Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing.
Jubal Harshaw
Robert A. Heinlein, "To Sail Beyond Sunset"
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller, "The Wisdom of the Heart"
And a vessel is always a 'she,' never 'it.' Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive – and unpredictable.
Jacob Salomon to Joan Eunice Smith
Robert A. Heinlein, I will fear no evil
You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.
Jasper Hale to Alice Cullen
Stephanie Meyer, Eclipse
Sue O'Malley: What are you majoring in?
Joel: Russian literature and Slavic languages.
Sue O'Malley: Oh wow, that's pretty interesting. What career track is that?
Joel: Cabby, hot dog vendor, marijuana delivery guy. The world is my oyster.
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything. She wants all the information you can give her.
If you don't talk to the world, the world has little reason to believe you exist.
Trying to quash the addiction to watching movies, opting for blogging instead
Life! Bite more than you can chew, then chew on it.
A billboard with one of those crazy yag terriers holding onto a towel, flying through the air, obviously being spun by someone not in the frame of the shot, presumably the owner of the towel.
