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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f145098 | On the morning of our second day, we were strolling down the Champs-Elysees when a bird shit on his head. 'Did you know a bird's shit on your head?' I asked a block or two later. Instinctively Katz put a hand to his head, looked at it in horror - he was always something of a sissy where excrement was concerned; I once saw him running through Greenwood Park in Des Moines like the figure in Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' just because he had inad.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| ef44faa | Australia is mostly empty and a long way away. Its population is small and its role in the world consequently peripheral. It doesn't have coups, recklessly overfish, arm disagreeable despots, grow coca in provocative quantities, or throw its weight around in a brash and unseemly manner. It is stable and peaceful and good. It doesn't need watching, and so we don't. But I will tell you this: the loss is entirely ours. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 7060ce1 | Cavendish is a book in himself. Born into a life of sumptuous privilege- his grandfathers were dukes, respectively, of Devonshire and Kent- he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. He suffered, in the words of one of his few biographers, from shyness to a "degree bordering on disease." Any human contact was for him a source of the deepest discomfort. Once he opened his door to find an Austrian admirer, f.. | shy shyness | Bill Bryson | |
| 8d29ca2 | To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 1e6e78d | I wish we had the technology to fight God on an equal basis. To beard him in his den. To fight back for all of the injustices heaped on humanity. To allow him to alter his smug arrogance or be blown to hell. | anti-theism god injustice | Dan Simmons | |
| 90ce306 | Do you think it's ready?" I [Silenus, The Poet] asked. "It's perfect... a masterpiece." "Do you think it'll sell?" I asked. "No fucking way." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 73e3c6d | Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| a50b62a | All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 7c45460 | That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. "It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly." "That's just what they used to say in the ads," I said..." | dead-dogs garment-bags suitcases trunk-space tubas | Michael Chabon | |
| af0e07a | Back in the summer of 1941, they had stood to lose so much, it seemed, through the shame and ruination of exposure. Sammy could not have known that one day he would come to regard all the things that their loving each other had seemed to put at so much risk - his career in comic books, his relations with his family, his place in the world - as the walls of a prison, an airless, lightless keep from which there was no hope of escape....He rec.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| a7d60c7 | That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin cloud of smoke rising around the driver's head. 'Hey, bus driver,' I said. 'Can I smoke?' 'May I,' said the bus driver. 'I love you,' I said. | Michael Chabon | ||
| c32363e | What would she be saying if she did? That she did want to marry him? For ten years, at least, since she was twelve or thirteen, Rosa had been declaring roundly to anyone who asked that she had no intention of getting married, ever, and that if she ever did, it would be when she was old and tired of life. When this declaration in its various forms had ceased to shock people sufficiently, she had taken to adding that the man she finally marri.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 4b68299 | I hate it that they even count errors,' Ethan said. . . . 'What kind of game is that? No other sport do they do that, Dad. There's no other sport where they put the errors on the freaking scoreboard for everybody to look at. They don't even have errors in other sports. They have fouls. They have penalties. Those are things that players could get on purpose, you know. But in baseball they keep track of how many accidents you have.' * * * E.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 8e4606a | Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself. | Michael Chabon | ||
| e3c7ddc | Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest. | Max Lucado | ||
