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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 76c1371 | But that was over there, in Greece. This was Mykonos, a seaside sanctuary so timeless that I half expected to glimpse Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings walking along the dock as we disembarked from the ferry. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 94d06d6 | There are only really two kinds of people in the world; those who love small towns, and those who hate them. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| faf9535 | Some places, such as Paris, have a magic best experienced for brief periods so the romantic feeling doesn't become tainted by a day to day reality. But Mykonos was different in that respect. Mykonos made you long for the restful, happy day to day reality of life on the Greek island, and it was the brief visits that tortured the soul. Paris was a romantic respite from life, Mykonos was life itself, and living. I understood why Susan had made.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| b8f4354 | We passed close to the docked cruise ships, Temptation and Fascination. Cruise ships are never named Discontent or Exasperation. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 6805e69 | Wyn saw the freshly laid railroad tracks, and spotted the spires of San Felipe with its white crosses pointing toward God's home, and knew he'd finally reached Albuquerque. He glanced behind him at the dead men tied to the horses and sighed. When he turned back around in the saddle, the sight of the church shamed him. Wyn had only brought death here, and doubted these men were bound for where the crosses pointed... | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 16f26f9 | For months afterward I was numb, almost paralyzed from the shock. I was some emotionless automaton, speaking and answering questions and working, never feeling. My heart was empty. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 1befd64 | I turned my head and saw the big lamps, and I knew it was Violet Atwater. When I turned back around Mack had slowed because of the fog. Through the mist I couldn't see Greyson Manor any longer. Violet almost caught up to us in her big Packard and then she was enveloped in the fog as well. It was the change in the air I noticed first. Fresh and clean, with something sweet like honeysuckle or jasmine drifting on the evening breeze. Mack smell.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| f27b079 | The most important reason I'd changed my plan, however, had been Caroline. Jerry Carmichael's complete lack of human decency, as well as any sense of parental responsibility -- much less love -- had shaken her. I'd been up-close-and-personal with a hundred guys like Jerry Carmichael. They had jaded me about human beings and what they were capable of. Nothing that had come out of Jerry's mouth shocked me; surprised me, perhaps, but not shock.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 91d2311 | Even in this state, after what had been done to her, she was beautiful. Behind the pain in her eyes lived spring, if they hadn't crushed it into a permanent winter." - Night Run" | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 3d86ef0 | Something about the way he had avoided looking directly at me despite his gracious manner made me think he could go from funny to dangerous in the blink of an eye. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| e869872 | I'm not sure I know what 'simple-hearted' means," I said haughtily. "When there's no deceit or malice in your heart. Most of us have some; it protects us. People without it are rare." | Gail Godwin | ||
| 9211200 | And what she wanted more than anything that moment was for all the differences between people to matter no more - differences in size and race and belief.... | Ursula Hegi | ||
| f30316d | She also told me it wore down her spirit to live in the desert landscape that was parched by midsummer, to plant a garden each spring and struggle to keep it alive past July. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| ad45fb9 | Everyone does it." "But no one talks about it," Gloria said. "About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator." | Ursula Hegi | ||
| f542374 | Starting anew with a clean slate has been one of the most harmful ideas in history. It treats previous knowledge as an impediment and imagines that only present knowledge deployed in theoretical purity can make real the wondrous new vision. | Stewart Brand | ||
| c39bf98 | Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works. | art convention | Stewart Brand | |
| 7f532ae | Buildings keep being pushed around by three irresistible forces--technology, money, and fashion. | Stewart Brand | ||
| ce824df | kln y`lm bwjwb ltHly bdmthh lkhlq wHsn m`mlh lGyr , wlkn ltTbyq 'mr mkhtlf tmm , wn l tHdth hn `n lmthlyt wlkhlq lrfy` w `ny tlk lsh`rt lty yrddh lb`D " `ml lakhryn bm tHb n y`mlwk lh " Hsn , m hw sr S`wbh ltwqf qlyl wwD` nfsk mkn lshkhS lakhr ? rbm l'n hnk qwlb jmd@ trskht fy `qwln `n lTryq ldhy yDmn ln lnjh . why lqwlb lty njd nfsn rGm `n nlj' lh wnltzm bh . km nh mn lshl dy'm n nTlq Hkm `mh ." | Donna Dale Carnegie | ||
| 437e21a | Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it maximized his utility. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| d529ad0 | Making money takes time, so when we shop, we're really spending time. The real cost of living isn't measured in dollars and cents but in the hours and minutes we must work to live."1" | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 1693c24 | How much does it cost to treat leprosy? One $3 dose of antibiotic will cure a mild case; a $20 regimen of three antibiotics will cure a more severe case. The World Health Organization even provides the drugs free, but India's health care infrastructure is not good enough to identify the afflicted and get them the medicine they need. So, more than 100,000 people in India are horribly disfigured by a disease that costs $3 to cure. That is wha.. | education knowledge | Charles Wheelan | |
