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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e4fe07b | The boundaries of our country, sir? Why sir, onto the north we are bounded by the Aurora Borealis, on the east we are bounded by the rising sun, on the south we are bounded by the procession of the Equinoxes, and on the west by the Day of Judgement. - The American Joe Miller's Jest Book | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4b29466 | Don't disappointment me, son." Yeah, fuck you, daddy. O" | J.R. Ward | ||
| 00acc25 | Maybe ye don't know it, Mr. Herriot, but this is the best time of your life.' 'Do you think so?' 'Aye, there's no doubt about it. When your children are young and growin' up around ye--that's when it's best. It's the same for everybody, only a lot o' folk don't know it and a lot find out when it's too late. It doesn't last long, you know. | James Herriot | ||
| 3aaa9d2 | Mike Mason writes about surrender and suffering in The Gospel According to Job, In retrospect I can see that a large part of my anguish was rooted in the fact that there really was nothing I could do to control what was happening to me. I was absolutely helpless, and it is this, perhaps, that is the soul of suffering, this terrifying impotence. We Christians do not like to think about being absolutely helpless in the hands of our God. With .. | Frauke C. Schaefer | ||
| d91c491 | Then I remember my behaviour. When I look down the street, Mike is standing exactly where I left him, as though he's cautioned himself from coming any closer. | Carol Mason | ||
| c463db7 | The weights and measures of a marriage; we know things but we choose not to think about them. We choose to bury our heads in the sand. Mike says only one thing. | Carol Mason | ||
| bebfc3a | The Email Phishing Hack: Phishing refers to a social engineering method used by hackers to gain what should be confidential information from unwitting victims. Phishing works in this way: the hacker sends an official-looking email to the target, purporting to be from the a legitimate institution that | Mike Mason | ||
| 8cda78f | Good. How about you find the balls that are attached to your dicks, draw them out of your abdominal cavity and show me." "You want to see our testicles, Coach?" Mike asked, making his way backward down his ladder. "Maybe when I find my magnifying glass, Mr. Brown! I won't be able to tell the difference between what you call testicles and raisins." Mike gasped for air. "My balls are sweeter, sir!" Lids narrowed over his black marbles. "Glad .. | mason-scott rams warrington-wolverines | Donna AnnMarie Smith | |
| bfdddf0 | A close study of the southern newspapers fails to show that the bloomer craze has gained any decided hold south of the Mason and Dixon line. Indeed, the bicycle is a new thing, and the women who ride are as fearful of criticism as a woman in tight knickerbockers would be in some Northern places...South of Virginia the real southern women do not ride the bicycle much. The climate is against the exercise...A Tennessee paper so late as last we.. | Mike H. Mizrahi | ||
| 5845fe7 | With trust, everything is possible. | Mike Mason | ||
| 7e97b94 | hate makes you a prisoner, not just of them but of yourself. | Mike Mason | ||
| 8effc1f | She leaned over the basket again, taking in the mouthwatering aromas wafting out of it. "Fried chicken? Oh, I'm thinking buttermilk fried chicken?" Dylan was once again amused. "How do you do that?" "I like food." "You don't say." "And I love Southern fried chicken." She tried to open the basket, and he tapped her hand jokingly. "Sit," he said. And she did, crossing her legs and plopping down on the blanket. Opening the basket and playing w.. | fried-chicken goat-cheese grace-and-dylan picnic | Jeffrey Stepakoff | |
| 4929425 | A marriage, or a marriage partner, may be compared to a great tree growing right up through the center of one's living room. It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going--to the fridge, to bed, to the bathroom, or out the front door--the tree has to be taken into account. It cannot be gone through; it must respectfully be gone around. It is somehow bigger a.. | Mike Mason | ||
| ff05e73 | Of course, it is almost always the case that the couple has much more in common than they may suppose. But marriage seems to specialize, at times, in radically de-emphasizing the similarities between the partners and wildly exaggerating the points of difference. | Mike Mason | ||
| 7d08bca | The taking of vows is an act of faith. If people were faithful by nature, vows would not be necessary; their yes would be yes and their no would be no. But it is because people are not inherently faithful nor honest nor loving that they must stand up and declare they will be. | Mike Mason | ||
| 3f159ce | She faced Mike and gave him her coldest stare down. "Okay Mike, what's up?" "Mason cheated on Tess!" | Lolah Lace | ||
| a0cbfe9 | Hello, who the fuck are you?" He repeated his bad-mannered question. "Robin MacDowell." I decided against extending my hand since he was being a Grade A, Whole milk, jackass." -- | Lolah Lace | ||
| 30b9ee7 | What made him irresistibly charming - his impulsiveness, his impatience with the dull, his insistence on energy,28 his sense of the comic, the depth of his emotional responses, his intense determination to do things his way, his willingness to try anything - these would have been the very things with which Wieck had the greatest trouble. | John Worthen | ||
| 9f19407 | one never lazes about more happily than when one has no idea where to start, in the face of all one has to do, and one never works more happily than when one actually has nothing on hand'.31 But that could hardly have been less true of him at just that moment. Not | John Worthen | ||
| 2f466a8 | Thus the fate of entire Kingdoms often depends upon a few blockheads and irresolute men."43" | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| fd03bdb | metonymy into dinner-party chat back at London beach. I | Geoff Dyer | ||
| cebf249 | The recruits of 1914 have the look of ghosts. They are queuing up to be slaughtered: they are already dead. | ghosts soldiers somme war | Geoff Dyer | |
| 29169ce | Most of all, he loved Celia Johnson, her hats,her face,her cracked porcelain voice: 'This can't last. This misery can't last.Nothing lasts really,neither happiness nor despair.Not even life lasts long....There'll come a time in the future when i shan't mind about this any more.... | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 1df49aa | I was too irritable from the drive to go straight into the D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum and Gift Shop so I ordered a calming cup of tea in the White Peacock Cafe. 'Mug or cup?' 'Cup please,' I said, thinking that I could have said 'I said "cup".' I said cup because I have never enjoyed tea from a mug - and for that matter, only rarely from a cup. Basically I don't like tea but what else is there? Life is really no more than a search for.. | inspirational | Geoff Dyer | |
