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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 19ac45c | The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. suggests 'a sailor in space.' suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'. | Mary Roach | ||
| fbbb7d9 | T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, "What are my big scenes?" and then get every drop of juice out of them." | writing novels focus | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 0d718ad | Sir?" said Jeeves, kind of manifesting himself. One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room. He's like one of those weird chappies in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the parts again just where they want them. I've got a cousin who's what they call a Theosophist, and he says he's often nearly wo.. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| ea3dac8 | Wait a minute while I think," said Miss Peavey. There was a pause. Miss Peavey sat with knit brows. "How would it be..." ventured Mr. Cootes. "Cheese it!" said Miss Peavey. Mr. Cootes cheesed it." | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 852fd3e | Billie knew all. And, terrible though the fact is as an indictment of the male sex, when a woman knows all, there is invariably trouble ahead for some man. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 9030d67 | I say, Bertie, is it really true that you were once engaged to Honoria?" "It is." Biffy coughed. "How did you get out - I mean, what was the nature of the tragedy that prevented the marriage?" "Jeeves worked it. He thought out the entire scheme." "I think, before I go," said Biffy thoughtfully, "I'll just step into the kitchen and have a word with Jeeves." I felt that the situation called for complete candour. "Biffy, old egg," I said, "as .. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 1e3d2f0 | One of the advantages a sister has when arguing with a brother is that she is under no obligation to be tactful. If she wishes to tell him that he is an idiot and ought to have his head examined, she can do so and, going further, can add that it is a thousand pities that no-one ever thought of smothering him with a pillow in his formative years. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| d531e42 | I wonder the food didn't turn to ashes in our mouths! Eggs! Muffins! Sardines! All wrung from the bleeding lips of the starving poor!" "Oh, I say! What a beastly idea!"... Jeeves came in to clear away, and found me sitting among the ruins. It was all very well for Comrade Butt to knock the food, but he had pretty well finished the ham; and if you had shoved the remainder of the jam into the bleeding lips of the starving poor it would hardly.. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 6155c45 | I don't know why it is, but women who have anything to do with Opera, even if they're only studying for it, always appear to run to surplus poundage. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 6bb53dd | The boy is of an outspoken disposition, and had made an opprobrious remark respecting my personal appearance." "What did he say about your appearance?" "I have forgotten, sir," said Jeeves, with a touch of austerity. "But it was opprobrious." | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 061df24 | If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry. | Amy Tan | ||
| 2536295 | It isn't that i consider them brave, they are reckless, unpredictable, maddeningly unreliable. But like rogue waves and shooting stars, they also add thrills to a life that otherwise would be as regular as the tide, as routine as day passing into night. | Amy Tan | ||
| fecdf81 | I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me. | Amy Tan | ||
| 62b3abf | we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us. | Amy Tan | ||
| 9872f7e | In this matter, you should not concern yourself for my sake. | Amy Tan | ||
| cd7008c | Lately I have been feeling hulihudu. And everything around me seemed to be heimongmong. These were words I had never thought about in English terms. I suppose the closest in meaning would be "confused" and "dark fog." But really, the words mean much more than that. Maybe they can't be easily translated because they refer to a sensation that only Chinese people have, as if you were falling headfirst through Old Mr. Chou's [Mr. Sandman's] do.. | Amy Tan | ||
| 2ca6ee9 | the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true. . .And believing in ghosts - that's believing that love never dies. If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses. | Amy Tan | ||
| f267272 | A painting was a translation of the language of my heart. | painting | Amy Tan | |
| 89f3417 | We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshack.. | Jane Hamilton | ||
| 16f4f79 | The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| be985bd | Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever. | knights | Richard Brautigan | |
| c0c7237 | The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 5b936cc | Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home | coffee home | Richard Brautigan | |
| 289d4ec | We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game. | children-s-games games | Richard Brautigan | |
| e3b9427 | Don't give anybody up. . . or leave anybody out. . . . There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your day the way it comes along and try not to be much later than you can help."--Spoken by Jack to Gloria" | Eudora Welty | ||
| 4fa4b1c | Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them. | writing | Eudora Welty | |
| 2343e3e | Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together and suddenly turn dark. The rain struck heavily. A huge tail seemed to lash through the air and the river broke in a wound of silver. | the-wide-net mississippi-writers mississippi-authors | Eudora Welty | |
| b03bcbd | The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values. | religion philosophy social-sciences | Noam Chomsky | |
| f659aba | To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| dd8debe | Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 93b60d1 | Well, I'm not sure the | politics gossip-magazines the-new-york-times genitalia supermarkets magazines gossip | Noam Chomsky | |
| 514c00c | Another thing they talk about a lot is water--and that's a very crucial thing, which is not discussed very much in the United States but it's probably the main reason why Israel is never going to give up the West Bank. See, this is a very arid region, so water is more important than oil, and there are very limited water resources in Israel. In fact, a lot of the wars in the Middle East have been about water--for instance, the wars involving.. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 8df0635 | Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said. | James A. Michener | ||
| d1ee7ba | Just so you know Labrodor retrivers do not howl.Begals Howl.Wolves howl. Labs do not howl, at lestnot well. Marley attempted twice to howl, both times in answer to a passing police siren, tossing back his head, forming his mouth into an O shape, and letting loose the most pathetic sound Ihave ever heard, more like gargling than answering the call of the wild. Butnow,no question about it he was howling. | John Grogan | ||
| d41094d | A text pops up on the screen. It's from Luis. I can't help but grin when I read his perfectly thought-out message. | humour romance young-adult-romance young-adult-fiction | Simone Elkeles | |
| af1d3bf | Be so good as to cease to cast yourself in fictions. Pinch yourself, or slap yourself across the face if that's what it takes, but understand, please, that you are nonfictional, and this is real life. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| de9f917 | The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame. | clear-mindedness clear-view outside-the-box view-from-outside whole-picture perception | Salman Rushdie | |
| 006d339 | I, too, have ropes around my neck. I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, commanding, choose, choose. I buck, I snort, I whinny, I rear, Ikick. Ropes, I do not choose between you. Lassoes, lariats, I choose neither of you, and both. Doyou hear? I refuse to choose. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 1d0e920 | The necessary incompleteness of even our formal systems of thought demonstrates that there is no nonshifting foundation on which any system rests. All truths -- even those that had seemed so certain as to be immune to the very possibility of revision -- are essentially manufactured. Indeed the very notion of the objectively true is a socially constructed myth. Our knowing minds are not embedded in truth. Rather the entire notion of truth is.. | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| 4a40209 | You're such a great liar when you lie to yourself. | lies liar | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 995d48e | People all over the world, you good, faithful, busy people, I implore you, don't be me! If you're dissatisfied by whatever life throws at you, walk away and leave it behind before it's too late! When life gives you lemons, make lemonade! | life inspirational advice-for-daily-living lemonade news disappointment | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 97e3315 | I guess if there's one thing I can say about the 21st century, it's that the 21st century is all flash and no substance... everything is digital, nothing but files of invisible electronic data on computers and mindless zombies on their cellular phones... it's sad how because of the digital age, society is ultimately doomed. Nothing in the digital age is real anymore, and you know, they say celluloid film and ray tube televisions and maybe e.. | photography future books bleak cell-phones celluloid depressingly-honest super-8 camera digital paper doom apocalypse book film scary poison | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 183c98b | It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art. | John Barth | ||
| 945f48e | Indeed, if I have yet to join the hosts of the suicides, it is because (fatigue apart) I find it no meaningfuller to drown myself than to go on swimming. | John Barth |