July 2009
22 posts
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
– Plato
“Men do not fight because they hate what is in front of them, men fight because...”
– G. K. Chesterton
“I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.”
– Pete Rose
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If there is ever a tomorrow when we are not together there is something you must...”
– Christopher Robin (via quotewhore)
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticized
anyway....”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via quotewhore)
“I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.”
– Last words of Richard Feynman
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
– On the blackboard of Richard Feynman at the time of his death in 1988.
“A poet once said “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We will...”
– Richard Feynman, The New Quantum Universe
“If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth...”
– Richard Feynman
Immodest →
1. Lacking modesty.
2a. Offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance; indecent: a bathing suit considered immodest by the local people.
2b. Not properly restrained in expression or self-assertion; boastful: immodest claims in advertising and promotion.
3. Arrogant.
Anticlockwise →
British English for counterclockwise
“…the idea that he was trying to explain to me was the amusing part of...”
– Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?
“One kid says to me, “See that bird? What kind of bird is that?”
I...”
– Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?
“I can resist anything but temptation.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I’ve closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn’t want to hurt again, I...”
– Beth Nielsen Chapman, Maybe it’s Love (via quotewhore)
“No one else in the world is like you. Ain’t that amazing?”
– Muhammad Ali (via quotewhore)
“I want to be free of you… the way you, obviously, are free of me.”
– The Count of Monte Cristo (via quotewhore)
“Some birds aren’t meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And...”
– The Shawshank Redemption (via quotewhore)
“I won’t call again, I promise, but I need to see you face to face… because I’m...”
– Almost Famous (via quotewhore)
“Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time.”
– Catherine Zandonella