- Anne Fadiman
30 November 2015
Quote of the Day
"Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves."
- Anne Fadiman
- Anne Fadiman
29 November 2015
Quote of the Day
"After the leaves have fallen, we return
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir."
- Wallace Stevens, "The Plain Sense of Things"
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir."
- Wallace Stevens, "The Plain Sense of Things"
28 November 2015
Quote of the Day
"Goodbye, basket of kittens. I can only pray that next month's calendar photo will bring us a fraction of the joy and whimsy that you did."
- Harry, 3rd Rock from the Sun 2.04
27 November 2015
Quote of the Day
"Yeah, you guys are really good at welcoming the stranger if it's a young transgender kid, but sometimes the stranger looks like your mom and dad."
- Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber (via)
- Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber (via)
26 November 2015
25 November 2015
Quote of the Day
"The joy that I am feeling right now is...profound and unmatched in the modern era."
- Chris, Parks and Recreation 5.06
22 November 2015
Quote of the Day
"A simple life lesson
to avoid getting hurt:
never trust someone
who dislikes dessert."
- Samantha Jayne, Quarter Life Poetry
21 November 2015
Quote of the Day
"Yale was founded by finicky Protestants who worried that the Puritans at Harvard weren’t puritanical enough. But the Revolutionary War brought the Age of Reason to New Haven, and Dwight inherited a student body full of deist beatniks on the Enlightenment highway to hell, which is to say, France. This generation did not just read Voltaire; they literally addressed each other as 'Voltaire' the way kids today call one another dude. Like, 'Voltaire, I’m so high right now.'"
- Sarah Vowell, Unfamiliar Fishes
20 November 2015
Quote of the Day
"I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost."
- Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
19 November 2015
Quote of the Day
"...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves."
- Terry Pratchett, The Bromeliad Trilogy
- Terry Pratchett, The Bromeliad Trilogy
15 November 2015
Quote of the Day
"Jesus keeps knocking on our doors, the doors of our lives. He doesn't do this by magic, with special effects, with flashing lights and fireworks. Jesus keeps knocking on our door in the faces of our brothers and sisters, in the faces of our neighbors, in the faces of those at our side."
- Pope Francis
- Pope Francis
14 November 2015
Quote of the Day
"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."
- Rumi
12 November 2015
Quote of the Day
"'I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.'
'I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!'"
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
10 November 2015
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