Dickensian June 17, 2024 #words of or reminiscent of the novels of Charles Dickens, especially in suggesting the poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters that they portray jungly June 17, 2024 #words characterized by jungle or resembling a jungle plutocratic June 17, 2024 #words relating to or characterized by government by the wealthy flyspeck June 17, 2024 #words a minuscule speck of something George Orwell June 17, 2024 #quotes “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” untitled | collage June 16, 2024 #art collage, via pinterest tool myrmecologist June 13, 2024 #words person who studies ants ataractic June 13, 2024 #words conducive to relaxation callipygian June 12, 2024 #words having well-shaped buttocks apophenia June 12, 2024 #words the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas) Franz Liszt June 12, 2024 #quotes “Publishers have frequently asked me to write memoirs, but I put it off with the excuse that it was more than enough for me to live through my life, without transcribing it to paper.” nova June 11, 2024 #words a star showing a sudden large increase in brightness then returning its original state over the next few months incunabula June 11, 2024 #words early printed books, especially ones printed before 1501 Zora Neale Hurston June 11, 2024 #quotes "When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over…” [read more] Robert McNamara June 11, 2024 #quotes "God is clearly democratic. He distributes brainpower universally. But He quite justifiably expects us to do something efficient and constructive with that priceless gift.” Simone de Beauvoir June 10, 2024 #quotes "Cowardice doesn’t pay." Lemony Snicket June 9, 2024 #quotes "Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don't tell them they aren't. Sit with them and have a drink." George Orwell June 9, 2024 #quotes “Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” faciolect* June 6, 2024 #invented-words one's unique speech differences with cause related to craniofacial abnormalities celesta June 5, 2024 #words small keyboard instrument with ethereal bell-like sound… from French céleste "heavenly" Charlotte Brontë June 4, 2024 #quotes “He's more myself than I. Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” sangfroid June 2, 2024 #words composure, self-possession or imperturbability especially when in a dangerous situation; expressionless, not showing emotion deaccession May 31, 2024 #words to officially remove an item from the listed holdings of a library, museum, or art gallery, typically in order to sell it to raise funds Michael McLaughlin May 31, 2024 #quotes “Good Latin deserves good English.” Kurt Vonnegut May 31, 2024 #quotes “I have this trick for dealing with all my worst memories. I insist that they are plays. The characters are actors. Their speeches and movements are stylized, arch. I am in the presence of art.” Emily Dickinson May 31, 2024 #quotes "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.” swashbuckling May 30, 2024 #words engaging in daring or romantic adventures with bravado and flamboyance dragoon May 30, 2024 #words (verb) coerce someone into doing something; (noun) a member of several cavalry regiments in the British army Groucho Marx May 30, 2024 #quotes "Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." Dr. Peter Mere Latham May 30, 2024 #quotes “Surely there is an evil in using language more precise than our knowledge. If this were the place, it would be easy to show that medicine has partaken especially of it. Its language has almost always outrun its knowledge. And the evil has been nothing less than this: our language, by ever persuading us that we are wiser than we are, has wedded up to many a capital error.” floriography May 27, 2024 #words cryptological communication through the use of or arrangement of flowers, with different types of flowers having particular symbolic meanings itspresro May 26, 2024 #quotes "Anywhere there’s a trail of money, people are gonna bleed it." Carl Sagan May 26, 2024 #quotes “Every cell of your body is a kind of commune, with once free-living parts all banded together for the common good. And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.” misanthropic May 25, 2024 #words disliking humankind and avoiding society Anais Nin May 23, 2024 #quotes “I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife…” [see more] disport May 22, 2024 #words (archaic) to enjoy oneself unrestrainably; frolic Jennifer Egan May 22, 2024 #quotes "An uncomprehending giggle is a beauty’s most reliable tool for diffusing conflict.” desultory May 17, 2024 #words (of conversation or speech) going constantly from one subject to another in a halfhearted way; unfocused analecta May 15, 2024 #words a collection of excerpts or quotes Dwight Eisenhower May 14, 2024 #quotes “The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present—and is to be gravely regarded.” Cindy Gallop May 14, 2024 #quotes “People love advertising in particular, but they hate advertising in general.” Claire-Louise Bennett May 13, 2024 #quotes “if he had done the worst possible thing yet still hadn’t managed to get under my skin, what did that mean, what on earth did that mean exactly? I hadn’t so much absolved him as obliterated him. I should have cried perhaps. I ought to have cried really. He’d witnessed me coming apart in reaction to far less serious misdeeds and contraventions—but there isn’t a fail-safe index for these things is there, that reliably instructs us as to what we will thrust a knife through us and what will be water off a duck’s back? I ought to have cried but it’s too late for that and I am quite monstrous and Dale is lost for words.” ethnobotany May 11, 2024 #words the scientific study of the traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning plants and their medical, religious, and other uses. FORTUNE Magazine May 11, 2024 “Thrift is now un-American.” Emily Dickinson May 11, 2024 #quotes "Best Witchcraft is Geometry” flyspeck May 10, 2024 #words a minuscule speck of something Frida Kahlo May 10, 2024 quotes “There is nothing more precious than laughter and scorn — It is strength to laugh and lose oneself, to be cruel and light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing ‘man’ has.” coquette May 7, 2024 #words a woman