June 2011
60 posts
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath
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and at once I knew I was not magnificent strayed above the highway aisle (jagged vacance, thick with ice) I could see for miles, miles, miles
“There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to...”
– Audrey Hepburn
“53 percent of Americans now support gay marriage. Which means that 47% of the...”
– Bill Maher
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Idiom of the day
Делать из мухи слона
Lit. To make an elephant out of a fly.
To exaggerate the importance of a small matter; to make a mountain out of a molehill.
“That’s why I love you and yet not why.
There are so many reasons, and yet so...”
– Pablo Neruda
WatchBattles - Ice Cream
“Love and electricity are one in the same, my dear. If you do not feel the jolt...”
– C.J. Franks
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Ехать зайцем - To ride as a hare.
Translation: to ride on public transport without buying a ticket
Auf Deutsch, this is called a Schwarzfahrer and you get majorly fined if they catch you.
The Smiths - Frankly, Mr. Shankly
in honour of...
“To say that “Skinny Love” is about Christy would not be entirely...”
– Justin Vernon of Bon Iver
The etymology of the word дыбр →
russiangrammar:
An interesting story of the etymology of the word ‘дыбр’, meaning ‘blog post’:
“My favorite etymology story is for the Russian slang word дыбр (dybr). For those who are not aware, all Russian computer users maintain 2 keyboard layouts: the Russian layout (йцукен), and the English (qwerty) layout (required since one frequently needs to use the Latin alphabet, e.g. for entering...
“The answer is good things only happen to you if you’re good. Good? Honest is...”
– Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Go the F**k to Sleep - Adam Mansbach
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Connubial
Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of — this tic, that tendency, like the way that I’ve mastered intimacy in order to conceal how I felt —
I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.
Stephen Dunn, from Here and Now
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“There is no hell, but since the O.J. Simpson trial there is serious talk of...”
– Kurt Vonnegut in a letter to Manhattan-based radio station WNYC in 1997
read the whole thing here
LCD's website on June 4th. entitled "I'm taking a...
is this the worst website ever? i kind of love how shit it is, but is that just me? i mean, i see other bands’ slick websites and i think “these guys don’t do this themselves!” i mean, i often know them, and i KNOW they don’t do it themselves–it’s almost INSANE to think they’d do it themselves, but still… i LIKE that i do it myself. with sonya—don’t get me wrong. i don’t know SHIT about html or...
“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with...”
– Roald Dahl
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“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick...”
– J.D. Salinger
