199 Love Quotes Collection - Collection of romantic love quotes from famous authors, & other romantic sources. These love quotes are simply for showing your love. Scroll down to see the romantic love quotes. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense....
http://www.oilempire.us/quotes.html Quotes, Wisdom and Perspective on War, Peace and Liberty Americans are smart at doing stupid things. -- comment of a Marshall Islander in the film HALF-LIFE, an Australian documentary about the US 1954 hydrogen bomb explosion in the Marshall Islands. When a man...
The following is an article I just finished writing on another website I am on called Newsvine. Well... At the risk of being ridiculed all to hell by my friends and enemies here at Newsvine, I am going to do it yet again!! Yes, I have once again changed my mind about one of the most fundamental...
I hit upon this long list of profundities while I was taking a break from what I was doing... lots of things really hit home for me, and maybe other people will like it as well: 1. If the map doesn’t agree with the ground, the map is wrong. We are given mental maps as children. Our parents and...
Even setting the politics aside, this may be useful. Why is my life getting more complicated by the minute? This article probably offers more questions than answers. Three Times is Enemy Action by Devilstower Sun Sep 21, 2008 at 06:03:41 AM PDT "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three...
On Madness and Insanity: “This must be what going mad feels like.” - Simon, Firefly "Dear Diary...Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever." -Jayne, Firefly "Einstein was wrong! I am the speed of LIGHT cracking through shivery atoms and GOD THE SKY...
So did you have that card game called "Authors" when you were a kid? Whitman produced it: a deck of cards with 11 (or in some decks, 13) authors' portraits and four of their book titles. You played it like "Fish": "Do you have any Robert Louis Stevensons?" "Nope! Go Fish." (I don't think we ever...
(Reprinted from my main personal website, which I have recently started to update more often than I have been, although not as much as I used to.) I mentioned here a few weeks ago how there's this tiny little space that recently went up for rent in my neighborhood this summer, a weird little...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Information Clearing House Newsletter News You Won't Find On CNN 24/09/08 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "For in a Republic, who is 'the country?' Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is...
Monday, October 31, 2005 Deep Thoughts and stuff My friend tseliot had this to say today, and what follows is my response. Others in the discussion had responses more directly related to what she wrote, but she touched a different place in my heart: It seems to me that what I took for granted when I...
It is perfect fitting to recount, using Churchill’s pen (he devoted a chapter—The Fate of the ‘Bismarck’—in his The Second World War, Volume 3; the Battle of Denmark Strait, the sinking of German’s Bismarck), on the Memorial Day weekend of 1941. Memorial Day was also on May 26th (Monday)...
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins Just like The DaVinci Code, but on hallucinogenic mushrooms…and written 30 years prior. A psychedelic story of a wandering musical troupe that settle down to open “Captain Kendrick’s Memorial Hot Dog Wildlife Preserve,” and somehow get mixed up with...
Post number six is for Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember. I'd learned about this book thanks to my working for 2+ years in the bookstore, and bought it because it looked interesting and the Children's Lead said she enjoyed it. It sat on my shelf for a long while, though, until I finally picked it up...
1. Be present. Let go of the non-existent past and invest energies to now and the future. You live now. Slow down and put quality into your actions. The race is still being run. Get up and keep moving. ~ hackyourself.org Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~ Maori proverb 2....
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/twainwp.htm It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and...
As I found it so liberating yesterday I have decided to do it again. 1. Since deciding to do this again I am constantly questioning why. 2. I am surprised I didn't get more questions about things on the list yesterday. 3. I don't think I'd have answered many of them anyway. 4. After talking with Row...
Yesterday's was so liberating so I did it again 1. Since deciding to do this again I am constantly questioning why. 2. I am surprised I didn't get more questions about things on the list yesterday. 3. I don't think I'd have answered many of them anyway. 4. After talking with Row about "The Nun" in...
This article was originally published in The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/miller-education A modest proposal to fix the schools by Matt Miller First, Kill All the School Boards It wasn’t just the slate and pencil on every desk, or the absence of daily beatings. As Horace Mann sat...
I swore I wouldn't do this. I'm not into making arbitrary promises to either myself or others because most of the time I don't keep them and that just hurts my credibility. If you think about it, nobody is into arbitrary promises; why do you think institutions like marriage, abstinence, D.A.R.E.,...
Okay, so I haven't written anything substantial here in awhile. Boo hoo. I was assigned to write a piece of fiction for a class I am taking, and honestly, I don't much like it. I use Mark Twain's philosophy of writing uncontrollable characters into wells. Except, this time, with no desire or time...
