“My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.” YearsFirstsHas BeensHouseGoneSawsFocusWifeTreeFrontsHundredFirst TimeTiredMy WifeFinishedGrassAbandonedBurnedYardsDiggingLiliesDown The RoadPorchWalnutsFront PorchesWalnut Trees Author:Larry Towell
“I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.” MadeWalksJourneyDogMastersHundredTiredTerritory Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Put him in there and chain him up," he ordered curtly. "Yes, that chain, you fool - do you see any other chain in that cell? Peaceable Sherwood? I'm tired of hearing about Peaceable Sherwood! Turn him loose in the cell for the night. - Which one of you said 'Where'll he be by morning?' Where does he look like he's going to be by morning, I ask you - a hundred and fifty miles away?" I was, to be exact, only seven and a half miles away by morning.” LooksDoeSaidNightTurnsAsksHalfMorningFoolHundredTiredSevenHearingMilesChainsCellsFiftyI'm TiredMiles Away Author:Elizabeth Marie Pope
“At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile. I don't see how you do it. One hundred thousand university students marching with you. Toward A necessity which is not love but is a name.” KnowsWorldNamesKnow HowStudentsThousandHundredTiredUniversityMaskDisguiseBeardUniversity Students Book:My Vocabulary Did this to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer Source: My Vocabulary Did this to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
“There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.” WritingMeanSaidTwoHardInspirationSecretMagicTalentHard WorkTenPercentHundredTiredBoredPersistenceWearyNinetyFever Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley
“What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this for half an hour. It will be a change.” ShouldMayI CanBookPurposeReadingAsksHoursHalfReaderHundredTiredCows Book:Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1 Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1
“Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finish. I dinna like to scare children an I dinna like to flog men, and I've had to do both. I've two hundred English camped three miles away, and no idea what to do about them. I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I'm sore. If you've anything like womanly sympathy about ye, I could use a bit!” IfsMenChildrenTwoIdeasUseThreeBitsHundredTiredMilesHungryNo IdeaScareI'm TiredSupperMiles AwayWomanly Author:Diana Gabaldon