I am so incredibly unmotivated to do more schoolwork today.
My friend was in an accident today. I really thought he was going to die.
It was an extremely freaky and upsetting experience.
It takes more than having two hands to be a good pianist.
It takes more than knowing two languages to be a good translator or interpreter.
It takes more than knowing two languages to be a good translator or interpreter.
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Update
Hey everyone! I’ve decided to create a companion Tumbelog (Tumblog?) specifically for calligraphy, typography, quotes, and word-related posts, so I don’t flood my regular Tumblr. If you’d like to take a look, it’s under the name cabinet-of-imagination . Have fun!
I have recently finished reading the most fantastic quote book by Dr Mardy Grothe titled “Ifferisms.” These are some of my favorites:
“If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.” —Marilyn vos Savant
“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture, that is immortality enough for me.” —Edward Abbey
“If I had to live my life over, I would start barefooted a little earlier in the spring and stay that way a little later in the fall.” —Don Herold
“If you can’t ignore an insult, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh it off; and if you can’t laugh it off, it’s probably deserved.” —Russell Lynes
“If you want to get to know someone better, you shouldn’t take them out for a candlelit dinner, you should watch them at work, when they’re full of concentration, only not concentrating on you.” —Julian Barnes
“If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow on our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.” —Martin Buxbaum
“If love is blind, sex is the blindfold.” —Margarita Farias
“If my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.” —Xaviera Hollander
“If someone has to study a textbook on sexual behavior in order to learn how to make love to his wife or his girl, something is wrong with him.” —Herbert Marcuse
“If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand.” —J F Boyse
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world.” —Rachel Carson
“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a human fellow creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call her baby ‘it.’ ” —Jerome K Jerome
“If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won’t. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.” —Mark Twain in “Advice for Good Little Girls.”
“If you can’t tie good knots, tie plenty of them.” —Anon, aka “the sailor’s credo”
“Getting a movie made in Hollywood is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.” —Douglas Adams
“I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.” —Blaise Pascall
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” —Derek Bok
“If you know the average person is stupid, then realize that half are stupider than that.” —George Carlin
“If it is to be, it is up to me.” —Anon
“If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you’ll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.” —Anne Landers, advising a woman about to wed a man with whom she had been having an extramarital affair
“If you wish to live wisely, ignore sayings— including this one.” —Heywood Broun
I posted this picture the first week that I began my Tumblr. “Why do I spend so much time adding to this thing?” I asked, allowing the picture to answer my question. One thousand nine hundred and one posts later, it strikes me as amusing that I thought I had spent a lot of time on Tumblr.
