February 2011
Cats Watching You Have Sex →
Judgement! It’s there!
January 2011
Watchlibrarianista:
Challenger Astronaut Ronald E. McNair’s Library Legacy
Twenty five years ago the nation watched in horror as the space shuttle Challenger exploded in the air, creating a massive fireball just 73 seconds after launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The tragedy shook the entire world and prompted NASA to evaluate its shuttle program and review the future of space travel.
All...
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
– Oscar Wilde
Coldplay - Clocks
Why secondhand bookstores (and libraries!) smell...
mcnallyjackson:
powells:
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a...
“I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached...”
– Moon Palace, Paul Auster (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“No effort or expense should be spared [by authorities] to provide good libraries...”
– Martin Luther
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
– H.L. Mencken
“You, as librarians, stand at the door beyond which this infinity resides…As the...”
– Rita Dove (via librarianista)
“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the...”
– J.D. Salinger
“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone...”
– Richard Bach
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all”
– Aristotle
“My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won’t let me.”
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable....”
– Neil Gaiman
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will...”
– Maya Angelou
Sometimes you remember the smiles. Sometimes it’s the looks. Sometimes it’s just a touch. Whatever it is, hold on to it for it is yours to cherish.
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold...”
– My mom has always told me that God will never give you more than you can handle. It’s what I remember when things feel the darkest.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that...”
– Ambrose Redmoon
turbine: Help Me Help My Daughter With Her... →
poetrymidwest:
My youngest daughter received the following assignment last week: (letter edited to protect school details) My daughter did her due diligence and colored in a picture of Flat Stanley: We aren’t travelling anywhere in the coming months, and we don’t have family or…
474. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing...
“True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends....”
“True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime...”
– Alicia Barnhart
“I needed his lack of concern for the insignificant as much as he needed my...”
– Jan Denise
“Don’t Say A Word
The Last One’s Still Stinging
Back A My Mind
I...”
– “Everything Hits At Once”
-Spoon
I love this band.
“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
– It was hard to deal with my museum job today since the girls wanted to gossip and I just wanted to work. I ended up leaving early because I couldn’t deal with their conversation. I won’t go into details but I felt as if I was in an argument that I had no business participating in. I came...
“I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your...”
– Frederick Perls
“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
– Wendy Wasserstein
“Confounding people’s expectations was a way to maintain integrity.”
– Lindsey Buckingham
I like the word expectations today. I’m thinking of doing a word a day and seeing where the quotes lead me.
“Don’t become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the...”
– Jim Rohn
Clearly, I’m thinking of the word “waiting” today.
“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and...”
– Orison Swett Marden