February 2010
31 posts
“A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several...”
– William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958
“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
– Andy Warhol
But Adam, →
can’t people can be multitalented?
I do think people can have multiple interests. I write. I sing. I’d like to maybe pick up an instrument one day. I like the sciences. I was into photography for a long time, but unfortunately haven’t really picked up my camera lately. I’m no gourmet chef, but I can cook. I’d personally prefer not to be pidgeon-holed, if that...
“People are stupid and just want to be loved. That’s the only reason anyone does...”
– Chandra Wilson, Grey’s Anatomy
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
– Unknown
My Honest Tea Bottle
“Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep...”
– Jean Kerr
“Within this black hive to-night
There swarm a million bees;
Bees passing in...”
– -Jean Toomer, Beehive
been planning my Harlem Renaissance thesis. I love this poem.
Phony
Sometimes I feel like Holden Caulfield
But does that make me like the very people Holden hates?
Son of Elysium: Sad but True →
hey adam don’t get down on yourself. hey, what do I know, but I really think you’re awesome. and college admissions are so unpredictable — maybe the fact that it’s not a conservatory means they were paying less attention to the music than other factors. Anyway, don’t give up, and don’t give up what you love.
Good luck getting into the rest of your list. Fucking...
meetmeinbayside:
I’ll probably be re-reading this again too
I feel like i reread things too much. I should probably tackle the endless books on my bookshelf I still haven’t gotten to yet…
“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re...”
– William James Durant
Story Time
I love this
fuckyeahphysics:
physicsphysics:
The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen: Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer.
One student replied: You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus...
“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world,
paid a...”
– -The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
What a book.
top art schools in america?
amanda-munoz:
baileymunson:
i really need to know. i’ve figured out that i will not end up at a university. i’m bound to be at an art school but i’ve been googling and binging for about an hour.
there’s:
scad, risd, vcu, the art institutes(which i’m not interested in), brooks, what else? D:
SVA, Columbia College (Chicago), NYU Tisch/Steinhardt, FIT, Pratt Institute, Parsons School of...
“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”
– Ronald Reagan
John Mayer - Why Georgia
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a...”
– Leonard Cohen
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different...”
– Albert Einstein
“…that knowing is better than wondering. That waking is better than...”
– Meredith, Grey’s Anatomy
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by...”
– Paul Dirac
“I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of...”
– Billy Joel
“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover...”
– John Cheever
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of...”
Sometimes,
I really want to be a music supervisor.
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
fantastic...