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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 79f7833 | Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together. | writing-life writing screenwriting writing-process | Darlene Craviotto | |
| 4b0fede | You see, even after decades of therapy and workshops and retreats and twelve-steps and meditation and even experiencing a very weird session of rebirthings, even after rappeling down mountains and walking over hot coals and jumping out of airplanes and watching elephant races and climbing the Great Wall of China, and even after floating down the Amazon and taking ayahuasca with an ex-husband and a witch doctor and speaking in tongues and fa.. | Carrie Fisher | ||
| 0824680 | Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life. . . . There's no financial investment that'll ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what's going to really provide economic freedom. . . . It's those skill sets that really make that happen." This" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 205265f | If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e7ca282 | The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4e02fde | If you let pride stop you, you will hate life | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 05b4293 | People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8b3140f | There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves | Milton Friedman | ||
| 245e213 | Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place." | religion | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f31090d | The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| b229e1b | If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can keep the commandments. It is just because he does not want to kill but to excite to life that a pistol is still as exciting to him as it is to a schoolboy. It is just because he does not want to steal, because he does not covet his neighbour's goods, that he has captured the trick (oh, how we all long for it!), the trick of coveting.. | innocence | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f1011ac | The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion. | modernism snobbery | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 4229a29 | I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease. | criminology | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 06433b9 | It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7eb4b3f | My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 13a1224 | the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy. | humour humor jokes | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 24b8859 | Sirs, I am but a nameless man, A rhymester without a home, Yet since I come of the Wessex clay And carry the cross of Rome, I will even answer the mighty earl That asked of Wessex men Why they be meek and monkish folk, And bow to the White Lord's broken yoke; What sign have we save blood and smoke? Here is my answer then. That on you is fallen the shadow, And not upon the Name; That though we scatter and though we fly, And you hang over us.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 0375dd9 | It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 6a6313b | We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7f9f0a1 | If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance." "Eh?" said Syme, staring. "The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger of a nation." | composure calm | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 43730b6 | A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man -- the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle. | worldview | G.K. Chesterton | |
| de081e8 | It is inspiriting without doubt to whizz in a motor-car round the earth, to feel Arabia as a whirl of sand or China as a flash of rice-fields. But Arabia is not a whirl of sand and China is not a flash of rice-fields. They are ancient civilizations with strange virtues buried like treasures. If we wish to understand them it must not be as tourists or inquirers, it must be with the loyalty of children and the great patience of poets. To conq.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7e3b331 | The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage. | writing | Philip Pullman | |
| efd217f | Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't. | Philip Pullman | ||
| a846919 | Behind her the sun was still shining, so that every grove and every single tree between her and the storm blazed ardent and vivid, little frail things defying the dark with leaf and twig and fruit and flower. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 9b69e66 | Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. | Lauren Willig | ||
| d280377 | Quite definitely a Bingley | turnip pride-and-prejudice | Lauren Willig | |
| 1062361 | She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another. | James M. Cain | ||
| 8644018 | You Can't Write Perfect Software. Did that hurt? It shouldn't. Accept it as an axiom of life. Embrace it. Celebrate it. Because perfect software doesn't exist. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It's unlikely that you'll be the first. And unless you accept this as a fact, you'll end up wasting time and energy chasing an impossible dream. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 09330ef | Caldenia blinked. "Who are the attending parties?" "The Holy Anocracy represented by House Krahr, the Hope-crushing Horde, and the Merchants of Baha-char. They coming here for Arbitration and they will probably try to murder each other the moment they walk through the door." Caldenia's eyes widened. "Do you really think so? This is absolutely marvelous!" She would think so, wouldn't she?" | sweep-in-peace | Ilona Andrews | |
| b2de187 | Her face looked like it would shatter any second. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| eee48ed | I realized that I'm a child." William looked point-blank at her chest. "No." | cerise ilona-andrews the-edge william child | Ilona Andrews | |
| b13f2a0 | Good people didn't hate without a reason, so they grasped at any pretext, no matter how small, that gave them permission to hate. A line in a holy book. The color of a person's skin. The brand of their magic. They were not in the habit of taking a second look or giving chances. Their fear was too great and their need to defend themselves too dire. They always lost at the end. Life was change. It would come to them, as inevitable as the sunr.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b7c9c0a | It's being handled. Your involvement isn't necessary. You're free to continue on your serial urination spree. | sean-evans | Ilona Andrews | |
| 88d0bb1 | My future chef was an oversized, hysterical hedgehog with a martyr complex. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 60d76e1 | I want in," the boy said. "In on what?" "You're the Hunter. You're hunting the slavers. I want in." "And how would you know that?" If someone had opened their mouth, he would be really put out. Jack gave a one-shouldered shrug. "We overhead you and Declan talking." "Declan's study is soundproof." "Not to reanimated mice," Jack said." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b69f07b | And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot." She raised her hand. "Don't." "It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded." | funny ilona-andrew fate-s-edge kaldar the-edge shot george jack | Ilona Andrews | |
| 8565ca2 | He glanced up. His eyes were pure white. Great, his brights were on, but nobody was driving. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e1415e7 | When I got a bad grade in my old boarding school, Kate would make a trip to the school to chew me out. When I got homesick, I'd flunk a grade on purpose. Sometimes she came by herself. Sometimes with other people. Boy kind of people. Of whom I promised myself I wouldn't be thinking about, because they were idiots. | julie | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4534ae7 | God. I haven't been very good. The metal whined in protest. I could have tried harder. I could've been a better person. I stand before you now as I am. I make no excuses. The beams gave, bending. Please, have mercy on me, | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 945dee5 | Did you see how she got all hot under the collar?" Grandma Frida said in a theatrical whisper behind me. She's not over him. "I can hear you!" | white-hot ilona-andrews hidden-legacy nevada | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4ae458b | A man had no right to be this fiercely sexual without even trying. | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| a8b3870 | Something clicked in my brain. "I remember where I've seen you before. You're Curran's..."--lover, mistress, honey-bunny--"significant other." Dear God, what could the Beast Lord's concubine possibly want from me?" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9bb8561 | I kept my hands firmly on the iron rail before me. Grabbing the weight bar and walloping the Beast Lord upside the head wouldn't be the best diplomatic move. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty." There. I was civil. It almost killed me. "Apology accepted." "Will there be anything else?"Your Arrogance." | Ilona Andrews |