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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f4839d5 | If I forget about the pain, I might also forget that it was a really stupid idea to do it in the first place. | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| 476886c | It's a plant." Burke's father stared at the laptop's screen, peering over his glasses at the photos as Burke brought them up. "It's not a plant, Ed," Lucy said, looking at Burke and shaking her head. "It's about the of the image." Burke's father snorted. "Well, it like a plant." He turned to his son. "I'm not saying it's not pretty. But it's a plant." | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| 7fbedea | Do you know what it's like to have everyone expect you to be the best at something? | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| 6b322a2 | How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evenings? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. But I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved. | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| cb02d51 | I'm just saying that sometimes forgetting how much things hurt makes you do them again. And that's not always such a hot idea. | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| 225f696 | Where's the skill in throwing a hook loaded with tempting bait into the general vicinity of lots of perpetually hungry creatures with brains the size of mustard seeds? You might as well go to a playground, scatter Reese's peanut butter cups around, and club to death the first four year old foolish enough to approach, believing innocently that such treats are readily available in nature. | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| 6a3120d | MY FIRST SUMMER living in New York, I couldn't wait for | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| f5656f9 | I mean, sure this guy is a little nuts. You have to spend your whole life following bears around. But I get it, too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'd gotten trouble for drinking too much and using drugs. They didn't ask him a bunch of stupid questions about how he felt, or why he did what he did. They just let them be who he was. | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| dbbb393 | Fuck!" he said, the purity and forcefulness of the profanity cleansing in its simplicity. Fuck. Odd, he thought, how the word considered the most unutterable should be the one that represented, for many, the greatest pleasure of which the human body was capable. The sacred and the profane, he supposed, the ultimate proof of the perversity of human nature, to make a curse of the very act that kept the species in existence." | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| 16fc42b | Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason. | religion | Michael Thomas Ford | |
| d4ad8d4 | The sweetest, best kind of dates are Medjools. They're large, so they are easy to fill, meaty, and chewy. Stuffed with goat cheese and wrapped in prosciutto, they provide a perfect sweet-salty mouthful in every bite. Serve these with a crisp white wine as the ideal before-dinner tidbit. | Giada De Laurentiis | ||
| 3176497 | I don't keep a lot in my freezer, but one thing you'll always find there is a package of frozen peas. They're sweet, they have a lovely green color, and when pureed they can satisfy a craving for a starchy food. If you're not a big fan of peas, at least give this a try. I think it's going to be your new favorite thing. I can't resist eating it straight out of the bowl! | Giada De Laurentiis | ||
| 4b81e11 | Only the mascarpone and the ladyfingers in this lemony dessert give a nod to a traditional tiramisu, but my California spin on this beloved dessert is just as addictive. I think lemon makes everything taste a bit lighter (so I can eat more without feeling weighed down!), and the hazelnuts add a delicate flavor and lots of crunch. So while no one will mistake this for the original, I promise it will make anyone you serve it to very, very hap.. | Giada De Laurentiis | ||
| 33ce0f5 | An Italian brunch wouldn't be complete without a pasta dish. Campanelle pasta is named for the church bells it resembles, and the nooks and crannies are great for trapping sauce, making every bite delicious. If you can't find campanelle, any small shaped pasta will do. There are lots of bold flavors in this pasta salad, the base of which is canned tuna. Although it's definitely more caloric, tuna packed in olive oil rather than water gives .. | Giada De Laurentiis | ||
| 11a115d | It's a science. There are people out there who are experts at getting others to do tomorrow what was unthinkable today. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 7d3ee9d | SIMPLE BOLOGNESE When we were kids, this was our favorite sauce, hands down. I used to love it on everything--pasta, rice, bread, potatoes, and polenta--you name it, I covered it in bolognese. We went through a lot of it in my household. So my parents had to figure out a way to make it that was quicker than the traditional recipe, and here it is. It's just as rich and mouthwatering as the more time-consuming traditional recipe; I promise yo.. | Giada De Laurentiis | ||
| 5d07071 | Only a fool believes that life has but one meaning. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| b8e781d | He was an abomination precisely because they saw his humanity, but degraded it and would not recognize it. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 201531b | He opened the door and headed into the kitchen. The kitchen table was a mess, done up in Early American Homework. Thomas's algebra textbook was open to a problem that asked him to complete the square in the quadratic function f given by f(x) = 2x2 - 6x = 4. A number two pencil lay snuggled in the book's crevice. Sheets of white-with-light-blue-squares graph paper were strewn everywhere. Some of the sheets had fallen to the floor. Adam | Harlan Coben | ||
| f8c1eff | Gaelic language and culture is inseparable from the future success of the Scottish economy. | Alex Salmond | ||
| 2ca2f54 | and went on to colonize the next island again. It was a hitherto unprecedented | Jared Diamond | ||
| feab184 | explanation of causes | Jared Diamond | ||
