February 2012
6 posts
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect...”
– Anna Quindlen
“The thing about being irresponsible is it’s only cute till you are about...”
– Donald Miller (via creatingaquietmind)
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“People help you, or you help them, and when we offer or receive help, we take in...”
– Anne Lamott
“Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have...”
– Jane Austen (via in-my-own-skin)
lucky: My favorite Gleeks →
myhyphenatedlife:
So I finally caught up with this week’s Glee! Loved it! I love the show and so do my boys.
They love all the singing and dancing and are too young to understand any of the innuendo however the show has seriously warped their idea of high school.
They both believe that spontaneous…
January 2012
27 posts
3 tags
“I think stretching is the most important thing. And the next most important...”
– Marge Champion, dancer
“So I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in...”
– Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets (via uhhleeese)
SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of... →
wilwheaton:
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has looked at tomorrow’s “Internet blackout” in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—and it sees only a “gimmick,” a “stunt,” “hyperbole,” “a dangerous and troubling development,” an “irresponsible response,” and an “abuse of power.”
“Wikipedia, reddit, and others are going dark to protest the legislation, while sites like...
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“You know, sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just literally...”
– - Matt Damon in...”We bought a Zoo”
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lil bit of awesome that is tina fey.
kellyoxford:
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“What other people think of me is none of my business.”
– Rupaul
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...”
– Albert Camus
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“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely...”
– Elizabeth Drew (via garnetiers)
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T Magazine: Samurai Shopper | Pillow Talk →
Marshmallows are having a moment.
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through...”
– Ellen Goodman (via wetbehindthears)
(via starrchild)
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December 2011
25 posts
7 tags
reminisce
The air is unusually warm for this time of year. It’s as if a perfect northeastern summer evening made its way down the coast and landed in my back yard. I drive on 836 West with the windows down listening to 102.7. Reminiscing on a memory brought back by the chorus of the little tune they are playing, Its then I realize that my skyline has changed. Where there was once a vast open vista to the...
SOPA: So how much does it cost to buy off... →
wilwheaton:
According to a report by the Knight-Batten Award-winning nonprofit MAPLight, the 32 sponsors of the bill received just under $2 million in campaign contributions from the movie, music, and TV entertainment industries.
To put that in perspective, this weekend’s box office take for Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (you can’t make this stuff up) took in $23 million in just one...
“As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t....”
– Haruki Murakami, Dance, Dance, Dance (via rerylikes)
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“In everyone there sleeps / A sense of life lived according to love.”
– Philip Larkin, from “Faith Healing”
“Sometimes I feel like I’m speaking Chinese when I go out to dinner, and...”
– Daphne Guinness (via mayaalexis)
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“What really makes me happy is knowing I can tap into the well of strength that...”
– Samantha Page
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“Fashion … is life-enhancing, and like everything that gives pleasure, it...”
– Vivienne Westwood
