#lists

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure) ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#kimono #novelists #shigure #writers #humor

Qualities of a Good Nurse: Go," I said. "1. Doesn't pun on your disability," Isaac said. "2. Gets blood on the first try," I said. "Seriously, that is huge. I mean is this my freaking arm or a dartboard? 3. No condescending voice." "How are you doing, sweetie?" I asked, cloying. "I'm going to stick you with a needle now. There might be a little ouchie." "Is my wittle fuffywump sickywicky?" he answered. "Most of them are good, actually. I just want to get the hell out of this place. ↗

— John Green

#illness #lists #nurses #humor

Like the Hindu in Belfast who was asked whether he was a Catholic Hindu or a Protestant Hindu, those of us who follow this fresh reading of the New Testament want to say to our critics right and left, ‘Don’t imagine that because we don’t check all your fundamentalist boxes, we must be modernists, or that because we don’t check all your modernist boxes, we must be fundamentalists. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#modernists #new-testament #sbl #imagination

Media work needs ideals. Maybe thirty years from now, after I retire, I'll see the media mature and make the transition from political party, interest group, and corporate to truly public. But over the next ten years, the encroachment of commercialism and worldliness will loom much larger than the democratization we imagine. -Jin Yongquan in China Ink ↗

— Judy Polumbaum

#efficacy #ethics #journalism #journalists #media

Always seek for balance in your life: If you stayed long in the darkness, walk long in the light; if you talked too much, stay silent for a good while; if you climbed the high mountains, hike long on the plains! Balance everything! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#life

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists. ↗

— Joseph T. Hallinan

#depression #psychology #realists #psychology

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#grab #ignore #like #men #possessions

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#better #better off #body #degree #inform

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive. ↗

— John Zorn

#idealists #society #survive #will

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#absolutely nothing #charming #conversation #delightful #nothing