Archive for the '2. read' Category

I

Monday, April 22nd, 2013

I painted to be loved.

Francis Bacon

Honour

Friday, April 5th, 2013

I’ve asked my partner Adele if she will do me the honour of becoming my widow.

Iain Banks

100%

Friday, April 5th, 2013

Otto Dettmer

The top 10% own 44% of everything. If they owned and earned everything, they’d contribute 100% of Treasury income, and no doubt protest yet louder at the nation of dependents they carry on their backs.

Polly Toynbee

Maria

Friday, April 5th, 2013

The man admits putting poison in his wife’s water but denies trying to kill her. He told police he had been trying to make her a little unwell to ease her obsessional interest in planning pilgrimages and listening to the Catholic radio station Radio Maria.

Lizzy Davies

Better

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

André Gide

Calm

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

No opposition must be taken to heart. Our enemies often help us more than our friends. Besides, a head-wind is better than no wind. Who ever got anywhere in a dead calm?

Amelia E. Barr

Cold

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

Cold focuses the mind. I did the best work I’ve ever done in my parents’ unheated thatched cottage when I was revising for my finals, crouched over an electric fan heater wearing about 10 jumpers. When you are that uncomfortable you don’t mess about.

Lucy Kellaway

Forza

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

Fatti forza, ragazzo, vai avanti a schiena dritta e testa alta, e segui sempre e soltanto la voce della tua coscienza.

Antonino Caponnetto

Up

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

And so I took all the positive thoughts I could muster and lashed them together in my mind, like planks in a psychological raft that I hoped would buoy me up.

Alan Johnston

Heroine

Saturday, March 16th, 2013

In the modified game, Mario is the one waiting to be saved, while Pauline is the heroine who jumps through the obstacles to be reunited with Mario.

Loke Shi Ying