January 2011
“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with...”
– Roald Dahl (via prettybooks)
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...”
– - John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society
Preach it, O Captain, my Captain
(via ana-ng)
Imagine if the invasion had never happened and...
publicradiointernational:
Makes you think.
Please read this post important please reblog for...
sowing-seasons:
kelsirae:
This probley won’t work. But I’m asking my followers of any of could donate me a sweatshirt or hoodie. I don’t have much. I just got laid off from my job. And I don’t have many warm clothes. I live in Maine. And I just want some warm clothes like sweatshirts hoodie or long armed shirts. Please reblog this for me so it can get to many people. I’m begging you guys. Help...
“‘What really knocks me out,’ [says Holden] ‘is a book that, when you’re all done...”
– J.D.Salinger (Catcher In The Rye)
submitted by mlarents
(via booklover)
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the...”
– Carl Sagan (via thechocolatebrigade)
A job-killing plan for arts and culture? →
hydeordie:
If you gave me a buck, and next year I returned $18.75 to you, would you think that was a good deal? I would. With savings accounts, money markets and even stocks yielding just a few percentage points on investments these days, a return in excess of 18% is pretty staggering. Yet, that’s what happens with federal support for arts and culture. It pays for itself 18 times over. Federal...
“I found myself spending literally a half an hour, 30 minutes, in the cereal...”
– One year ago this week: Jonah Lehrer, on the pathologies of decision making. (via nprfreshair)
“As long as you have something to eat, then you are healthy, and you have a roof...”
– Sebastian Vettel (via allofthisistrue)
Rabble: "They closed entire wings of hospitals... →
sisterhoodispowerful:
Dear Rabble, I can’t even remember when I decided I was pro-choice (I was raised in a country when it’s very much Not An Issue, or not legally at least), but I have two stories to share. The first one is that in high school, I was assigned the anti-choice side in an abortion debate. I was…
I visited Choices Women’s Medical Center in Queens a few weeks ago and spoke with...
“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must...”
– J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan (via shydeerlings)
The rise and fall of Jennifers →
jennifwah:
boston:
Once synonymous with youth, a popular name shows signs of aging.
What the fuck? I am never going to die. You hear me?!? I’m immortal.
“If Sarah Palin were black, her daughter’s out of wedlock, “baby daddy drama”...”
– If Sarah Palin Were Black (via azspot)
Just goes to show how far Palin’s whiteness can take her. Zero intellect, two high school drop-outs, an unwed teen mother, a quitter of the one major job she had. Master of hateful coded language targeting opponents as not “real Americans”. Belongs to a church...
