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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fd60a0c | If a being from another world were to ask you, "How can I learn what it's like to be human?" a good answer would be, "Study mythology." -- | power-of-myth | Joseph Campbell | |
| 7d1e29b | The Power of Myth For screenwriting, Jon recommends The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler, which he used to determine if Swingers was structurally correct. He is also a big fan of The Power of Myth, a video interview of Joseph Campbell by Bill Moyers. "With The Jungle Book, I really am going back and doubling down on the old myths." TF: We recorded our podcast during the shooting of The Jungle Book, in his production office next to set.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f7265fe | The whole process at the "Inny," as it was known, imitated a grand and long-standing intellectual tradition, and nothing defined it better than the august school motto: No nobis solum set toti mundo nati--You're born not for yourself but for the whole world." | Bob Spitz | ||
| ad3beba | By mid-1966, an astounding eighty-eight Lennon-McCartney songs had been recorded in over 2,900 versions. Gershwin finally had competition. | Bob Spitz | ||
| 2f3c5fd | any henchman who thinks himself the equal of his superior is dangerous. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| dd6b5f1 | That's a nice quote," Langston said. "Underline it and fold down the page for me, will you?" I did as instructed." | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 980e4cc | Premature action alerts the opposition. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 37606b8 | Poor people can write. It's one of the few things poverty, and lack | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 13d8f08 | I felt a sense of longing for him such as I've never experienced in my lifetime for any person, or even for any pet. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 14a49b4 | the love I felt for him was huge and real, and, while painful, it forever changed me as a person, | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 15f3973 | Norman Maclean once wrote that "when you work outside of a town for a couple of months you get feeling a lot better than the town and very hostile toward it." | Philip Connors | ||
| ad53779 | Yoko has a refrigerated room, just for keeping her fur coats. She's got rooms full of those clothes racks like you see at Marks and Spencer. | Philip Norman | ||
| b22b7f0 | Imagine six apartments It isn't hard to do. One is full of fur coats The other's full of shoes. | Philip Norman | ||
| 976a4a4 | felt personally betrayed that the man who had sung "Imagine no possessions" now had accumulated costly real estate and herds of prize cattle." | Philip Norman | ||
| f7960ce | Norman Cherry wrote on Twitter: 'Recently finished reading War on Wheels: a wonderful account of the people and systems necessary to fight a successful war. I really enjoyed reading it. Thoroughly researched, well written, very accessible and suitable for specialist or general reader. | Philip Hamlyn Williams | ||
| 42b9735 | Recorded at the same time, but not destined for release until 19 months later, was John's 'Across the Universe', melding the sweetest and loneliest of his lyrics ('Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box...') with the mantra he'd soon be chanting in the Himalayas. He wanted a female chorus totally without artifice so, rather than professional backing singers, it was decided to use two of the fans permanently on watch outsi.. | Philip Norman | ||
| 4e76fba | You know...give peace a chance, not shoot people for peace. All we need is love. I believe it. it's damned hard but I absolutely believe it. We're not the first to say 'Imagine no countries' or 'Give peace a chance' but we're carrying that torch, like the Olympic torch, passing it from hand to hand, to each other, to each country, to each generation. That's our job...I've never claimed divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never.. | john-lennon philip-norman biography | Philip Norman | |
| 4843e06 | For the first time since its birth in Britain's industrial dawn, Liverpool was deliberately invoked as a source of excitement, glamour, and novelty. | Philip Norman | ||
| 2422fec | Paul then asked if being managed by Brian would make any difference to the music they played. Brian assured him that it would not. There was a second uneasy silence, again broken by John. "Right then, Brian," he said. "Manage" | Philip Norman | ||
| 91585a3 | staff are terrified of them, and not without reason. | Philip Norman | ||
| 14c992c | have fired more people than any comparable employer unit in the world. They make Lord Beaverbrook look like Jesus. | Philip Norman | ||
| b2dcffb | John's niceness about signing his Double Fantasy album temporarily disarmed him. | Philip Norman | ||
| 99ccb40 | He had always loved to draw and paint, begging to be bought pencils, paint boxes, and paper rather than toys, spending hours wrapped up in worlds of his own creation. | Philip Norman | ||
| d2687df | A]s Norman Mailer pointed out decades ago, and Philip Roth not long afterwards, niceness is the enemy. Every soft stroke from society is like the pfft of an aerosol can as it eats up a few more atoms of our brain's delicate ozone, and furthers our personal cretinization. | Adam Begley | ||
| a611094 | escaped from the theater by running into the adjacent fire station, sliding down the firemen's pole, and escaping in a police car while one of the engines rushed out to create a diversion. | Philip Norman | ||
| b3bc330 | The doorman code of conduct?" I ask Gabriel. What did I do wrong this time? Or is Gabriel one of those Madonna/whore guys who can't deal with a girl who makes the first move? "No, the gentleman's code of conduct," he says. "And, I don't know, maybe needing better ambience? Like, not in a closet. Maybe dinner and a movie first?" I really don't know how to do this. When the stakes count. I am an idiot. I turn around to leave, embarrassed.. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 9b36020 | Don't do it for the sake of doing it, but don't wait for a fantasy, either. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| db01f78 | Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books." "And escape?" | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 29b98d7 | What I was sure of was that the bagpipes had begun to play "Fairytale of New York"--which is basically the best Christmas song ever written." | Rachel Cohn | ||
| ef31dcf | I know this is the wrong choice. But it feels like the only choice. So I make it. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| ff47341 | The minute she left the apartment, I missed having her there. But as with all loves, I supposed, the consolation was in the fact that she'd be back. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 6486364 | There are certain things a girl just knows, like that a fourth minute on a punk song is a bad, bad idea, | Rachel Cohn | ||
| b29fe4e | I always made it my mission to like him, because somebody has to like the people no one else likes or the world would just be hopeless. And the best way to extract holiday cheer, I've found, is to spend time with the most curmudgeonly person you know , and their grump can't help but force you into feeling good, because it gives you perspective and balance. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 62c59a5 | Anyone who's lived in Manhattan all his life always feels torn whenever he leaves it. There's the satisfaction of breaking free, for a time. But that's balanced heavily by the feeling of leaving your whole life behind, and to see it from a distance. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| cbd6153 | Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood, or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| bab3a8c | But the older you get, the more you realize that, yes, there are all these things that link you to the past, and you're using the same words and singing the same songs that have always been there for you, but each time, things have shifted, and you have to deal with that shift. Because | Rachel Cohn | ||
| c1a31dc | What's the one thing we want when it comes to the people we love? Time. And what's the scariest thing about how love goes? Time. The thing we want the most is the thing we fear the most, I guess. Time is going to run out. But in the meantime we have... everything. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 7223592 | I feel like I know her. Really know her. And part of really knowing her is also knowing that I don't necessarily know her as well as I think I do. Which is okay. We should each have our own damn souls. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 54daf15 | Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 45643a1 | It was Chaos on Glitter Ice. A massacre of librarians. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 83fd78a | I notice her the way you notice the differences in someone who's been away a long time. And it hasn't been a long time. It's only been long for us. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 007c5ea | I haven't been able to reach her. And if I can't reach her, there's no way to keep her from being lost. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| ab3082b | What an idiot Santa is for flying around alone. Because who would want to travel the world without another person's heartbeat beside him? | Rachel Cohn | ||
| e39597b | People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But | Rachel Cohn |