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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bdb45b6 | This way, when I do have something like special-occasion engagement cake, I can enjoy the whole damn thing without a twinge of remorse. I | Jen Lancaster | ||
| a19d980 | Although they're doing manual labor, they're both wearing tailored slacks and dressy leather shoes, which | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 1a541a6 | What about my Girls Gone Mild life leads you to believe I'm a body shot shy of debauchery? Is it the pearls? | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 57ef70d | and World Cuisine educations are on temporary hold since I'm on my way to | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 48eb0a6 | This should be easy because I've fallen out of love with Facebook. First, I want to be the kind of friend who hears about others' milestones in person. I hate learning about major life events buried in a timeline between photos of fresh pedicures and pictures of lunch. When someone close to me has a baby or goes through emergency surgery or suffers a loss, they deserve more than a "like." A click should never take the place of real interact.. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 89eb7af | you know that peanut butter's now considered a hate crime? Because it totally is.] | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 5e126a4 | No one gives out Congratulations on Not Being a Douche-Canoe medals, because good behavior is part of the social contract. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| dbd8f3f | Can I tell you something about Seattle? Everyone there is a filthy liar. They're all, 'Don't move to Seattle--it's so rainy!' And yet every time I've been there, a tiny amount of rain falls before the whole sky explodes into rainbows and sunlight. Seattleites mean to hog up all the stunning vistas and good coffee and flowering bushes for themselves. Bet on it. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 11b9029 | photo developers everywhere are likely the reason my entire generation didn't devolve into total chaos. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| f1a2770 | The difference between social media and a social life is the difference between eating a marshmallow Peep and dining on a tomahawk-cut rib eye: one is substantial and nutritious; the other is just a momentarily satisfying puff of sweetened air, offering no long-term benefits. I can enjoy the fluff, but I can't subsist on it. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 96e30ff | milk, powdered heavy cream, and powdered butter." "Didn't know a lot of these products existed," | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 703c2fd | With the mere click of a mouse, I can be put in my place but good via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, or Google+, just to name a few. (But not MySpace, which has been a ghost town since 2008. I hope Tom's okay.) | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 38e76e2 | Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to say yes, only to have my plans fall through at the last minute and I can take off my regular-people clothes and redon my paint-splattered yoga pants. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 1e1fc69 | But how come no one says anything to my face? I do dozens of events per year and I've met thousands of readers, and every single person I've ever encountered has been lovely. Why is that, I wonder? Am I more charming in person, or is it that face-to-face blunt-force-trauma honesty requires a modicum of courage? | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 8c4a7a2 | You don't have to be a writer, though, to know that making fun of yourself is a good way to deflect being made fun of. Like many people, I am hypercritical about myself so that I beat the haters to the punch. When I acknowledge my foibles first, no one else can use them against me. I've taken away everyone else's power to make me feel less about myself by doing it first. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 2318302 | Let me phrase it like this--do you want to live in the kitchen for the next four days, sweating your ass off while you make a meal it will take twenty minutes to eat? Do you want to attack a pile of dishes for three hours afterward? Do you want to spend a week eating old turkey and cranberry sauce because | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 1b0b9d6 | Sometimes compromise tastes like caramel macchiato. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| d6487ac | all it took to succeed was to stop listening to my internal critic and to just start doing. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 4dad194 | Until he started watching The Walking Dead. Yeah, AMC. Thanks for that. He keeps telling me that I'd enjoy the show, but judging from all the screaming, shooting, and breaking glass I hear from my office every | Jen Lancaster | ||
| f565788 | We are middle-aged. This is what happens. All the same nonsense that comes with puberty occurs again during perimenopause--the hormone surges, the moodiness, and the hair appearing where there wasn't hair before. Except instead of filling in under the arms and on nether regions, these coarse follicles of hate are showing up on our freaking faces. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 31fc966 | I've come to realize this isn't "real" and there's no substitute for actual interaction. The difference between social media and a social life is the difference between eating a marshmallow Peep and dining on a tomahawk-cut rib eye: one is substantial and nutritious; the other is just a momentarily satisfying puff of sweetened air, offering no long-term benefits. I can enjoy the fluff, but I can't subsist on it." | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 685e52a | lives are meant to be our lives, and not a facade presented for the consumption of others; or, WE ARE NOT A MAGAZINE. I worry that younger women are striving so hard to present a compelling story via images that they're ignoring the substance that makes the story true. Ultimately, they're going to end up really bitter later in life (and not the good kind of bitter that sells books). My message to these women is this--if you want to avoid re.. