Yearly Archives: 2014

fantod
DEFINITION
noun
1a. plural : a state of irritability and tension;
b. fidgets;
2. an emotional outburst : fit.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
- Rob Reiner

jingoism
DEFINITION
noun
: extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.

The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
- Jack Kerouac

artless
DEFINITION
adjective
1. lacking art, knowledge, or skill : uncultured;
2a. made without skill : crude;
b. free from artificiality : natural;
3. free from guile or craft : sincerely simple.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
- Clare Boothe Luce

gritty
DEFINITION
adjective
1. containing or resembling grit;
2. courageously persistent : plucky;
3. having strong qualities of tough uncompromising realism.

billingsgate
DEFINITION
noun
: coarsely abusive language.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...
- Keri Hulme

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
- Jeffrey Eugenides

cleave
DEFINITION
verb
1. to divide by or as if by a cutting blow : split;
2. to separate into distinct parts and especially into groups having divergent views;
3. to penetrate or pass through something by or as if by cutting.

cerebral
DEFINITION
adjective
1a. of or relating to the brain or the intellect;
b. of, relating to, affecting, or being the cerebrum;
2a. appealing to intellectual appreciation;
b. primarily intellectual in nature.