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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b497c93 | I bet that guy could steal the stink off of shit | James Lee Burke | ||
| ed6e54f | And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that the bravest and most loyal and loving people in the world seldom have heroic physical characteristics or the auras of saints. In fact, their faces are like those of people whom you might randomly pull out of a supermarket line, their physical makeup so nondescript and unremarkable that it's hard to remember what they l.. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 58c8c10 | My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us. | James Lee Burke | ||
| a8d2d30 | People are what bother me most in life. It bothers me that so many lack common sense, | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3671cc5 | Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us al, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight. | imagination | Tahir Shah | |
| c088d7e | There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades. | endurance india pain | Tahir Shah | |
| f47d42b | As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. | travel writing | Tahir Shah | |
| fdc6c3e | In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough. | india logic rules travel | Tahir Shah | |
| d04ed42 | For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure. | history journey travel | Tahir Shah | |
| 052da89 | What came next was a new experience for for both the fish and me | Tahir Shah | ||
| dc4108a | For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home | nature | Tahir Shah | |
| bbdc479 | Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist. | cannibalism monks nunnery quest search | Tahir Shah | |
| 40b7fdf | The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture. | fear peru rain | Tahir Shah | |
| a9f96ff | The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest. | hardship rain-forest | Tahir Shah | |
| b13bc6c | We may yearn for rustic detail and old-world charm, but those who have it set their minds on vinyl wallpaper, fitted carpets and all mod cons. | Tahir Shah | ||
| 8205f6d | As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed. | bus-travel ethiopia travel | Tahir Shah | |
| dda6451 | Real terror is a crippling experience. You sweat so much that your skin goes all wrinkly like when you've been in the bath all afternoon. And then the scent of your sweat changes. It smells like cat pee, no doubt from the adrenalin. However hard you wash, it won't come off. It smothers you, as your muscles become frozen with acid and your mind paralysed by despair. | despair fear sweat terror | Tahir Shah | |
| d68b656 | The woman speaks, stops, then after what must have been a long speech by the person on the other end of the line, says, "... just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives." Mirabelle cannot fathom the meaning of this sentence, as she has been in pain her whole life, and yet it remains unchanged." | Steve Martin | ||
| 3504d47 | Don't follow your passion; rather, let it follow you in your quest to become, in the words of my favorite Steve Martin quote, "so good that they can't ignore you." | Cal Newport | ||
| 6f1f4ea | The auction houses seemed not as dull as their financial counterparts on Wall Street, where parents of daughters imagined glass celings and bottom patting. | Steve Martin | ||
| c45a053 | They told me to just "act like myself." When I said, "How do I do that?" they said to just have fun with it, but I'm not sure what they meant." | Steve Martin | ||
| 44fb8f3 | She knows that she needs new friends but introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness. | Steve Martin | ||
| 4949563 | I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps. | perseverance success | Steve Martin | |
| 35718fa | Mirabelle attracts men of a different kind. They are shyer and more reticent. They look at her a long time before approaching, and when they do find something about her that they want, it is something simple within her. | Steve Martin | ||
| 57e2aee | P.S. Volim te Holi, i znam da me volis. Nisu ti potrebne moje stvari da bi me se secala, nisu ti potrebne kao dokaz da sam postojao ili da jos postojim u tvojoj glavi. Nije ti potrebno da nosis moj dzemper da bi me osetila oko sebe; vec sam tu...moje ruke te uvek grle. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| d861f0f | From Rosie Ro Alex Subject Job Promotion Nothing is impossible, Alex. It was there all the time. I just wasn't reaching out far enough, that's all. Nothing is impossible. Not a bad statement to come from the pen (or rather keyboard!) of a cynic. Thank you for your faith in me, Alex. I would love to return that hug and kisses to you now! but then again, perhaps some things just might be beyond our reach after all. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a3cb893 | Our life is made up of time. Our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a quick few minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a4999d8 | Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power. | money money-vs-power power what-people-want | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 9d65cc5 | Pero la mayoria de las veces, las decisiones faciles son las erroneas y e ocasiones sentimos que vamos hacia atras cuando en realidad estamos avanzando. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3d922af | Se paciente y resiste; algun dia este dolor te sera util. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 0719489 | Lo cotidiano, lo ordinario, lo mundano es lo que mantiene el motor en marcha. Que extraordinario es lo ordinario en realidad, una herramienta que todos usamos para seguir adelante, una pauta para la cordura. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3103f96 | Forty-three years old, he is handsome and he knows it, but it's not a view that is held with arrogance. His opinion on his looks are merely understood with the same logic he applies to tasting a fine wine. The grape was merely grown in the right place, under the right conditions. Some degree of nurturing and love mixed with later moments of being completely trampled on and walked all over. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 49c13e3 | I cant' believe Doris's hair is real too.' 'All but the colour. ... | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e160c9d | the thing about lessons: you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 9aea38b | There was nothing wrong with having an expensive home, nothing wrong at all. There's a pride in building something up, working hard to achieve something. But it shouldn't have been his manhood that increased with each new success, it should have been his heart. His success was like the witch in 'Hansel and Gretel' fairy tale: it fed him for all the wrong reasons, fattening him in all the wrong places. Dad deserved his success, he just neede.. | humble wealth | Cecelia Ahern | |
| e7d915a | I lost something that I thought defined me and I felt like a shell of a person. Instead of trying to get it back, I had to figure out why I couldn't be whole all by myself. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ac539ab | The hips were the leaders of this conspiracy. So I rang my boss and held the phone to my hips so he could hear them too. | humor ruby | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 6adc645 | Sometimes I have to remind myself to breathe. You would think it would be an innate human instinct but no, i inhale and forget to exhale and so I find my body rigid, all tensed up, heart pounding , chest tight with an anxious head wondering what's wrong. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| fbffa45 | I've learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether to let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous. | courage fear overcome struggle time | Cecelia Ahern | |
| fd75bf0 | And I'm not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I'm doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think "I'm where I want to be now." | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| bfcd027 | But more often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 452d03d | She roared with laughter. Passersby gave her strange looks, but she didn't care. If she'd been able to stretch her vision to see beyond the trees he disappeared behind, she would have stopped laughing. She would have seen the couple who'd been in the dark street near the restaurant the previous night, again breaking into laughter when he felt it was safe to abandon the Wally persona. Everywhere she saw that one man, she didn't see the woman.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| d408c0b | I'm not one of those people who live and breathes their job, I don't take it so seriously that I want to stay longer than I am paid for or want to socialize with people I spend most of my waking hours with and would never choose to say more than two words to in the real world. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 68f56c6 | Every morning I rise when it is pitch black outside (and you know it's not natural to be up if the sun couldn't even be bothered to get up), | Cecelia Ahern |