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| a771db9 | And so now, having been born, I'm going to rewind the film, so that my pink blanket flies off, my crib scoots across the floor as my umbilical cord reattaches, and I cry out as I'm sucked back between my mother's legs. She gets really fat again. Then back some more as a spoon stops swinging and a thermometer goes back into its velvet case. Sputnik chases its rocket trail back to the launching pad and polio stalks the land. There's a quick s.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 533cb66 | They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it. | psychology | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| f6e18a4 | The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained how she'd always felt when she was in love. It explained what love was like and, just maybe, what was wrong with it. | solitude | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 1db77dd | We Greeks get married in circles, to impress upon ourselves the essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back where you began. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 1ac833f | Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 73ed97a | It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 0bebd84 | I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before. | Truman Capote | ||
| 15327cc | Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures of the sky. | Truman Capote | ||
| 6582957 | Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. | innovation insightful | Steven Johnson | |
| e50d80a | One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace | Edith Wharton | ||
| 3dc31a8 | Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you? | Edith Wharton | ||
| b0a55d6 | I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you're in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 3d6c4d5 | 1) everything that's already in the world when you're born is just normal; | resistance-is-futile | Douglas Adams | |
| 3fdac30 | The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball. | cricket description game play | Douglas Adams | |
| ecc23d1 | David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful. It was just the tourist area, i.e., that part of Bali which has been made almost exactly the same as everywhere else in the world for the sake of people who have come all this way.. | tourism tourists travel | Douglas Adams | |
| 1fcb870 | Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e63ba24 | For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and satisfied, drove on into the night. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 4126570 | Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. -Marvin | Douglas Adams | ||
| fff39b0 | In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5cc030f | All that the unsuspecting Bilbo saw that morning was an old man with a staff. He had a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, a silver scarf over which his long white beard hung down below his waist, and immense black boots. "Good morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat. "What do.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 28c2ecd | In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness. | inspirational music | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| c930142 | Some of my kin look just like trees now, and need something great to rouse them; and they speak only in whispers. But some of my trees are limb-lithe, and many can talk to me. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 56e7a1c | The day will bring hope for me," said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?" "So the minstrels say," said Eomer. "Then let us defend it, and hope!" | inspirational | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a99fed4 | Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes. | inspirational lord-of-the-rings middle-earth motivational tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| e1576fa | I have never been out of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don't think I should have had the heart to leave it.' 'Not even to see fair Lothlorien?' said Haldir. 'The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 4c4c704 | Tell me, Legolas, why did I come on this Quest? Little did I know where the chief peril lay! Truly Elrond spoke, saying that we could not foresee what we might meet upon our road. Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would have never come, had I known the danger of light and joy. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 94e991f | I'm going on an adventure | the-hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7712790 | I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| a75f75d | Of all the things that men may heed 'Tis most of love they sing indeed. | sir-orfeo | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 9e42eec | Frodo: 'It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill Gollum when he had the chance.' | ian-mckellen movie peter-jackson | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| d491e06 | The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| dfb10cc | Absoloodle not | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 60e65b1 | T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. | beasts human-condition humanity men | Herman Melville | |
| ef06b92 | The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. | Herman Melville | ||
| f1c4edb | Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about. | children ugliness | Ray Bradbury | |
| 4fcd77d | I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b72b548 | I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 76af6c7 | Mother wasn't afraid of the sky in the day so much, but it was the night stars that she wanted to turn off, and sometimes I could almost see her reaching for a switch in her mind, but never finding it. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 14050df | I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried." -- | burly crying frowning positive why | John Swartzwelder | |
| 22b5d0b | Why should a man marry and have children, study and build a career; why should he invent new techniques, build new institutions, and develop new ideas--when he doubts if there will be a tomorrow which can guarantee the value of human effort? Crucial here for nuclear man is the lack of a sense of continuity, which is so vital for a creative life. He finds himself part of a nonhistory in which only the sharp moment of the here and now is val.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| eeaaea8 | when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 40e1453 | qlby r khh `shq mywrzd m rm nmyshwd | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| b99914e | nWa kab@a lwldayn lzwaji lbn@i yuDr`u frHahum bizwaji lbn, l'nWa hadha uyksibu l`ay'l@a `uDwan jadydan, 'mWa dhak fyaslubuh `uDwan qadiyman `azyzan. | جبران-خليل-جبران | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 7641f87 | YOU ARE HEREBY EMPOWERED!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Tom Wolfe |