January 2012
175 posts
30 Things to Stop Doing →
December 2011
88 posts
There Will Be No Friday This Week In Samoa →
Top Ten Reasons Why VC-Backed Companies Fail →
Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail To Keep... →
NYT: Economic Downturn Took a Detour at Capitol... →
NYT: How Harvard Shaped Mitt Romney →
we still and always want waking
heyjude1121:
“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our hearts? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with...
“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A...”
– Emily Bronte (via theloveableinappropriate)
“Printing for Kingdom, Empire & Republic:... →
12 Digital Predictions for 2012 →
“Winter is for women—
The woman, still at her knitting,
At the cradle of...”
– Sylvia Plath, from “Wintering” (via awritersruminations)
“If love is sin, then let me sinful be.”
– John Donne
“Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas...”
– William F. Buckley (via rulesformyunbornson)
“The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from “Holidays” (via bookoasis)
“when you sit a certain way in the light of the falling moon there is a shadow...”
– Dream Lessons:
“you will be tiny, my friend. they will keep shrinking you until you are speck of...”
– Dream Lessons:
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...”
– C. S. Lewis (via ermarty)
The Crimson: Occupy Recruiting →
“Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He...”
– “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
“Have I ever told you about the first time I saw you? Everything was young back...”
– Greg Forrester, “Star-cross’d”
(via quote-book)
“A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable…”
– King Lear (via poetrycorner)
The BBC's Top 100 Books →
readingavidly:
In April 2003 the BBC’s Big Read began the search for the nation’s best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books.
Wow! I forgot about this list!
The Top 10 are:
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,...
Feelings We Need Words For →
Love Someone Like You're Six →
How To Stop Caring So Much →
Harvard's 1869 Entrance Exam →
“Rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness.”
– Leo Tolstoy (via pavorst)
“The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who...”
– William Phelps (via venebelle)
RIP George Whitman →
