Tattoos
This site: http://www.contrariwise.org/ makes me want to get a literary tattoo. It just seems so....me. I'm not sure what quote I'd get yet, but I've got some ideas.
Douglas Adams "Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. "
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. "
"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. "
Or perhaps a few lines from this poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, which I have been captivated by since I was 7.
To the Hesitating Purchaser
"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons
And Buccaneers and buried Gold,
And all the old romance retold,
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of today:
So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the Brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave,
So be it also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave
Where these and their creations lie."
If I think of anything else, I'll post it. Now it's time to re-organize my bookshelves. ^_^
Douglas Adams "Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. "
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. "
"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. "
Or perhaps a few lines from this poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, which I have been captivated by since I was 7.
To the Hesitating Purchaser
"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons
And Buccaneers and buried Gold,
And all the old romance retold,
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of today:
So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the Brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave,
So be it also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave
Where these and their creations lie."
If I think of anything else, I'll post it. Now it's time to re-organize my bookshelves. ^_^