February 2011
76 posts
January 2011
98 posts
themusiclibrary:
Tiny Dancer - Elton John
“You are free, so choose; in other words, invent. No general code of ethics can...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via human-voices)
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the...”
– Ray Bradbury (via julie911)
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via quote-book)
“In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid twentieth century suffering...”
– Fuck Yeah Existentialism:
“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via quote-book)
“Forgive and forget. That’s what they say. It’s good advice, but it’s not very...”
– Meredith Grey (Greys Anatomy)
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One...”
– Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the...”
– Johnny Cash (via fly4freedom)
“The circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.”
– Jack Kerouac (via violasaurus)
“Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a...”
– Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)
“All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art...”
– Oscar Wilde (via 1000scientists)
“When I awoke I was twenty, being asked
If I had a happy childhood. Yes, the one...”
– Alfian Sa’at, Autobiography (via yesyes)
“If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the...”
– The Catcher in the Rye
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they...”
– Andy Warhol (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol)
“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede...”
– Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
“Do me a favor… Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look...”
– Chad Sugg (via fuckyeahbackseatgoodbye)
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via girlwithoutwings)
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
– William Shakespeare (All’s Well That Ends Well)
“There will come a time you’ll see with no more tears,
and love will not break...”
– Mumford & Sons, “After The Storm” (via quote-book)
“Don’t you hate that? Uncomfortable silence. Why do we feel it’s necessary to...”
– Pulp Fiction (via quote-book) (via applegamble) (via onherway)
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“I need words and print… I need print like an addict. I could live without it,...”
– Margaret Drabble (via prettybooks)
"If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's...
“In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars...”
– Muriel Barbery (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)
“You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that talk about...”
– J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid,...”
– Stephen King, On Writing (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
“It is not easy … to wait. Waiting is what the hunter does, and the poet and the...”
“Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time....”
– Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow (via enchanting)
“Some birds aren’t meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And...”
“So one last touch and then you’ll go, and we’ll pretend that it meant something...”
– Tiny Vessels, Death Cab For Cutie
“No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only...”
– Rita Mae Brown, Speech, August 28, 1982 (via quote-book)