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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9d04d65 | I'm not wild about throwing up or waddling, but I sure love carrying around a little piece of you. You're right--you make excellent babies." "We all have our special talents," he said. Mel and Jack" | Robyn Carr | ||
| 869e0ed | Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. --Hans Christian Andersen | Robyn Carr | ||
| 1ba6ba1 | People belong wherever they feel good. It can be a lot of different places. For a lot of different reasons. | Robyn Carr | ||
| d6df93b | When you screw up you own it, you make amends, you learn your lesson. | Robyn Carr | ||
| 4dc9b1b | La nostalgia desgasta y aniquila, es el vicio de los desterrados. | immigration nostalgia | Isabel Allende | |
| 759f694 | I need you to get inside Wayne's head. I need someone who thinks a bit left field and in your own unpleasant way, Helen Walsh, you're a genius. He had a point. I'm lazy and illogical. I've limited people skills. I'm easily bored and easily irritated. But I have moments of brilliance. They come and they go and I can't depend on them but they do happen. | humorous turn-of-phrase | Marian Keyes | |
| 7d4de80 | The landscape of the desert changes very gradually as little breezes lift grains of sand and move them, sometimes a few feet, sometimes miles and miles, so that at the end of the day, when the sun sets, the face of the desert is completely different from the landscape it had in the morning when the sun rose on it. | Marian Keyes | ||
| b35ced5 | I know forty-one is the new eighteen, but tell that to my metabolism. | Marian Keyes | ||
| c10a2ca | Where does love go when it dies? Into flowers and other beautiful things? Back out into the universe to be recycled? | love | Marian Keyes | |
| 1021d63 | In the same way that the stewards on the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital. Sometimes it's easier that way. Because although there was little I could do about the huge hole, it was within my power to empty an asthray. | worry | Marian Keyes | |
| 1dc2fd1 | It actually felt harder, not easier, to be with people. The toughest challenge was my face; maintaining a 'normal' expression was utterly exhausting. | life love moving-on sad wife | Marian Keyes | |
| 361c582 | But Lucy, I've no money." I put my face up to his and smiled. He smiled back. "Frankly my dear," I beamed, "I don't give a damn." I had always wanted to say that." | marian-keyes rhett-butler-s-dialogue | Marian Keyes | |
| 4b3f02b | However, often when fatal things are happening, you don't know at the time that they're fatal. You get an inkling that they're Not Good, that they Haven't Helped, but only the passage of time will reveal just how bad they are. | Marian Keyes | ||
| a9be157 | I remember reading somewhere that the chemicals produced in the brain by a lengthy Twitter session are similar to those produced by cocaine. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 8396497 | Unless it was an elaborate double-bluff on Wayne's part and it was so obvious as to be not obvious at all ... Christ, it was too early in the morning for this sort of mental gymnastics. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 1584dfd | You were the one who wanted me to come here with you, so you'd better have the bloody manners to talk to me. If you wanted to flirt with someone then why did you invite me?" "Sorry, Lucy; you're right; forgive me, Lucy." He sounded humble but he certainly did not look it. "And you can knock of that naughty little boy smile," I continued." | Marian Keyes | ||
| e1f359f | I don't want to be dead. I'm curious about how things will turn out. This is good, right? | Marian Keyes | ||
| afa5353 | Look," she sighed. "You might be a lovely lad, in fairness you look like a lovely lad, but I can't take the chance. My kids wouldn't even be able to remember what I was wearing to tell the police. And all the recent photographs of me are bad, very jowly. I couldn't have them stuck to the lamp posts around the city. On your way, son." (Woman to Matt, when he tried to give her a lift.)" | Marian Keyes | ||
| 1ee69f8 | Katie's mum, Penny, said "I don't know why you're wasting your time with him. If he's forty-two and never been married, he's hardly likely to get married now." And Katie's sister Naomi had the darkest prediction. "He'll make mincemeat of you." He won't," Katie protested. "I'm not going to fall for him." So why are you bothering at all?" Just killing time until I die." | marian keyes | ||
| 5c816f4 | The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 170655f | Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together - Marilyn Monroe | Marian Keyes | ||
| d0dffcb | For nearly fifty years after the release of "Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine," Americans fought back against the statism that Reagan feared. Jimmy Carter's efforts failed in the 1970s. So did Hillary Clinton's in the 1990s. But in 2010, despite overwhelming opposition from the American people, President Barack Obama found just barely enough support in Congress, both houses of which were controlled by Democrats, to pass .. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 03e017e | They have a national policy where they have no ability grouping until the age of ten." Denmark waits to make selection decisions until maturity differences by age have evened out." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| edf1c62 | learn better skills; and the next year, because they are in the higher groups, they do even better; and the next year, the same thing happens, and they do even better again. The only country we don't see this going on is Denmark. They have a national policy where they have no ability grouping until the age of | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 4f38e9b | The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to .. