December 2010
“I’m not the world’s number one consulting detective; I just look a bit like him.”
– Benedict Cumberbatch (via lolpigeons)
travelhighlights:
“The Fairytale of New York” by...
“the snow doesn’t give a soft white
damn Whom it touches”
– E.E. Cummings, from “XIX”, from Viva (via liquidnight)
“It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling...”
– T.S. Eliot (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book) (via hammocknotes)
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully...”
– Henry Ward Beecher (via libraryland)
“Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!”
– Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (via libraryland)
Christmas Stories
Now that I’m older, reading “The Night Before Christmas” on Dec 24/25 has been replaced with reading “The Dead” in Joyce’s Dubliners.
“I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes”
– Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare (via whatkindofgirl)
“The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via liquidnight)
“The ‘perfect’ time never arrives. You’re always too young or old or busy or...”
– ReWork (via sentimentallyours)
“develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music...”
– henry miller (via texturism)
“A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while...”
– Gaston Bachelard (via libraryland)
“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if...”
– Scott Fitzgerald (via fashionninag)
“I’ve heard symphonies written by blind composers and seen cathedrals designed by...”
– Lois Duncan (via starsmending)
“You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.”
– The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (via buchliebe)
“I’ve always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of...”
– Cher (via fashionninag)
projectgutenberg:
APPLE DUMPLIN SHOP. A woman’s bosom.
- Francis Grose, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence (1811) [full text]
Too funny (and now I will be unable to stop myself from using this euphemism, over and over and over).
“We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our...”
– E. Merrill Root (via libraryland)
bees-knees:
Really the only two traits you need to have in order to be a meteorologist in Chicago is the ability to gesticulate wildly and sweepingly over a green screen and the self-confidence/stupidity to admit when you are wrong.
In Boston, you only need the first part. You can be wrong all you want. We actually expect it. (Then again, with all the possible weather paths that converge...
Student Protests in London
On the one hand, I get it - to have your tuition increased that much seems unfair. Especially when a hefty chunk of your taxes (sometimes 50%, no?) goes to the government (albeit for social programs). (I forget if all those VAT taxes are on top of this or not…chime in if you know. Same w/ all those vouchers you need for the internet, tv, etc. As a Yank, I was a bit shielded from all the...
“The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
– Muriel Rukeyser