He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. (Roy L. Smith)
God, don’t laugh!” Jamie said, alarmed. “I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here! – Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone
God, don’t laugh!” Jamie said, alarmed. “I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here! – Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone.
What white middle America loathes these days are poor and poorish people, especially the kind who look and sound like they just might live in a house trailer. They will swear on a stack of Lands’ End catalogs that they are not bigots, but, human nature being what it is, we are all kicking someone else’s dog around, whether we admit it or not
What white middle America loathes these days are poor and poorish people, especially the kind who look and sound like they just might live in a house trailer. They will swear on a stack of Lands’ End catalogs that they are not bigots, but, human nature being what it is, we are all kicking someone else’s dog around, whether we admit it or not (Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War)
Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love
Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love (Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries)
To me, God is like this happy bus driver
To me, God is like this happy bus driver (Jerry Stahl, Permanent Midnight)
I am very slow to warm. I’ve always been sort of a loner. I didn’t play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups
I am very slow to warm. I’ve always been sort of a loner. I didn’t play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups (Rooney Mara)
Life will be better when we start to enjoy it – Putu Satria Jaya Guna
Life will be better when we start to enjoy it – Putu Satria Jaya Guna
When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write
When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write (John Steinbeck)
I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success
I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success (Bram Stoker, Dracula)
It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for “the family” and destroyed mine in the process
It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for “the family” and destroyed mine in the process (David Kuo, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction)