August 2009
94 posts
“A spoken word, even from the mouth of the greatest ruler, prophet or sage,...”
– On the invention of the printing press, voted as the most pivotal moment of all time (More Intelligent Life).
“In life, we do things. Some, we wish we had never done and some we wish we could...”
– (via secondsminuteshours)
“Junot Diaz said about writers: “What we do might be done in solitude and...”
– Junot Díaz
“You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish...”
– Junot Díaz
“Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.”
– Bill Cosby
“Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could...”
– Tina Fey
“Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television”
– Yokoo
“Doing nothing is very hard to do … you never know when you’re...”
– Leslie Nielsen
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
“New York is the only state in the country where women can be topless legally,...”
“Obviously crime pays, or there’d be no crime.”
– G. Gordon Liddy
“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this...”
– Billy Joel (via littlemiss)
“If you don’t hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon...”
– Robertson Davies (via littlemiss)
“Generation, you disgust me. Everyone has devoloped this holier than thou...”
– livefromthepavement
“Right on the alarm clock is the snooze bar, which is basically a built-in...”
– Arj Barker
“There is nothing like travel to enable us to see the big world with the kind of...”
– The New Age of Travel - Condé Nast Traveler (via bbook)
“Success is a journey, not a destination.”
– Ben Sweetland (via quotedropper)
“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.”
– W. Gibson (via thechosenwords)
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle (via thechosenwords)
“There are no guarantees that if you work hard enough, or are talented enough,...”
– Jessica Todd Harper
