Here and Now
Remember: everybody else has their own star to follow. Once in a while, it may rest on your shoulder. And any other moment, it may decide to take off. Keep looking for your own star.
November 2010
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
—Lewis B. Smedes
“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
—Thomas Mann (via xwidep)
“Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.”
—Arthur Stringer (via xwidep)
Tired and emotional →
en.wikipedia.org
Tired and emotional is a chiefly British euphemism for being drunk. It was popularised by the British satirical magazine Private Eye in 1967 after being used in a spoof diplomatic memo to describe the state of Labour Cabinet minister George Brown, but is now used as a stock phrase, possibly because of British slander and libel law.
“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”
—Barbara Johnson
“Women are no longer forced to stay at home, they are now forced to go to work.”
—Jen Byrd (via xwidep)
