things people say

i was talking to a friend of mine and he said this and i thought it was amazing. and so i knew i just had to share it here. he thought of it all by himself and everything.

"if missing you is a grain of sand, i had a whole beach."

usbtypewriter

do you miss the old typewriter feel? well, if you do, look no futher then the usbtypewriter. and really this video and article explain it better then i ever could. so go here and watch it's amazingness!

what are the billionaire's reading this summer?

i know i ask myself that question every summer. not. but it seems that the last 11 years jp morgan private bank has sent its clients a summer reading list, a list of 10 books specifically chosen for the bank’s rich clients. to create the list, jpm bankers from around the world submitted more than 450 nonfiction books for consideration. a committee then chose the top 10, based on each tome’s ability to “capture the essence of our clients’ personal and professional lives.”

here is the list of books for this summer:
- On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System by Henry M. Paulson Jr.
- Life is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment by Peter Buffett
- The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick.
- Written in Water: Messages of Hope for Earth’s Most Precious Resource by Irena Salina
- Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years by Michael Shelden
- BlackBerry: The Inside Story of Research in Motion by Rod McQueen.
- The Principles of Thai Cookery by Chef McDang.
- Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century by Peter Galassi.
- Fine Wines: The Best Vintages Since 1900 by Michel Dovaz.

quotes 2

-"love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - robert frost
-"there is no remedy for love but to love more." - henry david thoreau
-"age does not protect you from love. but love, to some extent, protects you from age." - jeanne moreau
-"ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains." - audra fovea-alba
-"take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body." - oliver wendell holmes
-"all those glances that we stole sometimes if you want them then you've got to." - josh ritter
-"the president ain't got our cause he's seeling souls and breaking laws telling lies for the applause." - parlor mob
-"it is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening." - sue monk kidd
-"journalism largely consists of saying 'lord jones is dead.' to people who never knew that lord jones was alive." - g.k. chesterton
-"if your life had little meaning... your death has none." - ralph maccihio

library of the year

Ohio's Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) is the winner of the Gale/Library Journal Library of the Year Award 2010. congrats to them! you can read all about the library in this article.

bill murray reads poetry

so when the poets house was getting a new building they had bill murray go to the construction site and be the first person to read poetry there. here is a video of some of the poetry he read.

em forster

em forster wrote a passage to india and other stories, while i have only read a passage to india, i enjoyed his writing. well, wendy moffat, associate professor of english at dickinson college, pennsylvania, uncovered while researching a new biography of the novelist, a 'sex diary' of his that said that the energy of his early years was drained by physical fulfilment. which i found interesting. before his death forster wrote that “I should have been a more famous writer if I had written or rather published more, but sex prevented the latter.”

i just found this so interesting! that his enjoyment of sex and his enjoyment of living life to the fullest prevented him from writing more. i guess sometimes the living of your life gets in the way of what your supposed to be doing in life. makes one think. if i go out and live my life and enjoy new experiences, will i be too occupied to write? there's no way of knowing that until i find something that makes me not want to write anymore. i don't see that happening for me. usually if i find a new experience and i enjoy it, i want to write about it. i'm bursting to write about it. i just can't stop writing about it. and if i can't stop writin about it, i'm definatly enjoying it and loving it. so yeah, just makes one think. either way i found it interesting that for him sex had him not write as much as he thought he should have.

the whole article written about the biography of em forester can be found here.

xkcd

poetry is found in all places. recently i was randomly looking at the web comic called xkcd and i found this comic. i thought it was brilliant and that i would share it with everyone. i love when i found poetry in random places.

it makes me think of the great scene from the last of the mohicans movie.

talk about some of the most romantic words. both from the movie and from the comic.