September 2010
Listening and Hearing
One day, while watching television in Chicago, I came across the most extraordinary example of the offensive usage of music in a commercial for a company called American Standard. In this commercial, a plumber was shown running very fast in great agitation, opening the door to a lavatory and demonstrating the superiority of a particular toilet. The whole visual sequence was accompanied by...
I'm eating vegan apple cinnamon muffins and they...
loganjack:
How are vegans happy? Do they know about flavor?
“The world isn’t split into good people and death eaters. We’ve all got both...”
– Sirius Black (Submitted by: hobbitholes)
Ask me things. Whatever things you want. →
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– Ayn Rand (via quote-book)
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– Margaret Atwood (via kari-shma)
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– Emma Watson on Hermione’s sacrifice in Deathly Hallows (via)
I am so so glad they are doing this.
(via mary-catherine)
I. Love. This. Book.
“You’re not here. You’ve never been here. If you’d tell me that the curtains in this room are ghastly and if you’d rip them off and put up some you like—something of you would be real, here, in this room. But you never have. You’ve never told the cook what dessert you liked for dinner. You’re not here, Dominique. You’re not alive....
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– Jane Austen (via quote-book)
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it....”
– Howard Thurman (via quote-book)
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– Finding Nemo (via quote-book) 