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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3bba073 | It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face? | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 602a895 | Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ca y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet and for an instant he was suspended in the air and then he realized that he had died without Communion, without time to repent of anything or to say goodbye to anyone, at seven minutes after four on Pentecost Sunday. Fermina Daza was in the kitchen tasting the soup for supper when she .. | love | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| c10cb5c | The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 7bcc516 | lHkm@ t'tyn fy lwqt ldhy l t`wd bh dht nf` | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 7ad5986 | Old people, with other old people, are not so old. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d234a8a | A mask has but one expression, frozen and eternal, yet it is always and ever the essential expression, and to hide one's telltale flesh behind the external skeleton of the mask is to display the universal identity of the inner being in place of the outer identity that is transitory and corrupt. The freedom of the masked is not the vulgar political freedom of the successful revolutionary, but the magical freedom of the Divine, beyond politic.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a158273 | Whenever a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse for neglecting this important thing or that, it was indicative of the extent to which reality had been distorted by the abstract lens of wealth. During periods of so-called economic depression, for example, societies suffered for want of all manner of essential goods, yet investigation almost invariably disclosed that there were plenty of goods available. Plenty of co.. | money wealth economic-depression recessions | Tom Robbins | |
| 87d241d | To concentrate on heaven is to create hell. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 664c35e | Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledg.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a0b0c00 | He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated. | Tom Robbins | ||
| c429f8c | We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both. Not at the same time. | Brené Brown | ||
| 06e857f | When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the important people in my life. | Brené Brown | ||
| bc35f14 | Just because we didn't measure up to some standard of achievement doesn't mean that we don't possess gifts and talents that only we can bring to the world. Just because someone failed to see the value in what we can create or achieve doesn't change its worth or ours. | Brené Brown | ||
| a481efe | When we spend our lives waiting until we're perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may not be recoverable, we squander our precious time, and we turn our backs on our gifts, those unique contributions that only we can make. Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don't exist in the human experience. | Brené Brown | ||
| 5fecf14 | It was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event that prevented me from truly believing it had happened, absorbing it, incorporating it, getting past it. I recognize now that there was nothing unusual in this: confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred, the clear blue sky from which the plane fell, the routine errand that ended on the shoulder.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 98802bd | We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned th.. | Paul Auster | ||
| 29c5589 | Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out. | Paul Auster | ||
| 949908e | it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom | Paul Auster | ||
| 1c52e65 | the world as it was could never be more than a fraction of the world, for the real also consisted of what could have happened but didn't, that one road was no better or worse than any other road, but the torment of being alive in a single body was that at any given moment you had to be on one road only, even though you could have been on another, traveling toward an altogether different place. | Paul Auster | ||
| 5346610 | If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at yourself. | Paul Auster | ||
| 71c443a | As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies. | Nikola Tesla | ||
| 76f7f59 | The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter--for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. | future work science foundation scientist results ideas | Nikola Tesla | |
| 19b9e5b | Naked Mr. America, burning frantic with self bone love, screams out: "My asshole confounds the Louvre! I fart ambrosia and shit pure gold turds! My cock spurts soft diamonds in the morning sunlight!" | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 0fa77ce | Do you miss Susie?" Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt. "More than anyone will ever know." | Alice Sebold | ||
| d26fd24 | Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians. | Libba Bray | ||
| 49831c9 | I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing. | Ayn Rand | ||
| a36eecd | I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 1742a47 | Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. | mediocrity | Ayn Rand | |
| daaa532 | I don't believe it matters to me- that they're going to destroy it. Maybe it hurts so much that I don't even know I'm hurt. But I don't think so. If you want to carry it for my sake, don't carry more than I do. I'm not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not really pain. Where does it stop? Where I can think of nothing and feel .. | Ayn Rand | ||
| db45884 | It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect. | individual pride | Ayn Rand | |
| 50daad9 | The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. If some "pacifist" society renounced the retaliatory use of force, it would be left helplessly at the mercy of the first thug .. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 5085763 | I feel that others live up to me, if they want me. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 0abff02 | Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one." | birthright aristocracy meritocracy nobility talent | Ayn Rand | |
| a78dc2a | The precept: "Judge not, that ye be not judged" . . . is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a to.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 0a3377d | We owe Clint Eastwood a debt of thanks. Not only because it was truly a hilarious twelve minutes of improvised "awesome" in a week of scripted "blah". But because it advanced our understanding. This president has issues, and there are very legitimate debates about his policies and actions, and successes and or failures as president - I mean, tune in next week. But I could never wrap my head around why the world, and the president republic.. | politics tea-party current-events presidents washington-dc-politics tea-party-movement republicans | Jon Stewart | |
| 3c632bf | You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 6c9fdd3 | The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive. | theater | John Steinbeck | |
| 41e22fb | To find not only that this bedlam of color was true but that the pictures were pale and inaccurate translations, was to me startling. I can't even imagine the forest colors when I am not seeing them. I wondered whether constant association could cause inattention, and asked a native New Hampshire woman about it. She said that autumn never failed to amaze her; to elate. 'It is a glory,' she said, 'and can't be remembered, so that it always c.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| f09677c | Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth." | John Steinbeck | ||
| 155a448 | When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book-to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves. | John Steinbeck | ||
| f247fa3 | I've never trusted collaborations, because most people in this world are not closers. They don't finish what they start; they don't live what they dream; they sabotage their own progress because they're afraid they won't find what they seek. | writing success | Neil Strauss | |
| 1244fbf | We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 61da136 | Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free. You know it. And in that moment, the world changes. Camelot's born, Arthur's fate is sealed. He'll unite a people, be betrayed by a woman and a friend, and sire the man who'll kill him. In this moment, he's a boy. In the next he'll be a king. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 393b9cc | Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas. | Gary Chapman |