December 2009
“History professor, lecturing on the early 1900s: I mean, the problem of being the only person with a telephone is, well, who you gonna call? Class, as one: Ghostbusters! History professor: You kids scare me.” — “But Fantastic That You’re Keeping That Cultural Reference Alive”, overheard at Colorado University
“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” — C.S. Lewis
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Boys are hard to raise. All my sisters have boys and I just feel for them because it’s really hard. Here’s the thing: girls are just as hard to raise, but on a whole other level. They’re just different. Here’s the difference between boys and girls: boys fuck things up. Girls are fucked up. That’s the difference. Boys just do damage to your house that you can measure in dollars, like a...
awe :'(
beautiful-disaster23:
so sad. (btw, they’re not talking to each other. they’re talking to a friend or something.)
Boy: I saw her today Girl: I saw him today Boy: It seems like its been forever Girl: I wonder if he still cares Boy: She looks better than before Girl: I couldn’t stop staring at him Boy: I asked her how things were going Girl: I asked about his new girlfriend Boy: I’d choose her...
“The beauty of losing your mind is you don’t know what you’ve lost.” — Jill Bolte Taylor
“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.” — Albert Einstein
“Preserve your memories. They’re all that’s left of you.” — Paul Simon
“No girl should ever forget that she doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.” — Marilyn Monroe
“his words are quiet like stains are on a tablecloth washed in a river stains that are trying to cover for each other or at least blend in with the pattern good is better than perfect scrub ‘til your fingers are bleeding and I’m crying for things that I tell others to do without crying ” — regina spektor, “man with a thousand faces”
“The average person tells 4 lies a day, or 1460 a year a total of 88,000 by the age of 60. And the most common lie is: I’M FINE.”
“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering, There is a crack, A crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen
“If many remedies are prescribed for an illness, you may be certain that the illness has no cure.” — A. P. Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Kahlil Gibran
“I think it’s funny when stars complain about how they can’t go to the grocery store— I’m like, boo-fucking-hoo.” — Lady GaGa
civic duty
“When the cops came to my neighbor’s house to tell her that her son had been arrested for murder, I felt it was my duty to interrupt because the officers had parked pretty close to my car and I didn’t want to accidentally scrape against it on my way to work. ”
“…things we lose have a way of coming back to us again, if not always in the way we expect…” — Luna Lovegood
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure...
“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.” — Douglas Adams
“The truth will set you free. But not until it’s finished with you.” — David Foster Wallace
“Slowing down is okay sometimes. I think giving things time to manifest is key. Time articulates everything in a way that words cannot.” — Lady Gaga
“If life’s journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere.” — Rabindranath Tagore
awe :(
“Oh, and before you leave I have one more assignment,” I said to the class.
Naturally, this news was met with audible disgust from my students.
“The assignment…is to have a great weekend!” I said, smiling now as the groans quickly transformed into a wave of cheers. “Now get out of here!”
For the most part, all of my students did particularly well on that assigment and were awarded “A’s” -...
