February 2012
34 posts
“Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person...”
– Dr. Joyce Brothers (via primordialnrg)
“What’s terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don’t...”
– Doris Lessing (via nattielu)
“Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the...”
– From Systematic Wonder: A Definition of Science That Accounts for Whimsy
via Brain Pickings
New years resolution 2012
(yeah, a month and a half late, k)
Unlearning interpersonal habits that originated in bad interpersonal relationships.
“Feminism has had the very unfortunate effect on romantic love of making us...”
– Cassie McLean | The paradox of a beautiful life, more metaphors for love, and the unfortunate side effect of feminism (via quotesforintellectuals)
If Common Sense Was Used in Government and the...
Citizen: I don't believe in abortion.
Government: Then don't get one.
Citizen: I don't believe in birth control.
Government: You don't have to use it.
Citizen: I think gay marriage is a sin.
Government: Don't marry the same sex then.
Citizen: I want my kids to learn about creationism.
Government: Take them to church.
“Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue....”
– Stephen King (via quercetum)
“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world...”
– Stephen King, 11/22/63 (via michaelbelong)
“The mind was so thin, barely a spiderweb, with all its fine thoughts,...”
– Janet Fitch
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch
The Weeks - Buttons
I said, ‘darlin’,...
“Impoliteness marks you as a fool, for it takes away from you an advantage and...”
– The Samurai’s Tale Erik Christian Haugaard (via wildshieldmaiden)
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers (via eastatlanta)
1 tag
January 2012
21 posts
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful...”
– everything is illuminated (via theartofhiding)
“Do I worship modern medicine? Is science my religion? Not at all; there is no...”
– Thank Goodness! by Daniel C. Dennet (via scipsy)
“We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It’s...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via ouija-)
Everyone always said that you climbed like a man - like someone much taller, with the ease with which you breezed up solid stone. I never saw manliness, nor anything unusual about it - just your patient, determined grace, calculating next moves with care and executing with form. I don’t think I ever saw you fall, recklessly - and I know that it was to be something of a special club to keep...
Dogtown pecan mushroom quinoa burger, sweet potato fries, and twice-aerated wine (since I have two now by accident!)… YUM
Snufflufugus, heffalumps and woozles…
“Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them— at...”
– Philip Roth (via libraryland
)
1 tag
Guy out the window of his car: “i like your dog!”… A minute later “i like your butt too!”
…classy, monroe
