December 2010
64 posts
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated…”
– Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (via khadeejafinds)
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”
– C.S. Lewis (via quote-book)
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
– Salvador Dali (via quote-book)
“What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The...”
– Rikki Ducornet, The Fan-Maker’s Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade (via aperfectcommotion)
Golden Hour: Rabbit Hole poster design →
mygoldenhour:
This poster of the film Rabbit Hole shows how promotional campaigns can both fulfill marketing demands and preserve the art of storytelling.
It has nine frames compiled with different levels of color grades. Yet, in spite of its complex montage, it grabs me for its simplicity and…
“You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.”
– The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (via buchliebe)
“Take advantage of five matters before five other matters: your youth, before you...”
– Prophet Muhammad (via better-than-yesterday)
“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse...”
– Anna Quindlen (via libraryland)
“Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have:...”
– J. G. Ballard, Age of Unreason (via nathanielstuart)
“Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people...”
– Jules Romains (via kari-shma)
“I’ve spent too much time wanting what was taken from me, not what was given.”
– Ben Barnes as King Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (via quote-book)
hubris: overbearing pride or presumption
redivivus: living again; returned to life
flibbertigibbet: : a silly, flighty person; a...
“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via cavesoflilith)
“Chances are, if your government is telling you not to read something, you should...”
– Al Jazeera on Wikileaks, Hip-Hop, Global Honesty and Cultural Decline (via shakespeareandcobooks)
“Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of...”
– John Ruskin (via wordpainting)
HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY ALEX WATSON!
fuckyeahemmawatson:
likeyoumeanitlikeyoudo | -briarrose:
Ugh, just lock me up and throw away the key already.
“I’ve always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low,...”
– Peter Scott (via kari-shma)
“Dahil sa pagsusulat, masasagi mo ang mga matatayog na egotismo ng ibang tao....”
– Bob Ong, Stainless Longganisa (via geeksturr)
“A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his...”
– Orhan Pamuk (via booklover)
“Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda (via nathanielstuart)
Booklover: 30 day book meme Day 19 – Favorite... →
booklover:
30 day book meme
Day 19 – Favorite books turned into a movie
Anthony Burgess-A Clockwork Orange: I love Kubrick’s adaptations.
Stephen King-The Shining: King may not love the movie adaptation but the film is epic with Jack Nicholson.
Chuck Palahniuk-Fight Club: It is a hard book to make a…
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin (via wordpainting)
“The whole world could tell from someone’s eyes if they were in love.”
– Brida, Paulo Coelho | submitted by tuesbelle (via quote-book)