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 73557f0 | Anyone who grew up in a household where carob passed for chocolate and apple pies were actually filled with zucchini will feel me here. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 10455fa | worry that younger women are striving so hard to present a compelling story via images that they're ignoring the substance that makes the story true. Ultimately, they're going to end up really bitter later in life (and not the good kind of bitter that sells books). My message to these women is this--if you want to avoid regrets later, give yourselves a break now and just be real. Enjoy the mess. Revel in the imperfection. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 29d277e | That which went wrong, and that which went right, would have been made easier if I were more focused on my goals. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 6299d30 | I'm not one of those folks who have to face death to live life. I | Jen Lancaster | ||
| f44ad80 | You know what else I haven't seen? Home stores. I've not passed the equivalent of Restoration Hardware or Crate and Barrel or Pottery Barn, so I get the feeling that no one's killing themselves working double shifts so they can consume stuff to make their homes Pinterest-perfect. Maybe the Roman message is to not let your stuff own you. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 90c51d7 | Unistio sam mu to uvjerenje. Bilo je lazno, naravno, ali odrzavalo ga je na zivotu. Vidjevsi ga onako jadnog i slomljenog, zapitao sam se je li bolje biti svjestan i ocajan ili zivjeti u raju za budale. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 023680a | There is one investment truism that, if followed, can dependably increase your investment returns: Minimize your investment costs. We | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| bb24169 | In the 1990s, the ratio of buy to sell recommendations climbed to 100 to 1, particularly for brokerage firms with large investment banking businesses. | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| ee6ebbd | Finding the next Warren Buffett is like looking for a needle in a haystack. We recommend that you buy the haystack instead, in the form of a low-cost index fund. | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| 9cd8edd | put time on your side. Start saving early and save regularly. Live modestly and don't touch the money that's been set aside. | personal-finance | Burton G. Malkiel | |
| 48e10db | Protect yourself: Every investor should always diversify. | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| 1888a27 | WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? The lessons of market history are clear. Styles and fashions in investors' evaluations of securities can and often do play a critical role in the pricing of securities. The stock market at times conforms well to the castle-in-the-air theory. For this reason, the game of investing can be extremely dangerous. Another lesson that cries out for attention is that investors should be very wary of purchasing today's hot "new.. | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| 1b001dd | Content," huh? Ha! Where's the container?" | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 6f1d6e1 | Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. I am human, I think nothing human alien to me. | Kwame Anthony Appiah | ||
| f5b5249 | But it does not in general make sense to suppose that a legislature has an intent in passing a law. Legislation is a political process, in which deals are cut and compromises made. In both the public and the private deliberations about any statute many inconsistent reasons will be offered for framing a clause one way or another; many suggestions, not all of them consonant with one another, will be offered as to what the overall aims of the .. | Kwame Anthony Appiah | ||
| 11781b9 | Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah of Princeton University makes the point that, "In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you are playing." | Sue Johnson | ||
| 896a83e | And that, as we've seen, seems consistent with our broader explanatory habits-with the observation that much of what we say when we're explaining what we've done is confabulation: stories we've made up (though quite sincerely) for ourselves and in response to others. In short-to overstate the point only slightly-because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable.. | Kwame Anthony Appiah | ||
| fda653b | In the world of identity, utterances have functions, separate from their meanings. | Kwame Anthony Appiah | ||
| 7153497 | This view is an instance of what my friend Skip Gates has called "cultural geneticism,"80 It has, in Bertrand Russell's wicked phrase, "the virtues of theft over honest toil." On this view, you earn rights to culture that is marked with the mark of your race-- or your nation--simply by having a racial identity." -- | Kwame Anthony Appiah | ||
| 82a76eb | It does not take a long time to fall to the ground, even from nine stories up. But it took a lifetime for Yetta. It took every single one of the last moments of her life. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 9bd8671 | It's a game we used to play, after we got rid of all our livestock and didn't need our hay no more. You throw a match into the haystack, give the fire a three-second head start, and begin looking. You can find the needle every time if you work quick. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| f659fd5 | I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress. | optimist perspective pessimist poverty viewpoint | Margaret Peterson Haddix |