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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 810e8e5 | It really turns me on when you talk geek. | Marta Acosta | ||
| fd68134 | He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him. What?' Ronald said. I didn't say anything.' You're breathing heavy. | humor faking_it | Jennifer Crusie | |
| fbc7cfe | And those women with the camera looked loose." , Phin thought. At last, some news." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 0cec664 | In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 9b8ec03 | On the very outside chance that we might play again, you should know that pool is the closest thing I have to a religion. Don't ever throw a game with me again. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| e702f3d | I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| c488828 | Some part of me instinctively reached out, and in an odd way understood this pain, never imagining that I would someday look in the mirror and see their sadness and insanity in my own eyes. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| c943e6a | Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74) | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 7c8fda2 | Life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong, and complaints about the world around you. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 837778e | Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 1e8da8a | There was more than one type of guilt. You might do something horrible that you later regretted. But you could also feel guilty for something you'd done! | Joseph Delaney | ||
| c4888c0 | We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung, And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. | youth hope love truth torment honor lost | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 5579e65 | It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose." -- | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| a9adb9d | Outsong in the Jungle [Baloo:] For the sake of him who showed One wise Frog the Jungle-Road, Keep the Law the Man-Pack make For thy blind old Baloo's sake! Clean or tainted, hot or stale, Hold it as it were the Trail, Through the day and through the night, Questing neither left nor right. For the sake of him who loves Thee beyond all else that moves, When thy Pack would make thee pain, Say: "Tabaqui sings again." When thy Pack would work th.. | the-jungle-books | Rudyard Kipling | |
| b771f56 | NOW this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. Wash daily from nose-tip to tail-tip; drink deeply, but never too deep; And remember the night is for hunting, and forget not.. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 8fb9231 | It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilised Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 81831c9 | One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days | loyality honor | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 302802d | As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn: But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth o.. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| e9be4a9 | When I started writing I wanted the best tools. I skipped right over chisels on rocks, stylus on wet clay plates, quills and fountain pens, even mechanical pencils, and went straight to one of the first popular spin-offs of the aerospace program: the ballpoint pen. They were developed for comber navigators in the war because fountain pens would squirt all over your leather bomber jacket at altitude. (I have a cherished example of the next g.. | writing tools nasa pens | John Varley | |
| a5e08b3 | Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money. | Spider Robinson | ||
| 5450beb | Our body is just a vehicle for us while we're here. It is our soul and our spirit that last forever." I" | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 3bfcf9e | to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 6104a4b | About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN! | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 9ac0d88 | Sometimes isolation can be shared. | solitude loneliness aloneness isolation | Ken Grimwood | |
| f518cf3 | Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough. | Leon Uris | ||
| 6e82579 | Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen? | James A. Owen | ||
| 167d6d2 | A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones. | James A. Owen | ||
| 4184583 | Is this Paradise?' 'I can guarantee you that it isn't,' Jubal assured him. 'My taxes are due this week. | taxes | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| fd5a291 | The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 0e20bf5 | You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something." "Well, didn't you? You were there." "No, I didn't--no... well, maybe I did, but it didn't feel like it." "Why should you expect it to? It was something totally new to your experience." "But... but--" Wilson took a deep breath and got control of himself. Then he reached back into his academic philosophical concepts and produced the notion he had been struggling to .. | spacetime time-travel | John W. Campbell Jr. | |
| 5ffb408 | I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 694e1ff | But when I see a black widow, I step on it; I don't plead with it to be a good little spider and please stop poisoning people. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 891179e | You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1b7231c | I've never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith--it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f50c9fc | Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 4c93877 | Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along. | religion | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 2909d83 | The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 5d16155 | No. The two kinds of fools we have in Russia," karkov grinned and began. "First there is the winter fool. The winter fool comes to the door of your house and he knocks loudly. You go to the door and you see him there and you have never seen him before. He is an impressive sight. He is a very big man and he has on high boots and a fur coat and a fur hat and he is all covered with snow. First he stamps his boots and snow falls from them. Then.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 00cb0dd | It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 811e4c0 | Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, with that feeling, blind him, and blind yourself. Then, one day, for no reason, he sees you as ugly as you really are and he is not blind anymore and then you see yourself as ugly as he sees you and you lose your man and your feeling... After a while, when you are as ugly as I am, as ugly as women can be, then, as I say after a while the feelin.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| e5b9781 | Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. | fiesta the-sun-also-rises unreal | Ernest Hemingway | |
| e110c5f | In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 9221b5d | In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 5812171 | I only like two other things; one is bad for my work and the other is over in half an hour or fifteen minutes. Sometimes less. Sometimes a good deal less. | Ernest Hemingway |