Anna Akhmatova
- You Will Hear Thunder
You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms. The rim of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, and your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
Franz L. Alt
- John von Neumann on Mathematics
Von Neumann went on to say that one need not be surprised at this small number, since about 1,000 words were known to be adequate for most situations of real life, and mathematics was only a small part of life, and a very simple part at that. This caused some hilarity in the audience, which provoked Von Neumann to say: "If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."
Richard Stallman
- Piracy
Piracy is attacking ships and it's something very bad. But sharing with your neighbor is good, so I refuse to smear sharing just because a corporation is using a propaganda term like "piracy".
Ish Me
- When I Was Young
In middle school I had to take keyboarding class. Back then, that class was a good break from the rest of the school day and I did very well. By the end of the semester my typing speed was consistently between 90-110 WPM. I didn't practice after that. As an adult, I could only type 50-60 WPM. After typing here occasionally for just two weeks, I'm already back up to 75-95 WPM again!
Ish Me
- Is It Potential?
I don't know if you noticed, but there is a graph to the right that shows your typing speed over the course of the game. It seems to not be able to accurately portray your typing speed for the first few seconds, though. I consistently see it show that I started out at nearly 150 WPM, even though my average is usually between 75-85. I hope this isn't a glitch and one day my average will match my best few seconds and I hope the same for you.
Thomas Paine
- common sense
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
tukaii
- h1
Prime Minister said the Assam-Meghalaya boundary dispute template could help resolve differences between other States Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said efforts were on to improve the law-and-order situation for the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act of 1958 to be completely lifted from the northeast. Addressing a "Peace, Unity and Development" rally in central Assam's Diphu, he said the AFSPA could be withdrawn (from April 1) partially from Assam, Manipur.
Gina D.
- Constant TSwift quotes?
Why are there so many Taylor Swift quotes? Lyrics from her songs and such. I don't understand why I'm seeing so dang many of them, it's really funny. Some REALLY loves Taylor Swift, huh?
Andrew Schulz
- Who built the pyramids in Mexico? Mexicans!
The pyramids in Egypt, who really built them? It wasn't the Egyptians, it wasn't the Jews, it was aliens! Aliens came down and they built these pyramids. This is how you know Mexicans are the best workers in history. There are also pyramids in Mexico. Nobody questions who built those. There is no hour long History Channel special, "Who built the pyramids in Mexico?" Mexicans!
Kaveh Akbar
- Calling a Wolf a Wolf
All I want is to finally take off my cowboy hat and show you my jeweled horns. If we slow dance I will ask you not to tug on them, but secretly, I will want that very much.
Franny Choi
- Catastrophe is Next to Godliness
Lord, I confess I want the clarity of catastrophe but not the catastrophe. Like everyone else, I want a storm I can dance in. I want an excuse to change my life.
William Strunk Jr.
- The Elements of Style, Rule #1
Form the possessive of singular nouns by adding 's. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write: Charles's friend, Burns's poems, the witch's malice.
Anon - KSS
- To Love or Not to Love
I'm sure you've heard the saying, the one that goes: "It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all." According to who? Everyone's love looks different, feels different. I've loved, and lost myself. I loved so hard and tried to better myself at every turn. It's possible he did love me, but only to the extent that he, himself, knew how. In this case it was love, but I wish I never had fallen. If only to turn back time and never had known his love; it would've been easier.
Jen23
I can no longer light myself on fire to warm up others from the cold. Everyone else is not my responsibility and it is time I learn to treat myself better and take care of me.
Delta Sleep
- "Dotwork"
Wait - I'll follow, but first, I need the time to go find a place we see the sunset and more than just three stars. I know you're down with that. There must be more to life than concrete walls, with endless corridors. So push aside your biggest regrets to learn your mother tongue. We've still got time for that. There must be more to life than concrete walls.
Delta Sleep
- "Dotwork"
At times, you realise this wasn't how you wrote your life in classroom exposes. And looking at the sky should alleviate the worst in us, not keep it trapped inside. Pack your things and leave. Head for the border; whatever is outside The City. Please tell me these buildings don't go on forever. It's for sure, whatever existence is out there can't be any worse than this one already is.
Delta Sleep
- "Dotwork"
Wide awake in bed at 4:16am, trying to grab a hold of thoughts around her head. Constant existential questions have been keeping her from living free. Living through a screen for most part of the day. The City holds her dreams in all too many ways. Wondering what's beyond The City's endless limits. No one knows. Rumour has it no one's ever been.
Margaret Atwood
- Crow Song
I know you would like a god to come down and feed you and punish you. That overcoat on sticks is not alive. There are no angels but the angels of hunger, prehensile and soft as gullets. Watching you.
J.R.R. Tolkien
- There is Light and Beauty Forever Beyond the Shadow's Reach
Far above the Ephel Duath in the West the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
-anon
- Pangram
I was just about to very lazily paste multiple pangram quotes rather than create one but unknowingly, it unfortunately exists already in the database.
