Affremble Quotes

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Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

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"When it is darkest, men see the stars."

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“When it is darkest, men see the stars.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)

"…I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess..."

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“…I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”

- Haruki Murakami (via thoughtsdetained) (via beautyintherain) (via apologies)

"The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be..."

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they’re not, we cry.”

- David Duchovny

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition..."

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

- Harvey Fierstein

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million."

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.”

- Walt Streightiff (via zero1infinity) (via libraryland)

"Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has..."

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. What the writers of modern science fiction invent today, you and I will do tomorrow…”

- Fiction Of Every Kind by J. G. Ballard

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”

- Dr. William C. Dement, founder of the Sleep Research Center at Stanford University

"The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human..."

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worth-while are the search for knowledge and the creation of beauty.”

- “Rocket to the Renaissance” by Arthur C. Clarke

"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised."

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.”

- Dorothy Parker

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an...

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist as one grows up.

- Picasso (via papertissue)

"The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it...."

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you..."

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

- Illusions by Richard Bachman

"We all get prepared to kill dragons and end up being eaten by the ants of the details, which..."

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“We all get prepared to kill dragons and end up being eaten by the ants of the details, which we’ve never given attention.”

- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

"It’s not often that money saves a person’s life."

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“It’s not often that money saves a person’s life.”

- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Links for 2009-08-07 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Ten Signs that you’re a Bad Programmer

"Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some..."

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.”

- Charles Franklin Kettering

"Always be yourself… unless you suck."

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“Always be yourself… unless you suck.”

- Joss Whedon

"Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted…..."

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted… unbidden… it will stir… open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us… guides us… passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love… the clarity of hatred… and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we’d know some kind of peace… but we would be hollow… Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we’d be truly dead.”

- Joss Whedon

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something —a thought, a feeling, a way of..."

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:31:05 -0400

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something —a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things— that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.”

- The History Boys (via julie911) (via quote-book)

"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with..."

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:58:39 -0400

“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”

- Richard P. Feynman

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Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

The Fantastical Escapades of the Steampunk Aesthetic

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Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Inside the New Harry Potter Movie’s VFX Tech

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Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

100 Must See Movies: The Essential Men’s Movie Library
Den of Geek picks out the Top 10 Harry Potter supporting characters.
Behind the Scenes & Under the Hood: Virtuality’s Antimatter Spacecraft Engine
How Teenagers Consume Media

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Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT