34 posts tagged “quote”
-Ellen Degeneres
Me mira y se cree que no lo veo. imagina que me evaporare si me toca y que si no lo hace, se va a evaporar el. Me tiene en un pedestal tan alto que no sabe como subirse. Piensa que mis labios son la puerta del paraiso, pero no sabe que estan envenenados. Yo soy tan cobarde de que, por no perderlo, no se lo digo. Fingo que no lo veo y que si, que me voy a evaporar...
Es el mejor amigo que nunca he tenido y, si algun dia me tropiezo con Merlin, le dare gracias por haberlo cruzado en mi camino."
-Marina
-Marina
"I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories... and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in every day life."
"I think there are four great motives for writing..... They exist in different degrees in every writer, and in any one writer the proportions will vary from time to time, according to the atmosphere in which he is living. They are:
1- Sheer egoism: Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood, etc, etc. It is humbug to pretend that this is not a motive, and a strong one. Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful, businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. The great mass of human beings are not acutely selfish. After the age of about thirty-nine they abandon individual ambition - in many cases, indeed, they almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all - and live chiefly for others, or are simple smothered under drudgery. But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class. Serious writers, I should say, are on the whole more vain and self-centered than journalists, though less interested in money.
2- Aesthetic enthusiasm: Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact of one sound over another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed...
3- Historical impulse: Desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of prosperity,
4- Political purpose: using the word 'political' in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people's idea of the kind of society that they should strive after... no book is genuinely free from politica bias..."
It just could not have been said better... (my God...)
I am SOOOO gonna read his work from now on.
"You cannot compare with friendship the passion men feel for women, even though it is born of our own choice, nor can you put them in the same category. i must admit that the flames of passion are more active, sharp and keen. But that fire is a rash one, fickle, fluctuating and variable, it is a feverish fire, subject to attacks and relapses, which only gets hold of a corner of us. The love of friends is a general universal warmth, temperate moreover and smooth, a warmth which is constant and at rest, all gentleness and evenness, having nothing sharp nor keen. What is more, sexual love is but a mad craving for something which escapes us, as soon as it enters the territory of friendship (where wills work together, that is ) it languishes and grows faint. To enjoy it is to lose it: its end is in the body and therefore subject to satiety. Friendship on the contrary is enjoyed in proportion to our desire: since it is a matter of the mind, which our souls being purified by practising it, it can spring forth, be nourished and grow only when enjoyed."
"Love is striving to establish friendship on the external signs of beauty."
"Moreover, what we normally call friends and friendships are no more than acquaintances and familiar relationships bound by some chance or some suitability, by means of which our souls support each other. In the friendship which I am talking about, our souls are mingled and confounded in so universal a blending that they efface the seam which joins them together so that it cannot be found. If you press me to say why I loved him, I feel that it cannot be expressed except by replying: Because it was him, and because it was me. Meditating this union there was, beyond all my reasoning, beyond all that i can say specifically about it, some inexplicable force of destiny.”
“We were seeking each other before we set eyes on each other."
"This friendship has had no ideal to follow other than itself, no comparison but with itself. There is no one particular consideration - nor two nor three nor four nor a thousand of them - but rather some inexplicable quintessence of them all mixed up together which, having captured my will, brought it to plunge into his and lose itself and which, having captured his will, brought it to plunge and lose itself in mine with an equal hunger and emulation."
“Having so short a period to last, having begun so late it had no time to waste on following the pattern of those slacker ordinary friendships which require so much prudent foresight in long preliminary acquaintance."
"Having completely committed themselves to each other, they each completely held the reins of each other's desires; grant that this pair were guided by virtue and led by reason."
“All arguments in the world have no power to dislodge me from the certainty which I have of the intentions and decisions of my friend. Not one of his actions could be set before me - no matter what it looked like - without my immediately discovering it's motive. Our souls were joyed together in such unity, and contemplated each other with so ardent an affection, and with the same affection revealed each to each other right down to the very entrails, that not only did I know his mind as well as I knew my own but I would have entrusted myself to him with greater assurance than to myself."
"Let nobody place those other common friendships in the same rank as this. I know about them - the most perfect of their kind - as well as anyone else, but I would advise you not to confound their rules; you would deceive yourself. In those other friendships you must proceed with wisdom and caution, keeping the reins in your hand; the bond is not so well tied that there is no reason to doubt it.”
“In the kind of friendship I am talking about, if it were possible for one to give to the other it is the one who received the benefaction who would lay an obligation on his companion. For each of them, more than anything else, is seeking the good of the other, so that the one who furnishes the means and the occasion is in fact the more generous, since he gives his friend the joy of performing for him what he most desires."
"For the perfect friendship which I am talking about is indivisible: each give himself so entirely to his friend that he has nothing left to share with another: on the contrary, he grieves that he is not two-fold, three-fold or four-fold and that he does not have several souls, several wills, so that he could give them all to the one he loves"
"Common friendships can be shared. In one friend one can love beauty; in another, affability; in another, generosityl in another, a fatherly affection, in another, a brotherly one, and so on. But in this friendship love takes possession of the soul and reigns there with full sovereign sway: that cannot possibly be duplicated."
“The unique, highest friendship loosens all other bonds. That secret which I have sworn to reveal to no other, I can reveal without perjury to him who is not another, he is me."
"To sum up, these are deeds which surpass the imagination of anyone who has not tasted them."
"For you can easily find men fit for a superficial acquaintanceship. But for our kind, in which we are dealing with the innermost recesses of our minds with no reservations, it is certain that all of our motives must be pure and sure to perfection."
<3 <3 <3
-Campell ('My Sister's Keeper' Jodi Picoult)
-Sara Fitzgerald ('My Sister's Keeper' - Jodi Picoult)
Wow... insightful.
-Rachel (Friends)
Sexy huh? ;)
-Joey Tribbiani
God knows that's all I aspired to ;) And I COULD NOT have explained hotness better myself ;) =D
LOLLLL!
Hahahahaha =D =D =D
-Gerardo
Hmmm...
