December 2011
“It’s good when food tastes good. It’s kind of like proof you’re alive.”
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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
(via mylittlebookofwisdom)
“Imagine that you are French. You are walking along a busy pavement in Paris and...”
– Understanding and modelling how pedestrians behave is a youngish field for researchers. Anticipating pedestrian flows makes crowd events smoother and safer, and accounting for the peculiar propensities of different nationalities is key to getting it right. (via theeconomist)
“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by...”
– Haruki Murakami (via misswallflower)
“ “If you try to be precise you are bound to be metaphorical.” ”
– John Middleton Murry, English writer (1889-1957), cited in Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature, cited in G. de Vries, D. Barton Johnson, L. Ashenden, Vladimir Nabokov and the art of painting, Amsterdam University Press, 2006, p. 14. (via amiquote)
“There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of...”
– Derrick Jensen (via wistless, mythologyofblue) (via booklover) (via teachingliteracy)
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
The opposite of art is not...”
– Elie Wiesel (via losersandkings)
“Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every...”
– Riccardo Tisci (via eastatlanta)
“For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is...”
– Dalai Lama (via ageofreason)
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:...”
– Carl Jung (via ageofreason)
“Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is...”
– The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (via petalsquotesandthorns)
