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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d4d3308 | There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real. | Truman Capote | ||
| 4265070 | What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quiteness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there | Truman Capote | ||
| eff6052 | No. Because I'm not a cold plate of m-m-macaroni. I'm a warm-hearted person. It's the basis of my character. | Truman Capote | ||
| 768aee2 | June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone. | Truman Capote | ||
| 3f7b3d8 | I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it. | Truman Capote | ||
| bdb44ec | The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically. | Truman Capote | ||
| 0ce0ed2 | Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. | Truman Capote | ||
| 19a789a | Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies. | passion dream life strange | Truman Capote | |
| 5ef829a | When it first emerged, Twitter was widely derided as a frivolous distraction that was mostly good for telling your friends what you had for breakfast. Now it is being used to organize and share news about the Iranian political protests, to provide customer support for large corporations, to share interesting news items, and a thousand other applications that did not occur to the founders when they dreamed up the service in 2006. This is not.. | Steven Johnson | ||
| b726e67 | It was a sombre snowy afternoon, and the gas-lamps were lit in the big reverberating station. As he paced the platform, waiting for the Washington express, he remembered that there were people who thought there would one day be a tunnel under the Hudson through which the trains of the Pennsylvania railway would run straight into New York. They were of the brotherhood of visionaries who likewise predicted the building of ships that would cro.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| afa1ce4 | The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self-confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0af8f60 | She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 3f52e1e | It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth upon the world. But how many generations of the women of had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them. What if, when.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| f63e8b3 | it is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 41938c8 | What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest. | Edith Wharton | ||
| f811071 | Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 6033913 | And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected up it had started from I think therefore I am and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 93977f2 | I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 2c440df | Some fish were jumping up the beach and into the tree, which struck me as an odd thing for a fish to do, but I tried not to be judgmental about it. I was feeling pretty raw about my own species, and not much inclined to raise a quizzical eyebrow at others. The fish could play about in trees as much as they liked if it gave them pleasure, so long as they didn't try and justify themselves or tell each other it was a malign god who made them p.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 57c8ce5 | We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. | Douglas Adams | ||
| c57d488 | He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8f6b291 | Fenchurch had red mullet and said it was delicious. Arthur had a swordfish steak and said it made him angry. He grabbed a passing waitress by the arm and berated her. "Why's this fish so bloody good?" he demanded, angrily." | fish funny humor | Douglas Adams | |
| 2ed1dfe | I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view. | self-esteem | Douglas Adams | |
| 8d7211e | I asked him if he'd come to clean the windows and he said no he'd come to demolish the house. He didn't tell me straight away of course. Oh no. First he wiped a couple of windows and charged me a fiver. Then he told me. | Douglas Adams | ||
| caa0be9 | Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one - more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-three More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway? In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of .. | Douglas Adams | ||
| f173bc9 | On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait." | Douglas Adams | ||
| aa8580f | Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him. | mr-prosser incompetence | Douglas Adams | |
| 9cb477c | I have detected," he said, "disturbances in the wash." ... Arthur asked him to repeat what he had just said because he hadn't quite understood his meaning. Ford repeated it. "The wash?" said Arthur. "The space time wash," said Ford. Arthur nodded, and then cleared his throat. "Are we talking about," he asked cautiously, "some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?" "Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum." "Ah," n.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| cef113e | It's easy to think that as a result of the extinction of the dodo, we are now sadder and wiser, but there's a lot of evidence to suggest that we are merely sadder and better informed. | life-lessons extinction | Douglas Adams | |
| c3b8f84 | Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 3d3303e | There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 29919b0 | There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate! | Douglas Adams | ||
| f2a4460 | I'm very glad you asked me that, Mrs Rawlinson. The term `holistic' refers to my conviction that what we are concerned with here is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. I do not concern myself with such petty things as fingerprint powder, telltale pieces of pocket fluff and inane footprints. I see the solution to each problem as being detectable in the pattern and web of the whole. The connections between causes and effects are.. | relationship dirk-gently fundamental interconnectedness | Douglas Adams | |
| 7691919 | the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog. | Douglas Adams | ||
| c12c0b9 | Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 809c8f2 | In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2da2036 | I cannot,' said Merry. 'I have never seen them. I have never been outside 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. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 7713d06 | It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men and he did not like it much. He was glad he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies and threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would no rather have stayed there in peace - | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 106478d | To him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond reckoning. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c2f53d5 | The morning came, pale and clammy. Frodo woke up first, and found that a tree-root had made a hole in his back, and that his neck was stiff. "Walking for pleasure! Why didn't I drive?" he thought, as he usually did at the beginning of an expedition. "And all my beautiful feather beds are sold to the Sackville-Bagginses! These tree-roots would do them good." He stretched. "Wake up, hobbits!" he cried. "It's a beautiful morning." "What's beau.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9c52bcf | There was a lot more to that song,' said Sam, 'all about Mordor. I didn't learn that part, it gave me the shivers. I never thought I should be going that was myself!' 'Going to Mordor!" Cried Pippin. 'I hope it won't come to that!' 'Do not speak that name so loudly!' said Strider" | samwise sam-gamgee peregrin peregrin-took pippin-took strider pippin samwise-gamgee mordor | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| b628d54 | So most men teach, and few men learn. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 50a214c | Have you thought of an ending?' 'Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant, | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8de2c6c | And in that very moment, away behind in some far corner of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed reckoning nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn. | tolkien inspirational shadow-of-death dawn | J.R.R. Tolkien |