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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 233f9b6 | I'm not on the side of elephants or people, Goma. I'm on the side against stupidity. | Alastair Reynolds | ||
| cafc076 | Clearly we missed something.""You have a fine talent for understatement." | Alastair Reynolds | ||
| fb8b276 | As I walk behind her down the halls, it happens. I shrink inch by inch until I am no longer an adult, but a baby toddling along in a comically oversized business suit. I have been pretending to be a grown-up this whole time. My briefcase is full of milk: I have been found out. 'This, then, is home. What is home? Is it a sort of lap of location, that exists only if certain conditions are in place? Is it the intersection of rigidity and comfo.. | family home parents parents-and-children | Patricia Lockwood | |
| 7505dfc | If I've learned one thing in my long existence, it's that hesitation gets you nowhere. | Alastair Reynolds | ||
| 0e760ea | Better by far that famous poster of the Red Army woman with one hand on her hip, another on her bemedaled breast, standing sentry-straight before a bullet-pocked German wall, her red-starred cap at an angle to show off her hair (short, yet feminine) as she smiles into the sideways future! Thus runs the Russian view. On the other side we merely need to quote our Fuhrer's dictum that the Germans--this is essential--will have to constitute amo.. | William T. Vollmann | ||
| 5892f63 | Then we'd be living a lie," Padme told him gently. "And one we couldn't keep" | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| d1a1f70 | Lord Daner isn't my boyfriend," Eleret said, annoyed. She'd let it go by once, but after two mentions, she had to correct him. Karvonen would drive her crazy if he kept referring to Daner that way. "Huh." Karvonen pursed his lips skeptically. "I'll bet it's not because he didn't try." | eleret humor humour karvonen | Patricia C. Wrede | |
| 9f1e6d8 | You don't understand," Mairelon said dully. "Kim doesn't want to marry a toff." Was that what was bothering him? "Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nod cocks!" Kim said with as much indignation as she could muster. "I was talking about the marquis, not about you!" Mairelon's eyes kindled. "Then you would?" "You've whiddled it," Kim informed him." | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 16ba0e8 | Amidala, Panaka, and about half the troops climbed through; the others, and the Queen's handmaidens, stayed in the hall to hold off the battle droids. The | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 6f4aa12 | could land or take off from the planet. They hoped that the young Queen of Naboo would agree quickly to their demands. Then they could use Naboo as an example to persuade or force other planets to do the same. But | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 7307458 | We have made the perilous journey through the tunnels to see the Princess Cimorene, newly come to these caverns, to comfort her and together bemoan our sad and sorry fates," the first princess said haughtily. "Tell her we are here." "I'm Cimorene," Cimorene said. "I don't need comforting, and I'm not particularly sad or sorry to be here, but if you'd like to come in and have some tea, you're welcome to." The" | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| b305257 | I'm the King, and I say you go to the dungeon instead of fighting wizards, and no argument. | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 631ef02 | The last dragon was apparently still too young to have made up its mind which sex it wanted to be; it didn't have any horns at all. | gender-identity | Patricia C. Wrede | |
| f426dd5 | the Queen of Alkyra can consort with whoever the Black she pleases! | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 86f4604 | The jelly burbled unhappily to itself. It looked as if it were boiling. The little dragon kept staring at it, and suddenly the dragon's eyes started to glow. "I know what this reminds me of!" it said triumphantly. "Dessert!" The quozzel shrieked and collapsed backward into the darkness just as the dragon's head shot toward it." | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 20f557e | must tell them sometime," Alethia said. "I would rather get it over with now. And they are conveniently on our doorstep." | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 59618a4 | We each must fulfill our own obligation. | William T. Vollmann | ||
| 7b5e82e | Socioeconomic formations versus an officer's heels on a parquet floor, which would I choose? | William T. Vollmann | ||
| bed07fd | Oh, I'm not perfect--not by a long stretch. I just make the rest of you look bad. | Alastair Reynolds | ||
| 3573957 | There is a moment in The Great Gatsby when Jay Gatsby introduces Nick Carraway to Meyer Wolfsheim, mentioning offhandedly that he is the man who fixed the 1919 World Series. The idea staggers Gatsby's idealistic young friend. Of course, Carraway knew the series had been thrown. But "if I had thought of it at all," he says, "I would have thought of it as a thing that merely happened, the end of some inevitable chain." It was unbelievable to .. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 107acf6 | Had he won the battle of Stalingrad, he would have been sitting there, too; for any war against our Soviet Union must be a lost war. (That | William T. Vollmann | ||
