1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
2603
2604
2605
2606
2607
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ac0e2ab | Innovation requires having at least three things: a great idea, the engineering talent to execute it, and the business savvy (plus deal-making moxie) to turn it into a successful product. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c197ef7 | He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. And thus it was that an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8b20017 | In addition to his instinct for discerning patterns across disciplines, Leonardo honed two other traits that aided his scientific pursuits: an omnivorous curiosity, which bordered on the fanatical, and an acute power of observation, which was eerily intense. Like much with Leonardo, these were interconnected. Any person who puts "Describe the tongue of the woodpecker" on his to-do list is overendowed with the combination of curiosity and ac.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e2fb7ef | In two days he saw Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and the management of their Wall Street Journal; Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and the top executives at the New York Times; and executives at Time, Fortune, and other Time Inc. magazines. "I would love to help quality journalism," he later said. "We can't depend on bloggers for our news." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9df4910 | What shall we drink to, Ned? To England?" "I've a better thought than that. It is not precisely the season for it, with Epiphany still four days hence, and I daresay our lady mother would never forgive me for saying it! But blasphemy or not, I think it fitting, nonetheless." He touched his cup to the one Richard now held. "To the Resurrection," he said." | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| e71e4a6 | There's not a man alive who doesn't know fear, Dickon. The brave man is the one who has learned to hide it, that's all | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| c65c394 | What do you know of sacrifice? Need I tell you of York's dead . . . of Sandal Castle? My brother did survive the battle, his first. He was seventeen and he entreated them to spare his life. They cut his throat. Their heads were then impaled on York's Micklegate Bar to please the House of Lancaster, to please a harlot and a madman. She had my father's head crowned with straw and she left a spike between the two. . . . That one, she said, was.. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 6238582 | It takes a lot of hard work," he said, "to make something simple," | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8b1d3a5 | But I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each moment of our lives richer. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f28db89 | I have to admit we are locked in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor. To describe it takes many hundreds of thousands of words. Our muck is only a part of a much greater muck -- the nation-state -- which is itself the creation of that muck of mucks, human consciousness. Of course all these things also have a touch of sublimity -- as when Moonbelly sings, for example, o.. | human-society humor life | Donald Barthelme | |
| 7923379 | The Dead Father was slaying, in a grove of music and musicians. First he slew a harpist and then a performer upon the serpent and also a banger upon the rattle and also a blower of the Persian trumpet and one upon the Indian trumpet and one upon the Hebrew trumpet and one upon the Roman trumpet and one upon the Chinese trumpet of copper-covered wood. Also a blower upon the marrow trumpet and one upon the slide trumpet and one who wearing up.. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| a191e7e | The confusing signals, the impurity of the signal, gives you verisimilitude, as when you attend a funeral and notice that it's being poorly done. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 3747f65 | You are killing me." " -We? Not we. Not in any sense, we. Processes are killing you, not we. Inexorable processes." | process | Donald Barthelme | |
| 096ca9e | Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered. | blue kingsley mimi tan | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| be020dc | Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light. | dark light | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 9980829 | If you are sorry, you will leave him. Jack will never be yours, Schuyler. Not like I am yours." -Oliver" | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| e709e93 | As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today. | insanity sanity the-van-alen-legacy | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| b6591c3 | She was wrong. She was not strong. Her heart was breaking, she could feel it... -Sky | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6e45bb2 | They each had secrets they were keeping from the other; secrets they were keeping out of love. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 1650bc6 | What happened to your face?' she asked. 'It fell on a fist.' He shrugged. 'That happens a lot?' 'Enough. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| ed1d4a8 | I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this. | literature salvador-plascencia the-people-of-paper | Salvador Plascencia | |