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 9a40fb2 | But let's not forget that if you are reading this book, then you are a reader and that means you've probably never had to think of all the shortcuts and strategies and bypasses that exist to get around reading | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 3b19aaf | One of the most important tools in contemporary educational research is value added analysis. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 0f7da60 | Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt. Even within the Four Horsemen, in fact, there is one emotion that he considers the most important of all: contempt. If Gottman observes one or both partners in a marriage showing contempt toward the other, he considers it the single most important sign that the marriage is in trouble. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 5ec9c9b | You see the giant and the shepherd in the Valley of Elah and your eye is drawn to the man with the sword and shield and the glittering armor. But so much of what is beautiful and valuable in the world comes from the shepherd, who has more strength and purpose than we ever imagine. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| a4ba3a5 | You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 768e7b0 | Malcolm Gladwell, the author and New Yorker writer, has suggested that as a society we value natural, effortless accomplishment over achievement through effort. We endow our heroes with superhuman abilities that led them inevitably toward their greatness. | Carol S. Dweck | ||
| fc71487 | It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments," Sean MacStiofain, the provisional IRA's first chief of staff, said once, looking back on those early years." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| c3b5a56 | But what actually matters are the hundreds of small things that the powerful do--or don't do--to establish their legitimacy, like sleeping in the bed of an innocent man you just shot accidentally and scattering your belongings around his house. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 63d2420 | History and experience ought to teach us to be suspicious of Goliaths, because the very thing that makes the giant so terrifying is also the source of his weakness. David understood that, as he sized up his opponent long ago in the Valley of Elah. And in a different time and in a very different age, | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 1491dc0 | What are we seeing here? One very real possibility is that these are the educational consequences of the differences in parenting styles that we talked about in the Chris Langan chapter. Think back to Alex Williams, the nine-year-old whom Annette Lareau studied. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| bb77973 | If you paid careful attention to the structure and format of your material, you could dramatically enhance stickiness. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| f4e700b | look at the last column, which totals up all the summer gains from first grade to fifth grade. The reading scores of the poor kids go up by .26 points. When it comes to reading skills, poor kids learn nothing when school is not in session. The reading scores of the rich kids, by contrast, go up by a whopping 52.49 points. Virtually | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 8b993f8 | Farkas's Jewish family trees go on for pages, each virtually identical to the one before, until the conclusion becomes inescapable: Jewish doctors and lawyers did not become professionals in spite of their humble origins. They became professionals because of their humble origins. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| b64ddd9 | What Jaffe proved was that the powerful have to worry about how others think of them-that those who give orders are acutely vulnerable to the opinions of those whom they are ordering about. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 70ad1fd | what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act--and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment--are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| c6439a9 | Gottman has proven something remarkable. If he analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. If he watches a couple for fifteen minutes, his success rate is around 90 percent. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 534e4f4 | Over the past decade, the anti-smoking movement has railed against the tobacco companies for making smoking cool and has spent untold millions of dollars of public money trying to convince teenagers that smoking isn't cool. But that's not the point. Smoking was never cool. Smokers are cool. Smoking epidemics begin in precisely the same way that the suicide epidemic in Micronesia began or word-of-mouth epidemics begin or the AIDS epidemic be.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 517a27f | The striking thing about Ericsson's study is that he and his colleagues couldn't find any 'naturals,' musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time their peers did. Nor could they find any 'grinds,' people who worked harder than everyone else, yet just didn't have what it takes to break the top ranks. Their research suggests that once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the t.. | success | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 8fc7f7e | We really only trust conscious decision making. But there are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world. | Malcolm Gladwell |