June 2011
61 posts
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via kari-shma)
Read this on my dashboard, picked up my book to continue reading… “…I’ve also said that sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” -William Diehl, Primal Fear...
“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see...”
– Mitch Albom (via aeloquence)
“There was nothing left to see. It happened and it was impossible and beautiful...”
– Sarah Ockler (Twenty Boy Summer)
“I will dream of you
even when I can feel you
lying next to me.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“Pick the day. Enjoy it — to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come…...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via julie911)
Watchwoah! Why did i not know about this experiment before now??
May 2011
70 posts
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful...”
– Orison Swett Marden (via adenosinetriesphosphate)
WatchOH! MY! GOSH!!!! A-FREAKING-DORABLE!!!!!! SERIOUSLY??? AHHHH! OMG!!!
“I didn’t want to feel like this. It hurts…I love you. I’m totally and completely...”
– Natalie Portman as Emma Kurtzman (No Strings Attached) (via angela-wanders)
English to German
English
The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as...
How to Write Good
by Frank L. Visco
My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules:
Avoid alliteration. Always.
Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
Employ the vernacular.
Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
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“The way I see it the whole wide world has gone crazy, so baby why don’t we...”
– Josh Turner
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
– Blaise Pascal (via zizzlezazzle)
love it!!
Normal people going to the kitchen to drink water...
launicaperucha:
Me going to the kitchen to drink water at night:
Hah! Yes!!
