Sun, Nov 29th
2009
Corripe Cervisiam
— (Seize the beer!) (via mnmal)
Mementos of my wanders on the web
Kerri Brewster
Wolfville, NS
Canada
Email:
kerri dot brewster
at gmail dot com
(home)
(browse archive)
(random post)
Kerri Brewster
Wolfville, NS
Canada
Email:
kerri dot brewster
at gmail dot com
(home)
(browse archive)
(random post)
Posts tagged "quote"
Sat, Nov 28th
2009
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
— Nelson Mandela
Sun, Oct 25th
2009
English is essentially what happens when you can’t decide whether the Greeks or the Romans had the better civilization, so you ask everybody they ever beat up on to sort it out.
— John M. Ford, via Essentialist Explanations, a great collection of one-liners for language geeks. (via dailymeh)
Sat, Aug 15th
2009
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery. (via dailymeh)
Sat, Jul 25th
2009
I am a pleasure-seeking reader: I’ve never allowed my sense of duty to have a hand in such a personal matter as that of buying books.
— Jorge Luis Borges. (via dailymeh)
Fri, Jul 17th
2009
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
— Martin Golding (via amplequotes)
Fri, Jul 3rd
2009
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
— Herman Hesse (via aquabooks)
Thu, Jul 2nd
2009
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
— James Nicoll (via srsly)
Fri, Jun 26th
2009
The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, ‘people without lives.’ We don’t care. We have each other.
— Dave Barry (via amplequotes)
Sun, Jun 21st
2009
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
— Clarence Budington Kelland
Happy Fathers Day.
Happy Fathers Day.
