Thursday, September 12, 2013

To Thee the Blogger Thanks

 “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
Mark Twain

Being a new blogger had me thinking that there are only a few of them who read my blogs, that I might just be a minute one when it comes to those who really are already a "PRO"  to such and that no one will really care as to what comes new in my site. Hesitation to write was once with me at first. Who cares if I have written one? True, that I have once belittled myself in this field. 

 However, as time went by so swiftly, this notion of mine had been changed when one of my blogs topped all other blogs that I've written. And mind you, when I say it topped the rest, it gained more than a thousand of views.


Here it is as of July 10, 2013

 My Words of Appreciation

. . .and here it is after two months,  as of September 09, 2013 ^^



Albeit I'm a real novice in this field, what my perception has been changed. Though I seem to belittle myself at first, I come to realize that I shouldn't be for there also those who have been into my blogs. And to show some proofs, here are the following websites I happen to ogle which did feature mine.^^



www.updateblog2013.blogspot.com

www.christianbookbarn.com
www.yorumbazz.com


www.weheartit.com
www.weheartit.com

Michaelogy

www.vanguardia.com

www.brandigg.de

www.mrwhatis.net

. . .and because of these, though they seem not too much, they had my heart leaping for joy. These also had me thinking that I need to do more and well in my site for I believe there are those who look up on me though I'm still a beginner.  To those who had featured me in their websites, to those who have been reading and following my blogs, there's nothing more that I can say but THANK YOU and for you are all of these works of love. ^^

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Quotes from Ben Okri's Dangerous Love

Bookish Mardi: Ben Okri's Dangeorus Love

"Shouldn't these ancient sufferings of ours finally start to bear fruit?"


My first adult and African novel being read 4 years ago ^^
Book Summary

With the simplicity and innocence of Narayan or Seth, he tells the story of a young man, Omovo, an office-worker and artist who lives at home with his father and his father's second wife. In the communal world of the compound in which he lives, Omovo has many friends and some enemies, but most important of all there is Ifeyiwa, a beautiful young married woman whom he loves with an almost hopeless passion - not because she doesn't return his love, but because they can never be together. Ben Okri builds a vivid picture of Nigerian life: of the compound with its complete lack of privacy, the gossip, the good times, the street life, the complex nature of family relationships and the kindness and treachery of friends. Overshadowing everything, is the image of a nation struggling to come to terms with the atrocity of the recent civil war, the echoes of which presage the story's tragic events.


Book One

"If your work can surprise you then you have started something worthwhile." - Omovo

"An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness." - Omovo

". . .we have no Van Goghs, no Picassos. no Monets, no Goyas, no Salvador Dalis, no Sisleys. Our real lives and confusions have not been painted yet." - Old Woman

". . .the perceived  world became unfamiliar images were re-ordered into freshly juxtaposed fragments by a disinterested visions." - Omovo

"We can't be lost. There is an exit somewhere." - Keme

"God is playing games with us." - Omovo



Book Two

"Life has no patterns and has no threads." - Omovo

". . .to fail was not a crime." - Omovo

"What happened had to happen. We shall seek the true meaning of our lives. This is a dream we might wake up one day." - Okur

"It's a dream from which we might wake up one day.He hoped they would not wake up too late, when the nightmare had gone too far, when nothing could be done anymore." - Okur

"Life would take care of its own." - Ifeyiwa's Mother

"Weeping doesn't really do anything. It only cleanses us prepares us for more weeping. Meanwhile the mad world goes on. Wicked things happening. This world has forgotten how to love. The gods don't respond to weeping anymore."  - Walt Whitman

". . .the peace seemed an uneasy one." - Ifeyiwa

"To learn how to remember creatively is to learn how to feel."  - Dr. Okocha

"The young boys nowadays don't respect old people." - Old Man


The ugly truth conversation of Omovo and Dr. Okocha

"We don't look at ugly things enough."  - Omovo

"Craft is important. The greater the idea, the greater the craft you need." - Dr. Okocha

"Ugliness is the face we always turn away from. When things are bad, people don't want to face the truth." - Dr. Okocha

"In ugliness, we see ourselves as we never want to." - Omovo

"Ugliness festers while the people cry for images if beauty, for illusions." - Dr. Okocha

 ". . . how can we be happy if there is so much ugliness around and if we paint the ugly truth?" - Omovo

"How can we be happy if we lie to ourselves?" - Omovo



"Everything you feel and see now will be your reservoir later." - Dr.Okocha

"Art is a poor substitute for real life." - Dr. Okocha

"Don't live only in your head. You are in the world." - Dr.Okocha

"In dreams begins responsibility." - An Indian Poet

"We cast our nets out into the darkness and draw in ourselves. Sometimes, if we are fortunate, we also bring back. . .bright corals, . . .bright things. . .with light and wonder." - Dr. Okocha

". . .learn how to look clearly, look more carefully, without strain, without prejudice." - Omovo

"Our society is a battlefield. Poverty, corruption and hunger are the bullets. Bad governments are the bombs."  - Okoro

"One should live as fully and as freely as possible." -  Okoro

"There are too many unnecessary struggles in our lives. It's a struggle to wake up in the morning, to bath, to struggle to catch a bus, to go to work, and make a decent living. It's a struggle to come back from work, to relax, to have electricity and running water, to get a good woman, and to keep her.It feels like a lifetime struggle." - Dele

"Sometimes, life is very hard."  - Omovo

"Dreams can betray lives." - Ifeyiwa

"This world is so wicked. - Ifeyiwa

"When the darkness is recent there is almost nothing to guide you." - Omovo

"Yesterday i but a dream." - Ifeyiwa

"In dreams begin responsibilities. In loss begins art." - Dr. Okocha

". . .and tomorrow is just a vision. . .But today well lived makes yesterday is a dream of happiness. . .and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore, to this day." - Dr. Okocha

"Life is so strange." - Omovo

"There are some things one never forgets, things one shouldn't forget." - Omovo

"Too many people are afraid to look at the dark side of things, to look at the things that are there." - Omovo

"One gets lost too quickly in the city." - Omovo

"Art is a poor approximation , but the best we have."  - Omovo

"Lord may this life always surprise me - fill every crack with light - when we are falling, Lord, make us like the spider that can build its own web as net - may good things always flow into us -and when we most need it, Lord, show us a silver way- a secret way." - Omovo

"Our life is in God's  hands." - Omovo

"Let the dead stay dead." - Omovo

"What must we do to save ourselves from the termites and the maggots that eat at our dreams?" - Omovo



Book Three

" . . .bus stop in the mornings as the  perfect symbol of  the society, and through that, of life in general." - Omovo

"Nobodies, that's what we are." - Okoro

"We've been selling our souls without knowing it." - Okoro

"Don't block people's way. The life is hard enough as it is." - Joe

 "For your reflections reflect on the things you do. And the things you do reflect on you." - Omovo

"There is a lost horizon waiting to be found." - Omovo

"Perfection is made up of details, but details is not perfection." - Da Vinci

"Men grow with all that grows."  - Neruda

"So long as the canvas is empty its potential is infinite." - Dr. Okocha

"The empty canvas can become the gateway in to the landscape of nightmares or a vision of sensual bliss." - Dr. Okocha



Book Four

"Age is experience. Age is wisdom and power." - Ifeyiwa's Husband

"Women should change with the changing times." - Ifeyiwa

"Life is a mystery, no one gave her the keys with which to unlock doors of understanding." - Ifeyiwa a good

"If you ever despair of going abroad, just step into a good restaurant and you are as good as there." - Dele

"Quiet people are the most dangerous."  - Neighbor



Book Five


"We're all along. We all carry aloneness inside us whatever we do." - Omovo

"More is yet to happen." - Dr. Okocha

"Miracles only happen when there has been suffering."  Dr. Okocha
". . .time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That's the way of life."  - Dr. Okocha

