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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 46ce5ab | What's important about morality in politics is us. We own the chicken farm. We must give our bird-brained, feather-headed politicians morals. Politicians love to think of themselves as "free-range" but they do not have the capacity to hunt or gather morals in the wild. If we fail to supply them with morality, politicians begin to act very scary in the barnyard. These are enormous headless chickens and they have nukes." -- | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 9185bc7 | There are no nonsmokers in this business. Just people trying to quit, and people who haven't started yet. | dead-run p-j-tracy | P.J. Tracy | |
| 753eee2 | People often say, "I was walking along [or driving, shopping, jogging] and I had this whole poem go through my mind, but when I sat down to write it, I couldn't get it to come out right." I never can either. Sitting to write is another activity. Let go of walking or jogging and the poem that was born then in your mind. This is another moment. Write another poem. Perhaps secretly hope something of what you thought a while ago might come out,.. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 9b04d3e | Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of our life force, and then we go on carrying that other person in our body, not unlike springtime when certain plants in fields we walk through attach their seeds in the form of small burrs to our socks, our pants, our caps, as if to say, "Go on, take us with you, carry us to ro.. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 89bafc1 | Don't cross out. (That is editing as you write. Even if you write something you didn't mean to write, leave it.) Don't worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar. (Don't even care about staying within the margins and lines on the page.) Lose control. Don't think. Don't get logical. Go for the jugular. (If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.) | grammar line margin punctuation spelling | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 564995b | My brain was spinning. Demons, missing students... Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell? "Okay, but that would mean..." I could hardly say the next words. They seemed unbelievable to me. "That would mean Mrs. Casnoff is in on it, and if that is the case,my dad would know something about it." "Not necessarily," Archer said. "Hecate Hall and Graymalkin Island are completely Mrs. Casnoff's domain. Your dad signs off o.. | Rachel Hawkins | ||
| faf852f | I have a hunch from reading about old passageways that there may be one or more rooms off this tunnel," Nancy told Captain Rossland." -- | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 3de036d | People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing. | violence | Louis L'Amour | |
| fc359d3 | There are many ways of fighting. Many a man or woman has waged a good war for truth, honor, and freedom, who did not shed blood in the process. Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is the violence they want and neither truth nor freedom. | war | Louis L'Amour | |
| 6d99773 | Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt in the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit. To receive the message, the mental pores must be open. And we white men in striving for our success, in seeking to build a new world from what lies around us, sometimes.. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 8dc85ab | paranoia was my standard operating procedure. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| b8be25b | Dude is that was a Shakespeare quote duel, he just kicked your ass." Oberon I know, but I slipped in some T.S.Eliot and he didn't even catch it. Hopefully next time I wont be recovering from an assassination attempt, and then I'll do better. - Atticus" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| cff2346 | Are you going to kick somebody's ass? I don't know. Maybe. Well, I'm not going to worry. I've watched you spar with that martial arts dummy in the backyard lots of times, and you always win. Thanks, buddy. I'll see you soon. | humor oberon | Kevin Hearne | |
| a82fc2c | Did Genghis Khan take his coffee black?" Oberon asked me. After my bathtime story, he wanted to be the Genghis Khan of dogs. He wanted a harem full of French poodles, all of whom were named either Fifi or Bambi. It was an amusing habit of his: Oberon had, in the past, wanted to be Vlad the Impaler, Joan of Arc, Bertrand Russell, and any other historical figure I had recently told him about while he was getting a thorough cleansing. His Libe.. | oberon | Kevin Hearne | |
| dab59e6 | I am Snugglepumpkin. Hear me roar | humor | Kevin Hearne | |
| 7dd1671 | Occasionally I am smitten with an acute case of Smug. It can happen to anyone, but it happens most often to people who think they've been especially clever. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 6f36cf5 | Is monstrous fuckpuddle,' Perun asserted, and everyone turned to stare at him with equal parts amusement and bemusement. 'What? Is this not English word?' I suggested that if it wasn't a word, it should be, and the others agreed. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 8b8eefc | Failure is rarely a conscious decision and it's often out of our control, determined by things like physics and circumstance and other people. What we can always control, however, is our reaction to failure. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 743ecbd | It's not polite to ask if a man has a big salami in his pants, okay? | humorous | Kevin Hearne | |
