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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1dce4af | never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words they say. judge people by their actions. that's how you know whether they're bad or good." - perfect Summer" | Luanne Rice | ||
| 7d7f16d | Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness. | Luanne Rice | ||
| eb74e27 | Beach girls now, beach girls tomorrow, beach girls till the end of time. | love best-friends sisters | Luanne Rice | |
| 731c415 | You can't kill an American Citizen without benefit of a trial." "I can if you're on the list, traitor." "LIST? What list? What the hell are you talking about?" BLACK LIST, July 24" | black-list brad-thor fiction | Brad Thor | |
| def2b73 | I just might kill someone in my next job, and I'll be honest here, I couldn't do the time. Really. No way. I couldn't share a room with four other people, let alone poop in front of them. I hate sharing a room and a bathroom with my husband, and I even have eminent domain over him. Prison would never work out: I'd get picked last for all of the gangs, I'd never get included in the escape plans, it would be just like high school | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 90e7ceb | Every crack is also an opening. When in the midst of great change, it is helpful to remember how a chick is born. From the view of the chick, it is a terrifying struggle. Confined and curled in a dark shell, half-formed, the chick eats all its food and stretches to the contours of its shell. It begins to feel hungry and cramped. Eventually, the chick begins to starve and feels suffocated by the ever-shrinking space of its world. Finally, it.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 4fb51ea | When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than | Mark Nepo | ||
| 2889891 | She acts like she don't like you" "She doesn't like anyone" "She likes Capitan Black", Orr reminded. "That's because he treats her like dirt. Anyone can get a girl that way" | Joseph Heller | ||
| 6982c30 | You ask me what it means to be irrelevant? The feeling is akin to visiting your old house as a wandering ghost with unfinished business. Imagine going back: the structure is familiar ,but the door is now metal instead of wood,the walls have been painted a garish pink ,the easy chair you loved so much is gone .Your office is now the family room and your beloved bookcases have been replaced by a brand-new television set . This is your house,a.. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 6f7d11d | Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me? What does that say about my life, my pains, my anguish? | pain sorrow joy empathy life | Azar Nafisi | |
| 2c88e56 | i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 8e1e91d | Parents embraced "Sesame Street" for several reasons, among them that it assuaged their guilt over the fact that they could not or would not restrict their children's access to television. "Sesame Street" appeared to justify allowing a four- or five-year-old to sit transfixed in front of a television screen for unnatural periods of time. Parents were eager to hope that television could teach their children something other than which breakfa.. | Neil Postman | ||
| f5e2ed3 | The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we must remind ourselves that capitalism, like science and liberal democracy, was an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. Its principal theorists, even its most prosperous practitioners, believed capitalism to be based on the idea that both buyer and seller are sufficiently mature, well informed and reaso.. | commercials emotional-appeal falsities television-commercials television mcdonalds public-discourse idiocy logic drama | Neil Postman | |
| 52c6c43 | Preparations for the slaughter of mankind have always been made in the name of God or some supposed higher being which men have devised and created in their own imagination. | Jaroslav Hašek | ||
| 38e6c0a | Already, the brain consumed more than a quarter of the body's blood supply... an organ accounting for only a small percentage of body mass. If brains grew larger, and better, then perhaps they would consume more - perhaps so much that, like an infection, they would overrun their hosts and kill the bodies that transported them. Or perhaps, in their infinite cleverness, they would find a way to destroy themselves and each other. There were ti.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 0c9a5cf | There's one problem with all psychological knowledge - nobody can apply it to themselves. People can be incredibly astute about the shortcomings of their friends, spouses, children. But they have no insight into themselves at all. The same people who are coldly clear-eyed about the world around them have nothing but fantasies about themselves. Psychological knowledge doesn't work if you look in a mirror. This bizarre fact is, as far as I kn.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 109f724 | Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 83fcea0 | Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel! | Michael Crichton | ||
| d3101ca | His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 4e81d6e | Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 5f276a5 | Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11. | teenagers teens | Michael Crichton | |
| efa1b00 | Not that I disclaim the fullest responsibility for his opinions and for those of all my characters, pleasant and unpleasant. They are all right from their several points of view; and their points of view are, for the dramatic moment, mine also. This may puzzle the people who believe that there is such a thing as an absolutely right point of view, usually their own. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| f409d6b | Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| b496d63 | MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It's not right. She should think of the future. HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of. | future-plans | George Bernard Shaw | |
| c9381e6 | Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock. | humankind | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 399a66b | You don't get tired of muffins. But you don't find inspiration in them | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| fe10482 | the beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting. | penmanship | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 8d19d9b | O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long? | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 6b793cb | The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the notion that two blacks make a white, and that when a wrong has been done, it should be paid for by an equivalent suffering. It seems to the Philistine majority a matter of course that this compensating suffering should be inflicted on the wrongdoer for the sake of its deterrent effect on other would-be wrongdoers;.. | death-penalty wrongdoing punishment justice | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 67bcb3a | Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive? | Judith Butler | ||
| 5b909f6 | Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| 48eaa4b | He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew the house had all the percentages. And beneath his pessimism, his bleak conviction that all the machinery was rigged against him, at the bottom of his soul was a faith that he was going to outwit it, that by carefully watching the signs he was going to know when to dodge and be spared. It was fatalism with a loophole, and all y.. | fate existential luck | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 086cecb | Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professionals who need to relax now and then, have a bit of the whoop and the giggle, right? | morality past philosophy | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 302a031 | There was no sense in blowing everything away for the sake of some violent ape I'd never even met. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| b23ea86 | There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was -- as Khrushchev said of Nixon -- 'like sending a goat to tend the cabbage'. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 100567f | Positivity is far more than a mental preference. It changes your brain, literally, and it changes the people around you. It's the nearest thing we have to magic. | Scott Adams | ||
| 0942b3b | I'm sorry I was short with him--but I don't like a man to approach me telling me it for my sake. "Maybe it was," said Wylie "It's poor technique." "I'd all for it," said Wylie. "I'm vain as a woman. If anybody pretends to be interested in me, I'll ask for more. I like advice." Stahr shook his head distastefully. Wylie kept on ribbing him--he was one of those to whom this privilege was permitted. "You fall for some kinds of flattery," he sai.. | the-last-tycoon incredulity personal restraint normalcy | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| e2e2e3e | The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that mximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains. | Scott Adams | ||
| 41be497 | With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds. | Aimee Bender | ||
| b202695 | While the sound mixing was underway, Bonzo was on the loose, taking care of buisness his own way. One night he showed up backstage at a Deep Purple concert at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. Bonzo was drunk and in very high spirits, and was wobbling on his feet in the wings when he noticed a free microphone during a lull in the music. Staggering forward, Bonzo walked out onto the stage before the Deep Purple roadies could grab him. The .. | Stephen Davis | ||
| a619786 | So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged. | truth-of-life | Orson Scott Card | |
| 97fc531 | Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word "we" came to his lips much more easily than "I" | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 538d1a9 | It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young. No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led. and he performed splendidly, and the won. There's no youth in that. No childhood. | live responsibility good life small young childhood | Orson Scott Card | |
| dd3f569 | Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down. | poke regret | Orson Scott Card |