March 2010
34 posts
“So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.”
—Tom Robbins (via criminalwisdom)
“She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
—(via quote-book)
Empire State of Mind
Alicia Keys
Oooh oooh, New York (2x)
Grew up in a town,
That is famous as a place of movie scenes
Noise is always loud
There are sirens all around
And the streets are mean
If I could make it here
I could make it anywhere
That’s what they say
Seeing my face in lights
Or my name in marquees found down on Broadway
Even if it ain’t all it seems
I got a pocketful of dreams
Baby, I’m from
Chorus
New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Hear it for New York, New York, New York
On the avenue, there ain’t never a curfew
Ladies work so hard
Such a melting pot on the corner selling rock
Preachers pray to God
Hail a gypsy cab
Takes me down from Harlem to the Brooklyn Bridge
Someone sleeps tonight with a hunger
For more than from an empty fridge
I’m going to make it by any means
I got a pocketful of dreams
Baby, I’m from
Chorus
New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Hear it for New York, New York, New York
Chorus
One hand in the air for the big city
Street lights, big dreams, all looking pretty
No place in the world that can compare
Put your lighters in the air
Everybody say yeah, yeah yeaah
Chorus
New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Hear it for New York
“So we change. We adapt. We create new versions of ourselves. We just need to be sure this one is an improvement over the last.”
— Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy
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“Sometimes I feel like everyone is going on with their lives..
except me..”
” —May AlabanzaCatching up on Grey's Anatomy
- George: Dr. Bailey, I need to tell you something.
- Bailey: Not now O'Malley.
- George: No, it'll be quick 'cause I gotta get to the OR to scrub in with the Chief. I think you're gonna be mad at first, but I'm about to do something important. And, I'm very sure about this decision. And, I think eventually you're gonna be proud. But you know, before that you're probably gonna be like "What did you do!" I'm... I don't mean to imitate you.
- Bailey: You call that quick?
- George: I joined the Army to be a trauma surgeon, I report for duty tomorrow.
- Bailey: YOU DID WHAT?
- George: Yeah, thats where I thought we'd start.
“She remained as she had always been, amused and curious,
but strangely distant, as if her own life were a book
she was reading, one she might put down at any moment
in order to gaze out the window at the sky.” — The Secrets of a Fire King
but strangely distant, as if her own life were a book
she was reading, one she might put down at any moment
in order to gaze out the window at the sky.” — The Secrets of a Fire King
