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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2df01c0 | She turns to me, and for a moment I fear she's turning into the She-Hulk. After a second, I realize that her eyes are just really green, kind of like two angry Life Savers. | Brian Katcher | ||
| 92aa311 | blissful as ignorance, | Brian Greene | ||
| 76d2824 | The sleeve covered its appendages well until it reached outward to Grady. Instead of a hand, several dark green and black-splotched tentacles spilled out of the sleeve. They snaked through the air toward Grady's face. They glistened in the early morning light and long strands of a mucous-like substance dripped from them and clung like shiny webs to its robe. | Brian Barnett | ||
| f29b988 | But Einstein refused to be mathematics' pawn. He bucked the equations in favor of his intuition about how the cosmos should be, his deep-seated belief that the universe was eternal and, on the largest of scales, fixed and unchanging. The universe, Einstein admonished Lemaitre, is not now expanding and never was. | Brian Greene | ||
| da08198 | If the multiverse turns out to be the best explanation of the fundamental physical constants, it would not be the first time we have been flabbergasted by worlds beyond our noses. Our ancestors had to swallow the discovery of the Western Hemisphere, eight other planets, a hundred billion stars in our galaxy (many with planets), and a hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe. If reason contradicts intuition once again, so much the.. | multiverse universe | Steven Pinker | |
| 7c7f34d | I work not only for the gathering and assimilation of knowledge, but also to teach the fact that one can be brilliant without being arrogant, that great intellectual capacity brings great responsibility, that the quest for knowledge should never supplant the joy of learning, that one with great capacities must learn to be tolerant and appreciate those with lesser or different absolutes, | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| d1b051b | original ideas are the easy part. Actually producing the idea as a successful product is what is hard. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| fdf9859 | In design, one of the most difficult activities is to get the specifications right: | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 3eba6cf | In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| be1e3c9 | If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough--they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things. It is possible to avoid failure, to always be safe. But that is also the route to a dull, uninteresting life. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 3769a09 | It's tragic. The wounds that humans get are so strong that they're like robots operating on childhood programming. And even if they learn the truth about themselves in therapy and rehab, they still cling to their false beliefs and make choices that don't serve them--over and over again." He shakes his head at the cosmic absurdity of it all. "It takes hard, conscious, diligent work to genuinely change." | Neil Strauss | ||
| 78aa89b | I wasn't a misogynist when I started this," Tyler replied. "But you get good and you start sleeping with all these women who have boyfriends, and you stop trusting women." A side effect of sarging is that it can lowers one's opinion of the oppo35D site sex. You see too much betrayal, lying, and infidelity. If a woman has been married three years or more, you come to learn that she's usually easier to sleep with than a single woman. If a wom.. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 076c02b | I used to think that intelligence came from books and knowledge and rational thought. But that's not intelligence: It's just information and interpretation. Real intelligence is when your mind and your heart connect. That's when you see the truth so clearly and unmistakably that you don't have to think about it. In fact, all thinking will do is lead you away from the truth and soon you'll be back in your head, groping with a penlight in the.. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 67b7dce | Deep in our nature we are foragers, and life is a process of gathering the resources we need from a large connected planet. It's all out there -- every color, shade, flavor and mutation of life and experience. Whatever we are looking for, we will find... if it doesn't find us first. However, the result will not be what we're consciously looking for but what we're unconsciously seeking. And so, what we want, will never be anything like what .. | polyamory relationships | Neil Strauss | |
| 020f72e | What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. --VIKTOR E. FRANKL, Holocaust survivor; author of Man's Search for Meaning | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ced9436 | You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c06eda5 | You, too, may strike it rich who dares to play the Westing game. | Ellen Raskin | ||
| b66c6e4 | Hello, Jake, I'm glad you could come," Sunny (as Madame Hoo was now called) said, shaking the hand of the chairman of the State Gambling Commission. "Boom!" Jake Wexler replied." | Ellen Raskin | ||
| 5ef12c0 | Whatever any of us may have thought about Hatsumomo, she was like an empress in our okiya since she earned the income be which we all lived. And being an empress she would have been very displeased, upon returning late at night, to find her palace dark and all the servants asleep. That is to say, when she came home too drunk to unbutton her socks, someone had to unbutton them for her; and if she felt hungry, she certainly wasn't going to st.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 1d22ef6 | He stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. "Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see." | remembering reminiscence | Arthur Golden | |
| d852a41 | Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know you've had your shields hacked down until you're defenseless. It's the type." "You're not in love with a type, you're in love with a man," Penny corrected. "Or you're not." | romance | Nora Roberts | |
| 8cd7aaf | And you just had to rush right over here to rub my face in it." "Nope. I rushed right over here to slap your face in it." "A rude but effective wake-up call," Laura commented and earned a shocked stare. "I expected better from you." "You shouldn't have." Hands brisk and competent, she affixed a shiny silver bow to the box. "If you don't want to tell us what happened between you and Josh,fine.But you can't expect us to sit around quietly whi.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 58d2e9d | Necessity is often the mother of balls | Nora Roberts | ||