| f07fef9 | Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| d7490d9 | Probability doesn't make mistakes; people using probability make mistakes. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| d9deaae | Frequently we imagine that we are behaving in a particular way because such behaviour accords with some abstract, lofty code of moral principles, when in reality all we are doing is obeying a deeply ingrained and long 'forgotten' set of purely imitative impressions. | Desmond Morris | ||
| 6284aa4 | Readers acquainted with the recent literature on human sexuality will be familiar with what we call the standard narrative of human sexual evolution, hereafter shortened to the standard narrative. It goes something like this: 1. Boy Meets girl, 2. Boy and girl assess one and others mate value, from perspectives based upon their differing reproductive agendas/capacities. He looks for signs of youth, fertility, health, absence of previous se.. | Cacilda Jethá | ||
| 75e623a | The news that is brought to us is nearly always bad news, but for every act of violence or destruction that occurs there are a million acts of peaceful friendliness. | humans violence | Desmond Morris | |
| 00fdc17 | I believe that 99 percent of what anyone does can effectively be postponed. | Amy Hempel | ||
| a20c065 | I am not quite myself, I think. But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 6568472 | And what about the certainty I feel regarding you? You could say that an hour is not a lot to go on. But always, before, a thing didn't work because I was too young and too old. Too dumb and too smart. But I learn from my mistakes. The certainty I feel--it is something to hit back with. So in a manner of speaking, I now have a stick bigger than the stick I was beaten with. Except let's not think of it as something larger of the same type. M.. | Amy Hempel | ||
| b26fe2b | Tell me things I won't mind forgetting," she said. 'Make it useless stuff or skip it." | Amy Hempel | ||
| aa95401 | Over the last decades, the travel industry and media have unwittingly teamed up to create the gap this book aspires to fill. I read a lot of travel sections, travel sites, and travel magazines, and I realized one day I was getting punch-drunk on how fantastic everything was. There s just so much Escape, Undiscovered, Quaint, Top 10 Most Amazing . . . , Secret Beaches, Incredible Islands, Savvy, Frugal, Best Ever. These adjectives just don t.. | Doug Lansky | ||
| cf09044 | Once an innovation reaches a certain level of popularity, its success is virtually assured. By the same token, great innovations can fail because the domino effect doesn't kick in.15 | Michael J. Mauboussin | ||
| d7bace5 | Body parts telegraphed complaints from faraway places. | Max Barry | ||
| b38baba | This isn't an accident; this happens because to people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below. They need to watch us. They need to monitor what we're thinking. It's the only thing between them and a guillotine. | Max Barry | ||
| 852dff6 | It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over. | committees humour | Max Barry | |
| 7dc9f9b | Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was not their contribution to knowledge or culture, not even the size of their empires, but rather how much force they extorted upon the landscape. | Max Barry | ||
| 020d8d5 | It was pointless to ponder who I was because I was whichever combination of chemicals happened to be sloshing around at that time. So I decided not to search for a true self. I decided to choose who I wanted to be. | Max Barry | ||
| 55eab5b | We attempt to conceal ourselves, Emily, but the truth is we do not entirely want to be concealed. We want to be found. | Max Barry | ||
| 7571866 | I read once that you need two things to be happy. Any two of health, money and love. You can cover the absence of one with the other two. I drew comfort from this idea while I was fully bodied, employed, and unloved. It made me feel I wasn't missing much. But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all. I had a girl in a hospital bed who liked me and I didn't know where that might .. | love money | Max Barry | |
| da184f1 | What we're doing, or, I should say, what doing, since no one has taught me any good words, is dropping recipes into people's brains to cause a neurochemical reaction to knock out the filters. Tie them up just long enough to slip an instruction past. And you do by speaking a string of words crafted for the person's psychographic segment. Probably words that were crafted decades ago and have been strengthened ever since. And it's a of w.. | mind-control scary words | Max Barry | |
| 47e9030 | What was it Like?" "What was what like?" he said, although he knew. "Quick, I imagine. But you must have perceived something. A split second of vanishing awareness. A grasping at a shrinking light." "It was like being fucked in the brain." | lexicon poets | Max Barry | |
| 5d757b0 | I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could be improved if people thought more about what they're doing. When someone gets upset with their computer, I tend to side with the computer. I think art is overrated, and bridges are underrated. In fact, I don't understand why bridges aren't art. It seems to me they're penalized for having a use. If I make a bridge that ends in midair, th.. | Max Barry | ||
| df60a1b | She decided to sleep with him and get it over with. It was the only way. He had become an annoying jingle, striking in the shower, or at work, or just as she was falling asleep. She had to at least kiss him deeply and completely, in a way that left nothing behind. So she could move on. So she could stop imagining it. She couldn't keep losing herself to the jingle. It was impairing her ability to function. | harry-wilson jingle love | Max Barry | |
| ef22261 | A panic state is not helpful to good decision making. | Max Barry |