February 2012
Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly...
– Cormac McCarthy. (via supersonicelectronic)
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements,...
– Charles Lindbergh (via thesemightysecrets) (via smut-to-go) (via rememo)
You must change your life.
pantherhooves:
Archaic Torso of Apollo
We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams in all its power. Otherwise the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could a smile run through the placid hips and thighs to that dark center where procreation...
The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your...
– Helen Mirren, interview, May 25, 2011 in Esquire
reblogging again because relevant
(via carinacakes)
My favourite definition of an intellectual: ‘Someone who has been educated...
– Arthur C. Clarke (via rememo)
appuntisparsieventuali:
You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
sashawantsmore:
thereisafish:
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no...
That depressing moment when you're horny but have...
Strange Phenomena of the Mind →
maryamahmed:
Déjà Vu - the experience of being certain that you have experienced or seen a new situation previously – you feel as though the event has already happened or is repeating itself. The experience is usually accompanied by a strong sense of familiarity and a sense of eeriness, strangeness, or weirdness. The “previous” experience is usually attributed to a dream, but sometimes there is...
I hate how the phrase ‘have some self respect’ is used to shame women who are...
– Unknown (via terramantra)
Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t...
– Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism (via elle-emeno-pee)
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave...
– Anatole France (via vineetkaur)
random closeup sesh
lostandstumbling:
Honestly, I don't need someone that sees what's...
Lying is a terrible disease of the mouth, hatred is a terrible disease of the...
– (via makeitcontagious)
The Caging of America: Why do we lock up so many... →
Northern impersonality and Southern revenge converge on a common American theme: a growing number of American prisons are now contracted out as for-profit businesses to for-profit companies. The companies are paid by the state, and their profit depends on spending as little as possible on the prisoners and the prisons. It’s hard to imagine any greater disconnect between public good and private...