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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cc03e10 | You can't photograph anything really supernatural," I pointed out. "The energies around things like that will mess up cameras." | Jim Butcher | ||
| fd39474 | It had not been precisely a fruitful meeting, but it had been a long one. | Avram Davidson | ||
| 90347ef | Juchniewicz silenced Cogan with a communique of unusual clarity: "Higher authority wants a mean fucker in the job." | George Crile | ||
| f4eb457 | It's not a matter of who runs first or who runs last. It's merely a matter of who gets caught. | Avram Davidson | ||
| 6da9445 | Seven cities claimed blind Homer, dead,Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread. | Avram Davidson | ||
| 88a164f | It was a distinction without a difference. | Avram Davidson | ||
| 74ac8e1 | I hearing get, who had but ears, | Awakening | ||
| 199a8f2 | To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. | Awareness | ||
| 9e64583 | Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom. | Awareness | ||
| 5821732 | Let's not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. | Awareness | ||
| ef55440 | The surgeons couldn't take their performance with them. They weren't getting better at performing coronary artery bypass grafts. They were becoming more familiar with particular nurses and anesthesiologists, learning about their strengths and weaknesses, habits, and styles. This familiarity helped them avoid patient deaths, but it didn't carry over to other hospitals. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 7f20f36 | God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. | Awkwardness | ||
| fe45fe4 | With ridiculous and awkward action,Which, slanderer, he imitation calls. | Awkwardness | ||
| 96d68e4 | Kuntaw died on the most beautiful day in a thousand years. The October air was sweet and every faint breath a pleasure. Wind stirred and he said, "Our wind reaching me here." A small cloud formed in the west. "Our small cloud coming to me." The hours passed and the small cloud formed a dark wall and approached. A drop fell, another, many, and Kuntaw said, "Our rain wetting my face." His people came near him, drawing him into their eyes, and.. | Annie Proulx | ||
| a365449 | The sun was going down. Every open evening, the hills of Derbyshire were blazed over with red sunset. Mrs. Morel watched the sun sink from the glistening sky, leaving a soft flower-blue overhead, while the western space went red, as if all the fire had swum down there, leaving the bell cast flawless blue. The mountain-ash berries across the field stood fierily out from the dark leaves, for a moment. A few shocks of corn in a corner of the f.. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 1b670b8 | Samantha imagined that in another life, she and Alison could have, indeed, been friends. Had she not been about to rob the train. | highlander historical-romance notorious-rake romance scotland wild-west | Kerrigan Byrne | |
| 21d4d0c | A bald eagle perched in a dead tree, watching us. The landscape was bold. Not only was the property on the North Platte River but the river ran through it, taking an east-west turn for a few miles in its course. The land was a section, 640 acres, a square mile of riparian shrubs and cottonwood, some wetland areas during June high water, sage flats and a lot of weedy overgrazed pasture (46). | Annie Proulx | ||
| cf557de | Alison's gaze gentled. "Tell me, Samantha, have you ever been to Scotland?" | brawn-highlander historical lord notorious-rake romance wild-west | Kerrigan Byrne | |
| 73b75b3 | Tis best to weight the enemy more mighty than he seems." Or she, as was this particular case." | highlander-romance notorious-rake scotland train-robbery wild-west | Kerrigan Byrne | |
| 1e3160a | Though her muscles went rigid, her tongue sparred with his, as he might have guessed it would. Each lick and swirl, each plunge and retreat became a point counted for or against. Gavin had never enjoyed a woman's mouth so much in his entire life. | highlander historical-romance scot wild-west | Kerrigan Byrne | |
| 96f980a | Durante tutti gli anni trascorsi nel campo mi ha detto di non aver mai, neanche una volta, sentito pronunciare la parole amore. | Blaine Harden | ||
| 11db89c | her wrist, warm and fragile, tugging it away from the other man. Instantly she drew a sharp, hissing breath. Her head swung round, eyes widening and pupils dilating as she saw him. Those soft brown eyes had once, too long ago, looked adoringly at him. And he, like a fool, had thought they always would. Matteo had learned his lesson. He took nothing for granted anymore. 'Hello, Angela.' His face felt tight as he smiled. Was he smiling or gri.. | Annie West | ||
| 81691af | What Avrakotos says he found particularly distasteful about the British spies were "the fucking teas. Can you believe it, they interrupted meetings every day at three-thirty or four for tea and cookies." | George Crile | ||
| 8927b08 | In the 1950s Detroit was undergoing changes in the city and factories with enormous political consequences. When I arrived in Detroit the city had just begun Urban Renewal (which blacks renamed "Negro Removal") in the area near downtown where most blacks were concentrated. Hastings Street and John R, the two main thoroughfares that were the hub of the commerce and nightlife of the black community, were still alive with pedestrians. Large se.. | Grace Lee Boggs | ||
