January 2009
22 posts
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm...”
– David Lloyd George
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe’—a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein
I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in...
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is...”
– David Starr Jordan
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the...”
– Helen Keller
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“The word is used to dress up plain English with an imagined air of...”
– Junk English, by Ken Smith
“The only reason I lied was because the truth was so difficult to explain.”
– Haruki Murakami in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Through our scientific genius, we have made this world a neighborhood; now,...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make...”
– Bertrand Russell
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll...”
– Howard Aiken
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it....”
– Howard Thurman (via kari-shma)
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;...”
– Calvin Coolidge (via reluctantbuddha) (via kari-shma)
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a...”
– Sholom Aleichem (via kari-shma)
“The celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think.”
– Roger Ebert (via 43folders)
WatchAmazing Transformation of New York City Streets