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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2dcf794 | METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression and/or social contact. | Chris Ware | ||
| e13d8d7 | pleasure and pain arise from virtuous and non-virtuous actions which come not from outside, but from within yourself. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| cf76f74 | We all have certain desires and undesired outcomes related to whatever possible course and attitude we take in life, whether it be at the larger macro scale (what shall I do with the rest of my life?) or at the micro level (as in, what route shall I take to work this morning). These include all the myriad choices we make each hour and each day. These choices determine our karma and our destiny. It's no accident, nor any great mystery, how t.. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| e91b30d | As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory. | Joseph Finder | ||
| 351392c | Poshlust, Nabokov explains, "is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive." | azar nafisi | ||
| bfea0ab | The more we die, the stronger we will become | Azar Nafisi | ||
| d508a59 | Pragmatists are sometimes more prone to illusion than dreamers; when they fall for something, they fall hard, not knowing how to protect themselves, while we dreamers are more practiced in surviving the disillusionment that follows when we wake up from our dreams. | dreams pragmatism | Azar Nafisi | |
| ff2b00c | It is also about loss, about the perishability of dreams once they are transformed into hard reality. It is the longing, its immateriality, that makes the dream pure. What we in Iran had in common with Fitzgerald was this dream that became our obsession and took over our reality, this terrible, beautiful dream, impossible in its actualization, for which any amount of violence might be justified or forgiven. This was what we had in common, .. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 17878d8 | She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do. | John Steinbeck | ||
| fc54b28 | The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation. | culture media | Neil Postman | |
| d89b343 | Those who boggle at strong language are cowards, because it is real life which is shocking them, and weaklings like that are the very people who cause most harm to culture and character. They would like to see the nation grow up into a group of over-sensitive little people--masturbators of false culture... | Jaroslav Hašek | ||
| 2a1b93c | In his blackest hours, Stone doubted the utility of all thought, and all intelligence. There were times he envied the laboratory rats he worked with; their brains were so simple. Certainly, they did not have the intelligence to destroy themselves; that was a peculiar invention of man. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c8f977e | But where will this mania for entertainment end? What will people do when they get tired of television? When they get tired of movies? We already know the answer--they go into participatory activities: sports, theme parks, amusement rides, roller coasters. Structured fun, planned thrills. And what will they do when they tire of theme parks and planned thrills? Sooner or later, the artifice becomes too noticeable. They begin to realize that .. | hyperreality | Michael Crichton | |
| 14ac049 | The minute we look, we cease being afraid. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c5344f8 | In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the past isn't a location, you can't travel to it. | time science passing-of-time time-travel | Michael Crichton | |
| cf2d014 | What is it about nature that is so terrifying to the modern mind? Why is it so intolerable? Because nature is fundamentally indifferent. It's unforgiving, uninterested. If you live or die, succeed or fail, feel pleasure or pain, it doesn't care. That's intolerable to us. How can we live in a world so indifferent to us. So we redefine nature. We call it Mother Nature when it's not a parent in any real sense of the term. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 5027b9a | Consider cotton prices," Malcolm said. "There are good records of cotton prices going back more than a hundred years. When you study fluctuations in cotton prices, you find that the graph of price fluctuations in the course of a day looks basically like the graph for a week, which looks basically like the graph for a year, or for ten years. And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doin.. | ian-malcolm mandelbrot jurassic-park | Michael Crichton | |
| ebb4927 | Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet--or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c7206fa | Saintliness is also a temptation. | temptation | Jean Anouilh | |
| 0cb18fc | Vous me degoutez tous avec votre bonheur ! Avec votre vie qu'il faut aimer coute que coute... Moi, je veux tout, tout de suite, et que ce soit entier, ou alors je refuse! Je ne veux pas etre modeste , moi, et de me contenter d'un petit morceau, si j'ai ete bien sage. | ANOUILH Jean | ||
| 39c68f3 | If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all. | sex social-constructs | Judith Butler | |
| a9febd1 | Not long ago you are in a room where someone asks the philosopher Judith Butler what makes language hurtful. You can feel everyone lean in. Our very being exposes us to the address of another, she answers. We suffer from the condition of being addressable. Our emotional openness, she adds, is carried by our addressability. Language navigates this. For so long you thought the ambition of racist language was to denigrate and erase you as a pe.. | Claudia Rankine | ||
| 203d3f7 | The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing. | violence | Judith Butler | |
| a5c35a5 | I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| aeecbad | Art value always goes up once the artist's associated with fucked-up things such as cutting off his own ear like Van Gogh, or marrying his teenage cousin like Poe, or having his minions murder a celebrity like Manson, or shooting his postsuicide ashes out of a huge cannon like Hunter S. Thompson, or being dressed up as a little girl by his mother like Hemingway, or wearing a dress made of raw meat like Lady Gaga, or having unspeakable thing.. | Matthew Quick | ||
| a18a958 | I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless journey. It was the tension between the.. | fear | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 88e6b5a | So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 376b4af | You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right. | truth | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 6bc1111 | One of the things you learn, after years of dealing with drug people, is that everything is serious. You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug--especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eyes. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| a7b663d | One of the most important tricks for maximizing your productivity involves matching your mental state to the task. | Scott Adams | ||
| 65cae44 | The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower." | Scott Adams | ||
| a12fb26 | The Success Formula: Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds of Success | Scott Adams | ||
| 8056626 | Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality? | Scott Adams | ||
| d2c0a39 | Few things are as destructive and limiting as a worldview that assumes people are mostly rational. | Scott Adams | ||
| 4ab75d7 | It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness--cry and then walk--but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order. | loss life numbers logic math | Aimee Bender | |
| 703e0ac | Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 0228dde | If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen! | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 1714bdd | The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 74ffcc9 | Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power. | responsibility | Orson Scott Card | |
| 8a8575c | For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events. | history | Orson Scott Card | |
| f8dc682 | it's so easy, when you never meet people, when you never know the Earth itself... it's easy to forget why Earth is worth saving. Why the world of people might be worth the price you pay. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| dc8da5f | He lay in bed staring upward into the darkness. On the bunk above him, he could hear Peter turning and tossing restlessly. Then Peter slid off the bunk and walked out of the room. Ender heard the hushing sound of the toilet clearing; then Peter stood silhouetted in the doorway. He thinks I'm asleep. He's going to kill me. Peter walked to the bed, and sure enough, he did not lift himself up to his bed. Instead he came and stood by Ender's he.. | family | Orson Scott Card | |
| 2a70c34 | The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| a8ff646 | Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? | Orson Scott Card |