December 2010
127 posts
“My ambition is to be happy.”
– Penelope Cruz
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.”
– Charlie Chaplin
“I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.”
– Imelda Marcos
alexithymia (n.)
difficulty describing feelings to other people
“He who hesitates is lost. We can’t pretend we haven’t been told, we’ve all heard...”
– Grey’s Anatomy
I want to go somewhere. Somewhere far.
Somewhere foreign to me. Somewhere new, unusual, unknown. Somewhere different from what I’ve always known. I want to travel.
“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did...”
– Italo Calvino
“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left...”
– Margaret Mead
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to...”
– Winston Chrurchill
“We dance around in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and...”
“The hour is late. The gitano’s guitar stilled in the turning air. On the...”
I do want you for Christmas.
Johnny Depp: "Looking at a Painting by Pablo...
MADRID.- Actor Johnny Depp was in Spain last week, presenting his new film “The Tourist”. After attending a press conference, he visited the “Guernica” at the Museo Reina Sofia and compared it with the joy of drinking a glass of wine.
“Vewing Guernica and enjoying watching for as long as you want is like entering another dimension. It is a sensation that only happens in front of a painting by...
nostalgia (n.)
a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time
“Saying nothing, sometimes says the most.”
– Emily Dickenson
sapiosexual (n.)
a person who is sexually attracted to intelligence in others
“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account for your likes.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru
“Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.”
– Judge Not, Bob Marley
“You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.”
– The Forgotten Garden
“Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to...”
– Edward Albee
“One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
– Henry David Thoreau
