“So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Cabin Fever
“I've seen a lot of movies where a kid my age finds out he's got magical powers and then gets invited to go away to some special school. Well, if I've got an invitation coming, now would be the perfect time to get it”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Cabin Fever
“I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Cabin Fever
“fish and visitors stink in 3 days.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Cabin Fever
“I’ve realized is that every time you get something cool for your birthday or for Christmas, within a week it’s being used against you. (We'll be taking this away until your English grade improves)”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Cabin Fever
“You know, back in the old days adults were respected because of how wise they were, and people went to them to help settle disputes. Nowadays it's a whole different world, and half the time I wonder if grown-ups should really be in charge.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Cabin Fever
“Mom always says I need to spend less time on the couch and more time being active. But the way I see it. I'm just conserving my energy for later on. When all my friends are in their eighties and their bodies are broken down, I'll just be getting started.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Cabin Fever
“I know I need to eat healthier, but if you take fast food out of my diet I'm in big trouble, because I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Cabin Fever
“Now there's a black market for toys at our school. Christopher Stangel brought in a bunch of Legos from home yesterday, and I hear a single brick will set you back fifty cents.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Cabin Fever
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― Jeff Kinney, quote from Cabin Fever
“This is an existential crisis rooted not only in race—which the corner has slowly transcended—but in the unresolved disaster of the American rust-belt, in the slow, seismic shift that is shutting down the assembly lines, devaluing physical labor, and undercutting the union pay scale. Down on the corner, some of the walking wounded used to make steel, but Sparrows Point isn’t hiring the way it once did. And some used to load the container ships at Seagirt and Locust Point, but the port isn’t what she used to be either. Others worked at Koppers, American Standard, or Armco, but those plants are gone now. All of which means precious little to anyone thriving in the postindustrial age. For those of us riding the wave, the world spins on an axis of technological prowess in an orbit of ever-expanding information. In that world, the men and women of the corner are almost incomprehensibly useless and have been so for more than a decade now. How”
― David Simon, quote from The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
“We circled around and came in from the northwest.” I lifted my wrist to show him the compass on my watch band, although I hoped that, being the pilot, he knew we’d approached from the northwest. “I was looking out the window. I saw a woman running down the street. There was a pack of dogs after her and a guy with a switchblade down the street in the direction she was running.”
“Ma’am,” he said, still very patiently. I reached out and took a fistful of his shirt. Actually, at the last moment, I grabbed the air in front of his shirt. I didn’t think security could throw me out of the airport for grabbing air in a threatening fashion, not even in this post-9/11 age.
“Don’t ma’am me . . .”
― C.E. Murphy, quote from Urban Shaman
“It’s when we feel the most uncertain,” her mother had told her, “that we must appear at our most confident. To show weakness is to allow others to prey upon it. Now brush your hair, lift your chin, and pretend you are the most powerful person in the room.”
― Morgan Rhodes, quote from Crystal Storm
“Guilt washes over me when I think of the wasted years and how blind I was to my own faults. It has been hard to confess. I am so thankful to now know my place as my husband’s helper and friend.”
― Debi Pearl, quote from Created to be His Help Meet
“إذ قفز عقلي كي يدرك أنّنا أيضاً ننظر إلى الزمان والمكان كأمرين مسلّم بهما بالرغم من أنّ الموت يأخذنا إلى ما وراءهما. وفهمت أنّ ما أدعوه بالوجود يعني الوجود في الزمان والمكان وأنّ هذا الكون من زمان ومكان ليس مطلقاً. فجأة أصبح كل شيء عبثياً. إذ للمرة الأولى يعتريني شهور فظيع بالضعف والافتقار إلى الإحساس بالأمان، وأدركت أنّ كل شيء موجود في هذا الكون ومسلّم به قابل للنقاش، وأنّ كل شيء يمكن أن يكون مجرد حيلة. وباعتباري مفكراً، فقد انتابتني العادة الرومانسية بالشعور أنّ العقل يقع خارج حدود مصادفات الجسد وأنّه أبدي وحرّ، وأنّ الجسد ربما يكون تافهاً أو خاصاً. إلا أنّ العقل شامل وعام. إنّ هذا الشعور يجعل العقل مراقباً أبدياً بعيداً عن الخوف. فجأة فكرت فيما لو كان الكون اعباطياً، فإنّ عقلي يصبح قابلاً للتدمير تماماً مثل جسدي. تلك هي النقطة التي يتذكر عندها المرء ساعات المرض والهذيان، عندما يبدو العقل أقل ديمومة من الجسد وعندما يشك المرء في أنّ خشونة الجسد في التي تمنع العقل من التفسّخ.”
― Colin Wilson, quote from The Mind Parasites
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