"Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges and absorbs the impact."
—
Nicole Krauss
[The History of Love: A Novel]
(via lunadanger)
(via quote-book)
8:00 pm • 27 November 2009
Making the Graham cracker crust for my pumpkin pie.
7:33 am • 26 November 2009
apsies:brooklynmutt: Obama Turkey Pardon: Thanksgiving At The White House
6:56 pm • 25 November 2009
Do you ever get the feeling that your desk may collapse?
3:57 pm • 23 November 2009
100 Mispronounced Words in the English Language
carolinemartin:
pirata:
libraryland:
(via writinginanachronism)
A few of these made me go, “oh,” and then feel really dumb. Such as:
NO: spitting image
YES: spit and image
The very spit of someone is an exact likeness. “The spit and image” or “spit image” emphasizes the exactness.
NO: mischevious
YES: mischievous
It would be mischievous of me not to point out the frequent misplacement of the accent and letter-switching in this word. Remember, it is accented the same as mischief and the suffix is simply -ous.
And one that always makes me twitch when I hear it:
NO: excetera, et cetra, excetra (that’s the worst and i hear it all the time)
YES: et cetera
Latin for “and” (et) “the rest” (cetera) are actually two words that still may be written separately.
And the correct abbreviation of that is “etc.” Not “ect.”
2:55 pm • 22 November 2009
"
I don’t think we are a delicate country. And I don’t think we’re a fragile country. I think that we’re an incredibly tenacious [one]. The whole fabric of this country was born of people who came from a place they didn’t want to be to a place they wanted to be, to do whatever they had to do to make that. And that ethos still lives in this country.
The idea that trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York will destroy us, or trying to bring universal health care to people will destroy us, or trying to solve the problem of global warming will destroy us is trumped up fear that’s being used as a wedge to flatter people into voting for them. And it is absolutely not a part of our national character. The people who continually tell me how much they love this country and I don’t… also say how little this country can accomplish to overcome the problems that all countries face.
"
— Jon Stewart (via Southpol)(via meredithnyc) (via apsies)
1:05 pm • 20 November 2009
fuckyeahbigbangtheory:oldfilmsflicker:replicant:
Penny: Is that my arm?
Sheldon: It doesn’t feel like an arm
Penny: Then maybe you should let it go
8:24 pm • 17 November 2009
