Dec 31, 2024
“Another affordable way to add a drop of loveliness to the world was not to change it but to change how one saw it. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen”
"Together we looked across at the woman ready to be our prized new mother five minutes ago, sitting there now with her past spilled all over her." Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season
"It's true, I'm a bit Artistic or as Bostonians pronounce it, 'Artistic'" - MM
"That is the way with wise people—they are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations. That is why I never employ an expert in full bloom. If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means I would endow the opposition with experts. They would have so much good advice that I could be sure they would do little work." Henry Ford
"Negotiation, among its top practitioners, isn't a battle. It's an act of creativity." - Supercommunicators
"Everytime you upset me I will make a bad joke as Pun-ishment." - MM
"Pray for miracles, but plant cabbages." - Ken Follett
"If God decides my life is over, nothing can save me. But if God wants me to live on and build Kingsbridge Cathedral, ten thousand archers cannot strike me down." - Prior Philip, Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
"When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility." - Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
"He has to tread lightly. But it's for a noble purpose. To reinvent society on a folkloric level in order to give people a religious belief system that works with images and symbols they're familiar with, that's going to reinvent their orientation in a way that reaffirms the rational faculty of the human individual, and science and an enlightened society. So that's basically the idea of the noble lie." J Jorjani
"This is normal. We form these plans, and something unexpected happens, and the plans go out the window. And, under great pressure, we are forced to demonstrate creativity." There is No AntiMimetics Division
"You know how I know that shit's mid? Disney built a whole theme park around it." re: Harry Potter - MM
"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer, but to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is a fundamental soul of man-made creation." - Steve Jobs, Jony Ive book
" I can't have people working in cubicle. Hell. They won't do it. I have To have an open studio with high ceilings and cool shit going on." - Robert Brunner, Jony Ive book.
"The only reason to draw your sword is to cut the enemy down... Even in practice you just strike with all your heart and with all your soul. To do otherwise would result in your being unable to strike with full force and conviction should the need arise." Musashi, book of five rings.
"I probably spend to much time in the space above our ceiling. You could say I'm an attic. " MM
"Have you ever heard the phrase mi casa es sue casa? Well idk who tf sue is and they ain't welcome here either." MM
"Sometimes the world was so perfectly revealed to be a joke, a picture, and a puzzle all at once. Laughter was the true applause you offered to the world for being beautiful." The Narrow Road Between Desires. Rothfuss
"These creatures [humans], fraught and frayed in their desire. A snake would never poison itself, but these folk make an art of it. They wrapped themselves in fears and wept at being blind. It was infuriating. It was enough to break a heart." - The Narrow Road Between Desires. Rothfuss
"You complain that your tree is not valuable as lumber. But you could make use of the shade it provides, rest under it's sheltering branches, and stroll beneath it, admiring its character and appearance. Since it would not be endangered by an axe, what could threaten its existence? It is useless to you only because you want to make it into something else and do not use it in the proper way." Chaung-tse, The Tao of Pooh
"He didn't know much," Buffalo said. "He led us into an ambush. But I ain't ashamed of him, nohow. All his bullet holes is in the front of part of him." - Hondo, Louis L'Amour
"A coyote moved to the arroyo's edge and lifted his nose to the sky, but catching the scent of a dog and man, it moved wearily away." - Hondo, Louis L'Amour
"How could I forget that every truth meant at least two things, that slogans were empty suits draped on the corpse of an idea?" The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
"Another affordable way to add a drop of loveliness to the world was not to change it but to change how one saw it." The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
"What am I dying for? He cried back. I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live." The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen