January 2012
39 posts
“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics,...”
– Carl Sagan (via loveyourchaos)
“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and...”
– Andy Rooney (via jessicachu)
“The Greeks’ Christian successors rejected the idea that the universe is governed...”
– Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow in The Grand Design (via 14-billion-years-later)
If Famous Writers Had Written Twilight →
kurozukin:
There are some funny ones, but this Douglas Adams sendup from the comments is my favorite:
“Bella, what would you say if I told you that I was not a teenager from The Forks but in fact a member of a clan of centuries-old vampires?”
Bella ran through a series of emotions, from utter confusion and incredulity to a slight tiredness, all the while trying to put on a facade of...
“This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
– In 1944 a children’s book club sent a volume about penguins to a 10-year-old girl, enclosing a card seeking her opinion.
She wrote, “This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
American diplomat Hugh Gibson called it the finest piece of literary criticism he had ever...
December 2011
36 posts
