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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5f617b9 | John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards. | richards | Keith Richards | |
| 2255016 | Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners. | Keith Richards | ||
| 87a5588 | Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat. | Keith Richards | ||
| 4966fad | One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience | music songwrighting | Keith Richards | |
| f5e1648 | In any situation which involves suffering, we have to ask ourselves: "How long am I willing to pay the cost? What were the karmic propensities to begin with? How much blame is enough? Is there a time to call an end to it? How long will I hang on to it? How much sacrifice am I willing to pay to the other person for their wrongs, real or imaginary? How much guilt is enough? How much self-punishment is enough? When will I give up the secret pl.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 083284c | Amy bit her lip. "I was so scared, Dan. I couldn't think. She shook her head. "I feel so ashamed of myself. If it wasn't for you, we would have been toast." "Whoa," Dan said. "If you're throwing a pity party for yourself, don't invite me." He poked her. "You were the one who got Jonah to find us. Awesome lung power. I thought you only used that volume to get me out of the bathroom." | Jude Watson | ||
| 757416d | You're a model? Never would have guessed," Jonah said in a lazy, teasing voice that caused Hamilton's head to swivel. He'd never seen Jonah flirt before. The girl tilted her head. The glossy hair spilled down one bare shoulder. " ...you look familiar." Jonah grinned. "Yeah?" "'Ave we met? Are you an 'airdresser?" "A ?" Jonah choked out. "Guys, we'd better get going," Hamilton said. "The name is Jonah," Jonah said, pronuncing his name caref.. | Jude Watson | ||
| 0ca052d | In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity. | writing-craft | James Scott Bell | |
| 9bc2f8a | the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many varieties he has had his own experience with. | stigma | Erving Goffman | |
| baa0838 | Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat. | Richard Curtis | ||
| 95a1231 | I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick i.. | falsehood social-weapons truth | Sherwood Smith | |
| e9344e2 | When things are good in your life, take the time to build and fortify your relationship with the Lord. Never become complacent about your relationship with Him, because there's always room to grow DEEPER! | lord love power prayer relationship | Stormie Omartian | |
| 28d197b | It is a father's job to love his daughter in the way that she needs to be loved. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| ecff904 | Doctors don't seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop. | human-body | Joe Haldeman | |
| a132a80 | Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 3a23b5f | She died in a fire. I miss her like you... If I was underwater, I wouldn't miss oxygen that much. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 1e362b9 | Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?...Gods don't think they can become men. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 07c25ec | I understand everything," he said. "You understand nothing, but it really doesn't matter, since what you mean is, you're glad to see me, just as I'm glad to see you because no more loneliness." "That's what I mean," said Fezzik." | William Goldman | ||
| 4ac9a4f | You let women dictate your actions and they are not competent in this world, though certainly they will be saints in heaven while we men burn in hell. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 27333f1 | A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 2d2a597 | Everything we personally own that's made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we're either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf. | environmentalism green | Yvon Chouinard | |
| d79c5ea | The world is full of fools eagerly waiting to hear what they long to be told. | Jeff Wheeler | ||
| 4e194e8 | I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that. | drug-addiction drugs hobo homeless jean-michel life montréal pg-81 street | Heather O'Neill | |
| e07e9d7 | My conversation is probably something like the rain. On some days it pours, and then on other days there's just a clear sky- not a word in sight. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| ae87922 | I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor. | health helplessness human-rights kindness poverty sickness society | Christina Dodd | |
| 729974f | Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way. | Christina Dodd | ||
| c2c85bf | Life is populated with scarecrows--all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw? | Jerry and Eileen Spinelli | ||
| 54adaf0 | Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| bd1d37c | Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings. | Jerry and Eileen Spinelli | ||
| 05f3d27 | Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5e1aeb6 | I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as its poor citizens clamored for a way out. I suggested that my experience in New Orleans working with the city's poorest people in the years before the storm had reflected the reality of third-world conditions in New Orleans, and that Katrina had not turned New Orleans into a third-world city but had only .. | new-orleans poverty | Billy Sothern | |
| da14a0e | The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a revolution or a theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. | copernicus darwin evolution misguided natural-selection nicolaus-copernicus science science-and-religion science-vs-religion | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 9d9e0c6 | Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character. | Charles Darwin | ||
| 7db54e4 | If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. | Elaine Pagels | ||
| 1a3fe78 | What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor? | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 65565b5 | ruHt 't'ml wD` bny adm lby'ysyn, ysbHwn fy bHr hy'l mn lar l dlyl lhm wl mshyr. ttqdhfhm 'hww'hm lhy'j@, l m`yn lhm sw~ mlH Gyr mjrb, yjhl lTryq, l y`rf mn 'yn 't~ w'yn ytjh. knt 'srW lnfsy: 'twkh~ lHq, 'bHth `nh wl 'tbyWnh. lyrshdny lyh mrshd ws't`lq bh Twl Hyty. lmdh yHtjb lHq `n qlb mtshwq lyh mtHms l`bdth ? | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 2e6b999 | The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 39c2e89 | Yes, not only humans but also every other organism in the cosmos, as well as the planets or moons on which they thrive, would not exist but for the wreckage of spent stars. So you're made of detritus. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all? | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 029187c | But what becomes of the divinity when it reveals itself in icons, when it is simply incarnated in images as a visible theology? Or does it volatilize itself in the simulacra that, alone, deploy their power and pomp of fascination - the visible machinery of icons substituted for the pure and intelligible Idea of God? This is precisely what was feared by Iconoclasts, whose millennial quarrel is still with us today. This is precisely because t.. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 6288619 | I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that I am, was, and probably will be, is shaped by my passion to evade the end of me. | Glen Cook | ||
| 99c74eb | Best way out," Elmo observed laconically, "would be to kill everybody who knows anything, then all of us fall on our swords." "Sounds a little extreme," Goblin opined. "But if you want to go first, I'm right behind you." | Glen Cook | ||
| 4135449 | Water sleeps, but Enemy never rests. | Glen Cook | ||
| 14fc868 | Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 1955887 | If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination. Artistic accounts include severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. A travel book may tell us, for example, that the narrator journeyed through the afternoon to reach the hill town of X a.. | story travel writing | Alain de Botton |