July 2009
June 2009
Juillet
dailyfrench:
|zhwee’yeh| - July
“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become...”
– Flowers for Algernon (via littlemiss) (via brokenmachine)
“You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another...”
– -Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(via quotewhore)
Quidnunc
quidnunc \KWID-nuhngk, noun:
One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows or pretends to know all that is going on; a gossip; a busybody.
What a treasure-trove to these venerable quidnuncs, could they have guessed the secret which Hepzibah and Clifford were carrying along with them! — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Some wretched intrigue which had...
“Nobody dies a virgin, life fucks us all”
– Kurt Cobain (via kelseysmile) (via mysteriosa) (via quote-book)
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals,...”
– Confucius (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Tumblarity drop
I’ve been out of town for the past week visiting my dieing grandmother. When I left my tumblarity was at 114, today it is 45.
Worth it.
ou sont les toilettes?
dailyfrench:
|oo son lay twalette| - where is the bathroom?
“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second,...”
– Aristotle (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
“Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via unexcitable) (via quote-book)
Ebullient
ebullient \ih-BUL-yuhnt, adjective:
1. Overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement; high-spirited. 2. Boiling up or over.
The glasses he wore for astigmatism gave him a deceptively clerkish appearance, for he had an ebullient, gregarious personality, a hot temper, and an outsized imagination. — Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
He was no longer an ebullient, energetic...
tiresome:
Jesus Mary & Chain - Just Like...
Nimiety
nimiety \nih-MY-uh-tee, noun:
The state of being too much; excess.
What a nimiety of … riches have we here! I am quite undone. — James J. Kilpatrick, “Buckley: The Right Word”, National Review, December 23, 1996
Just as daily life contains all the comforts of what one owns, there is also a natural shedding or forgetting and a natural dulling, otherwise one becomes...
est-ce que vous pouvez parler plus lentement?
dailyfrench:
|ess’ke voo poovay parlay ploo lentemen’| - Can you speak more slowly?
