Category: general

What if a print magazine used the same template for every article? It would be pretty boring, no?

The Death Of The Blog Post – Smashing Magazine (via fluffynotes)

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

T.S. Eliot

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.

Alex Levine

I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.

Harry Mahtar

Other people will edit you your whole life. They’ll take what you say and keep the bits they like and throw away the rest.

Don’t edit yourself. Let other people do it for you.

(via I wrote this for you) (via kari-shma) (via ireadintothings)

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso (via firstmillionsketches) (via subcreation)

Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.

The Women’s Petition Against Coffee, 1674

Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.

Jonathan Swift

Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and as sweet as love.

Turkish proverb (via shonpapri)

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness.

Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.

Dutch Proverb

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.

Author Unknown

I began writing in mystery, and it’s mystery that’s kept me writing.

Philip Levine, poet

Sexton, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967, and Plath… author of The Bell Jar and posthumous recipient of the 1982 Pulitzer for poetry, were unknown students writers…. Sexton was a troubled stay-at-home mom dabbling in poetry at her therapist’s suggestion, while Plath was just auditing.

Caleb Daniloff, for BU Today (link)

I always joke with my students that poetry couldn’t possibly be as hard as they think it is, because if it were as hard as they thought it was, poets wouldn’t do it. Really, they’re the laziest, stupidest people I know. They became poets in part because they were demoted to that job, right? You should never tell your students to write what they know because, of course, they know nothing: they’re poets! If they knew something, they’d… be in history or physics or math or business or whatever it is where they could excel.

Christian Bök

Caffeine isn’t a drug, it’s a vitamin!

Author Unknown