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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 13889bb | I always think it's a good sign when a man likes cats. It shows he doesn't feel the need to be in constant control of things. | Anne Tyler | ||
| c0235d8 | She walked to work every day feeling starkly, conspicuously alone. It seemed that everyone else on the street had someone to keep them company, someone to laugh with and confide in and nudge in the ribs. All those packs of young girls who'd already figured everything out. | Anne Tyler | ||
| d679257 | During all the months when she had been absent, there were so many things I have saved up to tell her, so many bits of news about the house and the neighborhood and friends and work and family, but now they seemed inconsequential. Puny. Move far enough away from an event ans it sort of levels out, so to speak - settles into the general landscape. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 0590142 | It's hard being a man. Have you ever thought about that? Anything that's bothering them, men think they have to hide it. They think they should seem in charge, in control; they don't dare show their true feelings. No matter if they're hurting or desperate or stricken with grief, if they're heartsick or they're homesick or some huge dark guilt is hanging over them or they're about to fail big-time at something--'Oh, I'm okay,' they say. 'Eve.. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 7bf0456 | I really believe that most people who seem scary are just sad. | Anne Tyler | ||
| d31ac49 | Abby had a little trick that she used any time Red acted like a cranky old codger. She reminded herself of the day she had fallen in love with him. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 30935ad | Classroom Activities 1. Using felt and yarn, make a hand puppet of . Ta-da! You're ! | antonin-scalia clarence-thomas humor scotus | Jon Stewart | |
| 7146075 | It is perhaps a sign of the strength of our republic that so few people feel the need to participate. That must be the reason. | humor voting | Jon Stewart | |
| 738da39 | And this, this, is their genius. Conservatives are not looking to make education more rigorous and informative, or science more empirical or verifiable, or voting more representative, or the government more efficient or effective. They just want all those things to reinforce their partisan, ideological, conservative viewpoint. | Jon Stewart | ||
| 766dec2 | Stephen Colbert: Here's the thing: You said to me and to many other people here years ago never to thank you, because we owe you nothing. Jon Stewart: [quietly] That's right. Stephen Colbert: It's one of the few times I've known you to be dead wrong... We owe you because we learned from you, by example, how to do a show with intention, with clarity. How to treat people with respect. You are infuriatingly good at your job, okay? | Chris Smith | ||
| 277057b | For string theory to make sense, the universe should have nine spacial dimensions and one time dimension, for a total of ten dimensions. | Brian Greene | ||
| d06c579 | The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| f833ef4 | Will robot teachers replace human teachers? No, but they can complement them. Moreover, the could be sufficient in situations where there is no alternative--to enable learning while traveling, or while in remote locations, or when one wishes to study a topic for which there is not easy access to teachers. Robot teachers will help make lifelong learning a practicality. They can make it possible to learn no matter where one is in the world, n.. | learning robots | Donald A. Norman | |
| c92dcd2 | Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 02ac1e5 | A story tells of Henry Ford's buying scrapped Ford cars and having his engineers disassemble them to see which parts failed and which were still in good shape. Engineers assumed this was done to find the weak parts and make them stronger. Nope. Ford explained that he wanted to find the parts that were still in good shape. The company could save money if they redesigned these parts to fail at the same time as the others. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 2d6ab99 | It is easy to design devices that work well when everything goes as planned. The hard and necessary part of design is to make things work well even when things do not go as planned. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| d6415e6 | One way of overcoming the fear of the new is to make it look like the old. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 2ad1606 | Right, you see that girl over there, the one in that group that keeps looking right at you?'...'Right, let's say I'm convinced she's wearing black knickers - she looks like a black knickers kind of gal to me - and I'm so sure that's what she's wearing, so positive of that sartorial fact, I want to bet a million dollars on it. The trouble is, if I'm wrong, I'm wiped out. So I also bet she's wearing knickers that aren't black, but are any one.. | finance | Robert Harris | |
| c1ff1ba | The last I think; for, O poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| d33d940 | This is what I have learned these past six years, as opposed to what is taught in Oxford: the power of unreason. Everyone said--by everyone I mean people like me--we all said, 'Oh, he's a terrible fellow, Hitler, but he's not necessarily all bad. Look at his achievements. Put aside this awful medieval anti-Jew stuff: it will pass.' But the point is, it won't pass. You can't isolate it from the rest. It's there in the mix. And if the anti-Se.. | Robert Harris | ||