 "This heart is small but I have never been able  to understand how it can take so much suffering and still go on beating." Dr. Okocha

"In seeing clearly begins the real responsibility." - Dr. Okocha

"Be like the tortoise- grow a hard shell to protect your strong heart. Be like the eagle- soar above your pain and carry the banner and the wonder of our lives to the farthest corners of the world. Build your strength. Destiny is difficult." - Dr. Okocha

"Be like David from the Bible- use your own weapons." - Dr. Okocha

"Love is dangerous. . .
. . .and fantasies are are a mirror,
. . . a shield,
. . .a blindfold." - Omovo

"It's hard to see people for what they are; and maybe to love them for what they are." -  Omovo

"To love simply is a gift." - Omovo

"We have to be ninjas to survive." - Omovo

"Responsibility is active. Vigilant. Actions become character and character becomes destiny. . .the moment you see something is wrong, you have a responsibility." - Omovo

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Quotes from Dan Brown's Inferno

Bookish Mardi : Dan Brown's Inferno 

 “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."

In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante’s Inferno. 

Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world is irrevocably altered.


Remarkable Lines from the Book

"Time grows so fast." - Dr. Sinskey

"The coo of a single dove had changed everything." - Robert Langdon

"know only your own mission. Share nothing." - The Provost 

"Smile more often and take life a little less seriously." - Robert Langdon 

"Not all minds are created equal."  - Robert Langdon 

". . .never forget you are a miracle."  - Robert Langdon 

"Your memories will be muddled and  uncatalogued. Past, present and imagination all mixed together." - Sienna Brooks 

"But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense. . .a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve."  - Bertrand Zobrist 

"Death is followed by birth."  - Bertrand Zobrist 

"The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death." - Bertrand Zobrist 

"You shall leave everything you love." Dante Alighieri

"Time will heal the emptiness." - Robert Langdon

"When swimming into a dark tunne, there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back. Your only choice is to swim forward into the unknown . . .and pray for an exit." - Robert Langdon

"Mankind is hovering now in a purgatory of procrastination and indecision and personal greed. . . but the rings of hell awaits, just beneath our feet, waiting to consume us all." -  Bertrand Zoborist

"Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her."  - Bertrand Zoborist

"We are on the brink of the end of humanity." - Bertrand Zoborist


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"Sometimes, the only course of action is the lesser of two evils." - Bertrand Zoborist

"Mankind , if unchecked, functions like cancer." - Malthus

"Compassion is a universal language." - Sienna Brooks

"Nothing is more creative. . .nor destructive. . .than a brilliant mind with a purpose."  - Dr. Sinskey

"Sometimes we need to go up. . . to go down." - Robert Langdon

"Ninety percent of personal recognition is body language." - Sienna Brooks

"The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called DENIAL."  - Sienna Brooks 

"Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle." - Sienna Brooks 

 "No man is more prideful than he who believes himself immune to the dangers of the world." - Robert Langdon

"Population growth is an exponential progression accuring within a system of finite ad limited resources." - Sienna Brooks

 ''. . .it was often easier to locate. . .using one's eyes. . .that using one's ears." - Robert Langdon


"E-books do have their moments." - Robert Langdon

"Avarice was an international sin." - Robert Langdon

In Mount Purgatory
"The envious must climb with their eyes sewn shut so they cannot covet; the prideful must carry huge stones on their backs to bend them low in a humble manner; the gluttonous must climb without food or water, there by suffering excruciating hunger; and the lustful must ascend through hot flames to purge themselves of passion's heat." - Robert Langdon

"Trust no one." - Robert Langdon

". . .let the forgotten past remain forgotten." - Dr. Ferris
 

"Triggering misplaced memories can be extremely disruptive to the psyche." - Sienna Brooks

