Blom Quotes

#1. I hope you won't mind, my dear, if we take it," said Thunder Karlsson.
"Oh, not at all," said Pippi. "Of course not."
And with that, Blom went over and took out the suitcase.
"I hope you won't mind, my dear, if I take it back," said Pippi, as she climbed out of bed and went over to Blom.

Astrid Lindgren

#2. The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients next month, where you have less job security, is becoming much more common.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#3. Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

Joseph Addison

#4. There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

James Weldon Johnson

#5. I am not a part of this home any longer. I am a tiny thing created by indifferent scientists. I am an experiment, a mechanical bee placed near the hive. The real bees were happy being bees until I came along and gave them all the false information that destroyed their little lives.

James Tate

#6. When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?

Joseph Campbell

#7. Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

David Brooks

#8. No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.

Juan Rulfo

#9. George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

Brad Sherman

#10. Proper names are rigid designators.

Saul Kripke

#11. We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

Lewis Thomas

#12. 8. The Cat Who Lived in the Palace
The cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dress of nobility and was called Lady Myobu.

Sei Shonagon

#13. Close dancing may be the best inoculation against ideology.

Philipp Blom

#14. Her skin was hot, and her heart was beating loudly, and as soon as the groom kissed the bride and walked back down the aisle, she was damn near ready to launch herself into his arms.

Lauren Blakely

#15. He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge