February 2011
Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how...
– William Faulkner (via soy)
January 2011
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)
We are the Village Green Preservation Society
God save Donald Duck, Vaudeville and Variety
We are the Desperate Dan Appreciation Society
God save strawberry jam and all the different varieties
Preserving the old ways from being abused
Protecting the new ways for me and for you
What more can we do
We are the Draught Beer Preservation Society
God save Mrs. Mopp and good Old Mother Riley
We are the...
For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the...
– Audrey Hepburn (via quote-book)
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in...
– Joseph Conrad (via quote-book)
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
– Albert Einstein (via quote-book)
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?...
– Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass)
ǝʌıʇɔǝdsɹǝd ʎɯ ƃuıƃuɐɥɔ
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
– Henry David Thoreau (via veganatalie)
PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.
GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?
GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.
GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in...
– Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be...
– Paulo Coelho (via eastatlanta)
I stay put to keep a bubble around two other people, but I may have to head for the hills soon.