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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f90009a | If there is a lot of matter, gravity will cause space to curve back on itself, yielding the spherical shape. If there is little matter, space is free to flare outward in the Pringles shape. And if there is just the right amount of matter, space will have zero curvature.* | Brian Greene | ||
| 647299c | When things go right, people credit their own abilities and intelligence. The onlookers do the reverse. When they see things go well for someone else, they sometimes credit the environment, or luck. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 32779a7 | We must design for the way people behave, not for how we would wish them to behave. | human-computer-interaction inspirational interaction-design | Donald A. Norman | |
| dacf0e2 | Finally, people have to actually purchase it. It doesn't matter how good a product is if, in the end, nobody uses it. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 558a1f4 | And people would believe it, thought Hartmann, because people believed what they wanted to believe - that was Goebbels's great insight. They no longer had any need to bother themselves with inconvenient truths. He had given them an excuse not to think. | Robert Harris | ||
| 0db0ead | This was the problem with drinks parties: getting stuck with a person you didn't want to talk to while someone you did was tantalisingly in view. | socializing | Robert Harris | |
| b610004 | Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called 'heightened interrogation'. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor. | nazi | Robert Harris | |
| 9d1d73c | You know what else I did?' he yelled after me as I left. "I fingered her!" I turned back to look at him. He made me laugh. He pretended to be so confused and helpless, but maybe he was smarter than all of us. 'The inside of a vagina isn't at all what I thought it would feel like,' he shouted excitedly. 'It feels very organized.' Maybe not." | Neil Strauss | ||
| 592e5bc | You don't shower or shave for a month, until you smell like a sewer. Then you walk around for two weeks wearing a dress and a goalie mask with a dildo strapped to the front. That's what I did. And I will never be afraid of public humiliation again. | Neil Strauss | ||
| e4a7429 | That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground | Neil Strauss | ||
| 801a1a9 | The right lifestyle is something that is worn, not discussed. Money, fame, and looks, though helpful, are not required. It is, rather, something that screams: Ladies, abandon your boring, mundane, unfulfilled lives and step into my exciting world, full of interesting people, new experiences, good times, easy living, and dreams fulfilled. | Neil Strauss | ||
| ef1caec | The women you've slept with, the ones you never did but primed for a future encounter, the ones who seemed interested but then suddenly stopped texting: Unless you do something horribly wrong, they never completely disappear. A lonely night, a cheating boyfriend, a sudden breakup, an attack of low self-esteem, an attack of high self-esteem--anything can, out of the blue, send them scrolling through their address book looking for validation,.. | relationships women | Neil Strauss | |
| ca0e04c | Can you stand on your legs?" Sydelle Pulaski asked. "Can you walk at all?" People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered them to his parents behind his back. "N-n-no. Why?" "What better disguise for a thief or a murderer than a wheelchair, the perfect alibi." Chris enjoyed being taken for the criminal type. Now they really were friends." | friendship | Ellen Raskin | |
| 8145792 | Sandy fidgeted with his pen. "There's something I didn't write down. Maybe I shouldn't tell you, you being a judge and all, but, well, Jake Wexler... he's a bookie." No, he should not have told her. "A small-time operator, I'm sure, Mr. McSouthers," the judge replied coldly. "It can have no bearing on the matter before us. Sam Westing manipulated people, cheated workers, bribed officials, stole ideas, but Sam Westing never smoked or drank o.. | Ellen Raskin | ||
| c155797 | Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears." | fiction geisha japan memoirs | Arthur Golden | |
| 4f5595c | My tears simply broke through the fragile wall that had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me. | love sadness tears | Arthur Golden | |
| f3b11ff | Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 0150c5d | So we ate some smoke, so what?" "You lost most of your eyebrows." Stunned, she pressed her fingers above her eyes. "Shit! Why didn't you tell me?" "It's a look." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 12e6b72 | Some prefer the wildness. Some the calm. There's enough of both in the world for everyone to have their choice. And enough time for any to change their mind. | calm nature wildness | Nora Roberts | |
| 473eaf8 | You said we've got a new page. I figure I've got some say in what gets written on it. So I'm going to work on you. Last time around, you threw yourself at me." "I did no such thing." "Sure you did. But I can see I've got my work cut out for me this time. That's okay." He skimmed his thumb over her knuckles before she jerked her hand free. "In fact, I think I'm going to enjoy it." "I don't know why I waste my time trying to mend fences with .. | romance | Nora Roberts | |
| 6a1dd90 | She left me because she could, because I made a choice that allowed her to walk away. I could make her proud of me, proud of what she'd accomplished in me, but I could never make her love me. | Nora Roberts | ||
