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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 931cdf1 | Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 688f40f | Something he'd found and lost so many times. It belonged, he knew - he remembered - as she pulled him down, to the meat, the flesh the cowboys mocked. It was a vast thing, beyond knowing, a sea of information coded in spiral and pheromone, infinite intricacy that only the body, in its strong blind way, could ever read. | William Gibson | ||
| cffb511 | Home. | William Gibson and Bruce Sterling | ||
| 9a6b90f | You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go. | William Gibson | ||
| ea77df6 | What you need to remember, with these guys, is that they don't know they're con men. They're wildly overconfident. Omnipotence, omniscience--that's part of the mythology that surrounds the Special Forces....Your guy can walk in the door and promise training in something he personally doesn't know how to do, and not even realize he's bullshitting about his own capabilities. It's a special kind of gullibility.... | gullibility overconfidence special-forces | William Gibson | |
| db61d4f | His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce. | William Gibson | ||
| 302d0de | I did not come to this country for the terror from paramilitary," declared Voytek, hoarsely. "I did not come to this country for . But motherfucker is . Is carceral state, surveillance state. Orwell. You have read Orwell?" | immigration motherfucker | William Gibson | |
| 30e676a | Power, in Case's world, meant corporate power. The zaibatsus, the multinationals that shaped the course of human history, had transcended old barriers. Viewed as organisms, they had attained a kind of immortality. You couldn't kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder, assume the vacated position, access the vast banks of corporate memory... | corporations hobby-lobby | William Gibson | |
| 291246d | because this was what happened when you loved someone too much and they didn't love you back. They grew stronger and you grew weaker and more helpless. They humiliated you and you let them do it. And you ended up with no self-respect, not even caring that other people were pointing and laughing at you ... | Jill Mansell | ||
| fa96ff0 | Maybe when she'd been eighteen it was a quality she might have laughed at, but at twenty-eight, dependability had turned into something of an aphrodisiac. | Jill Mansell | ||
| 6cb374d | The more you didn't want to bump into someone, sod's law dictated that the more often you would. | Jill Mansell | ||
| b056386 | Just you wait, Abby Johnston. My coolness will hit you like a tsunami. You will be carried along by its raging power. You will be turned into a freaking icicle by the frostiness of my cool. | billy | Sarah Darer Littman | |
| decee5a | Everything will haunt you, all the storms will find you, everything will remind you she's gone. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| c84d423 | I had once thought strength of character was a hardening of oneself; an intricate protection system by which you reconciled yourself to the truths of life and learned to let them not bother you. But all systems of character building go right out the window when you find there aren't anymore truths.. or none you recognize. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| b8b7851 | Not only do you lose a person to death, but you lose their noise too--their noise and smells, gestures and facial expressions. You lose the way they talk and phrase things and laugh, the way they fill in your blanks without ever thinking about it or having to try. You lose things you love about them they don't even know they possess. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 3d8cda9 | mira bien lo que te advierto: que seas humilde y blando, porque quiza estas sonando, aunque ves que estas despierto. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| d04903e | el vivir solo es sonar; y la experiencia me ensena que el hombre que vive, suena lo que es, hasta despertar. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| 8ff2796 | A long, slow kiss. With mouths open. Teeth knocking. Tongues tangling. The kind my brother Marsh used to call a Saturday Night Special. | Merline Lovelace | ||
| 48412aa | Sunset was only thirty minutes gone when some pissant vampire waylaid Deacon on his way to Theriault's. One of those younger shits who wrote poetry to Mother Darkness and thought becoming a vampire would make him sparkle. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 383c950 | She'd been a silly girl who'd dreamed of love, and a stupid girl who'd declared love a fraud; but she'd never imagined that when she found it,it would be richer, more powerful than dreams, and the impossibility of keeping it more painful than the worst betrayal. | Meljean Brook | ||
| f72b3eb | Confounding woman. He wanted to drag her close and kiss her senseless. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 17fb11b | Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned. | banter life-or-death-moments sexual-attraction | Meljean Brook | |
| dc836e0 | She said 'a tattoo is a badge of validation'. But the truth of the matter is far more revealing. It's a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling. | Jimmy Buffett | ||
| b4a9e57 | If you can't tell me what you'd like to be happening, you don't have a problem yet. You're just complaining. A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| e67b086 | Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs. | bold collaboration leadership listen managers truth | Kenneth H. Blanchard | |