| d21333a | If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' This is Tarkovsky's aesthetic in a nutshell. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 54e3e5b | The most famous footballing episode was Captain Nevill's kicking a ball into No Man's Land on the first day of the Somme. A prize was offered to the first man to dribble the ball into the German trenches; Nevill himself scrambled out of the trench in pursuit of his goal and was cut down immediately. (Perhaps the Somme was not only an indictment of military strategy but also of the British propensity for the long-ball game.) | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 951b441 | Most people don't want what they want: people love to be prevented, restricted. The hamster not only loves his cage, he'd be lost without it. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 2beabf5 | The mountains in the background were cut from the same cloth as the sky: a slightly darker shade, that was the only difference. Had we the capacity to analyse it there would almost certainly be a geology of the air as well as of rock. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| d9af6bf | couldn't be persuaded to part with him. | James Herriot | ||
| 42e15a9 | Parents are never sure that they have done the right thing. They can only do what they think is right. | James Herriot | ||
| 4df87ea | New laws are always being passed but they alter almost nothing. Their real purpose is, precisely, to engender debate, to give the people of Italy a chance to express a lively opposition to the state so unanimous that it actually creates a supportive atmosphere of unity and national well-being. Everyone feels the state is fleecing them, treating them unfairly, so that feeling cheated by the state - and finding some small ways of cheating the.. | nation state | Geoff Dyer | |
| accf47e | The sea: you watch it for a while, lose interest, and then, because there is nothing else to look at, go back to watching it. It fills you with great thoughts which, leading nowhere and having nothing to focus on except the unfocused mass of the sea, dissolve into a vacancy which in turn, for want of any other defining characteristic, you feel content to term 'awe'. | ocean sea | Geoff Dyer | |
| aa7a6cc | Photographers sometimes take pictures of each other; occasionally they take pictures of each other at work; more usually they take photographs - or versions - of each other's work. Consciously or not they are constantly in dialogue with their contemporaries and predecessors. | influence photography | Geoff Dyer | |
| 2ed0b14 | Estamos aqui para morirnos de aburrimiento y luego preguntarnos como es posible aburrirse tanto. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 9f48221 | Maybe all exiles are drawn to the sea, the ocean. There is an inherent music in the working sounds of docks and harbors and there were times when he thought that all the melancholy beauty of the blues was present in a foghorn, wailing out to sea, warning men of the dangers that awaited them. Increasingly | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 294066a | like the time he'd dashed into Minton's out of the pouring rain and seen this kid playing tenor, making it wail and wriggle around like the horn was a bird whose neck he was trying to wring. Breathing heavy, dripping rain on the floor, he listened to the loops and knots of sound tying and untying themselves. Hearing the horn squealing and wailing that way was like seeing a child he loved getting hit. He'd never seen the guy before, so he ju.. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 8ba4708 | The island was said to be "completely covered with pigeons." Thousands of them fattened on the raspberries, and the settlers fed on the pigeons.16" | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| 41201ad | Long voyages under sail with crews that spoke many tongues made a ship into a language school. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| 6a5fd6d | Some of these words appear in metropolitan French, but a person of Saintonge who speaks the parlanjhe of the region is uniquely called a goulebeneze, literally, a happy mouth. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| f5539b6 | We never let go of a belief once fixed in our minds" quoted by an Appalachian women with an air of pride.' (This quote explains a lot about my family)" | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| 3bad0ad | In 1767, an epidemic broke out on board a crowded emigrant vessel sailing from Belfast to South Carolina; the unscrupulous owners had packed 450 people into its hold and more than 100 died at sea. Another ship bound from Belfast to Philadelphia ran out of food in mid-passage. Forty-six passengers starved to death; the survivors were driven to cannibalism and some even consumed the flesh of their own families. The transatlantic journey becam.. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| fa03d05 | Negative images of emigration were transformed into positive ones, not by Wakefield in 1830, but by a much broader trans-Atlantic ideological transition around 1815. Its semiotic shape was the partial displacement of the word "emigrant" by more positively loaded words. According to David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly, "before 1790, Americans thought of themselves as emigrants, not immigrants. The word immigrant was an Americanism proba.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| a980575 | But the Quakers were not entirely liberated from magic. One particular variety of supernatural belief came to be very widely shared among them. The idea of the Inner Light led them to that form of superstition which is commonly called spiritualism today. In the seventeenth century there were repeated instances of attempts by Quakers to communicate with the dead, and even to raise them from the grave. In Worcestershire, for example, one Engl.. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| 81bbc47 | Rarely was Richelieu accused of leniency. In his hubris, he was alleged to have said, "Give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, and I will find something there to hang him."14" | David Hackett Fischer |