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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 752730e | The n'k did not want to be enlightened. They resented the truth as if it threatened them. In this respect, they are most like humans. | Philip José Farmer | ||
| df2efa0 | lalala | Roddy Doyle | ||
| 12115f8 | Brother Jimmy, said Joey the Lips. - I'm worried. - About Dean. - Wha' abou' Dean? - He told me he's been listening to jazz. - What's wrong with tha'? Jimmy wanted to know. - Everything, said Joey the Lips. - Jazz is the antithesis of soul. - I beg your fuckin' pardon! - I'll go along with Joey there, said Mickah. - See, said Joey the Lips. - Soul is the people's music. Ordinary people making music for ordinary people. - Simple music.. | music soul the-commitments | Roddy Doyle | |
| ddb6fbd | An idea sparked in the 1960s, a thought experiment, an amusing haiku, is now a thing of metal and glass. | Janna Levin | ||
| 2e64d99 | Joe's scientific life is defined by these significant near misses... He was Shackleton many times, almost the first: almost the first to see the big bang, almost the first to patent the laser, almost the first to detect gravitational waves. Famous for nearly getting there. | Janna Levin | ||
| 5b22b79 | In the far future, which promises to be vastly longer than our past (like a googolplex of years to our future versus 13.8 billion years to our past), all of the stars in the universe will have run out of fuel. Those that can will collapse to black holes; eventually everything will fall into stellar-mass black holes, and those black holes will fall into supermassive black holes, and then all of the black holes in the universe will eventually.. | physics | Janna Levin | |
| 12cc643 | She would lie still and undisturbed for many years, almost at peace. But above her, on dry land, the nightmare was only just beginning. | Robert Bryndza | ||
| cc83c62 | The healer's job has always been to release something not understood,to remove obstructions (demons, germs, despair) between the sick pa-tient and the force of life driving obscurely toward wholeness. Themeans may be direct--the psychic methods mentioned above--or indi-rect: Herbs can be used to stimulate recovery; this tradition extendsfrom prehistoric wisewomen through the Greek herbal of Dioscoridesand those of Renaissance Europe, to the.. | Robert O. Becker | ||
| 758d35e | The supermarket is still open; it won't close till midnight. It is brilliantly bright. Its brightness offers sanctuary from loneliness and the dark. You could spend hours of your life here, in a state of suspended insecurity, meditating on the multiplicity of things to eat. Oh dear, there is so much! So many brands in shiny boxes, all of them promising you good appetite. Every article on the shelves cries out to you, take me, take me; and t.. | chrisopher-isherwood loneliness supermarts | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 513a4a4 | I mean, what is this life of ours supposed to be for? Are we to spend it identifying each other with catalogues, like tourists in an art gallery? Or are we to try to exchange some kind of a signal, however garbled, before it's too late? | chrisopher-isherwood life | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 4206d84 | Mont Blanc confronted us, dazzling, immense, cut sharp out of the bue sky; more prosterous than the most baroque wedding cake, more convincing than the best photograph. It fairly took my breath away. It made me want to laugh. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| cd54467 | Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped. | isherwood | Christopher Isherwood | |
| e937b1d | If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 846c9bc | Waking up begins with am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 2be56a5 | reason I am telling you all of this is that, according to Harrod, Fern Driscoll | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 5b3f179 | There was that about her which indicated she was warily watchful. | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| e28f0b1 | The whole structure of the law has to be a dignified, imposing edifice and built on firm foundations, if it is going to stand. Whenever you violate the law, you are tearing down a part of that structure, regardless of what goal you may want to achieve. | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 9e1f521 | The best fighters don't worry about what the other man may do. And if they keep things moving fast enough, the other man is too busy to do much thinking. | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 1f8270b | Objected to as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial, | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 1021117 | A nurse," I said, "would be wearing a starched uniform, and she'd have a fever thermometer ready to jab into a patient's mouth at the first sign of acute convalescence." | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| ff085cc | Life is like that. We can only see from birth to death. The rest of it is cut from our vision." Drake" -- | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 6cad617 | Jagiello, Michael E. [IMD]; Dray, Hunter [IMD]; Eng, Edward [IMD]; Yu, Linda [IMD]; Locarno, Chelsey [IMD]; Raverta, Kristen S. [IMD]; Labaudiniere, Margaux [IMD]; Harris, Abigail O. [IMD]; Kellogg, Kenyon [IMD]; Bragdon, Chris [IMD]; Mason, Sydney C [IMD]; Schetman, Elizabeth [IMD]; Martin, Lauren [IMD]; Ferrara, Mark M. [IMD]; Glennon, Sara [IMD]; Romano, Christian J. [IMD]; Kieran, Michaela E. [IMD]; Holdstock, Evan [IMD]; Barrile, David.. | Maggie Stiefvater | ||
