February 2009
7 posts
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
– Saul Bellow (via mercenarywriters) (via rachelhotchkiss)
January 2009
17 posts
On Getting Nowhere.
I started a portrait a week or so ago of a little boy named Cameron. I messed it up the first three tries. Finally, I started getting somewhere these last three days of work and it started to resemble a cute little blonde boy with a fake smile… until I accidentally sprayed Shout on it this afternoon. I started over again tonight. Of course, a couple hours into the new beginning, the paper...
Boo taxes.
That’s all I have to say right now.
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
– Ralph Ellison (via tylerknott)
Hell, yeah: Obama on "Roe vs. Wade" - Salon.com →
claudia:
“On the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we are reminded that this decision not only protects women’s health and reproductive freedom, but stands for a broader principle: that government should not intrude on our most private family matters. I remain committed to protecting a woman’s right to choose.”
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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying....
– pope paul vi (via spontaneouslove)
tylerknott:
I always dug Lisa Hannigan’s sound when she was with Damien Rice, it’s awesome to see her striking out on her own. Rad pop-up book too.
Lisa Hannigan - Lille on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Know your limits… but never stop trying to exceed them.
– Anonymous
She & Him's "You Really Got a Hold on Me"...
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I love Zooey Deschanel’s voice. And Emily’s too, if you watch Bones.
December 2008
12 posts
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
– Robert Frost
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A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
– Irish proverb
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To be nobody but yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and...
– E.E. Cummings
November 2008
14 posts
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You’re alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative...
– Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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We love because it’s the only true adventure.
– Nikki Giovani (via kari-shma) (via beccapixels)
it was really awesome when she came to speak at my school.
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
– Corrie Ten Boom, author and human rights activist
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When I hear somebody sigh ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask ‘Compared...
– Sydney Harris. (via lickystickypicky) (via kari-shma)
Hey Twilight: Our Vampires Are Cooler Than Your... →
It covers all the big vampire hits, but I’m partial to this one:
“Just about anything Twlight is attempting to do in an allegorical form, Buffy did first, and did it better. Here you have the romance between a human and a vampire, but unlike Twilight it can never end up happily for the couple, since he’ll become truly evil if they share a moment of true happiness. Take that, sexual...