Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy (c) Bob Kelso

“The morning breezes have secrets to tell; don’t go back to sleep.” (c) Rumi

It's like a lion at the door;

And when the door begins to crack,

It's like a stick across your back;

And when your back begins to smart,

It's like a penknife in your heart;

And when your heart begins to bleed,

You're dead, and dead, and dead, indeed.

--from "A Man of Words and Not of Deeds,"

(English nursery rhyme, anon.)

Half the time the world is ending, Truth is I am done pretending (c) Love Remains The Same, Gavin Rossdale

“Bad news stops us for a while, but we move on. Hope … is paralyzing.” (c) William Hightower

"A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards." (c) Karl Kraus

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.” (c) Stuart Chase

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.” (с) Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.” (с) Cyril Connolly

“The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. (c) Ustinov, Peter

"He'd always been so invincible in my eyes,

and this sign of vulnerability didn't make him seem weaker to me.

It simply made him more complex"

Иногда даже в книжках по программе можно найти что-то полезное.

Меня периодически мучает вопрос о смысле жизни и в About a boy

я нашла один из возможных ответов:

"... most of us think that the point is something to do with work,

or kids, or family, or whatever. But you don't have any of that.

There's nothing between you and despair <...>

So why don't you ever put your head in the oven?"

"The point is to keep on going. You want to. So all the things

that make you want to are the point"

Суть в том, что, всегда будет что-то, чего ты еще не увидел, не послушал,

не испытал, не прочитал, не сказал, не попробовал...

И если у тебя в жизни нет глобальной цели

(найти лекарство от рака, захватить мир и т.д.),

то можно жить ради таких мелочей,

ради того, чтобы посмотреть, что будет дальше.

Alan Blunt: We want you to work for us.

Alex Rider: You're not being serious.

Alan Blunt: Actually, it's not my habit to make jokes.

Alex Rider: Well, you're making one now!

Darrius Sayle: It reminds me of myself.

Alex Rider: It's 99 percent water, has no brains and no anus.

Alan Blunt: We don't trust him.

Alex Rider: Why not?

Alan Blunt: Well, we don't trust anyone. It's sort of what we do.

Mr. Smithers: Don't do that!

Alex Rider: Why, is it dangerous?

Mr. Smithers: No, it's very annoying.

Alex Rider: You're going to kill thousands of innocent people.

Darrius Sayle: No, no, of course not. I'll kill millions.

Серия сообщений "Movies":
Часть 1 - &quot;Ты слышишь музыку?&quot; - &quot;Нет&quot;
Часть 2 - Love and other disasters
...
Часть 11 - SGA
Часть 12 - From Big Bang to Big Rip
Часть 13 - Stormbreaker
Часть 14 - Takers
Часть 15 - Awake
...
Часть 18 - 500 Days of Summer
Часть 19 - Army wives
Часть 20 - Third star

whatever you do in life will be insignificant,

but it's very important that you do it,

because nobody else will (с)

You were born an original. Don't die a copy (c)

Детская мудрость:

Феи, Санта, Зубная Фея существуют. Тролли - нет. Динозавры - уже нет. Злые люди воняют. Добрые - ангелы.

- he wanted to burry the hatches.

- in my back! (c) McKay

Ничто так не мотивирует, как полное и безграничное отчаяние (с) Daniel Jackson

Do men think about sex every 40 seconds?

No, men think about it pretty much constantly (c) Sean Patrick Flanery

- in answer to your question - twenty bloody seven!

-on the scale of one to ten?

- yes! (с)                   

I'm going to find a dark corner somewhere and I'm going to get as drunk as fast as I can.

Then I'm going to have sex with as many people as I can in the shortest space of time as I can.

Someone named Owen will come back later on, when he's ready. (c) Owen Harper

Мне настолько нравится практически все, что говорил Роберт Фрост,

что вот почти целиком статья из словаря афоризмов:

Robert Frost 1874-1963

I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
‘Birches’ (1916)

Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favour.
‘The Black Cottage’ (1914)

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
‘Cluster of Faith’ (1962)

And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope.
‘The Death of the Hired Man’ (1914)

‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.’
‘I should have called it
Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.’
‘The Death of the Hired Man’ (1914)

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
‘Desert Places’ (1936)

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
‘Fire and Ice’ (1923)

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Title of poem (1942)

And were an epitaph to be my story
I’d have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
‘The Lesson for Today’ (1942)

My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbours.’
‘Mending Wall’ (1914)

I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
‘Precaution’ (1936)

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
‘The Road Not Taken’ (1916)

We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
‘The Secret Sits’ (1942)

Len says one steady pull more ought to do it.
He says the best way out is always through.
‘A Servant to Servants’ (1914)

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ (1923)

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
‘Collected Poems’ (1939) ‘The Figure a Poem Makes’

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
In Louis Untermeyer ‘Robert Frost: a Backward Look’ (1964) p. 18

"А теперь нам нужен авантюрист-библиофил, который может сказать "мозги" и "мужество" на 27 языках" (с) "SG1"

"Моя собственная галлюцинация говорит мне нет?!" (с) Родни МакКей

"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster,

and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

«В этом мире жить невозможно, но больше негде»
Керуак Дж.

 

«А что, если наша земля – ад какой-то другой планеты?»
Олдос Хаксли