November 2010
2 posts
“A Cold and frosty morning there’s not a lot to say
About the things...”
“Love comes and goes like he knows what he wants to do
It’s here, then its...”
– Julia Stone
October 2010
14 posts
“Synergy can occur in situations where two or more activities or processes complement each other, to the extent that their combined effect is greater than the sum of the parts pg.278
—Johnson G and K Scholes: Exploring Corporate Strategy text and cases: (2002)
It has been realised that synergistic benefits are not as easy to achieve as would appear, can be costly to the extent that the...
““A fight is going on inside me,” said an old man to his son. “It is a terrible...”
– Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of LIfe, Wendy Mass (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Admittedly, this isn’t much fun in the here and now. But it goes some way...”
– Read this in like Woman’s Day or something the other day at the doctors- in a section about letters guys had written to their girlfriends/wives but had never given them :(
“We fatties have a bond, dude. It’s like a secret society. We got all kinds...”
“They faded before their own eyes, till they were nothing more than living...”
– A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her...”
– The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I’ve thought a lot about you in that time. The more I’ve thought the more I’ve...”
– - Norwegian Wood
Just finished reading this book yesterday- amaaaazing <3
“When you understand that what you’re telling is just a story. It isn’t happening...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via quote-book)
“I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like...”
– David Almond: Jackdaw Summer (via quote-book)
“It’s better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn’t...”
– Angelina Jolie | Submitted by: bornonthe17th (via quote-book)
September 2010
2 posts
“My stomach churns over really stupid stuff. Things that shouldn’t make you...”
– Leonardo DiCaprio, “Rolling Stone” (via quote-book)
August 2010
2 posts
I think it's really nice
poeticheartache:
pickmeadaisy:
Hearing guys talk about their girlfriends. Whether it was about this eccentric habit she had, or how amazing she was as a person… it’s just nice. You know? To hear what they’ve been thinking from inside their hearts.
“Of course there is pleasure in reading. But mainly we do it out of need. Because...”
– Lorin Stein (via blackberry-stone) (via teachingliteracy)
July 2010
26 posts
“You have a serious problem of distorting reality. You could sleep with the...”
– La science des rêves(via seagoat) (via lafinparfaite) (via youcleverfox)(via dilawidjanarko, chillkitties)
(via booklover)
“We can imagine the books we’d like to read, even if they have not yet been...”
– Alberto Manguel; The Library at Night (via wordpainting) (via booklover)
“What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen,...”
– Jennifer Donnelly (A Northern Light) (via teachingliteracy) (via booklover)
“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep...”
– — Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood) (via teachingliteracy) (via booklover)
“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page...”
– — Cornelia Funke (via teachingliteracy) (via booklover)
“The Stoddard Temple must be destroyed. Not to save men from it, but to save it...”
– Dominique Francon from Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead (via abbsters)
“You know, I never open again any great book I’ve read and loved. It hurts me to...”
– Dominique, The Fountainhead
Possibly my favorite quote from that book
(via onemuselessnight)
“Dominique: You know I love statues of naked men. Don’t look so silly. I...”
– The fountainhead, Ayn Rand (via norat)
“No. I hate incompetence. I think it’s probably the only thing I do hate. But it...”
– Howard Roark in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead (via jamiemoon)
“I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,...”
– Simon & Garfunkel (via ireadintothings)
“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual....”
– ~Chuck Palahniuk. (via cr00kshanks) (via libraryland) (via booklover)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO GERMANY :(
luckily #holland is where my passions lie. would’ve been nice to see the Germans in there though.
absinthenoire:
THIS IS NOT THE END FOR GERMANY THIS IS NOT THE...
(via apio)
“My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the...”
– — Andy Andrews (via teachingliteracy) (via booklover)
“Some mornings, when she awakened in her bedroom, she heard the explosions...”
– The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand. (via amy-elizabeth-lewis)
The Sordid Details: Dymocks 2010 Booklover’s 101... →
Dymocks 2010 Booklover’s 101 List
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The...
“The paradise of her childhood had been in books.”
– Anais Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart (via yellowcrayon) (via awritersruminations)
“Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark.”
– The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand (via the-final-sentence)
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:...”
– Carl Jung (via kari-shma)
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts...”
– Bridget Jones’s Diary (via kari-shma)
June 2010
9 posts
Stan vs. the volcano | FP Passport
Posted By Joshua Keating
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 11:18 AM
Could Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s career — and possibly the Obama administration’s strategy in Afghanistan — be the latest victim of the Eyjafjallajökull effect?
Michael Hastings, the freelance journalist who wrote the provocative piece about General McChrystal’s displeasure with the war effort, met the...
The most memorable people in your life will be the...
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It’s weird how you go from being strangers, to...
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