November 2010
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“For we, we are not long here
Our time is but a breath, so we better breathe it”
– Brooke Fraser - C.S. Lewis Song - Albertine
June 2008
49 posts
“Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a...”
– Rufus Choate
“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of...”
– jack nicklaus (via enquotations)
“Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up...”
– Anna Quindlen (via enquotations)
“People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to...”
– Dave Barry (via siddman)
“Some addicts say they reach “rock bottom” when they lose their...”
– OK! Magazine - Burger King Helped Downey Jr. Quit Drugs
“I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.”
– Wernher von Braun (via enquotations)
“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our...”
– Helen Keller (via enquotations)
The older I get, the dumber the newscasters get...
When I was a kid, in my naive little kid mind, certain types of people commanded an unearned, automatic degree of respect, or perhaps awe is a better word. People like politicians, actors, athletes, and even newscasters (Walter Cronkite was big time when I was a youngster) were, to me, pretty impressive. They were famous, I figured, so they must really have it all together.
Fast forward forty...
“In 2000 I was cruelly denied the Pulitzer despite being the only columnist in...”
– Jonah Goldberg - National Review Online
WatchChild Bankrupts Make-A-Wish Foundation With Wish For Unlimited Wishes | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“The new iPhone will contain a golden ticket in 5 boxes world wide, which will...”
– The Enormous Waste of Webspace » New iPhone Arrives Today - 5 contain Golden Tickets (via fred-wilson)
“Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.”
– Henry Kaiser (via enquotations)
“Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.”
– Spike Milligan (via enquotations)
WatchHulu - Weekend Update iPhone Special: Saturday Night Live
Today, Steve Jobs unveils the newest iPhone to the world. Not quite one year ago, the first iPhone was unveiled. I’m not sure the new iPhone even comes close to the promises Jobs made about the original last year. Take a look.
WatchUS Civil War - Brightcove
“The truth is that about 65% of the American work force is working class, not...”
– Joe Bageant: Breaking the Beer Barrier
“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns...”
– Archibald MacLeish (via affremblequotes)
“There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an...”
– Steven Wright
“But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not...”
– Dr. Randy Pausch in the “Last Lecture” (via artistspaid)
“You are what you do, not what you say you do.”
– (via tightgrip)
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the...”
– Sidney J. Harris (via enquotations)
“Things ain’t what they used to be and probably never was.”
– Will Rogers (via affremblequotes)
“Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.”
– Margaret Millar (via travors)
“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most...”
– Jeff Foxworthy
“When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms...”
– Steven Wright
“I gave my cat a bath the other day…they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed...”
– Steve Martin
Someone Please Do This
jakehurwitz:
I think it’d be really funny to dress in tattered dirty clothes and then run out of a forest to a couple of people and demand, “What year is this!?”
When they answer, “2008.” You look away and mumble “My God.” Then run back into the woods.
50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do | Marc... →
50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do
“Women will stop having issues with food when we are allowed to take up the...”
– Feminism and food (via gauntlet Okaaaay….so, you want fries with that?