Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we’d be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that’s left. (Craig D. Lounsbrough)
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo) – Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo) – Haruki Murakami, After the Quake.
It’s always been this way. There were rumors about me even before I was born. It’s why my mother never calls me Sobachka. She says it makes me sound like a mongrel.”My heart gave a little pang at that. I’d been called plenty of names growing up.”I like mongrels,” I said. “They have cute floppy ears.””My ears are very dignified
It’s always been this way. There were rumors about me even before I was born. It’s why my mother never calls me Sobachka. She says it makes me sound like a mongrel.”My heart gave a little pang at that. I’d been called plenty of names growing up.”I like mongrels,” I said. “They have cute floppy ears.””My ears are very dignified. (Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm)
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere – Carl Sagan – T.S. Garp, Serenity’s Dream: A Collection of Tales and Poems about Mystical Journeys.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere – Carl Sagan – T.S. Garp, Serenity’s Dream: A Collection of Tales and Poems about Mystical Journeys.
First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience
First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience (Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley)
And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured
And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured (Virginia Woolf, Selected Essays)
Keep out of this,” Lucian said. “I’m not smiting anybody.””You’re showing mercy.” Catch-a-Tick nodded. “That’s heroic, too. But not as good as smiting
Keep out of this,” Lucian said. “I’m not smiting anybody.””You’re showing mercy.” Catch-a-Tick nodded. “That’s heroic, too. But not as good as smiting (Lloyd Alexander, The Arkadians)
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes (Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions)
Corporate media rarely reports the fact that police internal affairs uphold hardly any complaints from the masses
Corporate media rarely reports the fact that police internal affairs uphold hardly any complaints from the masses (Steven Magee)
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can’t read any poetry
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can’t read any poetry. (Randall Jarrell)