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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2e65fa1 | Tell me about your friends." "I hardly knew them. The one who ran off with the girl is named Christopher Columbus. Tall guy. Really skinny. Green hair. Fangs. Six fingers on his left hand. About a hundred years old. Lots of wrinkles." "I trust you are enjoying yourself." the commander sneered." | Brandon Mull | ||
| ca579c1 | My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale. | loremaster writers writing | Brandon Mull | |
| 2662898 | The bear would have to be stopped," Grandma agreed. "Stan is just making the distinction that you wouldn't blame the bear the same way you would blame a responsible person." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 5525fa1 | Any of the nearby volumes might hold information about hippopotamus portals or contain hints about how he might get home. | repository-of-learning | Brandon Mull | |
| 9d4d746 | Only two towers remained standing, one of which was so crooked and damaged it looked ready to topple at a cough from a butterfly. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 8fec28f | Forgive my brother," Camira apologized. "We don't normally let him out of his cage when guests are present." | funny funny-quotes humor laugh-out-loud | Brandon Mull | |
| 4a80341 | cleansing. An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter." "He's right, I feel great" | Brandon Mull | ||
| 20b89c0 | Newel and Doren had inexhaustibly consumed milkshakes, burgers, sandwiches, tacos, nachos, pretzels, nuts, beef jerky, trail mix, soda, doughnuts, candy bars, cookies, crackers, and aerosol cheese. Of the fifty most impressive belches Seth had witnessed in his life, all had occurred on this road trip. | Brandon Mull | ||
| b4c543e | A stocky zombie with curly orange hair | Brandon Mull | ||
| 09b8b49 | Did you design the door?' 'No.' 'Who did? The Unknown Designer? | Brandon Mull | ||
| 8c5efac | Seth wished he had kept the zombie hand. What a perfect souvenir from his first official mission as a Knight of the Dawn! Instead he had thrown it out of the jeep almost reflexively. Hearing all of those zombie voices must have temporarily scrambled his reason. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 70553e1 | We may be doomed, but why not enjoy ourselves? It will lessen the victory of our adversaries. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 9b1d0ff | Wow! I can hardly believe I finished Beyonders. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 8ca1ba6 | Was the anticipation worse than the event itself? At | Brandon Mull | ||
| fdc2444 | Despite the darkness and the rhythmic trotting of the huge four-legged brick pulling the coach, Cole had failed to relax enough to sleep. | Brandon Mull | ||
| e458b74 | What's the dog called?' Jason asked. 'Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh.' 'No, I meant his entire name.' 'To abbreviate, I call him Feracles. | repository-of-learning | Brandon Mull | |
| 4c3918e | No matter how hard I try, there's a cynical corner of my mind where everything is an act. People are game pieces. Information is currency. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 61b4fc5 | The only furniture in the dank space was a flimsy cot. Water dripped steadily in one corner. A hole in the floor appeared to serve as a latrine. What most caught Kendra's eye were the messages scratched on the wall. She roamed the cell, reading the crudely inscribed phrases. "Seth rules! Welcome to Seth's House. Seth rocks! Seth was here. Now it's your turn. Seth Sorenson forever. Enjoy the food! If you're reading this, you can read. All ro.. | cheer-up dungeon funny hopeless kendra-sorenson messages prison seth-sorenson | Brandon Mull | |
| c107605 | At the far end of the room, upon a moldering dais, a shabby man sat upon a battered thrown. A dingy rag bound his eyes, a tarnished crown rested upon his grey hair, and a grimy green robe edged in dirty white fur enshrouded his body. He looked like some homeless guy playing the part of a wise man in a soup kitchen Christmas pageant. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 156bbdc | everybody is busy trying to pretend boys and girls are exactly the same nowadays, but that isn't how I see it. If it makes you feel better, I'll share everything I know with | Brandon Mull | ||
| 9e8d440 | A promising junior executive of IBM was involved in a risky venture for the company and managed to lose over $10 million in the gamble. It was a disaster. When Watson called the nervous executive into his office, the young man blurted out, 'I guess you want my resignation?' Watson said, 'You can't be serious. We've just spent $10 million educating you! | Warren G. Bennis | ||
| dabe36e | The more I disliked myself the more wretched I grew. The difference now was that this mood did not manifest itself in sullen silence; I merely made use of my barbed tongue to wound them and spoil their pleasure. | bad-behaviour mean projection self-distancing self-hate | Victoria Holt | |
| 9dbacf4 | Never underestimate yourself, Miss Jessie. People are going to think you're not up to much if you think that way yourself. | Victoria Holt | ||
