November 2011
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“The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
– Muriel Rukeyser (via jarrettfuller)
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Text Exchange with Jazz Musician Friend
Me: Where are you?
JMF: I'm on the train to Boston, going to play a couple concerts
Me: cool! break a leg!
JMF: Ouch!
Me: what do musicians say to each other before shows then?!
JMF: usually "What are we playing??"
Woke up & couldn’t get back to sleep until I found out which country Sofia Vergara is from.
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“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
– William Shakespeare (via laceofpearls)
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Carey Mulligan is Adorable →
New York Magazine talks to her about Shame, tattoos, and driving under the influence of Red Bull.
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“I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via quote-book)
RT @TheTweetOfGod: Listening is the simultaneous exercise of both hearing and giving a shit.
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Is it possible for cats to be autistic?
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“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to...”
– Mary Oliver
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to...”
– Marie Curie
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“This notion that intellectual rigor and kindness do not make good bedfellows is...”
– On the philosophy and neuropsychology of kindness, which is often falsely framed as a binary opposite to intellect (via curiositycounts)
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“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via ireadintothings)
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“Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.”
– Yehuda Amichai (via tylerknott)
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Bradley Cooper: redeeming the state of Pennsylvania in the eyes of the nation…at least a little, right? #SexiestManAlive
Perfectly sane friend refers to himself as ‘psycho’. World is now upside down.
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“The greatest menace to progress is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.”
– Daniel Boorstin
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“We all want the same things. We want to be loved, to be happy—we want to...”
– Bobbi Brown, makeup mogul, in response to the question “So, how do you keep your sanity in this vicious, barracuda world of fashion?”
Spent my Saturday night ridding my room of old magazines. Thought you’d see me on Hoarders in a few years? Think again!
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First riots and now bomb threats. PSU, please stop adding to the madness.
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Watchesoterrorism:
Jon Stewart on Penn State
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“We all perform. It’s what we do for each other all the time, deliberately...”
– Richard Avedon
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“As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service,...”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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On Penn State
To everyone that believes Paterno, Spanier, and everyone else involved in the cover up deserve to lose their jobs and have their heads mounted on the campus gates, and to everyone that believes the board of trustees are coming down too harshly: Let’s take a moment and remember a few things: None of these men are mustache-twirling villains, or huge scaly monsters. All of them are human...
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“I got Nasa to loan me a moon rock, carbon-dated 3.6 billion years old. I put it...”
– How Bill Clinton “defused the madness” as President | FT.com (via somethingchanged)
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