… you’re always sort of nervous to get emails from people you want to get emails from …
— Alyssa Mastromonaco, in ‘Who thought this was a good idea?’
Tag: Quote
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
— Leonard Bernstein
Believing in the impossible…
The Queen said to Alice, “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
—Ashley Eckstein, quoting ‘Alice in Wonderland’ in her Morning Routine
Mama mía!
Colin Firth was once asked what he would like to hear from God upon arriving in heaven. “I personally thought you were very good in ‘Mamma Mia!’”
Saw the new, second one last night, and enjoyed it just like the first one, and the play.
They should screen these in open lots, so people can dance along to the songs. I sure wanted to 🙂
Nothing, value of.
So what would you have me do?
Nothing. Sometimes nothing is the hardest thing to do.
Tyrion to Daenerys
Belief.
A wise man once said that you should never believe a thing, simply because you want to believe it.
Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones S07E03
Game of thrones, the poem
When people ask what happened here,
tell them the north remembers,
tell them the winter came
for house Frey.
Arya Stark, Game of Thrones S07E01 scene 1
Knowledge ? Ignorance
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.
It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
Mark Twain
Death, by decade.
Dying in your thirties or forties?
“Tragic.”Fifties?
“Such a shame.”Sixties?
“Too soon.”Seventies?
“A good run.”Eighties?
“A life well lived.”Nineties?
“Hell of a ride.”
Axe and Wags indulging in a bit of smart, cynical, light-hearted banter, probably mixed with a hint of gallows humour, while standing at Wags’ future burial spot – Billions S03E04
“Live the life you’ve imagined.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.”
― Henry David Thoreau
I’ve come across this quote twice in the left 24 hours, in two unrelated places. First, as a chapter cover in the book I finished last night. Then, just now, at the head of a blog post by someone I barely know.
It got me thinking with the first hit. Now, with the double appearance, it seems like a message from the great void.
Time to heed it?