Quotes of: Evening Keyword

Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you co...

Thud!

Then a ploughman said , speak to us of work : in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life , And to love life throught labour is to be intimate with inmost secrets . And what is it to work with love ? it is to weave the colth with thr...

The Prophet

I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip ...

All I Ever Wanted

On Living Living is no laughing matter: You must take it seriously. So much so and to such a degree that, for example, your hands tied behind your back, your back to the wall or else in a laboratory in your white coat and safety glasses, you can die ...

Nazim Hikmet

I desired to praise the Chosen One and was hindered By my own inability to grasp the extent of his glory. How can one such as I measure an ocean, when the ocean is vast? And how can one such as I count the stones and the stars? If all of my limbs wer...

Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi

In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. We know each other approximately, by external signs, and these serve well enough as a basis for society and even for intimacy. But people in...

E.M. Forster

The lie [of compulsory female heterosexuality] is many-layered. In Western tradition, one layer—the romantic—asserts that women are inevitably, even if rashly and tragically, drawn to men; that even when that attraction is suicidal (e. g, Tristan...

Adrienne Rich

Lola writes in her notebook: Leaf-fleas are even worse. Someone said, They don't bite people, because people don't have leaves. Lola writes, When the sun is beating down, they bite everything, even the wind. And we all have leaves. Leaves fall off wh...

The Land of Green Plums

That's enough Susy, nuff, nuff.' 'No, no I just want to say this,' she gasped, on the brink of incoherence. 'His eyes, his face, it's not ugly, and I know if I go back that he'll come and get some more of me... Even when he has drained all I know and...

Progeny of the Adder

Copperhead: So I suppose it's a little late for an apology, huh? The Bride: You suppose correctly. Copperhead: Look, bitch... I need to know if you're going to start any more shit around my baby girl. The Bride: You can relax for now. I'm not going t...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Maria Mitchell

He came in and took a piss in my hotel bathroom without even closing the door as I'm standing right there. I'm like, "Alright. You're comfortable." It was like we knew each other for four or five years, even though we had never met.

Coders at Work

There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules.

Ender in Exile

Welcome to,to,to,to,to Stutterville! P,p,p,please have a seat on your own lap.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Pet my 3:33 pm like it’s a beard. Live it, but don’t lick it.

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Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.

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My dreams died nine months before I was born 

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I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like.

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If I had a clone, I could list myself as a character reference.

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There’s a relentless wave of WTF coming out of Washington DC.

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Here you’ll find everything you don’t need—and much less!

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.