My Psych Class
- Genie
There is a critical period for children to develop language. Although people can still learn a language after this period, they will never master it. Genie was a child who's mother was blind and father a schizophrenic. She was locked in a closet until she was thirteen, and had no language knowledge. Once she was rescued she was taught English, but it was similar to an adult learning their second language. Even after extensive training she will never speak with ease.
Awdhesh Singh
- Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
The 'eye for eye' policy satisfies the logical mind but this policy is also equally impracticable. you may follow this policy against a person who is weaker than you. However, if the person is more powerful than you- like your boss, parents, government, the police-it would be disastrous to follow this policy as it may lead to your total ruin.
Oscar WIlde
- The Importance of Being Earnest
Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids. I consider it morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.
Anonymous
- The World is an Unfair Place
The world is an unfair place. Anyone who says it isn't, is lying. Anyone who says it is, is stating the obvious. Anyone who says it should be made fair, is shouting into the void. And anyone who says it shouldn't be fair, probably enjoys torturing small animals. You get what you get, of this no more can be said.
myself
- the field
Before them was the field. Over the last few months the grass had grown. It was maybe four or five inches high, lush and green. Phaeton imagined they saw a depression in the grass. Only two or so feet from where they were sitting. About the shape and size of a young adult. When they blinked it was gone. Just the shadow of a cloud passing.
Joseph Conrad
- The Secret Agent
He was a force. His thoughts caressed the images of ruin and destruction. He walked frail, insignificant, shabby, miserable - and terrible in the simplicity of his idea calling madness and despair to the regeneration of the world. Nobody looked at him. He passed on unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in the street full of men.
Gene Ziegler
- Excerpt from "A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer"
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report! If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!
Anonymous
- Ponzi Scheme of life
Everyone talks their book, and everyone searches for the answers they want. There can be no lies in this system, because the desired answer is unquestionable, and the undesired answer requires further investigation. And so the Ponzi Scheme of life goes on, as we pass our desired answers down to the next generation of suckers.
Vladimir Nabokov
- Lolita
Speaking of sharp turns: we almost ran over a meddlesome suburban dog (one of those that lie in wait for cars) as we swerved into Lawn Street. A little further, the Haze house, a white-framed horror, appeared, looking dingy and old, more gray than white-the kind of place you know will have a rubber tube affixed to the tub faucet instead of a shower.
Timothy
- Glove80
I just got myself an early birthday present, a new life partner, the Glove80. I'm currently on my third day of the adjustment period from a normal, staggered keyboard (I was on a Langtu GK65) to this new columnar layout. I'm proud to say that I've gotten up to 50-70% of my regular typing speed through doing focused practice on this site at least 15 minutes a day. I'm loving the thumb clusters, btw. Why the heck aren't these more commonplace?! Our thumbs are strong, let it do work!
Don't know
- Friends
"What are you doing?" She asks, head slightly tilted as she look up at the man of her dreams. "What do you think I'm doing?" He asks, with that sly smile of his. She clears her throat, staring at the curving that he drew on the sand they're sitting. 'If I close my eyes tight enough, will it be enough to detain this loud heartbeat of mine?' She sighed. "I curved out our name," He says. "With a heart?" She smiles. "Yeah. You're the only friend that I cannot afford to lose." Her smile disappeared.
Dallas Brooks
- balls
if your balls itch I got you homie ill itch them, I'll fondle them, I'll lick them, I'll do so many things to you. If your balls itch I got you homie ill itch them, I'll fondle them, I'll lick them, I'll do so many things to you.
Uncle Ben
- Spider-man
With great power, comes greater responsibility. If your heart is not as grand, you shall be consumed by your own might and hurt your loved ones unintentionally when you give vent to your rage.
Adelyn Lester
- My Lifestyle
Hey, have you ever been depressed before? That's how I feel; because of all my missing homework, my mom, boyfriend troubles, and friends in general, this is the worst lifestyle ever imagined. It just feels like I want to dig a hole, crawl in it, and bury myself. I came to find out my boyfriend likes a different girl. I know I recently "posted" a quote about something else but I have no one to talk to and if I talk to my mom, she's going to probably ground me.
Alexandra Bracken
- The Darkest Legacy
The scars of what had happened were still there, not glued together to try to minimize the appearance of them, but glowing with thin rivulets of gold - more beautiful for having once been broken.
The 1975
- About You
There was something about you that now I can't remember, it's the same damn thing that made my heart surrender. And I miss you on a train, I miss you in the morning. I never knew what to think about. I think about you.
Frank Herbert
- Dune Messiah - Farok
We came out of a mountain pass where the air was sick with water. I could scarcely breathe it. And there below me was the thing my friends had told me about : water as far as I could see and farther. We marched down to it. I waded out into it and drank. It was bitter and made me ill. But the wonder of it has never left me.
Kacey Musgraves
- Things I Would Miss From The Other Side
Dinner with friends in cities where none of us live. The face that somebody makes when you give them a gift. Every once in a while when I wake up early without trying and catch a sunrise.
bkliberty
- Boys and Girls with their friends
Brother (to friends): "Hey sup!" hard slap on the back. Sister (to friends): "Hey, how are you? How did you sleep?" don't listen to their friend's reply but instead immediately start gossiping. Brother (a day after fight with friends): "Sup, buddy!" Sister (a day after fight with friends): silence... Boys and girls have different relationships. Girls are too complicated. Boys are not that bad. At least they are all content with their types of relationships.
yukine
- typing revelations
Do you ever be just causally typing a quote, and as you simultaneously progress silently reading word-by-word, the deepness of the quote gradually starts hitting hard with every word revealed as you move through? same. I've had a couple of revelations just reading quotes on this website!
