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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8415864 | Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus. | consensus grammar | D.T. Max | |
| 195b331 | Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five, but they have the character of an adolescent. Find a person who has weathered storms rather than avoided them and you will find someone who is wise. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 7e2835f | Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade. | cosmopolitanism free-trade openmindedness | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 8377050 | a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 00326a6 | A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet. | cervantes montaigne renaissance swerve | Stephen Greenblatt | |
| cd7b92a | Because it's one thing to survive. It is much, much harder to truly live. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| b2df2f8 | Sure, they all have iPods, smartphones, whatever. Generally speaking, it's in our own best interest to keep some kind of electronic device in their hands. Otherwise they might talk to us. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 97cc863 | There is a breed of men out there, you know, who are attracted to strong women. They just don't know what to do once they win us over. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 74132e3 | It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| be70e73 | I had evoked - and the book was indeed all I had suspected. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| b488a3a | One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed - as those who take to the water change - and told me she had never died. Instead, she had gone to a spot her dead son had learned about, and had leaped to .. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 05502fd | The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe. | cats-vs-dogs | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 2e35dd4 | If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set first to his clothing one night. | horror humanity suicide | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| d3241fb | He talked about terrible meetings in lonely places, of cyclopean ruins in the heart of the Maine woods beneath which vast staircases led down to abysses of nighted secrets, of complex angles that led through invisible walls to other regions of space and time, and of hideous exchanges of personality that permitted explorations in remote and forbidden places, on other worlds, and in different space-time continua. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| faec2b3 | I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or a degenerate. When you have read these hastily scrawled pages you may guess, though never fu.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 229b937 | The cloudless day is richer at its close; A golden glory settles on the lea; Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool repose To mellowing landscape, and to calming sea. And in that nobler, gentler, lovelier light, The soul to sweeter, loftier bliss inclines; Freed form the noonday glare, the favour'd sight Increasing grace in earth and sky divines. But ere the purest radiance crowns the green, Or fairest lustre fills th' expectant grove, | forest love love-lost lustre melancholy memory nature pantheism reminiscence romance sadness sky twilight | H. P. Lovecraft | |
| 11fa3bb | It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things j.. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 15f170f | But did you know that eyewitness testimony is often totally unreliable? The human memory only records events through the filter of its own frame of reference. We try to fit the information we receive into schemas, units of knowledge that we possess about the world that correspond with frequently encountered situations, individuals, ideas, and situations. In other words, we often see things as we expect to see them, or want to see them, and .. | Lisa Unger | ||
| dec114d | When our actions and choices are based on fear and denial ... Well, nothing good can come of that. Ever. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 69fd83a | Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime. | bible history inequality infidelity marriage objectification objectification-of-women old-testament personhood property religion women | Bill Maher | |
| e1b9d2e | New Rule: Death isn't always sad. This week, the Reverend Jerry Falwell died, and millions of Americans asked, "Why? Why, God? Why...didn't you take Pat Robertson with him?" I don't want to say Jerry was disliked by the gay community, but tonight in New York City, at exactly eight o'clock, Broadway theaters along the Great White Way turned their lights up for two minutes. I know you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but I think we c.. | hate hate-speech humor ignorance jerry-falwell religion | Bill Maher | |
| 9e48fb0 | New Rule: Colin Firth has to admit that he's not a human being but a robot designed by women as the perfect man. He's handsome, charming, witty, he's got that accent and a gay best friend...the only way he could be any better is if he ejaculated Haagen-Dazs. | humor | Bill Maher | |
| b2481ae | New Rule: You don't have to put the cap back on the bottled water after every sip. It's water, not a genie. | Bill Maher | ||
| a377f93 | My bank must stop trying to sell me identity theft protection. You know why I expect you to protect my money? Because you're a . | credit-cards identity-theft money | Bill Maher | |
| 2d1d4fb | New Rule: If you're one of the one-in-three married women who say your pet is a better listener than your husband, you talk too much. And I have some bad news for you: Your dog's not listening, either; he's waiting for food to fall out of your mouth. | humor listening marriage pets | Bill Maher | |
| 668f7a6 | New Rule: Stop putting all those pillows on the bed. Attention, interior designers, hotel maids, and real housewives of New Jersey: It's a bed, not an obstacle course. I'm sorry, baby, I'd like to make sweet love to you all night long, but by the time I get all that crap off your bed, I'm . A bed needs only two pillows: one to put my head on, and one to cuddle with and pretend it's Robert Pattinson. | humor pillows | Bill Maher | |
| b76a1e6 | Yeah," I said. "And I'm gonna look just like him." The black cat paused and looked me over. "No you ain't baby. That cat is a prince, man. He is royalty in exile. You ain't never gonna look like that." | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 7b94f26 | Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 26ff325 | no deberiamos de estar separados despues de haber trabajado tanto para permanecer juntos. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| b9fac40 | It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes... | classic dark emotional life mental-hospital vampire | S.E. Hinton | |
| 1e92b77 | Somos todo lo que nos queda. Tenemos que ser capaces de seguir unidos, pase lo que pase. Si no nos tenemos los unos a los otros, no tenemos nada. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 0e705db | What happens when you narrow your definition to what is convenient, or what is fashionable, or what is expected, is dishonesty by silence. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 4bd2985 | The cockroach who is dying and the woman who is blind agree | Audre Lorde | ||
| ef76878 | The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. | feminism intersectionality racism | Audre Lorde | |
| f858b03 | I am tired of writing memorials to black men whom I was on the brink of knowing weary like fig trees weighted like a crepe myrtle with all the black substance poured into earth before earth is ready to bear. I am tired of holy deaths of the ulcerous illuminations the cerebral accidents the psychology of the oppressed where mental health is the ability to repress knowledge of the world's cruelty. | Audre Lorde | ||
| ffc7630 | How are you practicing what you preach--whatever you preach, and who is exactly listening? | Audre Lorde | ||
| c11abc5 | A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 323fb53 | there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 94abd19 | Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table. Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question... Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit. We.. | hazel poetry prufrock tfios | T.S. Eliot | |
| 7b01dc9 | And indeed there will be time To wonder, 'Do I shed?' and, 'Do I shed?' Time to turn back and stretch out on the bed, And give myself a bath before I'm fed -- (They will say: 'It's the short-haired ones I prefer.') My flea collar buckled neatly in my fur, My expression cool and distant but softened by a gentle purr -- (They will say: 'I'm allergic to his fur!') Do I dare Jump up on the table? In an instant there is time For excursions and i.. | humor prufrock t-s-eliot | Henry N. Beard | |
| 0d932f2 | The detective story, as created by Poe, is something as specialised and as intellectual as a chess problem, whereas the best English detective fiction has relied less on the beauty of the mathematical problem and much more on the intangible human element. [...] In the mystery is finally solved, not altogether by human ingenuity, but largely by accident. Since Collins, the best heroes of English detective fiction have been, like Sergeant C.. | detective-stories detectives mysteries | T.S. Eliot | |
| 9bb3334 | The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. | humility wisdom | T.S. Eliot | |
| 01dc5b9 | Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three--and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever? | David Markson | ||
| 21c7d73 | And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end. And all is always now. | T.S. Eliot |