“What’s up, Doc?”
-Tex Avery
“Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”
-Unknown
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
-Muhammad Ali
Via Dave Correia.
There’s a terrible green monster
who lives beneath my bed.
I hear his long white teeth click.
He’s waiting to be fed.
I shiver underneath my sheets
and squeeze my eyes up tight.
Maybe if I lie real still
he won’t eat me tonight…
He taps me on the shoulder.
I don’t know what to do.
He looks at me and says, “I’m scared!
Can I get in with you?”- Penny Trzynka
I don’t think these kids bought the whole, “I’m scared!” line…
Photographer Laure Fauvel‘s photo series Terreurs.
Poem by Penny Trzynka via Dinner with Dracula.
Love Letters and Arsenic
“It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.”
-Henri De Regnier
The Fall
“You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.”
-James Thurber
Summer Reading
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
-Mark Twain
Via Miles Hyman.
Quotes via The Quotations Page.
Seasons
“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
-George Santayana
Flash I
“This coffee plunges into the stomach…the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle…. Memories charge at full gallop…the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.”
-Honore de Balzac
Enoki II
“Pick mushrooms that are firm and white; reject any enoki that are discolored or slimy.”
Via James Jean.
Quotes via The Quotations Page and the kitchn.
This is an original Papercut, an art form in which an entire image is hand-cut from a single sheet of paper.
“No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”
-Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind
“What? Are mermaids not sweet?”
“They’ll sweetly drown you if you get too close.”
-Wendy & Peter, Peter Pan
Via Tina Tarnoff.
Quotes via IMDb.
“Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you’re waking up to instant stress. You shouldn’t be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it’s time to start your day.”
-Sharon Gold
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
-Douglas Adams
“Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.”
-Dr. Thomas Dooley
Via Laura Makabresku.
Quotations via The Quotations Page.
“Slap a mask on a drunk and you’re going to have trouble. It’s like having a live reenactment of anonymous forum comments.”
-Randy K. Milholland
“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”
-W. Somerset Maugham
“Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage?”
-Erasmus
“We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”
-John W. Gardner
Via the Mask Series with Saul Steinberg photographed by Inge Morath.
Quotations via The Quotations Page.