| 4039c37 | The table gives major crops, of five crop classes, from early agricultural sites in various parts of the world. Square brackets enclose names of crops first domesticated elsewhere; names not enclosed in brackets refer to local domesticates. Omitted are crops that arrived or became important only later, such as bananas in Africa, corn and beans in the eastern United States, and sweet potato in New Guinea. Cottons are four species of the genu.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| d81a2e5 | By selecting and growing those few species of plants and animals that we can eat, so that they constitute 90 percent rather than 0.1 percent of the biomass on an acre of land, we obtain far more edible calories per acre. As a result, one acre can feed many more herders and farmers--typically, 10 to 100 times more--than hunter-gatherers. That strength of brute numbers was the first of many military advantages that food-producing tribes gaine.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| f13b9a7 | The humans who domesticated animals were the first to fall victim to the newly evolved germs, but those humans then evolved substantial resistance to the new diseases. When such partly immune people came into contact with others who had had no previous exposure to the germs, epidemics resulted in which up to 99 percent of the previously unexposed population was killed. Germs thus acquired ultimately from domestic animals played decisive rol.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 59c7921 | In short, plant and animal domestication meant much more food and hence much denser human populations. The resulting food surpluses, and (in some areas) the animal-based means of transporting those surpluses, were a prerequisite for the development of settled, politically centralized, socially stratified, economically complex, technologically innovative societies. Hence the availability of domestic plants and animals ultimately explains why.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 6f163f8 | Pleistocene | Jared Diamond | ||
| f9beffb | the end of the hunter-gatherer way of life. Ever since this transition, which began about six hundred generations ago, the human species' punishment has been to toil miserably as farmers, growing our daily bread rather than plucking luscious fruits just there for the taking. In a rare instance of accord, creationists and evolutionary biologists agree that it has been downhill for humans ever since. According to Jared Diamond, farming was th.. | Daniel E. Lieberman | ||
| 7858df0 | Most peasant farmers and herders, who constitute the great majority of the world's actual food producers, aren't necessarily better off than hunter-gatherers. Time budget studies show that they may spend more rather than fewer hours per day at work than hunter-gatherers do. | hunter-gatherer | Jared Diamond | |
| d0ea392 | Sex in social mammals is generally carried out in public, before the gazes of other members of the troop. | mating mating-ritual public-sex sex | Jared Diamond | |
| 36333a7 | Sex is flagrantly separated from reproduction in a few species, including bonobos and dolphins. | dolphin sex | Jared Diamond | |
| ee421a3 | big-bang reproduction, or semelparity: a single reproductive effort, followed by preprogrammed death. | mating-ritual sex | Jared Diamond | |
| 936e9ce | The daddy-at-home theory posits that concealed ovulation evolved to promote monogamy, to force the man to stay home, and thus to bolster his certainty about his paternity of his wife's children. The many-fathers theory instead posits that concealed ovulation evolved to give the women access to many sex partners and thus to leave many men uncertain as to whether they sired her children. | ovulation sex | Jared Diamond | |
| b5e6943 | throughout human history farmers have tended to despise hunter-gatherers as primitive, hunter-gatherers have despised farmers as ignorant, and herders have despised both. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 75d86a3 | Thus, Taiwan Strait may have served as the training ground where mainland Chinese developed the open-water maritime skills that would permit them to expand over the Pacific. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 11aafc2 | climate. Perhaps | Jared Diamond | ||
| 708977a | literacy made the Spaniards heirs to a huge body of knowledge about human behavior and history. | Jared Diamond | ||
| a737715 | The near-simultaneous disappearance of so many large species raises an obvious question: what caused it? An obvious possible answer is that they were killed off or else eliminated indirectly by the first arriving humans. Recall | Jared Diamond | ||
| 75bff36 | If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. | Gordon Korman | ||
| fbeb919 | Guns, Germs and Steel Infectious diseases introduced [into America] with Europeans ... spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. - Jared Diamond | Craig A. James | ||
| 64a0fc6 | 1) Risk-taking behavior, essential for efforts at innovation, is more widespread in some societies than in others. (2) The scientific outlook is a unique feature of post-Renaissance European society that has contributed heavily to its modern technological preeminence. (3) Tolerance of diverse views and of heretics fosters innovation, whereas a strongly traditional outlook (as in China's emphasis on ancient Chinese classics) stifles it. (4) .. | Jared Diamond | ||
| c2e9373 | The underlying reason why this transition was piecemeal is that food production systems evolved as a result of the accumulation of many separate decisions about allocating time and effort. Foraging humans, like foraging animals, have only finite time and energy, which they can spend in various ways. We can picture an incipient farmer waking up and asking: Shall I spend today hoeing my garden (predictably yielding a lot of vegetables several.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 995ec0c | the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss put it, ancient writing's main function was "to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings." | Jared Diamond | ||
| 08bd1cf | ONLY a few areas of the world developed food production independently, and they did so at widely differing times. From those nuclear areas, hunter-gatherers of some neighboring areas learned food production, and peoples of other neighboring areas were replaced by invading food producers from the nuclear areas--again at widely differing times. Finally, peoples of some areas ecologically suitable for food production neither evolved nor acquir.. | Jared Diamond |