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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cc67476 | The world may end up] under a Sword of Damocles ... on a tightrope over the abyss. | Andrei Gromyko | ||
| 6f637f4 | I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen. | Andrei Tarkovsky | ||
| 516e232 | The meaning of religious truth is hope. | Andrei Tarkovsky | ||
| 8a5af2e | An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty. | Andrei Tarkovsky | ||
| 5fbab05 | Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema. | Andrei Tarkovsky | ||
| a59145b | Thus in the end their relationship did in some senses come to resemble that of siblings, in that friendship was its strongest element, and unlike many passions, theirs managed to cool slowly, without curdling into its reverse, anger, except intermittently. Of this, in later years, both were glad, and both would also wonder if this meant that they had made a mistake, that if they had but waited and watched their relationship would have flowe.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 2e554ba | PARENTS FIRST MET they were | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| e65fd16 | but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does. Saeed | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 864842d | A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. | Andrei Tarkovsky | ||
| 3ab509c | He'd heard of it. It gave you ironic distance--a very now kind of high. Conspiracy people thought it was too zeitgeisty to be a coincidence, claimed it was spread to soften the population for its miserable lot. In his day--eight years before--the scourge had been called "Now," something they gave to source-code auditors and drone pilots to give them robotic focus. He'd eaten a shit-ton of it while working on zepps. It made him feel like a h.. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 6d59476 | The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best. | Andrei Zhdanov | ||
| 5eb6c32 | It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it. | Andrejs Dunkels | ||
| 227d7d0 | Education doesn't have aims. It is the aim of other things. | Andrew Abbott | ||
| a65b424 | War is an unvarnished evil. | Andrew Bacevich | ||
| 97b95c6 | The important things don't need to be said. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c94c096 | Politics is downstream of culture. | Andrew Breitbart | ||
| af388df | Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves. | Andrew Carnegie | ||
| 0c76b64 | I set things down and locked up my wards and the heavy steel door I'd had installed after a big, bad demon had huffed and puffed and blown down the original. It wasn't until I had them all firmly secured that I let out a slow breath and started to relax. The living room was lit only by the embers of the fire and a few tiny flames. From the kitchen alcove, I heard the soft thumping sound of Mouse's tail wagging against the icebox | Jim Butcher | ||
| 06225b1 | Butters," I said, "Don't give me statistics on heart failure. Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it." | fear survival | Jim Butcher | |
| 7a88641 | It's not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it. | harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 774f5a0 | I shook my head, bewildered. They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we've got nothing, nothing at all, on women. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8a4ab88 | deosil, | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2f0a2ed | You got that paper cup? Right, then. All we need is a stuffed animal.' He stared at me. 'Wh-what did you say?' 'A stuffed animal, man!' I roared at him. 'Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding! | Jim Butcher | ||
| 94af158 | After that, my whole body felt deliciously warm, monstrously tired, and the sleep that had evaded me seemed, finally, to be within reach. It got dark. It got quiet. And I realized that I was all by myself. "Die alone," whispered a bitter, hateful old man's voice." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4c2278a | But hardly old. Went silver early, I'd say. That's always attractive in a man. It means he has both power enough to have responsibilities and conscience enough to worry over them. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ecc8b29 | At the end of the day . . . some son of a bitch had freaking killed me. That's not the kind of thing you can just let stand. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5cbee0c | You can't beat the Fair Folk as housekeepers. You also can't tell people about them, because they'll pack up and clear out. Why? I have no idea. They're faeries, and that's just how it works. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 61767e9 | I feel stupid." "Good," Michael said. "It's good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn." -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| f3a2f73 | It was business," I said, enunciating. "Morelli can find pushers and pimps anywhere. A decent accountant is invaluable. I sent his bookkeeper back as a gesture of respect." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0bbc3b9 | Goodness, think of what trouble they'd be in if Folly hadn't practiced. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c410976 | They ambushed us." "But . . ." Bridget said. "Gwen . . . the fight started when you [shot] into that officer's face." "It is hardly my fault if they did not ambush us more effectively than they did," | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0a5627f | Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves. | Andrew Carnegie | ||
| 6f5ad30 | The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. | Andrew Carnegie | ||
| 541e908 | The force of the blast did not scatter the crystals, as Bridget's common sense told her it absolutely should have. Instead it just seemed to disperse, spreading out like a wave. Where the wave spread, the little crystals burst into hot, angry light. And abruptly and all at once, they rose into the air in a cloud of glowing motes. Folly appeared among them, striding forward, flickers of light dancing along her candy-stripe hair, her mismatch.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 77b87f2 | Ah. Ah! A man of modesty, either so false that it may be true or so true that it seems entirely false. I can see why Bayard speaks so well of you, sir. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 60c3c1c | Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect. | humor kids storm_front | Jim Butcher | |
| 28c055d | myself under control. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a1a8e08 | For the first time ever, Mickey Mouse let me down. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 98d21b6 | After all, Bob himself was, essentially, a spiritual creature created from the energy of thought. The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level--there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures In the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort. | Jim Butcher | ||
| fa502f2 | We're always disappointed when we find out someone has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ef1d1f1 | Death comes, old man. Its hand is on your heart now. And your life has been spent in vain. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 87ca5b9 | I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts. | humor women | Jim Butcher | |
| c9fe3b9 | Sometimes you get what's coming around. And sometimes, you are what's coming around. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 80ed1be | If the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all things exist in accord with a single truth: Large things are made of smaller things. Drops of ink are shaped into letters, letters form words, words form sentences, and sentences combine to express thought. | Jim Butcher |