Posts tagged quotes
Watching someone shovel in salsa with tortilla chips is strange to Mexicans. Like how an American would feel watching someone drink salad dressing out of the bottle.
— Javier Olmedo, a Oaxaca University student and aspiring chef [NYT]
“War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.”
(Source: nerdbird)
Every traveler has a home of his own and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
— Charles Dickens
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
(Source: thomaslevinson)
When you spend a lot of time putting j and e and l and l and o together you learn quite a bit about the word jello.
— August Kleinzahler
(Source: theparisreview)
Man caught in the snare of stars. He fancied himself a creature determined by twists of fate and by the passage of time… He confronted and followed himself: he was his own shadow, an hypothesis and its exposition.
— Louis Aragon, Le paysan de Paris
(Source: frenchtwist, via theantidote)
Alright…
(Source: gluegunsandpostitnotes)
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
(Source: theantidote)
