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Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to mone...

Jeffrey Eugenides

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to mone...

Jeffrey Eugenides

Tags: grid, hexagons, urban planning, wheels, design, detroit, london, money, paris, rome

Para o homem consciente só havia um dever: procurar-se a si mesmo, afirmar-se em si mesmo e seguir sempre adiante o seu próprio caminho, sem se preocupar com o fim a que possa conduzi-lo.

Hermann Hesse

Para o homem consciente só havia um dever: procurar-se a si mesmo, afirmar-se em si mesmo e seguir sempre adiante o seu próprio caminho, sem se preocupar com o fim a que possa conduzi-lo.

Hermann Hesse

Tags: autodescoberta, destino, espontaneidade, self, si mesmo

New Rule: Now that liberals have taken back the word liberal, they also have to take back the word elite. By now you've heard the constant right-wing attacks on the elite media, and the liberal elite....

Bill Maher

New Rule: Now that liberals have taken back the word liberal, they also have to take back the word elite. By now you've heard the constant right-wing attacks on the elite media, and the liberal elite....

Bill Maher

Tags: diploma mills, education, essay, essays, george w bush, humor, law school, liberal, monica goodling, pat robertson

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than...

Emily Bronte

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than...

Emily Bronte

Tags: constancy, heathcliff, love

My heart jumped. Yes. Yes I do. Chris, go on to the Mayo Clinic without me. I’ll make out fine, and I swear not to marry anyone until you are back and give your approval. Worry about finding someone y...

V.C. Andrews

My heart jumped. Yes. Yes I do. Chris, go on to the Mayo Clinic without me. I’ll make out fine, and I swear not to marry anyone until you are back and give your approval. Worry about finding someone y...

V.C. Andrews

Tags: chris

Most of the crimes which disturb the internal peace of society are produced by the restraints which the necessary, but unequal, laws of property have imposed on the appetites of mankind, by confining...

Edward Gibbon

Most of the crimes which disturb the internal peace of society are produced by the restraints which the necessary, but unequal, laws of property have imposed on the appetites of mankind, by confining...

Edward Gibbon

Tags: 180, covetousness, power corrupts, property rights, wealth disparity

Mira, todos los hombres son capaces de hacer lo increíble cuando están amenazados sus ideales. Pero ninguno está dispuesto cuando se presenta un nuevo ideal, un nuevo movimiento de expansión quizá pel...

Hermann Hesse

Mira, todos los hombres son capaces de hacer lo increíble cuando están amenazados sus ideales. Pero ninguno está dispuesto cuando se presenta un nuevo ideal, un nuevo movimiento de expansión quizá pel...

Hermann Hesse

Tags: hesse, hombre, ideales

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

James Gleick

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

James Gleick

Tags: chaos theory, life, mathematics, paradigm, paradigm shift, philosophy, physics, science, thomas kuhn

I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come wit...

P.G. Wodehouse

I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come wit...

P.G. Wodehouse

Tags: jeeves, wodehouse, wooster

I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs.

Irvine Welsh

I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs.

Irvine Welsh

Tags: tax, trainspotting, usa

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

Markus Zusak

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

Markus Zusak

Tags: courage, fear, i am the messenger, inspirational, life, markus zusak

I catch you without your again, I'm turning you in.Qhuinn cursed. Yeah, and then I'll get fired. Which means V'll Donald trump my ass with a dagger. You're welcome.

J.R. Ward

I catch you without your again, I'm turning you in.Qhuinn cursed. Yeah, and then I'll get fired. Which means V'll Donald trump my ass with a dagger. You're welcome.

J.R. Ward

Tags: john matthew, lover mine, qhuinn, zsadist

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.

William Golding

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.

William Golding

Tags: insignificance, sense of place, universality

For the weekend before, we had had a blowout of tarts, a tart bender, tart madness- even, I dare say, a Tart-a-pa-, if you will forgive one final usage of the construction before we at last bury that...

Julie Powell

For the weekend before, we had had a blowout of tarts, a tart bender, tart madness- even, I dare say, a Tart-a-pa-, if you will forgive one final usage of the construction before we at last bury that...

Julie Powell

Tags: fillings, french, freshness, fruit, pastries, tart

For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird.

Evangeline Walton

For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird.

Evangeline Walton

Tags: labyrinth, mabinogion, welsh, wisdom

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more...

Susan Sontag

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more...

Susan Sontag

Tags: culture, north, north and south, northerners, perceptions, prejudice, regions, society, south, southerners

Don't stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.

Terry Pratchett

Don't stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: nose

And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.

Anais Nin

And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.

Anais Nin

Tags: arousal, cat, delta of venus, desire

All husbands are unfaithful in one way or another.Lillian and Daisy glanced at each other with raised brows.Father isn’t, Lillian replied smartly.Mercedes responded with a laugh that sounded like crac...

Lisa Kleypas

All husbands are unfaithful in one way or another.Lillian and Daisy glanced at each other with raised brows.Father isn’t, Lillian replied smartly.Mercedes responded with a laugh that sounded like crac...

Lisa Kleypas

Tags: kleypas, wallflowers

A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

Marion Zimmer Bradley

A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Tags: arthurian legend, le fay, morgaine, morgana
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