| 1e6e1d4 | If you've got some hopelessly overmatched heroes fighting evil and some Imperial types marching, John Williams is your guy. You need a song to make people reach for a box of Kleenex, talk to Randy Newman. But if you want creepy atmospherics and spine-shivering chords to back up your casual death threats, you gotta bring in Danny Elfman. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 1c69c43 | Pardon me, is this some kind of social experiment? You want me to get a hundred and forty-four Samoans and cram them into your cabin with a case of whiskey? | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 080dd84 | You killed my father," he snorted in a basso profundo rumble. "Prepare to die!" "Inigo Montoya? Is that you?" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 077f8e9 | There are only three things you can do when something falls from the sky,' my archdruid used to say. 'Get out of the way, get underneath some shelter, or give it some reason to change its mind about falling on you.' Then he threw a pissed-off rooster at me. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 4258306 | Vestigial remnants of hunter behavior manifests itself as douchebaggery in males when confronted with the emasculating role of modern man, where they are no longer expected to provide food, shelter, or even spiritual guidance for their families but rather stay out of the way until it's time to perform in the bedroom. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a79ef89 | It sounds like these guys would be filed under Assholes Who Do Evil Shit in My Name." "Jesus. I mean, wow. That's the name of one of your files?" "One of my largest, unfortunately. But I have it broken down into subfolders." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| f9548f0 | I think every creature near enough to hear that just pooped" Oberon said, "And then it went into hiding. Hunting tip number one:Stay Silent." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| df0e93a | Kim kimi kurtarabilmisti simdiye kadar? Beni kim kurtaracakti? "Kurtulus" dedim "Ankara'da bir mahalle." fazlasi degil. Belki bir de Bob Marley'in en iyi sarkisi. Daha fazla dusunmeye gerek yok. Adi her yerde, kendisi yok. Kurtulmaya gelmiyoruz bu dunyaya, daha da saplanmak icin buradayiz. Dibine kadar. Onun icin curuyor bedenlerimiz olunce.." | Hakan Günday | ||
| aabc146 | Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs? | women | Carol Shields | |
| d61406d | Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, pray, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, just let go, just be. | Carol Shields | ||
| 072da0d | Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk. | Carol Shields | ||
| 38533c8 | These scruples of false delicacy and pride would never thus have troubled you - you would have seen that the greatest wordly distinction and discrepancies of rank, birth, and fortune are as dust in the balance compared with the unity of accordant thoughts and feelings, and truly loving, sympathizing hearts and souls. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 930b408 | I would not send a poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 2f1efaf | Arthur,' continued I, relaxing my hold of his arm, 'you don't love me half as much as I do you; and yet, if you loved me far less than you do, I would not complain, provided you loved your Maker more. I should rejoice to see you at any time so deeply absorbed in your devotions that you had not a single thought to spare for me. But, indeed, I should lose nothing by the change, for the more you loved your God the more deep and pure and true.. | Anne Brontë | ||
| d0dfdbc | who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 4cdbbe6 | I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthiness, but it is fairly gone now--wholly crushed and withered away; and he has none but himself and his vices to thank for it. | heartbreak unworthiness weakness | Anne Brontë | |
| c1c9e62 | I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup. | tea | Anne Brontë | |
| 8d4e1c1 | I have omitted to give a detail of his words, from a notion that they would not interest the reader as they did me, and not because I have forgotten them. | Anne Brontë | ||
| d7cee98 | Though riches had charms, poverty had no terrors for an inexperienced girl like me. Indeed, to say the truth, there was something exhilarating in the idea of being driven to straits, and thrown upon our own resources. I only wished papa, mamma, and Mary were all of the same mind as myself; and then, instead of lamenting past calamities we might all cheerfully set to work to remedy them; and the greater the difficulties, the harder our prese.. | predicament | Anne Brontë | |
| 1618ffc | And if you think you have wronged me by giving me your friendship, and occasionally admitting me to the enjoyment of your company and conversation, when all hopes of closer intimacy were vain - as indeed you always gave me to understand - if you think you have wronged me by this, you are mistaken; for such favours, in themselves alone, are not only delightful to my heart, but purifying, exalting, ennobling to my soul; and I would have your .. | Anne Brontë | ||
| e85da17 | God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 9c3955e | Because, my dear, beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor. | Anne Brontë | ||
| ddd18c4 | Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 8c2064c | My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 9fbd676 | A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and eve.. | Robin Hobb |