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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 917dc07 | Can you understand what it's like to miss something so terribly that you'll accept even the shadow of its memory to keep your heart from withering away?" -From "Danaid Night" | Gary A. Braunbeck | ||
| f0e771e | Take my advice - if you expect no kindness, then you won't be disappointed when none is given; but, Lord, are you all the more grateful for it when it is!" -From "In the Lowlands" | Gary A. Braunbeck | ||
| f665284 | No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. | Gary A. Braunbeck | ||
| 488926e | Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us. | Bill Nye | ||
| 7f6a899 | they avoid the exploration of evolution, because it reminds us all that humankind may not be that special in nature's scheme. What happens to other species also happens to us. | Bill Nye | ||
| d61ea47 | This is one of the reasons I get such joy from studying evolution. This kind of science is amazing and sexy. | Bill Nye | ||
| 8ea9d66 | We can become a great generation that leaves our world--our home--in better shape than it is now while raising the quality of life for people everywhere. This will not be easy. We've already loaded the atmosphere with enough heat-trapping gases of various kinds to cause our planet to keep warming for many, many years to come. But the situation is far from hopeless. | Bill Nye | ||
| 6569541 | Scientifically speaking, there is tribalism and group bias, but there cannot be any such thing as racism. We are all one. | Bill Nye | ||
| ab7af9f | Meg, what I'm about to do - never, ever try this on your own." I felt a bit silly giving this advice to a girl who regulartly fought monsters with golden swords, but I had promised Bill Nye the Science Guy I would always promote safe laboratory practices." | science | Rick Riordan | |
| 6131a46 | We are all aware that evolution happens, because we all have parents. | Bill Nye | ||
| b1ea161 | A woman came up to Michael Faraday after he performed this demonstration and asked: "But, Mr. Faraday, of what use is it?" Faraday famously replied, "Madam, of what use is a newborn babe?" | Bill Nye | ||
| 2d26eff | Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added. | Helen Vendler | ||
| ef0e515 | Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots Where briars scratched and wet grass bleache.. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 3c945c5 | The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 81453d1 | Let whoever can win glory before death. | death glory mgg seamus-heaney | Seamus Heaney | |
| 5bf1978 | Happy the man...with a natural gift for practising the right one [art] from the start-- poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are dreamless; whose deep-sunk panoramas rise and pass like daylight through the rod's eye or the nib's eye. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 74d3eee | peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 298a21c | People so staunch and true, they're fixated, Shining with self-regard like polished stones. And their whole life spent admiring themselves For their own long-suffering. Licking their wounds And flashing them around like decorations. I hate it, I always hated it, and I am A part of it myself. | self-regard | Seamus Heaney | |
| 68f8c4a | It has taken almost half my life away from Ireland for me to truly feel what home really is, and it is not what I was expecting. In the end it was not a place, or a past, or any sort of single, dazzling epiphany. It was all the little things. Cold butter spread thick on sweet wheaten bread or hot, subsiding potatoes; the scent of wet, black soil; a bushy spine of grass on a one-track road; wide iron gates leading to high beech corridors; th.. | home identity ireland | Trish Deseine | |
| a60c9f5 | You lose more of yourself than you redeem doing the decent thing. Keep at a tangent When they make the circle wide, it's time to swim Out on your own and fill the element with signatures on your own frequency. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| ac69236 | What do all men seek? I want to be happy. I would like a wife and sons one day. But I want them to grow in a land where there is hope for the future, where men do not take to the road. If that is a hopeless dream - and maybe it is - then I will sire no sons. I will wander, and play my harp, and weave my magick until the end. | David Gemmell | ||
| 72b543e | Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat, or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the pursuit of evil. That was the iron code of Druss the Legend. | David Gemmell | ||
| 3cb2cee | My happiness is not in the gift of others. I will be happy or I will not be happy. No man will supply it or deprive me of it. | David Gemmell | ||
| 07dcc9b | I tell you, one more insult and I'll take his curling tongs and ram them so far up his arse he'll be able to curl the damned thing from the inside. | David Gemmell | ||
| 442a67f | No man should curse love. Ultimately, love is all there is. | David Gemmell | ||