who flirts, probably to her own advantage, to get what she wants intelligentsia May 6, 2024 #words intellectuals or highly educated people as a group, especially when regarded as possessing culture and public influence allay May 5, 2024 #words diminish or put at rest (fear, suspicion, worry) Howard Thurman May 5, 2024 #quotes “There is something in every one of you that waits, listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. If you cannot hear it, you will never find whatever it is for which you are searching. And if you hear it and then do not follow it, it was better that you had never been born...” [see more] Kurt Vonnegut May 4, 2024 #quotes “Mankind is trying to become something else; it’s experimenting with new ideas all the time. And writers are a means of introducing new ideas into the society.” Anaïs Nin May 4, 2024 #quotes “I wish that no one knew me, I would like to live alone and apart. Ah, how I envy the life of those souls who find so much peace, so much sweetness in solitude.” palatial May 3, 2024 #words luxurious; resembling a palace in being spacious and splendid Emma Goldman May 3, 2024 #quotes “Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor?” carte blanche April 30, 2024 #words complete freedom to act as one wishes quixotic April 29, 2024 #words romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded Jennifer Egan April 29, 2024 #quotes “Fatherless girls may invest the moon with a certain paternal promise.” tempus fugit April 27, 2024 #words time flies; the passing of time subclinical April 27, 2024 #words relating to or denoting a disease which is not severe enough to present definite or readily observable symptoms plutocratic April 27, 2024 #words relating to or characterized by government by the wealthy desultory behavior April 24, 2024 #art learning to draw sprezzatura April 23, 2024 #words studied carelessness, especially as a characteristic quality or style of art or literature penetralia April 23, 2024 #words the innermost parts of a building; a secret or hidden place Virginia Woolf April 20, 2024 #quotes “Let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.  There is nothing ready made for him.  He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out.  Probably it will be something laughable.” manicule April 19, 2024 the ‘little hand’ — a punctuation mark created by or for readers to assist in marking noteworthy passage reify April 16, 2024 #words to make (something abstract) more concrete or real contemn April 16, 2024 #words treat or regard with contempt platitudinize April 15, 2024 #words to trivialize or oversimplify complex ideas or issues Carl Sagan April 15, 2024 #quotes “Intellectual capacity is no guarantee against being dead wrong.” reticent April 14, 2024 #words not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily timbromanie April 13, 2024 #words a mania or passion for stamp collecting Maurice Sendak, in the New Yorker (1993) April 13, 2024 #quotes "I remember my own childhood vividly… I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them." Emily Dickinson April 11, 2024 #quotes "I hope you have been well. I hope your rambles have been sweet and your reveries spacious.” Cole Arthur Riley April 10, 2024 #quotes "The pen changes when it’s writing to someone as opposed to for someone …" vomitorium April 9, 2024 #words a passage located behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre used as an exit for the crowds (Latin "vomere" was to spew forward) tulipomania April 9, 2024 #words an excessive fad or passion for acquiring or growing tulips vaunting April 8, 2024 #words of a boastful nature desiderium April 6, 2024 #words an ardent desire or longing, especially a feeling of loss or grief Esther Yi April 6, 2024 #quotes “You are the most rewatchable person I know. Something about you is always new.” purple April 5, 2024 #words (of language) extravagantly ornate bellwether April 5, 2024 #words one who sets the pace, guiding others in the process; something that indicates future trends Carl Sagan April 5, 2024 #quotes “What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.” in situ April 4, 2024 #words on site; in the original place Gillian Flynn April 4, 2024 "How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: ‘I like strong women.’ If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because ‘I like strong women’ is code for ‘I hate strong women.’” protean April 2, 2024 #words tending or able to change frequently or easily; able to do many different things, versatile licentious March 30, 2024 #words lacking legal or moral restraints, especially sexual. Emma Goldman March 28, 2024 #quotes “The most violent element in society is ignorance.” Virginia Woolf March 27, 2024 #quotes “I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves.” Saint Marks March 27, 2024 #art learning to draw Dwight Eisenhower March 27, 2024 #quotes “No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one… Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Cole Arthur Riley March 26, 2024 #quotes "I’m writing to you as one who used to lie about having friends on the playground. As one who bent her voice an octave higher so people would think her more charming than sullen. I’m writing to you as the one who was too afraid to leave. Who stayed because the distance to the door was too great without someone to be held by. At the core of me, and I suspect humanity, is a hunger to belong. Or at least the defiant sting of never belonging. You know this haunt, but I wonder if you’ve been able to become honest about it." Albert Einstein March 26, 2024 #quotes "I regard it as the chief duty of the State to protect the individual and give him the opportunity to develop into a creative personality." myopia March 24, 2024 #words nearsightedness; lack of imagination, foresight or intellectual insight edentulism March 24, 2024 #words toothlessness ORD to DCA March 24, 2024 #art learning to draw Edgar Allan Poe March 24, 2024 #quotes "Now, my dear friend--now, for your sins, you are to suffer the infliction of a long gossipping letter." logocidal March 23, 2024 #words the destruction or perversion of meaning, something deadly to reason and communication autophagous March 23, 2024 #words self-devouring Splitting March 23, 2024 #art learning to draw Next page