| 5a9c02c | hiring stars is advantageous neither to stars themselves, in terms of their performance, nor to hiring companies in terms of their market value. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 828ff90 | of those differences, there are some things that remain the same. In 1982, the U.S. economy was in its worst recession since the Great Depression, and the nation's business leaders were looking for someone or something to blame. Sound familiar? Since SAT scores had been in a twenty-year decline (because lots of average and below-average students, and not just the rich kids, were taking the | Jim Trelease | ||
| 64803bc | What is he collecting them for? | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| 8af797f | The woodman's axe lies free,And the reaper's work is done. | Axe | ||
| 3dedcbb | Whenever there is excess, an axe remedies it! | Axe | ||
| 03b8748 | Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas. | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | ||
| 3810593 | Visual receptors in the brain outnumber auditory receptors 30:1.32 In other words, the chances of a word (or sentence) being retained in our memory bank are thirty times greater if we see it instead of just hear it. | Jim Trelease | ||
| 4e5110a | And believe me, next to sex, washing and styling a woman's hair is about as intimate as you can get with her. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 030b45c | Grace deeply identified with Mead's view that ideas evolve historically. "Unlike the average American teacher of philosophy of his day," she wrote, Mead "urged his students to relate the ideas of the great philosophers to the periods in which they lived and the social problems which they faced." 99 For example, in his book Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century (1936), a collection of lectures Mead delivered in his history of philos.. | Stephen Ward | ||
| 9aaa9f4 | Jimmy likely wrote all three editorials, and one, titled "Who Is for Law and Order?" carried his byline. He argued that the spectacle, seen in other recent conflicts and then repeated most dramatically in the Little Rock crisis, of white people defying police as well as state and federal troops raised the question, "If white people defy the Constitution, who then are the law-abiding citizens of the U.S. and who is for democracy?" Inherent i.. | Stephen M. Ward | ||
| c7095a0 | Remarkably, Grace never considered pursuing a career and very rarely sought consistent employment. At no time in her long life was Grace driven by the question of how to make a living. Accordingly, political considerations frequently guided her choices about employment, including where to work, for how long, and even whether to take a job. This set of choices, of course, was available to her because of the relative material security she enj.. | Stephen M. Ward | ||
| 3dd6883 | I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim. | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | ||
| 7690cc7 | As a tribe we are fragmented; as clans, scattered; as families, dysfunctional. | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | ||
| 17282e8 | In a way these threats motivate me. They have given my voice more legitimacy. | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | ||
| ae62c23 | What are you complaining about? If they don't want you over here, why don't you go over on Hastings Street and get yourself something?" This led to the following exchange: DAC members: We don't want to eat on Hastings. We want to eat here. Police officer: Well, the man said he don't want to serve you. DAC members: Yes, but the law says he has to serve us. This could lead to "an argument with the police officer, but he eventually would write.. | Stephen Ward | ||
| a9a8bfa | In Connecticut, for example, a man confessed to having had sexual relations with a variety of animals since the age of ten; Massachusetts executed several teenage boys for buggery. Sexual relations with animals required harsh punishment, for colonists believed that these unions could have reproductive consequences. The mating of humans and animals, they feared, would produce monstrous offspring. For this reason, colonists insisted on punish.. | John D'Emilio | ||
| dead90a | By the twentieth century, when the individual had replaced the family as the primary economic unit, the tie between sexuality and reproduction weakened further. Influenced by psychology as well as by the growing power of the media, both men and women began to adopt personal happiness as a primary goal of sexual relations. Various | John D'Emilio | ||
| 032c4c3 | The brainstorm became known as eCAP (El Crystal Audiobook Project) and added up to sixty iPod kits (from grant money), along with six hundred audiobooks. When a teacher identifies a non-proficient reader, she sits down with the student and they construct a fifteen-book playlist from the school's master list and load it into an iPod. The kit that accompanies it includes the book's text, a charger, headphones, and any necessary instructions. .. | Jim Trelease | ||
| da3bdcb | Which teacher has the bigger influence? Where is more time available for change? Those two numbers--900 and 7,800--will appear over and over in this book. | Jim Trelease | ||
| e1b7c9c | The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared | Jim Trelease |