January 2010
26 posts
“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how...”
– Bill Watterson
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the...”
– C.S Lewis
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Ernest Hemingway
J.D. Salinger, dead at 91
“This fall I think you’re riding for - it’s a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. Or they...
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
I went to the woods because I wished to live...
Henry David Thoreau
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
~Professor Keating (Robin Williams) in ‘Dead Poet’s Society’
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your...
- Mark Twain
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wonder are lost,
The old...”
– JRR Tolkein
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit...”
– Albert Einstein
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Faustus: curse thyself: curse Lucifer
That hath depriv’d thee of the joys of...”
– FAUSTUS
“I said in my heart, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were...”
– Ecclesiastes