#han

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#humor #manners #philip-marlowe #put-downs #raymond-chandler

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor. ↗

— Jesse Ball

#elephant #humor #personal-space #silly #humor

...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #ink #writing #humor

Thank you,” she whispered, sending up a quick prayer for his continued recovery. “You’re welcome,” Marcus murmured. Honoria let out a little shriek of surprise, jumping back nearly a foot. “Sorry,” he said, but he was laughing. It was quite the loveliest sound Honoria had ever heard. “I wasn’t thanking you,” she said pertly. “I know.” He smiled ↗

— Julia Quinn

#romance #thank-you #humor

And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card. ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#life #time #imagination

If instead of arranging the atoms in some definite pattern, again and again repeated, on and on, or even forming little lumps of complexity like the odor of violets, we make an arrangement which is always different from place to place, with different kinds of atoms arranged in many ways, continually changing, not repeating, how much more marvelously is it possible that this thing might behave? Is it possible that that "thing" walking back and forth in front of you, talking to you, is a great glob of these atoms in a very complex arrangement, such that the sheer complexity of it staggers the imagination as to what it can do? When we say we are a pile of atoms, we do not mean we are merely a pile of atoms, because a pile of atoms which is not repeated from one to the other might well have the possibilities which you see before you in the mirror. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#physics #richard-feynman #six-easy-pieces #change

The primitive craving for survival is universal in all things capable of dying. Now imagine if you could isolate the basic element that drives all animals to fight for survival? What would you do with it? I already had my own ideas when I started my search for an entity I eventually dubbed “The Determination Gene”. ↗

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#flame-lily #hangman #mystrey #paranromal #thriller

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done ↗

— Chad Michael Murray

#missed-chances #regret #inspirational

Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost. ↗

— Crystal Woodman Miller

#challenge #christ #hope #inspirational #world-changer

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life? ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#inspirational #life #love #inspirational