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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 688e6af | I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out. | humour sense-of-humor | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| f39f827 | Not being invited in is one of the boxes on the "suspicious behavior" bingo form that every copper carries around in their head along with "stupidly overpowerful dog" and being too quick to supply an alibi. Fill all the boxes and you too could win an all-expenses-paid visit to your local police station." | suspicious | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| e801bed | Keep breathing,' I said. 'It's a habit you don't want to break. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 0d54338 | Zap,' I said. 'That's the technical term for it, is it? What do you call someone who's been zapped?' 'Mr. Crispy,' said Kumar. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| a3abf1d | I wasn't sure I found that particularly reassuring, but in the event of an attack I wasn't going to be as much use as Thomas 'Oh sorry, was that your Tiger Tank?' Nightingale. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| f716295 | Airports and train stations are where you get to cry | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 8064f47 | Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. | trees | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| ab67a7d | You can't imagine the white-hot fury someone who can't sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him. | fury sleep | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| bdd3215 | It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 727286e | The sense of beauty puts a brake upon destruction, by representing its object as irreplaceable. When the world looks back at me with my eyes, as it does in aesthetic experience, it is also addressing me in another way. Something is being revealed to me, and I am being made to stand still and absorb it. It is of course nonsense to suggest that there are naiads in the trees and dryads in the groves. What is revealed to me in the experience of.. | Roger Scruton | ||
| babd6e9 | One of the most important things I've learned is how deeply you can keep loving someone after they die. You may not be able to hold them or talk to them, and you may even date or love someone else, but you can still love them every bit as much. Playwright Robert Woodruff Anderson captured it perfectly: "Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship." Last" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 0224ef1 | I don't think he ever gave a thought to other people's opinions, which was just as well because they were often unkind | James Herriot | ||
| 3db6f32 | You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm." "Voyons, do you think that is what I like?" | georgian mothers romance | Georgette Heyer Devil's Club | |
| c7806d3 | It was just a colour out of space--a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes. | science-fiction | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| c384fb2 | How can this be real?" I whispered. "I mean you... you... where you come from. Your world. It is so beyond everything I've ever known. And you would... you would take me to the Pumpkin Ball?" "Try and stop me." | cthulhu h-p-lovecraft lovecraft paranormal-romance riley-bay serra-elinsen young-adult | Serra Elinsen | |
| cf38dd6 | New Rule: Conspiracy theorists who are claiming that we didn't really kill Bin Laden must be reminded that they didn't think he did the crime in the first place. Come on, nutjobs, keep your bullshit straight: The towers were brought down in a controlled demolition by George W. Bush to distract attention from Hawaii, where CIA operatives were planting phony birth records so that a Kenyan named Barack Obama could someday rise to power and pre.. | conspiracy-theories donald-trump humor osama-bin-laden | Bill Maher | |
| b6b1ef5 | Ancient Egypt, like that of the Olmecs (Bolivia), emerged all at once and fully formed. Indeed, the period of transition from primitive to advanced society appears to have been so short that it makes no kind of historical sense. Technological skills that should have taken hundreds or even thousands of years to evolve were brought into use almost overnight-- and with no apparent antecedents whatever. For example, remains from the pre-dynasti.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 46fe9b8 | The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 27dd198 | Everyone's broken, one way or another. | Max Barry | ||
| 90acd20 | Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. | inspirational talent | Michio Kaku | |
| 591ea02 | These friends - and he laid his hand on some of the books - have been good friends to me, and for some years past, ever since I had the idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pleasure. Through them I have come to know your great England; and to know her is to love her. I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its d.. | dracula england horror london vampire | Bram Stoker | |
| 547f20d | Have you talked to North?" he said. "Yes," she said. "I asked him to get us cable." "I wish you weren't talking to him." "I'd talk to Satan to get cable," Andie said." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 5c95ca8 | Once you know the truth, it's always obvious | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| a080d22 | He loved her all he could; but he couldn't love her very much. | romance | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 8533a5d | I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will make me feel better or keep me alive? Well, there never was anything he could say, that's the funny thing. It was all the stupid, desperately optimistic, condescending things he didn't say that kept me alive; all the compassion and wamrth I felt from him that could not have been said; all the intelligence, com.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| afd2309 | I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 81a327e | Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 6223453 | They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 0c4de5b | Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously--the midday sun always excepted. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 802b8f4 | The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered. | wilde | Oscar Wilde | |
| 28a0378 | Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact. | religion | Oscar Wilde | |
| 427e302 | I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| d9d28e4 | Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 4bb12a6 | One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. | life | Oscar Wilde | |
| 7ef36b9 | Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible | oscar-you-so-sassy so-true | Oscar Wilde | |
| 14f0c2b | Then she gave one last burst of music. The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky. The red rose heard it, and it trembled all over with ecstasy, and opened its petals to the cold morning air. Echo bore it to her purple cavern in the hills, and woke the sleeping shepherds from their dreams. It floated through the reeds of the river, and they carried its message to the sea. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 1b2ba56 | For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 018386c | Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| fab7f15 | One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. | enjoy enjoyment hobbies hobby life seriousness | Oscar Wilde John Cooper | |
| 243ca50 | I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| e12e2eb | Everything will be clear to you in time. But you must have a chance to digest the knowledge that we have given to you already. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 7b2df6f | Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| a38d282 | And it is still true, no matter how old you are -- when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 89c85b0 | Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we ha.. | defiance ghetto inspirational jew nazi resistance spirit | Leon Uris |