September 2011
3 posts
August 2011
6 posts
A book a day keeps the stupidity away. Seriously...
teachingliteracy:
thunderlikelove
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– STEVE JOBS, in a commencement address at Stanford, 2005.
(via the Wall Street Journal)
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July 2011
1 post
October 2010
18 posts
“Writing is a form of therapy. Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write,...”
– Graham Greene (via kari-shma)
“School didn’t prepare us for this. Public education is a relic of the Industrial...”
– Are You in Your Creative Element? | Lateral Action (via bridgettelizabeth)
“Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing...”
– Nicole Krauss (via kari-shma)
“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right...”
– Randy Pausch (via kari-shma)
September 2010
13 posts
On Book Guilt →
digifreaks:
I suffer from this periodically in the past, which is probably why I stopped reading for several years, partly due to no books interesting me and due to the fact that I don’t want to suffer from book guilt.
Attitudes to the unfinished book take many forms. Multiple book readers—those comfortable having more than one book on the stack at the same time—are less susceptible; the...
“I’ve learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don’t always turn our the...”
– Jennifer Weiner (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
baavri:
i love the delicate whisper of an idea that exists within and around me. that idea is not a waste, it is a luxury.
Like. :)
346. One reads books in order to gain the...
May 2010
2 posts
“That’s what you never got. It takes an entire lifetime to write the words “And...”
– via: I wrote this for you (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
April 2010
4 posts
March 2010
51 posts
“Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it”
– Joyce Cary (via kari-shma)
“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) | Submitted by: kate-kate-kate (via quote-book)
