July 2010
92 posts
“Slowly the sun sank, then suddenly darkness rushed down on the land like a...”
– H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines
“He can fuck really hard or he can fuck really gently. He’s the best.”
– Boogie Nights, 1997
“You don’t know, perhaps, but I will tell you; the brain is the palest of...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast Table
“If I were asked for a one line answer to the question ‘What makes a woman...”
– Bob Guccione
Portishead - Over (Portishead, 1997)
“Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled...”
– Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
Nine Inch Nails - Closer (The Downward Spiral,...
“Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - so long as they don’t...”
– Mrs. Patrick Campbell
“For it is the mind which creates the world about us, and, even though we stand...”
– George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
“You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I...”
– Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Prince - Purple Rain (Purple Rain, 1984)
“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to...”
– Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love...”
– Andre Maurois
“Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life....”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by...”
– Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
“His eyes were naturally heavy; he had an air of having wallowed, fully dressed,...”
– Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
“…it’s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t...”
– James M. Barrie, What Every Woman Knows
“Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the...”
– Charlotte Bronte, Villette
Metallica - Bleeding Me (Acoustic Metal, 1997)
“I had, in a moment of inadvertence, created for myself a tie. How to define it...”
– Joseph Conrad, Victory
“The western sky was clear and flushed with vivid crimson, towards which the...”
– Harold Bindloss, Blake’s Burden
Dozer - Lightning Stalker (Call It Conspiracy,...
Interviewer: You have put yourself in a category of people who like lunatic porn star sex. Do you feel that desire beginning to wane now that you’re in your 60s?
John Waters: No.
— 20:45 (via discourse)
In the 1960s, a student at Harvard Law School addressed parents and alumni with these words:
The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might. And the republic is in danger. Yes! danger from within and without. We need law and order! Without law and...
“We had our breakfasts — whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it...”
– Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did...”
– Willa Cather, My Antonia