| e078752 | Plus it's just embarrassing when someone - oops.' She pressed a hand to her side, and had the blood draining out of Harper's face. 'What? What?' 'Nothing. baby's moving around. Sometimes it gives me a jolt is all.' 'You should stand up. You should sit down. | Nora Roberts | ||
| ddab170 | Time with a friend was as refreshing as a nap. | Nora Roberts | ||
| edf15d1 | Well,the hell with you." She natched up her purse. "The hell with both of you." "We love you, Margo." That stopped her.She whirled back to glare at Kate. "That's a lousy thing to say.Bitch." When Kate grinned,she tried to grin back.Instead she dropped her purse back behind the counter and burst into tears. "Oh,shit." Shocked,Kate leaped forward to gather her close. "Oh,hell.Oh, shit.Lock the door,Laura.I'm sorry, Margo.I'm sorry.Bad plan.I .. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 406f75c | There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing. | Nora Roberts | ||
| fec042f | You didn't hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won't hurt. | Nora Roberts | ||
| cbe16f4 | It's not an exaggeration to say that they saved my life. Ray Quinn, then Cam and Ethan and Phil. They turned their world around for me, and because of it, turned mine around with it. Anna and Grace and Sybill, Aubrey too. They made a home for me, and nothing that happened before matters nearly as much as everything that came after. | Nora Roberts | ||
| afe9a70 | Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, "Coming out!" She eased her head out into the smoky air, looked over at Gull. She imaged they both looked like a couple of sweaty, parboiled turtles climbing out of their shells. "Hello, gorgeous." She laughed. It hurt her throat, but she laughed. "Hey, handsome." | handsome tears | Nora Roberts | |
| 2c55617 | She pressed her mouth to his throat, his shoulder, would have absorbed him into her skin if she'd known a way. | kissing love mouth passion sensuality sex | Nora Roberts | |
| cdaab41 | What matters is you're the blue butterfly." "I'm... what?" "Come on, Professor, Dr. Maguire. You know all about metaphors and analogies and symbolism. You flew into my life, just landed in it unexpectedly. Maybe miraculously. And the picture formed. It just took me a while to see it." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 0a8c290 | The kid's driving me bat-shit," Cam complained as he stalked into the kitchen. "You can't say boo to him without him squaring up for a fight." "Mm-hmm." "Argumentative, smart-mouthed, troublemaker." "Must be like looking in a mirror." "Like hell." "Don't know what I was thinking of. You're such a peaceable soul." | ethan-quinn | Nora Roberts | |
| db42e50 | He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men. | sea-swept | Nora Roberts | |
| d157db2 | Abby: "You were great. I don't know what I'd have done without you." Dylan: "You'd have done fine. That's one of the most intimidating things about you." Abby: "Intimidating? Me?" Dylan: "It isn't easy for a man to get involved with a woman who's totally capable of handling anything that comes along... It isn't easy for a man to believe that there are woman who can not only do those things but enjoy them... [But] it's all natural for you i.. | women | Nora Roberts | |
| dbd75d5 | Can we go back to the part where you're in love with me?" "No, because I'm not anymore. I've come to my senses." "That's a damn shame, that is. You'll have to wait here a minute. There's something I need from inside." "I'll not stand out here. I'm going home." "I'll only come after you, Brenna," he called over his shoulder as he walked to the door." | shawn-gallagher | Nora Roberts | |
| 5f089bb | Love shouldn't be hard." "There I think you're wrong. I think it should be the hardest thing there is, then it's not so easily given away, or taken away, or just lost." | Nora Roberts | ||
| c0f5df3 | Justin turned to give her one of his cool, unsmiling looks. Butterflies fluttered in her throat. She'd be very careful, Serena decided, as if she were walking through a minefield. "What are you thinking?" "About bombs," she answered blandly, "deadly camoflaged bombs." She gave him a quick,innocent grin. "Are we going to eat soon? I'm starving." | Nora Roberts | ||
| dbecf16 | If you lived with her, you must have been in love with her.' 'No. I wanted to be in love with her. It's not the same thing at all. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 3255d0c | You know what I miss the most about my youth? My gullibility. It's nice believing in everything and everyone. It makes you feel secure, but be strong and depend more on yourself and you'll be ready for disappointments. That's the best advice I can offer you. | youth | V.C. Andrews | |
| f16ee51 | That's the way all life's battles are won.. You don't look at the overall picture. You take one step, then another, and another... until you arrive at your destination. | life | V.C. Andrews | |
| b588713 | What if I am a curse?" "Then you're the prettiest and nicest curse I know." | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 8f44353 | Never would I become so dependent on a man I couldn't make my way in the world, no matter what cruel blow life delivered! | V.C. Andrews | ||
| bd6dacb | n lfrS ljyd@ l t'ty l'shkhS Gyr mst`dyn lstGllh"." | George S. Clason | ||
| da1c768 | MEN OF ACTION ARE FAVORED BY THE GODDESS OF GOOD LUCK | George S. Clason | ||
| 03ac233 | The ultimate philosophical truth is this: Without Christ, all is vanity even when it's easy; with Him, all is well even when it's hard. | Robert J. Morgan |