| bf3af5f | I'm just going through a phase right now. Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they? | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 0bc611d | Living is making decisions and dealing with the consequences. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b81cb26 | Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are." -- | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4869f55 | life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 1e8bf4f | People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too. But that's the way it is. | the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| 1c109ab | the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 3e7beff | Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world." "If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets." "Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 752d0ba | The closer one gets to realizing his destiny,the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being. | paulo-coelho the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| f4494bf | La locura es la incapacidad para comunicar tus ideas. Como si estuvieras en un pais extranjero, viendo todo, entendiendo lo que pasa a tu alrededor, pero incapaz de explicarte y ser ayudado porque no entiendes la lengua que hablan alli. | veronika-decide-morir | Paulo Coelho | |
| 7387019 | hl t`lm m l'mr ldhy ymnH lmr'@ lldh@ lkbr~ fy lzwj? - ljns. - khT', `dd lT`m. mshhd@ zwjh y'kl. nh lHZ@ mmjd@ bnZr lmr'@, l'nh tqDy nhrh b'kmlh tfkr fy l`sh | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d0afcac | n knt lm`n@ HSl@, fmn l'fDl tqblh, lnh ln tzwl bmjrd nkrk lh. dh kn lfrH HDr, fmn l'fDl tqblh 'yD Ht~ wn khshyt 'n yzwl ywman m | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a5d2f39 | War crimes, you say? No matter how many policies you put on paper, in reality, there are no rights and wrongs in war. War itself is a crime. War cannot be justified. I believe, the only people, in this world, whose opinions matter, are the ones who go the extra mile to help other people expecting nothing in return. Soldiers who fight fiercely for their country, the doctors in Sri Lanka's public hospitals attending to hundreds of patients .. | ife inspiration paulo-coelho sri-lanka war war-crimes | Thisuri Wanniarachchi | |
| 752b86a | l`dhb yHdth `ndm nrGb fy 'n yHbn lakhr blTryq@ lty ntSwWrh, wlys blTryq@ lty yjb 'n ytjl~ lHb fyh, Hran bl qywd, yrshdn bqwth wyHwl dwn twqfn | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 8ab522e | When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask Gd to give me th courage to mercilessly pluck it out. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 33d5fa2 | kthyrwn ykhshwn ls`d@ l'n hdh@ lklm@ tHml fy Tyth Drwr@ tTwyr jz mn `dthm .. wbltly fqd hwythm | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9ccca4c | Time heals everything, don't you think?" That depends. Time can often make things worse." -- | Paulo Coelho | ||
| af006c8 | Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b442ced | As Einstein said, God does not play dice with the universe; everything is interconnected and has a meaning. That meaning may remain hidden nearly all the time, but we always know we are close to our true mission on earth when what we are doing is touched with the energy of enthusiasm. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c0144d3 | Age only slows down those who never had the courage to walk at their own pace.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2ab40bc | A warrior of the light never picks fruit before it is ripe. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f0c72a7 | Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable. | heaven pain | Paulo Coelho | |
| a78f35a | 'nt `l~ khT' fy qwlk 'n akhryn t`fw mn lSdm@ ,hm khb'wh wHsb fy mkn b`yd l yqSdwnh 'bd | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 98bd384 | Nature is telling us: "Change!" | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 345e797 | Only cowards hide behind silence. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d1fb145 | ystgh khd qTry kh bh mqSd khd my rft , lkhty dr ystgh dny twqf krd w pymbr rw bh jhnyn krd w gft: mqSd m khdst . kyst kh b m sfr knd? kyst kh rnj w `shq twmn bkhwhd ? kyst kh bwr knd dny ystghy st tnh bry gdhshtn ? qrn h gdhsht m z byshmr admyn jz ndky br an qTr swr nshdndz jhn t khd hzr ystgh bwd. dr hr ystgh kh qTr my ystd , ksy km my shd qTr my gdhsht w sbk my shd , zyr sbky qnwn rh khdst . qTry kh bh mqSd khd my rft, bh ystgh bhsht rs.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 246ef47 | When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times. | inspirational secret-of-life | Paulo Coelho | |
| f2b505c | Somewhere you are holding the person I love," the boy said. "So, when I look out over your sands, I am also looking at her. I want to return to her, and I need your help so that I can turn myself into the wind." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e10c3bb | ql lmlk : llh ynSt lSlwt ldhyn ys'lwn b`d lbGD `nhm , lknh ytjhl hw'l lrGbyn fy lfrr mn lHb. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 58dfa3c | Oscar Wilde said that we always destroy the thing we love the most. And it is true. The simple possibility of achieving that which we desire causes the soul of the common man to be filled with guilt. He looks around, and sees many others who have not succeeded, and so he thinks he does not deserve it. He forgets everything he overcame, all he suffered, everything he had to renounce in order to come this far. I know many people who, when the.. | Paulo Coelho |