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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 81f9f59 | The] persevering steadiness of my mother, her belief in seeing things through, and her great ability to love and learn, listen and change, helped keep me alive through all the years of pain and nightmare that were to come. She could not have known how difficult it would be to deal with madness; had no preparation for what to do with madness--none of us did--but consistent with her ability to love, and her native will, she handled it with em.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| c8bcd1c | Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 6e07d4e | I write. My hand is shaking; my eyes sting and fill. I add before pushing the notebook and pen back across the table, wiping a hand across my cheeks. As he reads, my impulse is to reach out, grab the notebook, run outside, dump it in the trash, bury it in the snow, throw it under the wheels of a passing car - something, something, so I can go back fifteen seconds when this part ofme was still shut away and private. Then I look at Ravi's.. | grief sorrow life | Sara Zarr | |
| c905926 | Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn't see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it. | life realizations | Donna Freitas | |
| 68c4ad1 | I can't be yours forever, Mab," I told her, the words flying into my mouth as if by magic. "I already belong to someone else. I belong to Alice!" | romance fantasy mab-mouldheel tom-ward horror | Joseph Delaney | |
| 56a9863 | if I want a crown I must go and hunt it for myself. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 5153e9b | I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?" His soul repeated it again and again." | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| abd2934 | Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 8edc60a | we can't make a decision between being sad for a little while and being wretched for the rest of our lives. Or rather we've made the decision and have trouble finding the courage to carry it through. | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | ||
| c2bca5a | Sam [Raimi] wanted the climactic sword fight to play out as elegantly as a Fred Astaire movie and he wanted it all in one crane shot. I must have rehearsed the routine for three weeks, but when it came time to shoot, the rigors of running up and down steps, fighting with both hands, and flipping skeletons over my head was too much to pull off without cuts. After ten takes, I knew Sam was pissed off, because he yanked the bullhorn from John .. | Bruce L. Campbell | ||
| 7b9d6a3 | Life is sometimes tough when you do not fit the standard profile. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 9acfe99 | An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 10c2a5f | Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error. At sixty-eight, I hope I've gained some wisdom in the past fourteen lustrums and it's obligatory to speak plain and true about the conclusions I've come to; now that I have been educated to believe by such mentors as Wells, Stapledon, Heinlein, van Vogt, Clarke, Pohl, (S. Fowler) Wright, Orwell, Taine, Temple, Gernsback, Campbell and.. | fairy-tales morality science hope humanist belief science-fiction secular danger utopia atheist respect sci-fi | Forrest J. Ackerman | |
| cd60717 | The temptation to second-guess is strong. But I must remember one thing. Life is simple. | Greg Iles | ||
| 2364f45 | Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for Kity. All Americans are comedians, the inspector thought, as he passed Parker through. A government tourist hostess approached him."Are you Mr. Mark Parker?""Guilty." | security heroin | Leon Uris | |
| 190e27c | To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make. | Leon Uris | ||
| ec416fb | Adult dragons are,astute,powerful,and sure of their strength. | Ciruelo Cabral | ||
| a9aa429 | If everything in the past has value, then there's no reason for regret, ever. | James A. Owen | ||
| 6e25686 | And so long as I can laugh never will I be poor. | Og Mandino | ||
| 54ed7c6 | Within me burns a flame which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will. | Og Mandino | ||
| 05c4a7e | If I don't start having service I'm going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 17386f3 | Thou art God'. It's not a message of cheer and hope. It's a defiance - and an unafraid, unabashed assumption of personal responsibility. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 9fb4381 | Abstract design is all right--for wallpaper or linoleum. But is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| fe14ed5 | You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong. | theories | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 34654d5 | Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 08831fb | of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time. If it sometimes pains them to make a choice - if the choice turns out to look like a 'noble sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is in no wise nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness...the unpleasant necessity of having to decide between two things both of which you would like to do when you can't do both. T.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 7bde79b | Must be a yearning deep in the human heart to stop the people from doing as they please. Rules, laws--always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "fo.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 22bb2f3 | How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate? | criminals | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 5f53b45 | A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| bb371b3 | Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead. Low one. If he were a man, you wouldn't dare stoop over. His idea of thigh-slapper would be to dump you out of bed -- or put itch powder in pressure suit. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| bf35aef | What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . . | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2b4c296 | Good. I go. And if thou dost not love me, I love thee enough for both. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 5eba1b7 | When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 2874474 | Where should we go?" "I don't care. Anywhere you want. Anywhere we don't know people." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 7283f07 | Well,' Bill said, 'we might as well have another drink.' 'Damned good idea,' Mike said. 'One never gets anywhere by discussing finances. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| df36d26 | There is never any ending to Paris, and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. Paris was always worth it, and you received return for whatever you brought to it... | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 6a5f158 | Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 526a94d | Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine. | love | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 93a67d6 | In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dis-sect out. It continues and it is always valid. Each time you re-read you see or learn something new. | re-reading mystery | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 3b6a1d0 | He thought that he would lie down and think about nothing. Sometimes he could do this. Sometimes he could think about the stars without wondering about them and the ocean without problems and the sunrise without what it would bring. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 9d2c483 | The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 8e38d87 | This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 640372b | There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story. (Interview with , 1958) | writing omission creative-process | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 0da362d | Her perfume enveloped him as he reached for her. His hands smoothed over soft fabric before finding the warmth of her skin. She lifted her mouth to his and kissed him hungrily, greedily. She tasted so good. Like sin. Like every dirty thought he'd ever had. | Sarah Mayberry |