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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 521fa76 | Forth into the quiet evening, where above the smooth downs the wind was lulled to sleep in the vast silent spaces of the sky. | E.R. Eddison | ||
| a745105 | Surely time past is gone by like a shadow. | time | E.R. Eddison | |
| 3ef8ad8 | He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. Though hast my sword. Strike. Death shall be a sweet rest to me. Thraldom, not death, should terrify me. | courage fear | E.R. Eddison | |
| 793cb7b | With that, the horror shut down upon Juss's soul like madness. | E.R. Eddison | ||
| 25cab16 | These things hath Fate brought to pass, and we be but Fate's whipping-tops bandied what way she will. | E.R. Eddison | ||
| 7878026 | Where were all heroical parts but in Helteranius? and a man might make a garment for the moon sooner than fit the o'erleaping actions of great Jalcanaius, who now leaveth but his body to bedung that earth that was lately shaken at his terror. I have waded in red blood to the knee; and in this hour, in my old years, the world is become for me a vision only and a mock-show. | trauma war | E.R. Eddison | |
| cbba583 | I sware unto you my furtherance if I prevailed. But now is mine army passed away as wax wasteth before the fire, and I wait the dark ferryman who tarrieth for no man. Yet, since never have I wrote mine obligations in sandy but in marble memories, and since victory is mine, receive these gifts: and first thou, O Brandoch Daha, my sword, since before thou wast of years eighteen thou wast accounted the mightiest among men-at-arms. Mightily may.. | gift-giving inheritance mourning | E.R. Eddison | |
| a4d66bf | Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, cleaner, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 113a9ff | give a great deal of attention to keeping his managers and his technical people as interchangeable as their talents allow. The barriers are sociological... To overcome this problem some laboratories, such as Bell Labs, abolish all job titles. Each professional employee is a "member of technical staff." | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 41e494d | The challenge and the mission are to find real solutions to real problems on actual schedules with available resources. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| f1d0d1c | Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 8be3d3d | Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 0eb156f | Everything has been composed, just not yet written down. LETTER TO LEOPOLD MOZART [1780] | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 8e1a9df | By documenting a design, the designer exposes himself to the criticisms of everyone, and he must be able to defend everything he writes. If the organizational structure is threatening in any way, nothing is going to be documented until it is completely defensible. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 944b3b1 | Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. | einstein programming software-development software-engineering | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | |
| fbfd3e5 | Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 80ed3dc | Conway's Law predicts: "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."[1] Conway goes on to point out that the organization chart will initially reflect the first system design, which is almost surely not the right one. If the system design is to be free to change, the organization must be prepared to change." | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 0cb0c8b | Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms. | friendship | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 6b3c812 | In a world without fear of death... people will never attain the hope that is to be found from casting their fears aside and persevering through them. While it is true that people can continue to press forward through the simple act of living... That is in no way comparable to marching forward in the face of death while doing their damnedest to keep it at bay. That is why... that is why people have given that very march a unique and special.. | death meaning-of-love | Tite Kubo | |
| 313b114 | It is not frightening to know misfortune. What is frightening is to know lost happiness will never come back again. | Tite Kubo | ||
| 410144b | The will to go forward will be your guide. Have no doubt. Have no fear. Do not stop. Do not look back. Do not think of those you are leaving behind. Just...go forward. | Tite Kubo | ||
| 6ab3e9e | Even if it doesn't alter or change the end result even in the slightest... making decisions based on convictions that you believe in... and walking your own path... has it's own merit and worth. There's something to be said for not having... even on regret. | belief choice conviction | Tite Kubo | |
| 60c652c | Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can't have just the one. | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 4511039 | Rognons de Veau a la Bordelaise is simplicity itself to make; no different, essentially, from Poulet Saute, and no different, especially, from Bifteck Saute Bercy. In fact, making it that night felt like falling into a time warp- I stood before the stove, melting butter and browning meat and smelling the smells of wine deglazing and shallots softening- but the dishes changed before my eyes, and I heard Julia warbling, "Boeuf Bourguignon is .. | french-food julia-child julie-powell kidneys smells | Julie Powell | |
