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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2e72b23 | It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| ff3e702 | What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck? | suck | Anthony Bourdain | |
| dcc4de0 | I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one sleeps with someone, one should be able--if called upon to do so--to make them a proper omelet in the morning. Surely that kind of civility and selflessness would be both good manners and good for the world. Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck. Perhaps there should be an unspoken agreement that in the event of loss of virginity,.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 506693a | Whachoo want, white boy? Burn cream? A Band-Aid? Then he raised his own enormous palms to me, brought them up real close so I could see them properly; the hideous constellation of water-filled blisters, angry red welts from grill marks, the old scars, the raw flesh where steam or hot fat had made the skin simply roll off. They looked like the claws of some monstrous science-fiction crustacean, knobby and calloused under wounds old and new. .. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| e95a2bd | Under 'Reasons for Leaving Last Job', never give the real reason, unless it's money or ambition. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 85ce907 | Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures. | china chinese holistic | Anthony Bourdain | |
| b6ce0db | post-traumatic growth could take five different forms: finding personal strength, gaining appreciation, forming deeper relationships, discovering more meaning in life, and seeing new possibilities. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| adb3ec7 | Writing this book is not just me encouraging others to lean in. This is me leaning in. Writing this book is what I would do if I weren't afraid. | writing | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| c404888 | Our words, our actions must constantly set the stage for the life we wish to lead. | Marlo Morgan | ||
| 109b612 | Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing to me. It's difficult to put into words but perhaps I can best describe it by saying that if I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously. | james herriot | ||
| d2f1375 | My mind went back to that picture in the obstetrics book. A cow standing in the middle of a gleaming floor while a sleek veterinary surgeon in a spotless parturition overall inserted his arm to a polite distance. He was relaxed and smiling, the farmer and his helpers were smiling, even the cow was smiling. There was no dirt or blood or sweat anywhere. That man in the picture had just finished an excellent lunch and had moved next door to do.. | veterinarians | James Herriot | |
| c756003 | She stretched out her hand, saying, "Vernon! My dear, what a delightful surprise!" "What's surprising about it?" he enquired, lifting his black brows. "Didn't you ask me to come?" The smile remained pinned to Lady Buxted's lips, but she replied with more than a touch of acidity: "To be sure I did, but so many days ago that I supposed you had gone out of town!" "Oh, no!" he said, returning her smile with one of great sweetness." | visit | Georgette Heyer | |
| c44f9b5 | Monseigneur, I have killed you! You are dead! You are dead!" You display an unseemly joy," he remarked. "I had no notion you were so bloodthirsty." -- | humour | Georgette Heyer | |
| 9263f73 | Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 283369f | he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| f24c252 | Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 99a52f2 | We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages. | fiction-fantasy | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 809ee5c | Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| c3092f1 | Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 95c1429 | And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues, casually to say hello or good-bye. You might even kiss a close friend chastely on the lips. You might quickly hug anyone you knew. You might even meet someone at a party, take him home and sleep with him, never to see him or hear from him again. But to join hands and stand holding each other that way, with the ele.. | Lisa Unger | ||
| af8b477 | New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of the American Family Association urged his flock to hand out a Christian-based comic book instead of candy. Excuse me, Halloween isn't a time to push your beliefs. You don't see me handing out pot to kids...Okay, well not the little kids. | halloween humor marijuana religion | Bill Maher | |
| b084b8d | New Rule: If you married a manic-depressive, three of your children died, and while you were president civil war broke out and someone shot you in the head, your coin really shouldn't say, "In God We Trust." | bad-luck history religion | Bill Maher | |
| 442fd97 | Man, I didnt know anything like that was going to happen! Honest, Tex, he was on something. Holy cow! I really kid, I been doing this stuff for a year now and I never saw nobody pull a gun before! God Almighty! What if he hadnt missed!' -- Lem 'He didn't.' -- Tex 'What?' -- Lem 'I said he didn't miss. He shot me and it hurts like hell.' -- Tex | S.E. Hinton | ||
| d27f04b | It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 7b5fdaa | Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins. | love women | Audre Lorde | |
| 758200f | If I participate, knowingly or otherwise, in my sister's oppression and she calls me on it, to answer her anger with my own only blankets the substance of our exchange with reaction. It wastes energy. And yes, it is very difficult to stand still and to listen to another woman's voice delineate an agony I do not share, or one to which I myself have contributed.It wastes energy. And yes, it is very difficult to stand still and to listen to an.. | reaction | Audre Lorde | |
| 9018931 | The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us, and which knows only the oppressors' tactics, the oppressors' relationships. | oppression revolution social-justice | Audre Lorde | |
| e3054dc | Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a , which each one of us within our hearts knows "that is not me." In america, this norm is usually defined as white, thin, male, young, heterosexual, christian, and financially secure. It is with this mythical norm that the trappings of power reside within this society. Those of us who stand outside that power often identify one way in which we are different, and we assume that.. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 129a5a2 | And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 8a7a026 | My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed Which is not to be found in our obituaries Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor In our empty rooms | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 37ecff2 | After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, Guides us by vanities. Think now She gives when our attention is distracted And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions That the giving famishes the craving. Gives too late What's not believed in, or if still believed, In memory only, reconsidered passion. Gives too soon.. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 6b4d4b8 | It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her. | nature sustainable-development | Michel de Montaigne | |
| 092f689 | Miaow Consider me. I sit here like Tiberius, inscrutable and grand. I will let "I dare not" wait upon "I would" and bear the twangling of your small guitar because you are my owl and foster me with milk. Why wet my paw? Just keep me in a bag and no one knows the truth. I am familiar with witches and stand a better chance in hell than you for I can dance on hot bricks, leap your height and land on all fours. I am the servant of the Living Go.. | poetry | Mark Haddon | |
| b4575b3 | Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 29637fc | I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| e3b189b | All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| f688d45 | All empires fall, eventually." "But why? It's not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power lulls them into comfort. They become undisciplined. Those who had to earn power are replaced by those who have known nothing else. Who have no comprehension of the need to rise above base desires.["]" | empires power | Max Barry | |
| f203d47 | the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings and membranes. The laws of chemistry are the melodies that one can play on these strings. the universe is a symphony of strings. And the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace." | Michio Kaku | ||
| 36b67e1 | Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him! | Bram Stoker | ||
| 3151b40 | I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here. | grief joy laughter | Bram Stoker | |
| f88d9dc | With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight and with the other ceased my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound so that I must either suffocate or swallow... | Bram Stoker | ||
| 39c3dd5 | Is it possible that love is all subjective, or all objective? | Bram Stoker | ||
| 58b11e9 | North is a powerful man, and you're still connected to him." Flo frowned. "Probably sexual memory, those Capricorns are insatiable. Well, you know. Sea Goat. And of course, you're a Fish. You'll end up back in bed with him." Andie slammed the car door. "You know what I'd like for Christmas, Flo? Boundaries. You can gift me early if you'd like." | mothers-and-daughters relationships sex | Jennifer Crusie | |
| f1f87fc | I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways. | Jennifer Crusie |