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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b1fef9f | It is character that communicates most eloquently. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 30fc220 | Old urges continue to arise, but urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does. | Dan Millman | ||
| 71761ad | life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 28c6f34 | Freedom may be the most important thing in life, but there's such a thing as too much freedom. | Truman Capote | ||
| 61929ea | The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very little curious himself: Grady, alarmed sometimes by the meagerness of his inquiries and the indifference this might suggest, supplied him liberally with personal information; which isn't to say she always told the truth, how many people in love do? or can? but at least she permitted him enough truth to account more or less accurately for all the.. | relationships romance truth | Truman Capote | |
| 28e48ab | Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers. | mystery travel | Truman Capote | |
| 62d6c0d | Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence. It had been his ambition to learn "exactly what happened in that house that night." Twice now he'd been told, and the two versions were very much alike, the only serious discrepancy being that Hickock attributed all four deaths to Smith, while Smith contended that Hickock had killed the two women. But the confessions, though they answered questions of how and why, failed to s.. | justice mercy sympathy | Truman Capote | |
| ed100ca | You musn't give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they're strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky. | Truman Capote | ||
| 7bdbe17 | I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist... he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable love... poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point. | vanity | Truman Capote | |
| 8b1bfb0 | The stars were his pleasure, but tonight they did not comfort him; they did not make him remember that what happens to us on earth is lost in the endless shine of eternity. Gazing at them-the stars-he thought of the jewelled guitar and its worldly glitter. | Truman Capote | ||
| c5df3cf | They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities? | Truman Capote | ||
| c064605 | The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to h.. | Truman Capote | ||
| ff88b1d | Many moral advances have taken the form of a shift in sensibilities that made an action seem more ridiculous than sinful, such as dueling, bullfighting, and jingoistic war. And many effective social critics, such as Swift, Johnson, Voltaire, Twain, Oscar Wilde, Bertrand Russell, Tom Lehrer, and George Carlin have been smart-ass comedians rather than thundering prophets. What in our psychology allows the joke to be mightier than the sword? H.. | satire | Steven Pinker | |
| 55b1559 | when one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the long run than more open-ended environments. | Steven Johnson | ||
| c7d62c2 | So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 6615b13 | Mr. and Mrs. Wetherall's circle was so large that God was included in their visiting-list. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 850bd9d | There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1a5675f | I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores. | Edith Wharton | ||
| aafba22 | If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?" Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it." | marriage | Edith Wharton | |
| 395068f | Lily had no real intimacy with nature but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 34a8196 | It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people--the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 842fbfb | You are an artist and I happen to be the bit of colour you are using today. It's a part of your cleverness to be able to produce premeditated effects extemporaneously. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 92d532f | Well--there it was, and the fault was doubtless neither hers nor his, but that of the world they had grown up in, of their own moral contempt for it and physical dependence on it, of his half-talents and her half-principles, of the something in them both that was not stout enough to resist nor yet pliant enough to yield. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2752293 | She yearned to be admired, and feared to be insulted; and yet seemed tragically conscious that she was destined to miss both these extremes of sensation, or to enjoy them only at second hand in the experiences of her more privileged friends. | shyness | Edith Wharton | |
| 91ac7d5 | The feeling he had nourished and given prominence to was one of thankfulness for his escape: he was like a traveller so grateful for rescue from a dangerous accident that at first he is hardly conscious of his bruises. Now he suddenly felt the latent ache and realized that after all he had not come off unhurt. | Edith Wharton | ||
| f47904a | The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of which her beauty was a pa.. | edith-wharton elegance grace lawrence-selden lily-bart love the-house-of-mirth | Edith Wharton | |
| d452e20 | In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs; | Edith Wharton | ||
| 9b15804 | There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe. | social-commentary society | Edith Wharton | |
| 0a303d6 | when "such things happened" it was undoubtedly foolish of the man, but somehow always criminal of the woman. All the elderly ladies whom Archer knew regarded any woman who loved imprudently as necessarily unscrupulous and designing, and mere simple-minded man as powerless in her clutches. The only thing to do was to persuade him, as early as possible, to marry a nice girl, and then trust her to look after him." | designing nice-girl unscrupulous | Edith Wharton | |
| a7cad8b | Trick-or-treating is for candy and demonstrations are for things like Peace and Freedom. It's different. | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | ||
| ea2418e | Money has no religion except itself. | religion | Louis de Bernières | |
| d309848 | And what's happened to the Earth?" "Ah. It's been demolished." "Has it," said Arthur levelly. "Yes. It just boiled away into space." "Look," said Arthur, "I'm a bit upset about that." | Douglas Adams | ||
| d0d4453 | I was feeling pretty raw about my own species because we presume to draw a distinction between what we call good and what we call evil. We find our images of what we call evil in things outside ourselves, in creatures that know nothing of such matters, so that we can feel revolted by them, and, by contrast, good about ourselves. | Douglas Adams | ||
| a7dee45 | Did you know, young lady," said Watkin to her, "that the Book of Revelation was written on Patmos? It was indeed. By Saint John the Divine, as you know. To me it shows very clear signs of having been written while waiting for a ferry. Oh, yes, I think so. It starts off, doesn't it, with that kind of dreaminess you get when you're killing time, getting bored, you know, just making things up, and then gradually grows to a sort of climax of ha.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| c2d885e | Marvin," he said, "just get this elevator go up will you? We've got to get to Zarniwoop." "Why?" asked Marvin dolefully. "I don't know," said Zaphod, "but when I find him, he'd better have a very good reason for me wanting to see him." | Douglas Adams | ||
| eeb75cb | An international power supply is the device which means it doesn't matter what country you're in, or even if you know what country you're in (more of a problem than you might suspect) - you just plug your Mac in and it figures it out for itself. We call this principle Plug and Play. Or at least, Microsoft calls it that because it hasn't got it yet. In the Mac world we've had it for so long we didn't even think of giving it a name. | humor | Douglas Adams | |
| 23b7403 | Holy Zarquon, did I ask for an existentialist elevator? | Douglas Adams | ||
| 929519a | One of Zaphod's heads looked away. The other turned round to see what the first was looking at, but it wasn't looking at anything very much. | zaphod-beeblebrox | Douglas Adams | |
| dc55f62 | Trin Tragula--for that was his name--was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot." Excerpt From: Adams, Douglas. "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Random House Publishing Group, 2010-09-29. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright." | Douglas Adams | ||
| bfb5fb5 | There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6ae1268 | Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| a85eb79 | Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall. | eomer fear hope life sudden | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7670de5 | And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 65c100a | My body is broken. I go to my fathers. And even in their mighty company I shall not now be ashamed. | J.R.R. Tolkien |