May 2013
4 posts
He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the...
– The Great Gatsby
Intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing opinions in the mind.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
April 2013
2 posts
Time goes you say? Ah no! Alas time stays, we go.
– Henry Austin Dobson
January 2013
2 posts
You lethargic, waiting upon me,
waiting for the fire and I
attendant upon you,...
– William Carlos Williams
December 2012
2 posts
1 tag
It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives...
– Ann Patchett
November 2012
8 posts
You’re the moon to my wolf.
– Frank Fury
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
– Ernest Hemingway
I am not young enough to know everything.
– Oscar Wilde
One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am—a...
– Edward Abbey
February 2012
10 posts
Have you ever thought… about whatever man builds,
that all of man’s...
– Antoine de Sainte Exupery, WIND, SAND & STARS
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in...
– George Bernard Shaw
A perfection of means and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
– Albert Einstein
Steadfastness, that is holding on;
Patience, that is holding back;
Expectancy,...
– S.D Gordon, Waiting
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as...
– Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
January 2012
20 posts
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he...
– Oscar Wilde
Two possibilities exist:
Either we are alone in this Universe or we are not....
– Arthur Clarke
Live as if you’ll die today, learn as if you’ll live forever.
– Mahatma Ghandi
Now I am quietly waiting for
the castastrophe of my personality
to seem...
– Frank O’Hara
Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you...
– Napoleon Hill
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss...
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes,...
– Stephen King
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you...
– Epicurus
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night...
– T. H. White
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable,...
– Sherlock Holmes (A. Conan Doyle)
December 2011
10 posts
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the...
– Bob Dylan, “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”