Listen, smile, agree and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.
Robert Downey Jr
Posts tagged QUOTE
Posted 3 months ago
I don’t normally post images with random quotes on them but sometimes, I just feel like it. Now is one of those times. I particularly love the one that says,
“Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.”
I love it because I know I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit ranting instead of investing in writing. Some reminders of what really matters are good every once in a while, even when they come in the form of quote pictures (is that what they’re called, quote pictures?).
(Source: thingsweforget.blogspot.com)
Posted 4 months ago
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
to or needs to…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
dreams wants to see her in an hour…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …
a youth she’s content to leave behind….
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
a past juicy enough that she’s looking forward to
retelling it in her old age….
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …..
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
one friend who always makes her laugh… and one who
lets her cry…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
else in her family…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
a feeling of control over her destiny…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
how to fall in love without losing herself..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
when to try harder… and WHEN TO WALK AWAY…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
that she can’t change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
that her childhood may not have been perfect…but it’s over…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
what she would and wouldn’t do for love or more…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
how to live alone… even if she doesn’t like it…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
whom she can trust,
whom she can’t,
and why she shouldn’t
take it personally…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
where to go…
be it to her best friend’s kitchen table…
or a charming inn in the woods…
when her soul needs soothing…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
what she can and can’t accomplish in a day…
a month…and a year…
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
to or needs to…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
dreams wants to see her in an hour…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …
a youth she’s content to leave behind….
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
a past juicy enough that she’s looking forward to
retelling it in her old age….
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …..
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
one friend who always makes her laugh… and one who
lets her cry…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
else in her family…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
a feeling of control over her destiny…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
how to fall in love without losing herself..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
when to try harder… and WHEN TO WALK AWAY…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
that she can’t change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
that her childhood may not have been perfect…but it’s over…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
what she would and wouldn’t do for love or more…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
how to live alone… even if she doesn’t like it…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
whom she can trust,
whom she can’t,
and why she shouldn’t
take it personally…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
where to go…
be it to her best friend’s kitchen table…
or a charming inn in the woods…
when her soul needs soothing…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
what she can and can’t accomplish in a day…
a month…and a year…
Pamela Redmond Satran
Posted 4 months ago
Because he knows everything about everything and it’s the difference between being with a grown man and trying to entertain a schoolboy.
Sylvia Tietjens, Parade’s End
Posted 5 months ago
The fact that you’ve got temper, love singing even though you’re no good at it, drink to almost any occasion there is, and are only able to show signs of affection when drunk makes me almost believe that you’re Irish. Except for your undeniably visible physical, Indonesian features, that is.
A good friend I’ve just met again after, I don’t know, forever.
She doesn’t know that Batak people are the Indonesian version of Irish.
Posted 6 months ago
My gosh, Esther! Never ever trust a guy who opens up a door for you and let you through. We do that only to check out your ass.
A particular boy to yours truly, today, five years ago. That was the last time I said ‘thank you’ to anyone who held a door for me. Never again.
Posted 7 months ago
Never had they witnessed such power of mastication, and such marvelous capacity of stomach, as in this native and uncultivated gastronome.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Washington Irving
Posted 7 months ago
No cheating. I’ll give you a beating. Meanwhile, time is fleeting. I’ll be here eating.
A random teacher at Seishu Gakuen | Cross Game, a Manga by Adachi Mitsuru
Last Saturday, after my former students had their fun witnessing my humiliation on the ice rink, they handed me something somewhat familiar, a piece of laminated paper with those words on it. I remember printing it out and putting it on the Wall of Shame in the back of my homeroom. I had thought that after my departure, they would’ve gotten rid of it. I’d thought wrong. Another kid actually told me that now they used my ball-shaped telescope as a hall-pass. The nerve, it was a very nice telescope!
Some other kids brought with them other pieces of laminated paper, which said ‘Tardy Prince’ and ‘Detention King’. They were gliding around the rink wearing them like a vest of honour.
They grew a lot since the last time I’d seen them. But still a headache to other teachers, apparently. I can’t believe that next year they’ll be filling out college application forms. And if I’m lucky, they’ll write me letters from all over the world. Nah, that would be too much to ask. “Meanwhile, time is fleeting. I’ll be here eating.” Not waiting, just eating.
Posted 7 months ago
I believe she was happy in her way: this routine sufficed for her; and nothing annoyed her so much as the occurrence of any incident which forced her to vary its clockwork regularity.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Posted 7 months ago
But the director was unable to work with Nicolas Cage, the film’s original villain. For reasons known only to him, he insisted on using a Jamaican accent.
The New York Times’ review of The Green Hornet
Sometimes I wonder about Nicolas Cage.
(via jakepaul)
This makes me recall the time a friend told me, “And ya, Esther. You should learn how to control those sporadic and explosive bursts of laughter (even I can still imagine them and I barely see you once a year) when the atmosphere in the room is tense.”
Good job I only see you once a year then.
Posted 7 months ago
She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
Holly Black, Black Heart (via the-secrets-behind-the-covers)
Posted 7 months ago
Writers always like to say how hard the writing process is and how much suffering it causes. They’re lying. People don’t like to admit they make a living from something they genuinely enjoy.
Posted 8 months ago
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (via the-secrets-behind-the-covers)
Here I'm talking to myself. To remind myself about things because I'm a forgetting person. I don't give a damn what people think. If you read this and you think this is about you, well, you’re an egocentric brat who thinks the world revolves around you. Either that or you’re right. You think I'm posting rude stuff. Wait till you read the ones I don't post.