| 35443ac | As the great Moltke used to say, Genius is diligence. | William T. Vollmann | ||
| 732ca66 | Now you're scaring me.""If you were not scared, you don't understand the situation." | Alastair Reynolds | ||
| b8cf91f | The best music always results from ecstasies of logic. | Alban Berg | ||
| 74f93fd | The Albanians have hacked their way through history, sword in hand. | Albania | ||
| f28e2bc | Morn dawns: and with it stern Albania's hills...Robed half in mist, bedewed with snowy rills. | Albania | ||
| 92165f4 | he had always longed to let himself go, sinking and spinning into something greater than himself; and his mind quite naturally worked to consider every facet of every question; so when he was with Coca, who transformed twenty facets into twenty thousand, he could get dizzy if he weren't careful; so he always avoided drawing her into his own perplexities; what | William T. Vollmann | ||
| 843ddd5 | Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information. I | William T. Vollmann | ||
| f37c451 | Crowley's London flat was the epitome of style. It was everything that a flat should be: spacious, white, elegantly furnished, and with that designer unlived in look that only comes from not being lived in. | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6be9f57 | How do you think it will happen?' 'Well, thermonuclear extinction has always been very popular. Although the big boys are being quite polite to each other at the moment.' 'Asteroid strike?' said Aziraphale. 'Quite the fashion these days, I understand. Strike into the Indian Ocean, great big cloud of dust and vapour, goodbye all higher life forms.' 'Wow,' said Crowley. taking care to exceed the speed limit. Every little helped. 'Doesn't bea.. | Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman | ||
| 384617a | Oh, the grand old Duke of York He had Ten Thousand Men | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0c00bb3 | When I agreed to give this address, I started trying to think what the best advice I'd been given over the years was. And it came from Stephen King twenty years ago, at the height of the success of Sandman. I was writing a comic that people loved and were taking seriously. King had like Sandman and my novel with Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, and he saw a madness, the long signing lines, all that, and his advice was this: "This is really grea.. | enjoy-life enjoy-the-ride relax worry | Neil Gaiman | |
| bb3d68a | Then he lit some incense, which was not necessary but did make the place smell nice. | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett | ||
| b574ca0 | Do you know what this is? .. This is a Sainsbury's plant mister | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9cd8758 | They) weren't, when you got right down to it, | Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett | ||
| 32cc201 | L. Moholy-Nagy once wrote: Penetration of the body with light is one of the greatest visual experiences. And so I came back into my Germany, the real Germany, where the sunlight was as white as Heydrich's hands. | William T. Vollmann | ||
| 1c1e07d | Whenever I opened one, T. Ray said, "Who do you think you are, Julius Shakespeare?" The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival." | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 0e4ccdf | Wittgenstein was very much against women's suffrage for no particular reason except that 'all women he knows are such idiots'. | Ray Monk | ||
| 52d5f92 | What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent. | Ray Monk | ||
| 50d6d6b | Instead of teaching doctrines and developing theories, Wittgenstein came to think, a philosopher should demonstrate a technique, a method of achieving clarity. | Ray Monk | ||
| 28ef082 | Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise. | Ray Monk | ||
| 62dca3b | You say you seek God, but a ray of light doesn't seek the sun; it's coming from the sun. You are a branch on the vine of God. A branch doesn't seek the vine; it's already part of the vine. A wave doesn't look for the ocean; it's already full of ocean. Because you don't know that who you are is one with God, you believe all these labels about yourself: I'm a sinner, I'm a saint, I'm a wretch, I'm a worm and no man, I'm a monk, I'm a nurse. T.. | Martin Laird | ||
| ba62cb3 | Buddhist monks who had practiced more than ten thousand hours of meditation, researchers at the University of Wisconsin measured significantly higher levels of gamma waves in their brains; these waves are associated with perception and problem solving. | Ray Dalio | ||
| 7dec62a | I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. Here was a man who was not against books, that was plain. Take everything T. Ray was not, shape it into a person, and you would get Walter Cronkite. | Sue Monk Kidd |