December 2010
61 posts
"Silver Blaze", The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,...
Inspector Gregory: You consider that to be important?
Sherlock Holmes: Exceedingly so.
Inspector Gregory: Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
Sherlock Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Inspector Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time.
Sherlock Holmes: That was the curious incident..
"Silver Blaze", The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,...
Inspector Gregory: You consider that to be important?
Sherlock Holmes: Exceedingly so.
Inspector Gregory: Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
Sherlock Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Inspector Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time.
Sherlock Holmes: That was the curious incident..
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
– Robin Williams (via kari-shma)
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
– Robin Williams (via kari-shma)
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you...
– Anne Herbert (via bookobsessed)
And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you...
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore) (via glamobsessed) (via yeahharukimurakami) (via libraryland, luvandluxe-deactivated20100820)
You will always have some excuse to not live your life.
– Chuck Palahniuk (Haunted) (via xjbear) (via quote-book)
You will always have some excuse to not live your life.
– Chuck Palahniuk (Haunted) (via xjbear) (via quote-book)
There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as...
– Juliet Marillier (Daughter of the Forest)
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you...
– Richard Bach (via quote-book)
Nostalgia - it’s delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, “nostalgia”...
– Don Draper (Mad Men)
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She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s...
– Marilyn Monroe (via life-or-somethinglikeit)
Socially Awkward. →
brillliance:
You check your phone, because you have nothing to contribute to the conversation.
Wait for the right time to say something, you get interrupted. Twice
Someone you vaguely know is walking in front of you. You maintain distance.
Hold the door for some. They’re slightly too far away.
Someone comes online, you say “hey”, they go offline.
You go in for the high-five. Other person...
I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
– Salma Hayek (via quote-book)
Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been...
– Cree Indian Prophecy (via daphneemarie)
Had I never lived, someone else would probably have formulated the principle of...
– Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of the uncertainty principle in physics (via libraryland)