| 9aa47fc | nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 7c49ce0 | In the field, one quickly learns that everything that was funny at age ten is funny all over again. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 7c5ddb5 | The PUAs have a name for this: They call it one-itis. It's a disease AFCs get: They become obsessed with a girl they're neither dating nor sleeping with, and then start acting so needy and nervous around her that they end up driving her away. The cure for one-itis, PUAs like to say, is to go out and have sex with a dozen other girls--and then see if this flower is still so special. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 46a8c46 | The problem with being a pickup artist is that there are concepts like sincerity, genuineness, trust, and connection that are important to women. And all the techniques that are so effective in beginning a relationship violate every principle necessary to maintaining one. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 9447bf5 | I wasn't thanking him for the coin, or even for the trouble he'd taken in stopping to help me. I was thanking him for... well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose. | life love signs | Arthur Golden | |
| 6589ad5 | I felt I was standing on a stage many hours after the dance had ended, when the silence lay as heavily upon the empty theater as a blanket of snow. | Arthur Golden | ||
| bf75c8a | We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. If I'd never met Mr. Tanaka, my life would have been a simple stream flowing from our tipsy house to the ocean. Mr. Tanaka changed all that when he sent me out into the world. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 479aeb6 | Hatsumomo's lovely smille grew... until her lips were as rich and full as drops of blood beading at the edge of a wound | Arthur Golden | ||
| d1c200a | Sadness was a very heavy thing. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 12848ec | Isn't there one thing I can ask of you that you won't disregard?. . . . You could just reply, "Yes, Baron," and be done with it.' Yes, Baron." | Arthur Golden | ||
| c40d32d | Once when I was a little child of six or so, I watched a spider spinning its web in a corner of the house. Before the spider had even finished its job, a mosquito flew right into the web and was trapped there. The spider didn't pay it any attention at first, but went on with what it was doing; only when it was finished did it creep over on its pointy toes and sting that poor mosquito to death. As I sat there on that wooden floor and watched.. | nature | Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha | |
| b696ceb | I don't know for sure what ever became of Hatsumomo. A few years after the war, I heard she was making a living as a prostitute in the Miyagawa-cho district. She couldn't have been there long, because on the night I heard it, a man at the same party swore that if Hatsumomo was a prostitute, he would find her and give her some business of his own. He did go looking for her, but she was nowhere to be found. Over the years, she probably succee.. | sayuri | Arthur Golden | |
| dc3f627 | I'll walk you back,"he said with such apparently boundless amiability that Diana wanted to deck him. "That isn't necessary," she began as her hand was clasped by his. "I suppose I could walk ten paces behind or ten paces in front." As she let out a frustrated breath, Caine grinned down at her. "You're not angry because we exchanged a friendly kiss? After all, we're family." "There was nothing friendly or familial about it," Diana muttered... | Nora Roberts | ||
| 2cc9343 | Come on,let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 3925a81 | Everyone needs cake, Del. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 2e808aa | Some beautiful things are meant to be sad so we can appreciate the beautiful things that aren't. | Nora Roberts | ||
| cd05162 | When we destroy it." She spoke clearly now, steadily now. "If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it"." | justice revenge | Nora Roberts | |
| daab249 | I think you're under no obligation whatsoever to forgive anything, to forget anything. You're not required to push away the years of abuse because the abuser now chooses to be sober and in his sobriety regrets his actions. And white may be small and unforgiving of me, I think people who do so at the snap of a dam finger are either liars or are in need of serious therapy. I assume you heard him out, so in my personal opinion, any debt you mi.. | opinionated outspoken | Nora Roberts | |
| 5471535 | It didn't take him long, and he pulled up nearly nose-to-nose with Ash as they came in from opposite directions. "You shaved off your ..." It couldn't rightfully be called a beard, Brooks considered. "Face hair." "Yeah, it got too hot." "Uh-huh." -- | Nora Roberts | ||
| 6799da7 | I've always been his favorite." "Is that so?" Lazily Shelby folded her arms behind her head. She could picture him as a boy,seeing beyond what other boys saw and storing it. "Why?" "If I weren't modest,I'd confess that I was always a well-mannered, even-tempered child who never gave my parents a moment's trouble." "Liar," she said easily. "How'd you get the broken nose?" The grin became rueful. "Rena punched me." "Your sister broke your nos.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 0a448b1 | If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 383411f | Mothers do, every day. It's funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way--the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 9d31359 | Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life. | Nora Roberts | ||
| e160781 | To crave forever is to dismiss the beauty and wonder of the cycle. | Nora Roberts |