"Treachery was the act of betraying a loved one." - Dante Aligheiri

"I do not fear death. . .for death transform visionaries into martyrs. . .convert noble ideas into powerful movements." -  Bertrand Zoborist 

"I fight fire. . .with fire."  - Bertrand Zoborist 

"Inner calm is critical to persuasive acting." - Dr. Ferris 

"Everything is upside down." - Dr. Sinskey

"Everything is a gradual process." - Robert Langdon

"Venice, the land of Italian elegance,'' - Robert Langdon

"The Lord works in mysterious ways." -  Robert Langdon

"If thine eyes offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee." - Robert Langdon

". . .forget the past. The past is the past. The futures, I sense, is what demands our immediate attention.'' - The Provost

"The world is is large, and history is long." - Robert Langdon

". . .human population growth was out of control, and the very survival of mankind was hanging in the balance." - Bertrand Zoborist 

"it is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion - good or bad." - Sienna's psychiatrist 

"You can save  the world. If  not you, then who? If not now, when?" - Bertrand Zoborist

 ". . .without some kind of drastic change, the end of our species is coming. . . The mathematics is indisputable." - Sienna Brooks 

"Nothing is permanent." -  Robert Langdon 

"La-ilaha-illa-allah.
There is no god but God." - Robert Langdon 

"History repeats itself."  - Karl Marx

"The masses are made up of individuals." - Robert Langdon

"Whether trying to prop up a stock a stock market, justify a war, win an election, or lure a terrorist out of a building, the world's power brokers relied on  massive disinformation schemes to help shape public perception." - Robert Langdon

"Every epic collapse, could be tracked back to a single moment - a chance meeting, a bad decision, an indiscceet glance." - The Provost

"Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him." -  Martin Luther

"God created life,  therefore man has no place creating images of life - not gods, not people, not even animals." - Robert Langdon

"Both Christianity and Islam are logo-centric, meaning they are focused on the "word". - Robert Langdon

"Great minds think alike." - Robert Langdon

"In the face of a possible pandemic, containment was the only viable option." - Bruder/ Dr. Sinskey

"Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's FEAR."  - Dr. Sinskey

"Fighting a communicable disease was often like fighting a front fire: sometimes you had to drop back and surrender a battle in hopes of winning the war." - Bruder

". . .our species is on the brink of collapse. . .that we're facing a horrifying end  which is racing towards u so much faster than anyone dares accept." - Sienna Brooks

"You can't save the world, so don't sacrifice yourself  trying." - Sienna Brooks

" . . . we are capable of being better than we are. . . capable of taking action to avoid a catastrophic future." - Sienna Brooks

"Our own virility stalks us." - Robert Langdon

"Sometimes, the only choice is the lesser of two evils." -  Sienna Brooks

"Nature knows how to cull itself." - Sienna Brooks

"We are an organism that cannot seem to control our own numbers." - Sienna Brooks

". . .expect the worse from the people who hold power." - Sienna Brooks

". . .we are a species on the edge of collapse. . a population out of control." - Sienna Brooks

". . .the worst  kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp or reality." - Sienna Brooks

". . .the human genome is an extremely delicate structure. . .a house of cards." - Sienna Brooks

". . .there is an enormous danger in attempting  to undo what has already been done." - Sienna Brooks

"Science is progressing so fast that nobody knows where the lines are drawn anymore." -  Dr. Sinskey

". . .we as humans have a moral obligation to participate in our evolutionary process." - Sienna Brooks

"Everything will soon be possible."  - Sienna Brooks

". . .nature has always found a way to keep the human population in check - plagues, famines, floods." - Sienna Brooks

"The ends justify the means." -  Sienna Brooks

"So long as they speak your name, you shall never die." - Robert Langdon

"In dangerous times, there is no greater sin than inaction." - Robert Langdon

"When it came to the circumstance of the world, denial  had become a global pandemic." - Robert Langdon
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