May 2007
19 posts
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl
“It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.”
– Al Franken
“It feels like someone carved me out with a melon baller.”
– Jillian Misrack, on feeling like crap
“Shit is the tofu of cursing.”
– David Sedaris
Shuffle at Your Own Risk →
“Oh my god, I saw that hot guy again last night at the gym. I’m always so...”
– Tan girl
Frankenstein, the Sad Poetic Monster
“The world was to him a secret which he desired to divine. Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded, are among the earliest sensations he can remember. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that he desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul...
“The best way to avoid a fire is to keep it from happening.”
– John, security trainer —Comcast Entertainment Group
May Kasahara on Death and Evolution
“If people lived forever—if they never got any older—if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy—do you think they’d bother to think hard about things, the way we’re doing now? I mean, we think about just about everything, more or less—philosophy, psychology, logic. Religion. Literature. I kinda think, if there were no such...
“I’m not a bra seller. I mean, it’s so trivial this bra thing....”
– Jillian Misrack, San Francisco
““What do you do with something that killed you?
You could put it...”
– Peter & Nathan Petrelli, “Heroes”