| 5f671d3 | Empowerment requires a major shift in attitude. The most crucial place that this shift must occur is in the heart of every leader. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 698ea15 | I was afraid to fall asleep, but staying awake also brought back painful memories. Memories I sometimes wish I could wash away, even though I am aware that they are an important part of what my life is; who I am now. I stayed up all night, anxiously waiting for daylight, so that I could fully return to my new life, to rediscover happiness I had known as a child, the joy that had stayed alive inside me even through times when being alive its.. | ishmael-beah life memories past | Ishmael Beah | |
| fb7a278 | We took a bowl each and started eating. He went back into the little room, and by the time he returned to the table with his own bowl of food to eat with us, we had already finished. He was shocked and looked around to see if we had done something else with the food. | sad sierra-leone war | Ishmael Beah | |
| 8061a2f | I had no systematic way of learning but proceeded like a quilt maker, a patch of knowledge here a patch there but lovingly knitted. I would hungrily devour the intellectual scraps and leftovers of the learned. | learning | Ishmael Reed | |
| ee4912c | what still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went faster than anything man had the capacity to invent, so fast that for a while they fooled you into thinking they were slow, and was there any crueler trick than that? | time-passing years | Michael Koryta | |
| 768742a | I don't know if I can shoot a man." The old woman cackled. "Can't shoot 'em, but you can wallop 'em to death with a poker." Elizabeth blanched. "That was before I knew they were men." "Man, beast, don't matter. Something aims to kill you, your kin, your friends, you kill it first. You weren't carrying that poker to protect yourself against no wolf." | paranormal-romance shifters wolers | Jacqueline Rhoades | |
| 65fd057 | Her eyes opened then. They were drowsy, slumberous, staring up at him with a hunger that was impossible to miss. "I felt you," she whispered, a smile tilting her moist lips. "Watching me. Should I feel you watching me?" Was she asleep or awake? "Of course." He found the growl building in his throat. "Every time I look at you, baby, I touch you." | Lora Leigh | ||
| 0e78653 | Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves. | Bear Grylls | ||
| a65a362 | I love the quote she once gave me: "When supply seems to have dried up, look around you quickly for something to give away." It is a law of the universe: to get good things you must first give away good things. (And of course this applies to love and friendship, as well.)" | Bear Grylls | ||
| 58302c2 | Aim to live a wild, generous, full, exciting life--blessing those around you and seeing the good in all. | Bear Grylls | ||
| eb44083 | Whether it is the wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, family or friends, so often those closest to us are the ones who get the worst of us. It is as if we feel that they are the only ones we can be grumpy with, and we save our best for our guests or for work. But this is a recipe for struggle. The smart man and woman save the best for those they love. If we show our loved ones the most gratitude every day, then life will smile on us in re.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 97161b5 | I believe that the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and to make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6fb81fa | There would be times when we'd rack our brains on a user interface problem, and think we'd considered every option, and he would go, " Did you think of this? " said Fadell. " And then we'd all go, " Holy Shit." He'd redefine the problem or approach, and our little problem would go away." -- | problem-solving | Walter Isaacson | |
| d14ecb0 | We've schemed and fought and loved until we are so entangled in hearts and minds that there is no way to set us free. God help us both, Harry, for we will never be rid of each other. Not even death will do that. | henry-ii | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 971e7ca | I want to be with you. We will be together. I believe I will have less to live for, if I am not with you." -Jack" | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 1c8f75b | The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity. | Eric J. Hobsbawm | ||
| 29b40cc | Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a cultural shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work. Western rational thought is not an innate human characteri.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c16b28e | You read everything--that's part of the job," he said. "You accumulate all this trivia, and you hope that someday maybe a millionth of it will be useful." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4fb634b | When it came time to announce the price of the new machine, Jobs did what he would often do in product demonstrations: reel off the features, describe them as being "worth thousands and thousands of dollars," and get the audience to imagine how expensive it really should be. Then he announced what he hoped would seem like a low price: "We're going to be charging higher education a single price of $6,500." | Walter Isaacson |