| c552b39 | Politicians show no signs of even knowing the difference between negative and positive rights. Blinded by the dazzle of anything that makes them popular, they honestly may not be able to tell. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| b55a891 | If it's any comfort, we should remind ourselves of the purpose of voting. We don't vote to elect great persons to office. They're not that great. We vote to throw the bastards out.) | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 044cb32 | You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity. And forget traditional character assassination; if you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 70d34bf | Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| fdf0fb3 | The free market tells us what people are willing to pay for a given thing at a given moment. That's all the free market does. The free market is a bathroom scale. We may not like what we see when we step on the bathroom scale, but we can't pass a law making ourselves weigh 165. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 41bfb3a | Behind all the dark humor, Bill was talking about the same things I'd read in Joseph Campbell. If you look at things, really look, if you lift the veil, you start to recognize that light is love, is infinite, is unconditional. Bill was saying that once you understand the nature of nature, you can let go of difficulties and sign on for the ride--knowing that it's just a ride. And | Maynard James Keenan | ||
| a93eb3c | El tiempo se alargaba, se hacia elastico, y creaba esa maravillosa sensacion de que todo lo que alguna vez habia vivido estaba unido a todo lo que existia ahora | Campbell Black James Kahn Rob MacGregor | ||
| 9801875 | What we need is a fresh vision of the Cross. And may that mighty, all-embracing love of His be no longer a fitful, wavering influence in our lives, but the ruling passion of our souls. | Evan Roberts | ||
| 30ac860 | In 1948, while working for Bell Telephone Laboratories, he published a paper in the Bell System Technical Journal entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" that not only introduced the word bit in print but established a field of study today known as information theory. Information theory is concerned with transmitting digital information in the presence of noise (which usually prevents all the information from getting through) and .. | Charles Petzold | ||
| a1325e2 | Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts ... . -- Robert Fulghum | Patricia Evans | ||
| dbae9e5 | This all happened fifteen years ago. A friend once told me: "Trust in love and it will take you where you need to go." I want to add, "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go." And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want. How many of us with our big salaries are actually secure anyway?" | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| d6df3bc | I cannot say why, but the simple act of reading it aloud allows you to let go of it. Do not forget this. Believe me, it helps. At first it is a very scary thing to do. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 6072cef | Happy?" He stared her down. "You can't expect happiness. If it comes along--consider yourself lucky, but that's not what life's about." | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| caa2ccf | Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write. That is painful. Writing is so simple, basic, and austere. There are no fancy gadgets to make it more attractive. Our monkey minds would much rather discuss our resistances with a friend at a lovely restaurant or go to a therapist to work out our writing blocks. We like to complicate simple tasks. There is a Zen saying: "Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die." Wri.. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 3655c40 | I wish I had another chance to write that school composition, 'What I Did Last Summer.' When I wrote it in fifth grade, I was scared and just recorded: 'It was interesting. It was nice. My summer was fun.' I snuck through with a B grade. But I still wondered, How do you really do that? Now it is obvious. You tell the truth and you depict it in detail: 'My mother dyed her hair red and polished her toenails silver. I was mad for Parcheesi and.. | natalie-goldberg writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| b927ef2 | we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an automobile. Separate the fender, the hood, the roof, lie them on the garage floor, walk around them. Let go of the urge to reassemble the care or to pronounce fender, hood, roof. Look at them as curve, line, form. Relax the mind. Don't immediately try to make meaning or be practical. Truthfully, how practical is life anyway? All our work, and de.. | live-life-to-the-fullest practical | Natalie Goldberg | |
| d142bb7 | If you never sit still, it does not even hint to that deeper self in you that you are interested. By practice, by showing up, we are signaling that deep motor, that hum of life, that we are ready: Help us. Pay attention and lead us out of our confusion. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 9bab412 | Don't be tossed away by your monkey mind. You say you want to do something--"I really want to be a writer"--then that little voice comes along, "but I might not make enough money as a writer." "Oh, okay, then I won't write." That's being tossed away. These little voices are constantly going to be nagging us. If you make a decision to do something, you do it. Don't be tossed away. But part of not being tossed away is understanding your mind,.. | discouragement doubt | Natalie Goldberg | |
| c4af15e | Keep your hand moving. (Don't pause to reread the line you have just written. That's stalling and trying to get control of what you're saying.) | hand line | Natalie Goldberg | |
| ff9b108 | It's good to go off and write a novel, but don't stop doing writing practice. | practice writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 602c208 | Add to the list anytime you think of something. Then when you sit down to write, you can just grab a topic from that list and begin. | topic | Natalie Goldberg |