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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4ee26a4 | GGGRRRUUURRR! The noise of Woolly's bottom burping sounded just like a bear growling. | David Walliams | ||
| 21bb69c | Billionaire Boy | David Walliams | ||
| e90f2d2 | Myrtle's | David Walliams | ||
| 8ba9816 | until recently, it would have been Grandpa tucking Jack in. Now | David Walliams | ||
| a8d9252 | But as ever in life, wherever there is tragedy, you can often find comedy. | David Walliams | ||
| 27b0683 | No one knows where socks disappear to. It is one of the universe's greatest mysteries. Either they are sucked into a black hole where time and space have become flattened, or they get caught in the back of the washing machine. | David Walliams | ||
| 019f51b | That night Jack lay in bed, in the place just between awake and asleep. The room was beginning to disappear to make way for the world of dreams. | David Walliams | ||
| fabdde6 | Detective Bone | David Walliams | ||
| d7926ea | AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH | David Walliams | ||
| c47e2d9 | have your chocolate stolen? | David Walliams | ||
| c6d0b64 | morning, they were forced to lift her up and carry her there. Myrtle refused to walk even though it | David Walliams | ||
| 9cf666e | To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated. | Bertolt Brecht | ||
| 1b44432 | Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. | Bertolt Brecht | ||
| e9b39b3 | Another piece of appropriated maternal wisdom I remember from this time was this: "If you lower your expectations, you can't be disappointed." This struck me as a dismal approach to life, whether for a forty-five-year-old mother or a twenty-year-old daughter." | Julian Barnes | ||
| cf0b922 | Payne sought clarification. "Vertical or horizontal?" "Horizontal, of course." "Sorry but I can't help you." "Will you pipe down for a minute? Naturally she was dead since I work at a cemetery. Her face struck a chord though. So, I rummaged around in the old Rory memory bank, and Emily is what rings a bell. Didn't we go to school with an Emily? Tenth or eleventh grade, if I recall it correctly." | crime-fiction mystery romance suspense thriller writing | Ed Lynskey | |
| 4c0200d | A diamond wedding ring, you say?" I studied his face. Was he putting me on? He looked earnest. "As any guy would expect, a diamond is what she's after," I said. "Did you hold out hope you'd get by for anything less?" | crime-noir detective-novel hardboiled military | Ed Lynskey | |
| 9938e8b | From Chapter 1: "You're not a local." I paused, unsure. "Or are you?" "Sort of. Randall Van Dotson is my dad. I'm Rennie." After tossing her head that coy, sweet way girls do, she gave me a candid appraisal." | hardboiled mystery-suspense noir-fiction | Ed Lynskey | |
| b1c1b86 | Have they ever. Isabel never misses a trick. Anytime I step into their foyer, she's dropping hints all over the place. Don't get me wrong because I love both women dearly, and I enjoy playing a game or two of Scrabble, just not on every visit. Why can't we play Monopoly for a change of pace? I love squeezing the play money in my fist and snapping up the swanky properties like Park Place and Boardwalk. | cozy-mystery mystery-novel whodunit women-sleuths | ed lynskey | |
| 5205f6f | The young man smiled--certainly a very personable young man--and explained that the light was no longer strong enough to do any more. Again in this explanation did he call me gnadiges Fraulein, and again was I touched by so much innocence. And his German, too, was touching; it was so conscientiously grammatical, so laboriously put together, so like pieces of Goethe learned by heart. By | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 90d4db2 | What I can say with honesty is that my research in Russia and in Germany has brought me nothing but the worsening of my eyesight and the waste of years of my life. And I did it all for you. | readers research worsening | Nick Tosches | |
| 05c956b | Sportsman's Hall offered four sporting events: rat killing by a weasel, rat killing by a dog, rat killing by a man, and dogfighting. | gambling sport weasel | Nick Tosches | |
| 602efcd | At the time of the Russian emancipation, about 20 percent of the Russian population lived in serfdom. In the United States at this time, about 10 percent of the population lived in slavery. | russian slavery united-states | Nick Tosches | |
| 04cfbc3 | But the lie often repeated becomes history, and the snake-oil pitchman's forgery of yore becomes the inspirational gospel of a posterity that sees itself as worldly and wise. | gospel history lie posterity | Nick Tosches | |
| 9c6ae31 | Rothstein worked with Park Avenue men as beards in the club-house, and with Broadway characters, such as Morris the Boob on The Lawn, and he probably bet away from the track, too. | lawn morris-the-boob park-avenue rothstein | Nick Tosches | |
| 42b2ab5 | On February 3, 1959, near Fargo, North Dakota, an airplane carrying Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper (J. P. Richardson) crashed, killing all aboard. Waylon Jennings, who was in Holly's band at the time, gave his seat to the Big Bopper at the last minute. | Nick Tosches | ||
| 02cb589 | As explained by Carlos Marighella, the Brazilian guerrilla leader whose writings influenced political terrorists in the 1960s and 1970s, if a government can be provoked into a purely military response to terrorism, its overreaction will alienate the masses, causing them to "revolt against the army and the police and blame them for this state of things." | Chalmers Johnson | ||
