all of this is tearing us apart

"Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve."

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:28:06 -0400

“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”

- J. K. Rowling

"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning..."

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:17:06 -0400

“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”

- H. G. Wells

"Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent."

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:06:06 -0400

“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.”

- Ambrose Bierce

"During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think..."

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:55:06 -0400

“During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered.”

- Andy Warhol

"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it..."

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:44:06 -0400

“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased..."

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:33:06 -0400

“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

- Mark Twain

"Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life..."

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:22:06 -0400

“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.”

- Virginia Woolf

"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:11:06 -0400

“Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.”

- Winston Churchill

"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world."

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:50:06 -0400

“I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.”

- Muhammad Ali

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:40:06 -0400

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”

- C. S. Lewis

"It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:25:54 -0400

“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”

- Lewis Carroll

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:25:17 -0400

“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”

- E. B. White

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine,..."

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:22:41 -0400

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.”

- George Bernard Shaw

"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become..."

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:18:56 -0400

“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.”

- Emily Dickinson

"The most sophisticated people I know — inside they’re all children. We never really lose..."

Tue, 31 May 2011 22:19:57 -0400

“The most sophisticated people I know — inside they’re all children. We never really lose a certain sense we had when we were kids.”

- Jim Henson

"For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind..."

Tue, 31 May 2011 22:11:35 -0400

“For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But, perhaps it was only an echo.”

- The Giver, Lois Lowry

"Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There’s an east wind coming all the..."

Tue, 31 May 2011 21:49:52 -0400

“Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There’s an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it’s God’s own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared. Start her up, Watson, for it’s time that we were on our way. I have a check for five hundred pounds which should be cashed early, for the drawer is quite capable of stopping if he can.”

- Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow

"You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it."

Tue, 31 May 2011 21:48:25 -0400

“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”

- Robin Williams

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."

Tue, 31 May 2011 21:47:03 -0400

“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”

- Edgar Allan Poe

"The proper function of man is to live - not to exist."

Tue, 31 May 2011 21:45:07 -0400

“The proper function of man is to live - not to exist.”

- Jack London