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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ebaf876 | We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget--but the nuggets are the reward. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 137096b | Functional organization. How does one design an electric motor? Would you attach a bathtub to it, simply because one was available? Would a bouquet of flowers help? A heap of rocks? No, you would use just those elements necessary to its purpose and make it no larger than needed - and you would incorporate safety factors. Function controls design. So it is with revolution. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| d499f87 | Gratitude' is a euphemism for resentment. Resentment from most people I do not mind--but from pretty little girls it is distasteful to me. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2b2db59 | But their refuge had been a dead end; all that inflexible old guard could do was to die and let younger minds, still limber, take over. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 0051f18 | Take your time and do it right, even if it takes another half second. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f5ebf7e | An Englishman and an Arab can learn to think each other's thoughts, in the other's language. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b3f72b2 | Captain, that's not your style; you don't want to make money, you simply want to have money--in order to spend it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f524af0 | If you boys and girls had to sweat for your toys the way a newly born baby has to struggle to live you would be happier . . . and much richer. As it is, with some of you, I pity the poverty of your wealth. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2927923 | Well, 'hate' is the other luxury an instructor can never afford. We must not hate them, we must not like them; we must teach them. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 3aef31e | Maybe the whole world held together only when you kept your attention centered on it and believed in it. If you let discrepancies creep in, you began to doubt and it began to go to pieces. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 9569460 | Come on, you apes! You wanna live forever? | Robert A. Heinlein / Alan Dean Foster | ||
| 0b81d8b | Hendrick, I have explained these matters to you because it is useless to punish a man unless he knows why he is being punished. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 6bd6426 | A person], having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e0822d4 | You really aren't here at all. There isn't anybody but me. Jane, here alone in the dark, I miss you dreadfully! | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 7467998 | Seinfeld told his writers that nine was his lucky number, so he just had to go out with his ninth season. | Jennifer Keishin Armstrong | ||
| 2999754 | A perennial guest star is like being a foster kid who's passed around some really great foster homes. I would love for one of them to keep me, but it's a hell of a lot better than being abandoned. | Fred Stoller | ||
| 6924cd0 | A calendar helps you plan work, gives you concrete goals, and keeps you on track. The comedian Jerry Seinfeld has a calendar method that helps him stick to his daily joke writing. He suggests that you get a wall calendar that shows you the whole year. Then, you break your work into daily chunks. Each day, when you're finished with your work, make a big fat X in the day's box. Every day, instead of just getting work done, your goal is to jus.. | Austin Kleon | ||
| f0ef17e | Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV. JERRY SEINFELD | Christopher Ryan | ||
| 98faee4 | SHUT UP," Carot Top say, the cocane now taking effect. "This isnt Poetry 101. People want to laugh. Your suposed to be a 'King' of Prop Comedy. But youve been acting more like a jester of prop comedy." | funny | Seinfeld 2000 | |
| af6b6d0 | Washington's all abstraction. It's about access to power and nothing else. I mean, I'm sure it's fun if you're living next door to Seinfeld, or To Wolfe, or Mike Bloomberg, but living next door to them isn't what New York is about, In Washington people literally talk about how many feet away from John Kerry's house their own house is. The neighborhoods are all so blah, the only thing that turns people on is proximity to power. It's a total .. | freedom humor washington | Jonathan Franzen | |
| 0465039 | More than twice as many Americans lost their lives in one day at Sharpsburg as fell in combat in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Spanish-American war combined. | James M. McPherson | ||
| 22cc161 | Cecil reached for Dave, but Dave stepped back. "Dave, why are you doing this? You're not getting paid. Lovejoy called you off the case. You want the truth? You're compulsive. You can't leave it alone. You're like Adam Streeter, you know that? You live for danger." "I live for justice," Dave said. "Justice is a dream," Cecil scoffed, "a romantic ideal. Who the fuck gets justice in this life?(...)" -- | lgbt mystery | Joseph Hansen | |
| 83470c0 | great posture, a heads-up look, a confident smile, and a direct gaze." The ideal image for somebody who's a Somebody." | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 80e9f37 | When you act as though you like someone, you start to really like them. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| bfc1c02 | The study showed women who were slower to smile in corporate life were perceived as more credible." As Missy talked, I began to think about history-making women like Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Madeleine Albright, and other powerful women of their ilk. Not one was known for her quick smile. Missy continued, "The study went on to say a big, warm smile is an asset. But only when it comes a little slower, because then it has .. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 6a289af | But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved his respectability by a vigorous side-step. He did not risk it to save a soul. For how was he to know that there was a soul before him that needed saving? | naturalism soul stephen-crane | Stephen Crane | |
| 1d9f26c | IV Yes, I have a thousand tongues, And nine and nighty-nine lie. Though I strive to use the one, | Stephen Crane | ||
| d108dfa | XX A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, - come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened, Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of me feet. | Stephen Crane | ||
| b6d6378 | Little Birds of the Night" LITTLE birds of the night Aye, they have much to tell Perching there in rows Blinking at me with their serious eyes Recounting of flowers they have seen and loved Of meadows and groves of the distance And pale sands at the foot of the sea And breezes that fly in the leaves. They are vast in experience These little birds that come in the night" -- | Stephen Crane | ||
| 1199d2f | This landscape gave him assurance. A fair field holding life. It was the religion of peace. It would die if its timid eyes were compelled to see blood. He conceived Nature to be a woman with a deep aversion to tragedy. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 3c84f8c | When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no brick and no temples. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 745b448 | LCVI If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing there But a bast blue, | Stephen Crane | ||
| 3be7e06 | But he instantly saw that it would be impossible for him to escape from the regiment. It inclosed him. And there were iron laws of tradition and law on four sides. He was in a moving box | Stephen Crane | ||
| 3c1b74f | There was a man with tongue of wood Who essayed to sing, And in truth it was lamentable. But there was one who heard The clip-clapper of this tongue of wood And knew what the man | belonging contentment inspirational | Stephen Crane | |
| 1707177 | The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks. | war | Stephen Crane | |
| 590552f | He had been a mere man railing at a condition, but now he was out of it and could see that it had been very proper and just. It had been necessary for him to swallow swords that he might have a better throat for grapes. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 95f479c | I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go; but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it. | fool | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 9d219b3 | She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| a0f47e7 | He could see the fish and he had only to look at his hands and feel his back against the stern to know that this had truly happened and was not a dream. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| d7db4da | Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have to spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 530225d | Ulkeyi yoneten bir sinif var, akilsiz bir sinif. Hicbirinin bir boktan anladigi yok. Bu savas bu yuzden cikti iste. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 03a3661 | All remembrance of things past is fiction. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| bc64c9c | He always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as el mar which is masculine. They spoke of her as a contestant or a place o.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| d9d9655 | When it's right you can't remember. Every time you read it again it comes as a great and unbelievable surprise. You can't believe you did it. When it's once right you never can do it again. You only do it once for each thing. And you're only allowed so many in your life. | Ernest Hemingway |