September 2009
1 post
August 2009
10 posts
“A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of...”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer (via quote-book)
“What is important is not if others accept you, but if you accept yourself.”
– R. Sharma (via maluna) (via quote-book)
“I’ve decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I’m...”
– Betsy Cañas Garmon (via quote-book)
“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist...”
– Rene Descartes (via unexcitable)
ConvertIcon →
matthewb:
Fast and easy online utility to convert images to icons in a variety of sizes and formats. (via Dan Cederholm)
I just ran a test of it and it works like a charm!
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only...”
– Audrey Hepburn (My all time favorite quote) BELIEVE IT. (via artinslowmotion)
“With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.”
– Anonymous (via aliexplainsitall)
July 2009
7 posts
mascarah:
Jason Mraz - Ray of Sunshine...
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the...”
– Winston Churchill
“Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.”
– Zig Ziglar (via littlemiss) (via quote-book)
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of...”
– Frederick Douglass (via julie911) (via quote-book)
June 2009
9 posts
“Don’t be afraid of death, but of the life you’re not living.”
– Jim Morrison
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Thanks Topherchris!
topherchris:
Colbert got me. I just donated what I can afford to the USO.
I may be a godless communist pro-choice liberal gay-friendly heathen who strongly opposes current US military action, but the people on the ground aren’t a part of that problem. When it comes to the actual service personnel and the job they do, I’ve always felt: Fuck politics.
I dedicated my gift to my late...
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so...”
– Alexander Graham Bell (via phineaspoe)
Take a little bit of time out of your day to be a...
unexcitable:
Build blanket forts, skip from room to room, paint yourself with dandelions, he loves me, he loves me not, catch lightning bugs, play hide-n-seek, freeze tag, climb a tree, make Jacob’s Ladder or Cat’s Cradle, draw on the sidewalk with chalk, double-dutch, play clapping & jump rope games, make water balloons your ultimate weapon, cross your fingers behind your back, pinky swear,...
April 2009
4 posts
“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, and the second best time is...”
– I got this in an email today. The author claims that it is a Chinese proverb.
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years...”
– Milton Friedman
(via nomosshere) (via randyhaddock) (via bowlingalleylawyer)
March 2009
31 posts
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via azspot)
Southern vs. Country
sarahchristine:
3isagoodnumber:
So lately, my friends and I have been debating the difference between Southern and Country. I say there is a difference and they say its all redneck to them.
Discuss.
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.
Southerners are most certainly not all rednecks and there are rednecks all over North America (plenty of redneck Canadians). Country people are not all rednecks either!
...
“Envy is an insult to oneself.”
– Yevgeny Yevtushenko (via bonjouralexander) (via quote-book)
“Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.”
– Ira Glass (via emphasisadded)
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started”
– Mark Twain (via recruiter) (via mikehudack)
1999-2000 Bill 4806: Grits, designated as South... →
glynnis:
Whereas, throughout its history, the South has “relished its grits”, making them “a symbol of its diet, its customs, its humor, and its hospitality”; and
Whereas, every community in the State of South Carolina used to be the site of a grist mill and every local economy in the State used to be dependent on its products; and
Whereas, grits has been a part of the life of every South...
“Don’t focus on the “could have”s in your life. There’s just too much “could...”
– PEOPLE.AS.FISHES. (via unexcitable)
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
– Albert Einstein (via alannaweaver) (via vtlovin) (via quote-book)
