July 2011
90 posts
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I...”
– Franz Kafka (via u1a)
“Let them say what they liked, but I didn’t mean to drown myself. I meant to swim...”
– Joseph Conrad, “The Secret Sharer” (via leopoldgursky)
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far...”
– Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment...”
– Benjamin Franklin
English:
it might as well be your second language, even when it’s your first.
“We don’t have to believe that Apple will make our lives better, cooler, more...”
– i’m not playing that game | mnmlist
“In addition to balancing the budget and growing the economy, I think we have to...”
– Howard Marks
“I have always felt that I was too conservative in naming your brother, in naming...”
– Penny Arcade - Girl, You’re So Groovy
Tycho, of Penny Arcade, to his daughter
“Operation UnManifest:
As Anders Behring Breivik wants to use the cruel action...”
– Anonymous | ‘Operation UnManifest’ |
supply demand,
demand supply
“I’m judging you as a human being and you’re basically a monkey with...”
– Joe Rogan
“Whenever anything in nature seems to us ridiculous, absurd or evil it is because...”
– Spinoza
“Today, we see very talented, intelligent designers who use their skills to...”
– French Visionary Starck’s Advice to Designers: Create Fewer Useless Products | Wired.com
“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that...”
– LOUIS C.K., to his kids, on Louie (via inothernews)
not a whole lot of posting lately,
mostly on account of pain (wahwahwah, i know) but I seem to have found a treating person that might just be able to fix the chronic problems rather than holding the acute ones at bay. I’m putting my novel on indefinite hiatus, mainly because I want to focus on nailing my course, spending the rest of the year finishing up this rehabilitation, as well as the children’s book and whatever...
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past...”
– Marcel Pagnol
“There is only one god, and his name is death. There is only one thing we say to...”
– Syrio Forel, Game of Thrones
“All those constraints become useful. With money, it’s easy to trip into cliché....”
– Crafting Another Earth’s Heartbreaking Take on the Multiverse | Underwire
“What is the meaning of life? To be born with the gift of laughter; and a sense...”
– Scaramuccia
“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face...”
– Douglas H. Everett
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
– Anatole France
“Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the...”
– Swami Sivananda
“A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to...”
– James Allen
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives...”
– Thomas Paine
“For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most...”
– D.H Lawrence 