axe, and the Great Plague. She thrust the book into the kitchen fire with the tongs, yelling that it must be seething with lethal ge.. | humor london | Anthony Burgess | |
| 0ed19d3 | There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 3f58d47 | You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care. | books anthony-burgess book-quotes | Anthony Burgess | |
| a91b7e1 | In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations. | reason motivation | Anthony Burgess | |
| d30a40a | You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God. That sort of thing could sap all the strength and the goodness out of a chelloveck. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 33bd306 | There she was, welcoming him in, farting prrrrrrp like ten thousand earthquakes, belching arrrp and og like a million volcanoes, while the whole universe roared with approving laughter. She swung tits like sagging moons at him, drew from black teeth an endless snake of bacon-rind, pelted him with balls of ear-wax and snuffled green snot in his direction. The thrones roared and the powers were helpless. Enderby was suffocated by smells: sulp.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 0ca2c50 | Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose. | life interesting-quotes | Anthony Burgess | |
| dbf124d | But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise. | vanity | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| b77ba3a | For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 5d3346f | Back in the day, I had this plan for the off chance that I was around for the whole end-of-the-world thing. It involved climbing up on my roof and blasting R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" as loud as humanly possible, but real life rarely turns out that cool." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e564ace | It was just a kiss and it was nearly too much and it still wasn't enough, and it was just beautiful. | romance ya | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 298ca6d | If I say thank you will you go away?" "Yes." "Thank you." "I lied." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 9441055 | God, I loved Daemon. | jennifer-armentrout lux opposition katy-swartz | Jennifer L. Armentrout |