| e05ee07 | And Miss Potter? Well, having believed in fairies when she was a child and continuing to believe in the creative power of the imagination, she was not at all bothered by the possibility that she and the children might see something they didn't understand. | Susan Wittig Albert | ||
| f2bad2e | all white with snow as if under dustsheets, as if laid away eternally as soon as brought back from the shop, never to be seen or touched | Angela Carter | ||
| e399210 | MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of disbelief. As in the early days of the cinema, all the citizens are jumping through the screen to lay their hands on the naked lady in the bathtub! AMBASSADOR: And yet, in fact, their fingers touch flesh. MINISTER: They believe they do. Yet all they touch is substantial shadow. AMBASSADOR: And what a beautiful definiti.. | desire flesh shadow | Angela Carter | |
| 1f7e909 | They had imagined too often and too much and so they had exhausted all their possibilities. When they embraced each other's phantoms, each in his separate privacy has savoured the most refined of pleasures but, connoisseurs of unreality as they were, they could not bear the crude weight, the rank smell and the ripe taste of real flesh. It is always a dangerous experiment to act out a fantasy; they had undertaken the experiment rashly and ha.. | sex | Angela Carter | |
| d97154b | His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat. After the terror, in the early days of the Directory, the aristos who'd escaped the guillotine had an ironic fad of tying a red ribbon round their necks at just the point where the blade would have sliced it through, a red ribbon like the memory of a wound. And his grandmother, taken with the notion, had her ribbon m.. | Angela Carter | ||
| f7621aa | Sometimes it was possible for me to believe he had practised an enchantment upon me, as foxes in this country may, for, here, a fox can masquerade as human and at the best of times the high cheekbones gave to his face the aspect of a mask. | burning-your-boats | Angela Carter | |
| 7464f8e | The piety, the gentleness, the honesty, the sensitivity, all the qualities she has learned to admire in herself, are invitations to violence; all her life, she has been groomed for the slaughterhouse. And though she is virtuous, she does not know how to do good. | Angela Carter | ||
| 06d2bac | The earth turned on the pivot of her mouth. | Angela Carter | ||
| ca8b78d | I toppled off my pyrotechnic tiger and, as I plunge downwards, endlessly as Lucifer, I ask myself: "What is the most miraculous event in the world?" And I answer myself: "I am going to fall into my own arms. They stretch out to me from the bottom of the pit." | Angela Carter | ||
| d4df3f6 | Wearing an antique bridal gown, the beautiful queen of the vampires sits all alone in her dark, high house under the eyes of the portraits of her demented and atrocious ancestors, each one of whom, through her, projects a baleful posthumous existence; she counts out the Tarot cards, ceaselessly construing a constellation of possibilities as if the random fall of the cards on the red plush tablecloth before her could precipitate her from her.. | loneliness sadness the-bloody-chamber the-lady-of-the-house-of-love vampire | Angela Carter | |
| 43e49a3 | ruin had been the original blueprint and men and women had lived here only in a necessary but intermediate stage of the execution of the grand design | Angela Carter | ||
| 09f75f6 | We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies / all the bits and pieces of our unique existences. | Angela Carter | ||
| 7cecb16 | Below me, in spreading, concentric circles, like those a fish makes when it rises in still water, spun round the lower tiers; above me arched the black sky pierced by the gas jets of the stars. | Angela Carter | ||
| 6c0e252 | I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again. | Angela Carter | ||
| aa8bb83 | The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons and there they participate in rituals which transmute life itself to a series of grand gestures, as moving as they are absurd. | other ritual | Angela Carter | |
| 4e3faa4 | The heart's egoism sees itself suffering when it sees another suffering and so it learns sympathy, because it can put itself into another's place; then the heart comes a little way out of its egoism and tentatively encounters the world. But, before the prospect of its own suffering, the heart melts completely and retreats into egoism, again, to protect itself. | Angela Carter | ||
| 297729b | She goes out at night more often now; the landscape assembles itself about her, she informs it with her presence. She is its significance. | Angela Carter | ||
| c710e29 | The harder the bargain men must strike with nature to survive, the more rules they're likely to have amongst themselves too keep them all in order | Angela Carter | ||
| 577b81e | Herseye karsin onun kisiliginde hala eksik kalmis birseyler vardi. Mobilyali olarak kiraya verilmis bir eve benziyordu. [sf 11] | sirk-geceleri | Angela Carter |