| 8aee72e | Americans generally think of Pol Pot as some kind of unique, self-generated monster and his "killing fields" as an inexplicable atavism totally divorced from civilization. But without the United States government's Vietnam-era savagery, he could never have come to power in a culture like Cambodia's," | Chalmers Johnson | ||
| fe114df | Even an empire cannot control the long-term effects of its policies. That is the essence of blowback. | Chalmers Johnson | ||
| d3aabde | economic relations with our East Asian satellites have, for example, hollowed out our domestic manufacturing industries and led us into a reliance on finance capitalism, whose appearance has in the past been a sign of a hitherto healthy economy entering decline. | Chalmers Johnson | ||
| de0e9d7 | In his excellent book Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams (1997), Mitchel Resnick outlines a list of five heuristics associated with the aggregation of interactions: o Positive feedback isn't always negative. o Randomness can help create order. o A flock isn't a big bird. o A traffic jam isn't just a collection of cars. o The hills are alive (i.e., don't forget the environment). | Rich Jolly | ||
| dc065fc | Computer pioneer Alan Kay likes to say that technology is anything that was invented after you were born. | Mitchel Resnick | ||
| 16cacb2 | There's an old saying that a teacher should be a "guide on the side," not a "sage on the stage." | Mitchel Resnick | ||
| b5bc144 | There's a tradition among programmers to see mistakes not as a sign of failure but as "bugs" that can be fixed. An important part of becoming a programmer is to learn strategies for debugging--that is, how to identify and isolate a problem, then make changes to get around the problem." | Mitchel Resnick | ||
| 7b6e4da | projects, passion, peers, and play. In short, we believe the best way to cultivate creativity is to support people working on projects based on their passions, in collaboration with peers and in a playful spirit. | Mitchel Resnick | ||
| 8fb810c | Along the way, I began to develop an understanding about not only the process for making a miniature golf course, but the general process for making anything: how to start with an initial idea, develop preliminary plans, create a first version, try it out, ask other people to try it out, revise plans based on what happens--and keep doing that, over and over. By working on my project, I was gaining experience with the Creative Learning Spira.. | Mitchel Resnick | ||
| ed9cbaa | Most schools in most countries place a higher priority on teaching students to follow instructions and rules (becoming A students) than on helping students develop their own ideas, goals, and strategies | Mitchel Resnick | ||
| 85999a7 | Openness can enhance creativity in many different ways--not just for organizations like the LEGO Group, but also for individuals. And the benefits of openness are greater now than ever before, thanks to digital technologies. If you're making videos, websites, or other digital creations, you can get ideas and suggestions from people around the world--and also make use of code, artwork, and music created by other people. On the flip side, you.. | Mitchel Resnick | ||
| 6a6d5be | opposite: I believe the rest of school (indeed, the rest of life) should become more like kindergarten. | Mitchel Resnick | ||
| 3fb9a35 | For most of their history in China, Pugs were treasured dogs. By law, they could only be owned by nobility or by Buddhist monks. However, because they were held in such high regard, they were also used as pawns in international relations. In 732 C.E., China gave a Pug to Japan as a gift to cement diplomatic relations. The Japanese became infatuated with this dog, and it became the first of many given to Japanese diplomats. | Liz Palika | ||
| d233bd9 | The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot. | Bertolt Brecht | ||
| 01e9c12 | You're so quiet and subdued! You worry me. Are you well?" "Quite well. Deflated, perhaps. I have been deserted by my enemies. The affair is over. I am done." | meaning mission success | Jack Vance | |
| 8441563 | For the first time Gersen saw indigenous fauna of Moudervelt: a band of lizard-foxes, with gray-green pangolin scales and a single optic orb. They reared high to watch Gersen pass by; when he slowed the car they advanced with dancing sidelong steps, for purposes Gersen could not guess. He drove on, leaving the troop staring after him. | dream-like eerie fauna foxes kafkaesque surreal | Jack Vance | |
| c802dcd | His decision was preordained, and derived from a perverse quirk in his mentality. At his deepest, most essential level, Hack knew himself for an insipid mediocrity, of no intellectual distinction and no particular competence in any direction. This was an insight so shocking that Hack never allowed it past the threshold of consciousness, and he conducted himself as if the reverse were true. So, while his innermost elements winced and grimace.. | bureaucrat mediocrity milton-hack the-man-from-zodiac | Jack Vance | |
| bf1bcea | Day and far into the opalescent Embelyon night [Turjan of Miir] worked under Pandelume's unseen tutelage. He learned the secret of renewed youth, many spells of the ancients, and a strange abstract lore that Pandelume termed 'Mathematics.' "Within this instrument," said Pandelume, "resides the Universe. Passive in itself and not of sorcery, it elucidates every problem, each phase of existence, all the secrets of time and space. Your spells .. | jack-vance | Jack Vance |