| 5db0323 | British Imperialism has been engaged, during the last two hundred years, in conferring upon its victims the dubious benefits of the Bible, the Bottle and the Bomb. And of these three, I might perhaps venture to add, the Bomb has been infinitely the least noxious. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 763363b | Oh, I know you. You're soft, like most men. You make up romances about people instead of seeing them as they are. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| abc9b78 | she acted as a kind of rough and ready chemical reagent; in certain combinations she produced certain known results. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| c51ee73 | i dokle god je odgovor pravi, koga briga sto je pitanje krivo? | Norton Juster | ||
| 089efab | To say time is evil because evil happens in time is like saying the ocean is a fish because fish happen in the ocean. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 5ad390f | Most of the time, thank goodness, we suffer quite stupidly and unreflectingly, like the animals. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 76b9497 | I always look upon the capacity to save money as little short of miraculous. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 98b5ac9 | You're a nice boy," she chuckled harshly. "You must come round here one evening. I'll teach you something you didn't know before." | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 32dd7e3 | Why do I prefer boys? Because of their shape and their voices and their smell and the way they move. And boys can be so romantic. I can put them into my myth and fall in love with them. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 956957a | Sometimes Arthur talked about his childhood. As a boy he was delicate and had never been sent to school. An only son, he lived alone with his widowed mother, whom me adored. Together they studied literature and art; together they visted Paris, Baden-Baden, Rome, moving always in the best society, from Schloss to chateau, from chateau to palace, gentle, charming, appreciative; in a state of perpeutal tender anxiety about each other's health. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| af0b4ef | Finally, after a glance at Notre Dame and a brisk trot through the Louvre, we sat down at a cafe on the Place de l'Opera and watched the people. They were amazing -- never had we seen such costumes, such make-up, such wigs; and, strangest of all, the wearers didn't seem in the least conscious of how funny they looked. Many of them even stared at us and smiled, as though we had been the oddities, and not they. Mr. Holmes no doubt found it am.. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| a2925cb | She is merely acclimatizing herself, in accordance with a natural law, like an animal which changes its coat for the winter. Thousands of people like Frl. Schroeder are acclimatizing themselves. After all, whatever government is in power, they are doomed to live in this town. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 336d989 | Chalmers, thanks to Baudelaire, knew all about Taffreuse Juive, opium, absinthe, negresses, Lesbos and the metamorphoses of the vampire ... Needless to say, Chalmers and myself were both virgins, in every possible meaning of the word. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 3f362c2 | he couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Yet how I wish he had! His introduction to sexual experience would, I feel sure, have been a masterpiece of tact; it might well have speeded up our development by a good five years. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 3fd26cb | George is very far, right now, from sneering at any of these fellow creatures. They may be crude and mercenary and dull and low, but he is proud, is glad, is almost indecently gleeful to be able to stand up and be counted in their ranks--the ranks of that marvelous minority, The Living. They don't know their luck, these people on the sidewalk, but George knows his--for a little while at least--because he is freshly returned from the icy pre.. | survivor the-living | Christopher Isherwood | |
| aec6c93 | No. Even now I can't altogether believe that any of this really happened... | good-bye-to-berlin | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 8f3b6fb | The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree. | gramophone music | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 746491e | John Gielgud told us this story about Mae West. She was asked, 'Do you ever smoke after you've had sex?' She answered, 'I never looked. | gay-authors jokes | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 264931f | Tako kad nema bas nista, uvijek imas i vise nego dovoljno. To je vrlo ekonomican sistem. | Norton Juster | ||
| 9a3cb20 | It was "not so much the [lack of] leisure, but also the nervous tension. One comes back to one's native land and sees that one has been abandoned." - Antheil" | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 148265e | The concoction of the Protocols was probably the work of the head of the czarist secret police outside Russia, a Paris-based agent named Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky. Borrowing and paraphrasing Machiavelli's speeches without even bothering to change their order and attributing them to a secret Jewish council, Rachkovsky was attempting to discredit Russian liberalism by showing it to be a Jewish plot. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| b83f8e7 | Sto vise zelis, to manje dobivas, a sto manje dobivas, sve vise imas. | Norton Juster |