| 52f4584 | The crunch of the mustard-spiked crust somehow brings the unctuous smooth richness of the liver into sharp relief. It's like the silky soul of steak. You have to close your eyes, let the meat melt on your tongue, into your corpuscles. | tastes | Julie Powell | |
| 921ae95 | At the end I am always alone. | Julie Powell | ||
| f891ab5 | Mas o cinismo persistente deixa uma pessoa rabugenta e, em demasia, pode provocar estragos duradouros no nosso coracao. | Julie Powell | ||
| ec491cf | Somewhere along the way, I discovered that in the physical act of cooking, especially something complex or plain old hard to handle, dwelled unsuspected reservoirs of arousal both gastronomic and sexual. If you are not one of us, the culinarily depraved, there is no way to explain what's so darkly enticing about eviscerating beef marrowbones, chopping up lobster, baking a three-layer pecan cake, and doing it for someone else, offering someo.. | cooking food-and-sex sexy | Julie Powell | |
| 129bf63 | When I got home I peered down at the lobster to see how he was doing. The inner plastic bag was sucked tight around him and clouded up. It looked like something out of an eighties made-for-TV movie, with some washed-up actress taking too many pills and trying to off herself with a Macy's bag. | humor lobster | Julie Powell | |
| f4757ed | The good thing about starting your Thanksgiving feast with Oeufs en Gelee is that everything afterward is going to taste pretty goddamned great by comparison, and by the time we'd gotten through the gorgeously crisp and moist goose, the prunes stuffed with duck liver mousse, the cabbage with chestnuts, the green beans, and the creamed onions, aspic was largely forgotten, and we didn't even mind much that I had begun the Thanksgiving prepara.. | thanksgiving-dinner | Julie Powell | |
| 354e5da | It was 10:30 in the morning and I was already running behind. This is hardly unusual, but it pisses me off every single time. | humorous-quotes life-experience truth-of-life | Julie Powell | |
| afe79bf | Ma o cinismo persistente deixa uma pessoa rabugenta e, em demasia, pode provocar estragos duradouros no nosso coracao. | Julie Powell | ||
| b76e965 | Salome...possibly the least successful play in history. | Julie Powell | ||
| b18b250 | Bo czasami ma sie takie uczucie, kiedy widzi sie, jak ktos sie zakochuje - moze zwlaszcza w przypadku kogos smutnego, trudnego lub z jakiegos innego powodu niedopasowanego do swiata. Uczucie ulgi, prawdziwej, jakbys mogla pozbyc sie ciezaru, ktory nioslas, nie zdajac sobie z tego sprawy. Tak sie wlasnie czulam, patrzac na slub Isabel i Martina. "No, przynajmniej ta sprawa z glowy". Dwoje ludzi, ktorzy mogli sie nie odnalezc. Wydawalo sie, z.. | Julie Powell | ||
| 4ce6022 | How much more interior can you get, after all, than the interior of bones? It's the center of the center of things. If marrow were a geological formation, it would be magma roiling under the earth's mantle. If it were a plant, it would be a delicate moss that grows only in the highest crags of Mount Everest, blooming with tiny white flowers for three days in the Nepalese spring. If it were a memory, it would be your first one, your most pai.. | Julie Powell | ||
| d5b7853 | If Daisy Buchanan's laugh is the sound of money, then a gimlet, well executed, is the color of it. It is just the thing when you are feeling impoverished, financially or spiritually. | Julie Powell | ||
| 88b832a | It did not seem possible, much as he craved the comfort of a woman of intelligence, of humor and balance and perception. | Julie Powell | ||
| 1d1cd0f | For the weekend before, we had had a blowout of tarts, a tart bender, tart madness- even, I dare say, a Tart-a-pa- , if you will forgive one final usage of the construction before we at last bury that cruelly beaten dead pop-culture horse. Tarte aux Peches, Tarte aux Limettes, Tarte aux Poires, Tarte aux Cerises. Tarte aux Fromage Frais, both with and without Pruneaux. Tarte aux Citron et aux Amandes, Tarte aux Poires a la Bourdalue, and Ta.. | fillings french freshness fruit pastries tart | Julie Powell | |
| 3e2580a | Wheels turning, the motorcycle's roar grows steady, which, too, is a form of silence. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 0e80d35 | A lifetime of cannibal hatred | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| d391fd6 | Conceit does not sit well with martyrdom. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 7f9d4b5 | Above all the mighty detest change. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 7eb55d4 | All men are greater than dead men. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 62ba3dd | While waiting for the hidden machinery of messengers and secretaries to relay his request, Achamian wandered into an adjoining courtyard, struck by the other immensities that framed his present circumstance. Even if there were no Consult, no threat of the Second Apocalypse, he realized, nothing would be the same. Kellhus would change the world, not in the way of an Ajencis or a Triamis, but in the way of an Inri Sejenus. This, Achamian real.. | R. Scott Bakker |