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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6795d3e | Man is the measure of all things. | Man | ||
| d0dab16 | It may sound cruel...but...what makes a criminal is a disposition toward cruelty, a laziness and impatience that lead to taking from others, and cynicism that pretends there is a war going on, and that the victims are the result of a conflict that somebody else started. "[Caligula and DeSade] were expressing through the license of...power their outrage and boredom, and apparently meaningless lives. That these attitudes have filtered down to.. | Stanley Crouch | ||
| a9c69ab | At that time, Charlie Parker was trying to work up on something," recalled his friend Clarence Davis, "but he didn't know what he was doing. He was fishing, but nothing was biting." | Stanley Crouch | ||
| 14a4708 | Abraham Lincoln god knows When | Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 42e6395 | You're so dehydrated I can hear you blink. | Lori Lansens | ||
| b6d9d0f | I felt the weight of my father's failures and the absence of my mother and I wondered who would teach me, or if a guy could learn on his own, what it means to be a man. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 55ca2b6 | Resilience, thy name is Devine. | sarcasm | Lori Lansens | |
| 2b55ac0 | I was three inches taller but he could smell my fear. | strength-and-courage | Lori Lansens | |
| a77379b | I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 648ea3a | My father used to say there are two kinds of people. The notices and the noticed. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 8b1b020 | Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 64a918e | You're just not always in a place for as long as you thought you'd be. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 4139ca3 | You think about these words a lot, and there are not many things, when you come right down to it, that you'll be happy to see the end of. | Lori Lansens | ||
| f221434 | There's too much information out there. And not enough smart people. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 6aa5bce | Fatal is fatal, but it doesn't have to be all downhill. | Lori Lansens | ||
| f333354 | It's not that you like being sad, but you start to see the value of it. You don't judge sadness so harshly. | Lori Lansens | ||
| f812452 | In some ways, Mary thought, Irma lived her whole life anxious to get things over with, as if she knew the end of her story all along, and didn't feel the middle pages worth the effort of a read. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 80323c6 | Mary reached into her vinyl purse and extracted one of the novels, each of whose covers had promised laughter and tears. She began to read and, finding a masterful storyteller behind its pages, was instantly and gratefully transported to another place. | Lori Lansens | ||
| e832bc5 | Remy didn't suggest an ounce of discourtesy, but only had a different way of talking. It's something Chester'd learned, how a person's words did not always disclose the intention of his heart. He'd been called fine things by people who feared and loathed him, and slanderous things by people who thought well on him but were ignorant. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 341e540 | You don't know if you ruined your kids or if they were born that way. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 3cb47ad | you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're okay with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 2cd683e | AND ALL THE OTHER SOULS WHO GOT LEFT AND CURSED BY THOSE THAT SHOULD HAVE LOVED AND CARED. | Lori Lansens | ||
| f633055 | The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls. The | Lori Lansens | ||
| 53e7661 | Wake in bed and know, because dreams are not true, that the sun will be shining and it will not storm today. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 301eab1 | I believe it was the Lord...for who else could know your trouble and ours and bring us together in this right way? | Lori Lansens | ||
| 61e0410 | You do good mothering. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 4c4d50a | When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly. | family-relationships sadness | Lori Lansens | |
| 8e326ac | Feeling the wind rush in through the broken window, Mary thought of how Gooch would say, "You're letting out the heat," when she kept the door open, and "You're letting out the cold," when her nose was in the Kenmore. It struck her that there must be some other door left open through which she'd let out Gooch." -- | Lori Lansens | ||
| 180dcd5 | It was Aunt Lovey's belief that all ordinary people led extraordinary lives, but just didn't notice. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 62cc37b | How could she have been so ungrateful? She envied the French singer who regretted nothing. She regretted all. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 5a0e3a9 | Shelley says some people were born on third base and some people were born outside the ballpark, and the journey to home plate ain't the same for all. Wouldn't it be better for everyone to, like, find a way to get everybody in the game? | Lori Lansens | ||
| 198fac7 | Plus vieux, tu comprendras que, malgre les apparences, il n'y a pas de bon ou mauvais moment. Il y a un moment, point final. | Lori Lansens | ||
| ead0d2c | Horror is a woman's genre, and it has been all the way back to the oldest horror novel still widely read today: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, daughter of pioneering feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft. Ann Radcliffe's gothic novels (The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Italian) made her the highest-paid writer of the late eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Charlotte Riddell were book-writing machines, turning.. | Grady Hendrix | ||
| 380768f | Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels. | Man | ||
| 4b93774 | For toil is the great grinding stone to make keen the blade of your spirit. Toil is the ladder by which your putrid flesh ascends into health. | Grady Hendrix | ||
| 49360a7 | There's nothing waiting inside but retail slavery, endless exploitation, and personal subjugation to the whims of our corporate overlords." If" | Grady Hendrix | ||
| 943efde | In Brain Watch (1985), superpsychic powers are the result of splitting a doctor's noggin into a quadruple brain, unlocking his ability to project illusions, become superstrong, and control the pigment in his skin to ensure a really great tan. | Grady Hendrix | ||
| 2e41c0b | Abby was beginning to feel like everything was too much. She was beginning to feel like nothing she did made any difference. | Grady Hendrix | ||
| 4acbb0e | What danger signs should patients watch for when selecting a skeleton doctor? Well, if the doctor refers to patients as "poor unlucky bastards," be careful. Also, doctors who turn abandoned mental institutions into their own private research facilities are probably up to no good. Especially when the entrance to said clinic is "an underground passageway behind the morgue." Most important, just remember that whenever a skeleton does science, .. | Grady Hendrix | ||
| 6a34423 | She promised herself that she was not going to cry. They could take her job, but they would not take her dignity. | work | Grady Hendrix | |
| f961d03 | The problem was the liars. They said she could do anything she set her mind to, they told her she should shoot for the moon because if she missed she'd be among the stars, they made movies tricking her into thinking she could achieve heroic things. | dream dreams | Grady Hendrix | |
| 8268349 | Amy would honor the first commandment of keeping her job: Do not look like an idiot in front of anyone who can fire you. | Grady Hendrix | ||
| e41a947 | There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing it's there. | Katie Crouch & Grady Hendrix | ||
| b062888 | Military glory, -- that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. | Abraham Lincoln |