Dec 31, 2023
“There were two things they agreed upon wholly and that were never spoken and that was that God had put horses on earth to work cattle and that other than cattle there was no wealth proper to a man. - Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses”
"Music is for people who are afraid of their own thoughts." - Maxwell Skirpan
"My feet are only good for two things: roundhouse kicks and pushing the pedal to the metal. " MM
"Ya, I'm illiterate. I'm ill, and that's lit." - MM
"Some people blow kisses. I blow minds." - MM
"Watch what names people will place on your body. Nowadays they don't stamp you, you stamp yourself wearing another's brand. Slave to a name that isn't yours. Spending money to be a billboard for someone else's business."
"Here we see how easy it is to turn asceticism into a disingenuous caricature. Aesthetic restraint is easily interchangeable with marketing, especially in times of recession, when there is a rush to embrace the rhetoric of anti-consumerism and their return to core values." - Pier Vittorio Aureli, Less is Enough
"May I see things as you do."
"No one ever consults a seer, or spends the night in a temple, out of concern for the means, rather than the ends, of their actions. Find me one such person, I want to see him. This is the person I have looked for a long time, the true genius and the aristocrat- I don't care if they be young or old, just find me one." Epictetus
"... But the book you gave me says the Lord has cattle on a thousand hills. I reckon if I get in, the best part of heaven will be riding watch at sunup, don't you?" - Willie, Sarah's Quilt, Nancy E Turner
"It is my rule in business to be the buyer, never the seller." A. Onassis
"The two elements of success are to rise early and always have a tan." Aristotle Onassis
Sabu Disc - what if we have it upside down.
I tried to go on a walk on the wild side, but it was close for repairs
"For a long time I thought Pride and Prejudice was a Documentary about Kiera Knightleys involvement with the KKK" - Matt to Kate about to watch the movie.
"I put the knowledge in technology" - Matt Marchand
" most half-grown boys have got the size of a man, trying to act as grown up as they look, and the heart of a 5-year-old, all emotion and no sense until they hit at least 20. That kid was in the hardest part of a boy's life, and no more idea what to do with himself than a month flying into a fire." Nancy E Turner "Sarah's Quilt"
"Classifications like 'optics' or 'thermodynamics' are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeking countless intersections." Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
"The ruler who is good for anything ought not to beg his subjects to be ruled by him." Plato's Republic
"There were two things they agreed upon wholly and that were never spoken and that was that God had put horses on earth to work cattle and that other than cattle there was no wealth proper to a man." - Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
"The boom of the sea paced the day like the tick of a gigantic clock." - Thunderstruck, Erik Larson
Been chill for so long all my surf, snow and and skate decks are used as tables for mail and bills
"A man was never just a man. A man was endless possibility waiting to become." WK Krueger, Iron Lake
"Songs choose their hour and their season. When your tune is 10 there's a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart's mettle, and there's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you'll sound sour as a broken bell." Patrick Rothfuss
"There are two sure ways to lose a friend. One is to borrow, the other to lend." - The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
"a poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets. Music touches the heart directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens." - The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
"The sword that kills the man is the sword that saves the man." "The last and first, are they not the same?" "When the mouth opens, all are wrong." Zen koan
"But a beautiful woman will have people tear at her, not for her but for themselves, and because she is what she is she can't escape it. Beauty very rarely brings wisdom, the Malatesta knew, and very often danger." - Robert Chrichton - The Secret of Santa Vittoria
"Because you forget the one lesson that every Santa Vittorian has known for the last thousand years: Brave men and good wine don't last long." - Robert Chrichton - The secret of Santa Vittoria
"Ask yourself the question: what prevents mate? ...Is it the knight? So get rid of it." Josh Waitzkin - Attacking Chess
Don't put RIP on my gravestone put VIP : virtually infinite person
"Pittsburgh, kind of nice-ish sometimes.*
"I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calm, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and be riven... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event." Harold Brodkey 'Manipulations'
"But the summit was really only the halfway point. Any impulse I might have felt toward self congratulation was extinguished by overwhelming apprehension about the long dangerous descent that lay ahead." J. Krakauer , Into Thin Air
"Since men love freedom, and the freedom of individuals in society requires some regulation of conduct, the first condition of freedom is it's limitation; make it absolute and it dies in chaos." Durant - The Lessons of History
"At least she had the wind to lean on." - Where the Crawdad Sings
"But I know feathers. I bet the other girls don't know feathers." Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens