#berg

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul! ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#howl #intelligence

What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#iceberg #movie #shot #tip #tip of the iceberg

Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#designation #does #dr #earthquakes #extending

I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#crazy #friendship #love #nick-o-leary #norah-silverberg

Governments are nothing more than elaborate Rube Goldberg apparatuses, operating with absurd inefficiency. Why walk ten steps when you can make it there in a hundred?
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— Jarod Kintz

#government #rube-goldberg #funny

I need a suit of armor and the courage to stand behind my convictions to fight for what I want. ↗

— Ella Frank

#chantel-rosenberg #courage

You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul. ↗

— Kevin Brockmeier

#life #rube-goldberg #soul #design

Nick stands up and offers his hand to me. I have no idea what he wants, but what the hell, I take his hand anyway, and he pulls me up on my feet then presses against me for a slow dance and it's like we're in a dream where he's Christopher Plummer and I'm Julie Andrews and we're dancing on the marble floor of an Austrian terrace garden. Somehow my head presses Nick's t-shirt and in this moment I am forgetting about time and Tal because maybe my life isn't over. Maybe it's only beginning. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#love #magic #nick-and-norah #nick-o-leary #norah-silverberg

Oil and Water, Daddy calls us. At four years younger than me, Katie is only fourteen and she already has half the boys in town eating from her pretty little hand. She tells me I am too tall and too wicked looking to capture the heart of any sensible young man. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#filter #historical-fiction #sisters #suspense #von-strassenberg

My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what? ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#dark #family-saga #gothic #gwenn-wright #mystery