| ed5c636 | she liked to laugh that a young widow who'd just come into a good fortune must be, to misquote Jane Austen, in want of a husband. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 82c7177 | Love,you don't know what you do to me." "I have a pretty good idea.I make you stiff and hard,and when I touch you,you want to screw me." His eyes were slits."You're close." "You mean you don't want to screw me?" "I mean I want to screw you all the time,whether you're touching me or not.I want to lift your pretty skirt and do you right now." Excitement spiked through her."Right here on the wall?"she asked in an innocent voice. "Right here on.. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| edbfa21 | What does that word mean?" Cassidy asked. Her voice was soft, sexy. Mind-blowing. " , or whatever you said? I don't speak Spanish." "It's a term of endearment. An Anglo might say or ." "What was the other one you used? Me ha? " . Short for . It's what you say to someone you care about." She smiled. "When you say that you sound ---I don't know---affectionate." "Maybe I like cats," Diego said. Cassidy rested her hand on his chest, and her.. | diego-escobar | Jennifer Ashley | |
| e623f7c | The sky the sky- same as it always was. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 11a731d | Sometimes the monotony of bingo and sing alongs, ancient dusty people parked in the hallway in wheelchairs makes me long for death, particularly when -- remember that I'm one of the ancient dusty people, filed away like some worthless chotski. | Sara Gruen | ||
| f253953 | But it wasn't long before the old familiar discontent started creeping up on me. I suppose it was always there, somewhere in the background. All I've done, my whole life, is keep it temporarily at bay. | Sara Gruen | ||
| d020410 | He only had the imperfect medium of words. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 820ccee | Connie, have you been trying to call me?" No Archie. "Well, my phone has not been ringing all day, and I thought it might have been you." -- | Lawrence Sanders | ||
| f2b3c8b | She was nobody here. It was not just that she had no friends and family; it was rather that she was a ghost in this room, in the streets on the way to work, on the shop floor. Nothing meant anything. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| dd6079b | I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what I can, but no more than that. Just as I cannot breathe the breath of another or help the heart of someone else to beat or their bones not to weaken or their flesh not to shrivel, I cannot say more than I can say. And I know how deeply this disturbs them, and it would make me smile, this earnest need for foolish anecdote or sh.. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| d84b1aa | Elijah Snow: 'Who have you pissed off this time, John?' John Stone: 'Sumatran robot death sluts -- Dammit, ONE of these buttons fires the atomic death biter -- | john-stone | Warren Ellis | |
| aa72a64 | I'm sorry. Is that too harsh an observation for you? Does that sound too much like the Truth? Fuck you. If anyone in this shithole city gave two tugs of a dead dog's cock about Truth, this wouldn't be happening. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 99d863f | I want something that'll give me the stamina of a young werewolf, the vision of a shaman, the thoughts of a serial killer and the gentleness of a hungry vampire bat. | shaman spider-jerusalem stamina vampire-bat werewolf | Warren Ellis | |
| ab40ddf | While what you say to others is important, even more important is what you say to yourself. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 6cbde4d | the words you say to yourself affect your self-image, | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| e64ce89 | I've learned about leadership is that leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren't willing to do--even though they might not like doing them either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important--and right--versus what's easy and fun. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| bb8199a | If you want to improve your life and live with all that you deserve, you must run your own race. It doesn't matter what other people say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself, being comfortable in your own skin. Be true to you. That's a key source of happiness. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 1c4a4b7 | you will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see. People spend their whole lives dreaming of becoming happier, living with more vitality and having an abundance of passion. Yet they do not see the importance of taking even ten minutes a month to write out their goals and to think deeply about the meaning of their lives, their Dharma | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 0257068 | William James said, 'We don't laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 731f7ae | You are what you think about all day long. You are also what you say to yourself all day long. If you say that you are old and tired, this mantra will be manifested in your external reality. If you say you are weak and lack enthusiasm, this too will be the nature of your world. But if you say that you are healthy, dynamic and fully alive, your life will be transformed. Words have remarkable power. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| b1206f3 | Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard. | Harlan Coben | ||
| a519231 | Natalie had what I'd call a slow beauty, the kind you don't really notice at first and then it knocks you back and grows on you and she gets more beautiful every time you see her and then you can't believe that you ever thought that she was anything less than completely stunning. Whenever I saw her, my entire body reacted, as though it were the first time or better. | love | Harlan Coben | |
| 9b48216 | It was more about understanding that you could give it your all, give yourself the best chances, but control is an illusion. | Harlan Coben |