Quotes - Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh:
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.
Vocabulary - Shower Fluffer
Shower Fluffer:
When one's spouse or roommate takes the first shower of the day and gets the hot water running so for your shower the availability of hot water is immediate.
I love it when my wife is the first one up and is my shower fluffer. I don't have to wait for the hot water to kick in.
Quotes - Michael Foot
Michael Foot:
Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.
Vocabulary - Smellucination
Smellucination;
To 'smellucinate' - to imagine a smell that isn't actually there, as if to 'hallucinate'.
To experience a 'smellucination'.
I thought I could smell weed, but it seems I was just smellucinating. I had a smellucination.
Quotes - Truman Capote
Truman Capote:
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Vocabulary - Kardash
Kardash:
A measurement of time totaling 72 days. Became popular after Kim Kardashian's highly-publicized marriage, which ended after 72 days. Listed as one of the up-and-coming words of 2012.
I'll see you in a kardash!
My summer this year is only a kardash.
Their wedding lasted a few months, barely more than a kardash.
Quotes - Anthony Robbins
Anthony Robbins:
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Quotes - Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson:
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Quotes - May Sarton
May Sarton:
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
Vocabulary - Soap Dodger
Soap Dodger:
Someone with low personal hygiene.
Poem - Musée des Beaux Arts By W.H Auden
Musée des Beaux Arts:
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
Poem - Landscape With The Fall of Icarus By by William Carlos Williams
Landscape With The Fall of Icarus:
According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea concerned with itself sweating in the sun that melted the wings' wax unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning
Poem - One Perfect Rose By Dorothy Parker
One Perfect Rose:
A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet -
One perfect rose.
I knew the language of the floweret;
'My fragile leaves,' it said, 'his heart enclose.'
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.
Quotes - Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom:
Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
Vocabulary - Gaming Claw
Gaming Claw:
The sensation one feels in their hands after extensive play on video games. The hand feels cramped and strained and jokingly takes on the appearance of a claw.
Oh man, I've been playing GTA so much I've got gaming claw.
Vocabulary - Sugar Daddy
Sugar Daddy:
A man who provides money or other favors in exchange for sexual relations.
"All that bitch wants is a sugar daddy."
Quotes - Anthony Robbins
Anthony Robbins:
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's
greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending
commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move
mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may
sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their
dreams from those who live in regret.
Vocabulary - YOLO
YOLO:
You Only Live Once!
Hey man.....yolo!
Vocabulary - Vehicular Hypochondria
Vehicular Hypochondria:
A severe mental disability in which sufferers chronically experience acute anxiety attacks related to the welfare of their vehicles.
Sane Human Being: Why are you
giving away all of your earthly possessions and digging a large hole in
the ground in front of a tombstone with your name on it?
Vehicular Hypochondriac: Well, my check engine light came on today. I'm going to die.
Poem - Cross By Langston Hughes with Analysis
Cross:
My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
If ever I cursed my black old mother
And wished she were in hell,
I'm sorry for that evil wish
And now I wish her well
My old man died in a fine big house.
My ma died in a shack.
I wonder where I'm going to die,
Being neither white nor black?
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Vocabulary - Reverse Mormon
Reverse Mormon:
The Reverse Mormon is a term to describe any obscure sex position. Used
when you have no idea what you just did with your partner but you feel
as if there should be a name.
The origins of the word play upon the fact that the Mormon religion practices abstinence and, thus the Reverse Mormon.
Well, we just definitely did the Reverse Mormon.
Quotes - Anatole France
Anatole France:
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Vocabulary - Ghost Post
Ghost Post:
A comment on a Facebook item (e.g. status, note, etc) that was removed
by the author due to A) misspelling, B) stupid remark, C) awkward input,
or D) other.
The result is typically confusion and several wasted minutes on the
part of the one who was commented on or anyone who posted previously.
Facebook: XYZ commented on your note.
Me: ...where's the comment? Jeez, way to ghost post, XYZ.
Quotes - Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton:
There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Quotes - C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis:
We are what we believe we are!
Quotes - Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver:
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.