Arsiv

Baska Diyarlar

Podcasts

Raftakiler

RSS RSS RSS RSS

“There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall and those who like to sleep next to the ones who’ll push them out of bed.”
— from Missing Kissinger by Etgar Keret

Comments (View) | tags: Etgar Keret Quote of the Day

“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table.
I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
— from Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

Comments (View) | tags: Jonathan Safran Foer Quote of the Day

“Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules and brush the edge of acceptability in the search for solutions. Mathematicians are more like classical composers, typically working within a much tighter framework, reluctant to go to the next step until all previous ones have been established with due rigor. Each approach has its advantages as well as drawbacks; each provides a unique outlet for creative discovery. Like modern and classical music, it’s not that one approach is right and the other wrong - the methods one chooses to use are largely a matter of taste and training.”
— from The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene

Comments (View) | tags: Quote of the Day

“Calvin: Do you believe our destinies are determined by the stars?
Hobbes: Nah.
Calvin: Oh. I do.
Hobbes: Really? How come?
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you’re not responsible for your actions.”
— Calvin and Hobbes

Comments (View) | tags: Quote of the Day

“I love listening to the Lovin’ Spoonful. Their music is sort of laid-back and never pretentious. Listening to this soothing music brings back a lot of memories of the 1960s. Nothing really special, though. If they were to make a movie about my life (just the thought of which scares me), these would be the scenes they’d leave on the cutting-room floor. “We can leave this episode out,” the editor would explain. “It’s not bad, but it’s sort of ordinary and doesn’t amount to much.” Those kinds of memories - unpretentious, commonplace. But for me, they’re all meaningful and valuable. As each of these memories flits across my mind, I’m sure I unconsciously smile, or give a slight frown. Commonplace they might be, but the accumulation of these memories has led to one result: me. Me here and now, on the north shore of Kauai. Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.“ 

Yukaridaki satirlari Haruki Murakami‘nin daha once de alintiladigim What I Talk About When I Talk About Running kitabindan aldim. Su hayatta gercekten de baskalarina siradan gelebilecek ama bizi biz yapan kucuk mutluluklar ve uzuntuler yasayip duruyoruz. Murakami guzel yakalamis her zamanki gibi..

Comments (View) | tags: Quote of the Day haruki murakami

“Most people like to imagine themselves big novels, 800 page doorstops that include forty fascinating characters buzzing around each other, major crisis and triumphs, maybe even a world scale event like a war or a natural disaster in the background. All of this preferably described with panache and poetry by a Russian master like Tolstoy or a French wordsmith like Proust. But the truth is most of us live 243 page lives, if that. There are only a few major characters in our stories, maybe a mid-level crisis or two, certainly some triumph or tragedy sprinkled throughout, but none of it profound or interesting enough to demand more pages, more explication, more background. Thoreau famously said most people live lives of quiet desperation. He could just as easily have said most lives can be summed up effectively in 200 page novels written by adequate midlist authors.”
— Jonathan Carroll

Comments (View) | tags: Quote of the Day Jonathan Carroll

“Research sometimes feels like an ongoing TV series in which some amazing revelations have already been made, but there are still plenty of cliff-hangers and unresolved plotlines that you want to see resolved. But unlike TV, we have to do the work ourselves to figure out what happens next.”
— Terence Tao

Comments (View) | tags: Quote of the Day Terence Tao

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

Comments (View) | tags: quote of the day