| dce3ab7 | Let's clear the air here,Joshua." She leaned forward,the confidence in her eyes sultry. "I like sex.i think it's an excellent form of entertainment. But I don't have to be entertained every time someone suggests a party.I select the time,the place, and my playmates." Satisfied,she sat back and lazily chose a tiny cake from the basket. That, she was sure,should settle that. "You might be able to get away with that.If you hadn't been tremblin.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 4100f3b | You've never been a whiner, Margo." "I could give lessons.It's time for me to grow up, take responsibility,be sensible." "Talk to life insurance salesman," Josh said dryly. "Apply for a library card.Clip coupons." She looked down her nose. "Spoken like a man born with not only a silver spoon but the whole place setting stuck in his arrogant little mouth." "I happen to have several library cards," he muttered. "Somewhere." "Do you mind?" | Nora Roberts | ||
| 5414413 | Women, they don't know what they're missing when it comes when it comes to the courageous comedy of the Three Stooges. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 6326faf | I have to know you'll be happy; have what you want,what you can live with. I want forever from you." "All right." Shelby lifted her hands to his wrists, holding them a moment before she backed away. "I considered the possibilties," she began. "I thought through all the ifs and the maybes.I didn't like all of them, but the one I hated the most was life without you. You're not going to play Parcheesi without me, MacGregor." His brow lifted. ".. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 6ccb429 | A noite, quando estou sozinho e a lua derrama as suas lagrimas, sei que o mundo voltaria a ser maravilhoso se estivesses aqui. Sem ti, o meu coracao fica vazio, apenas com as lembrancas que guarda. Tu, so tu, existes dentro de mim, a noite quando a lua chora. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 834f8c5 | I'll just go rub some salt in her wounds,then i think I'll run out and kick some puppies on my way to foreclosing on my quota of widows and orphans. | Nora Roberts | ||
| c7436ad | Now if you tell me there were six other naked women and three attendants hanging around who saw you shove her into the locker,i'll have to kill you." "There was nobody else there.We're not idiots."she grimaced. "I know you think we are, but we're not stupid enough to have done it in front of witnesses. Actually, we timed it that way so she'd be stuck in there longer." she smiled weakly. "it seemed like a good idea at the time." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 7d7b5f9 | Laura had warned him not to expect much. It was a good thing. "Have you and Kate been smoking grass in here?" "That's all she ever does on her lunch hour.We really have to get her into a program." Thrilled with herself, Margo spread her arms. "So,what do you think?" "Uh-huh.It's a building, all right." "Josh." "Give me a minute." He walked past her into the adjoining room, came back, looked into the bath, gazed up the pretty, and potentiall.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 3bb8244 | Don't you know that the less you tell someone, the more they want to know? You're better off to make something up than to say nothing at all." "I'm the youngest of twelve children of two South African missionaries," he said with such ease,she very nearly believed him. "When I was six,I wandered into the jungle and was taken in by a pride of lions.I still have a pechant for zebra meat.Then when I was eightteen,I was captured by hunters and s.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 2227546 | Coming from something doesn't make it what you are. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 4833345 | That was well-done," Alan told her later as he gave Shelby a limited tour of the house. "Was it?" Laughing,she linked her hand with his. "He's a difficult man to resist." She rose on her toes to nibble his earlobe. "So's his firstborn." "That term's to be used reverently," Alan warned her. "Personally I've always found it a pain in the-" | Nora Roberts | ||
| 4eccb60 | You belong with us," he said quietly. "Nothing's going to change that." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 6f1dd3f | We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. | idle thumbs | V.C. Andrews | |
| 2319ccc | Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we are doomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't be disappointed. | disapointment doom doomed expectations facial-expressions happiness perfection put-down put-downs putting-people-down small small-share towmorrow work-out | V.C. Andrews | |
| ff016cf | Was I prone to sadness and melancholy? How could anyone like that? It wasn't that I wanted it; it was that I was so used to hard rains, I couldn't help expecting a cloudburst every time something nice happened and sunshine beamed down over me. | cloudburst landry melancholy pearl-in-the-mist rain sadness sunshine thoughts v-c-andrews | V.C. Andrews | |
| 560fc1d | It's not that I'm afraid to die, it's only the road to death that terrifies me, for sometimes it can be so drawn out. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 706206d | If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a mountain high! A hill wasn't enough. | dreams happiness hill hoping longing mountain mountains satisfy striving | V.C. Andrews | |
| 82b3b24 | For when I waltzed with Chris, I'd made him someone else. | changed dance dancing him someone someone-else waltzed | V.C. Andrews | |
| 629a99c | Love...I put so much faith in it. Truth...I kept believing it falls always from the top lips of the one you love and trust the most. Faith...it's all bound up to love and trust. Where does one end and the other start, and how do you tell when love is the blindest of all? | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 925ebc7 | Being mature means realizing life is filled with dark days,too. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| b6beb31 | We are perfect children. Mentally, physically, emotionally, we are wholesome, and godly in every way possible. We have as much right to live, love, and enjoy life as any other children on this earth. | V.C. Andrews |