January 2011
66 posts
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must...”
– Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
This.
“You know you’ve reached the apex of Western Civilization when Robin Lopez is...”
– Bill Walton during tonight’s Celtics broadcast. (via veteranminimum)
“For the last three years, the US government secretly provided aid to the leaders...”
– Via Raw Story as seen linked on @jose3030 Twitter Feed
“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
– Sophia Loren (b. 1934)
I was named after her. Sofia is beautiful because she’s a wonderful woman.
“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the (U.S.) media.”
– Noam Chomsky
The unrest in Egypt
Is making me very sad. My heart hurts for the oppression of peaceful demonstrators and the absolute abuse of power by the government. My heart and mind are with all those suffering, know someone suffering , and everyone continuing to protest the Egyptian government’s atrocities.
“I’m going to make sure I do everything in my power to send him off in the right...”
– Kobe Bryant (on Phil Jackson’s retirement)
Three Goggles mania in Portland →
nbamusings:
TBJ’s Megan Wilson breaks down the “Three Goggles” fad in Portland. A really fun read.
“There’s people in the crowd that work hard every day, blue-collar, and Perk...”
– Doc Rivers (on Kendrick Perkins)
This.this.THISSSSS
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~you are beautiful~
“One always dies too soon—or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
(via madaeli26)
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Chuck Dougie.
oakleyandallen:
YES THISSSSSSS.
“Guys had played 40, 42, 46 minutes last night, and we’re missing Marcus Camby,...”
– Nicolas Batum (via nbaquotes)
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their...”
– Oscar Wilde
[ironically quoted]
(via alanajoy)
“Nic [Batum] came to me and said ‘Make both of these and you have a new career...”
– LaMarcus Aldridge (via nbaquotes)
“Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal...”
– MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., April 18, 1959. (via inothernews)
Arctic Flower - Emily Dickinson
S if some little arctic flower,Upon the polar hem,Went wandering down the latitudes,Until it puzzled cameTo continents of summer,To firmaments of sun,To strange, bright crowds of flowers,And birds of foreign tongue!I say, as if this little flowerTo Eden wandered in—What then? Why, nothing, onlyYour inference therefrom!
