Yearly Archives: 2014

See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!
- Giacomo Puccini

You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
- Tom Wolfe

plaintiff
DEFINITION
noun
: a person who brings a legal action.

cheeseparing
DEFINITION
noun
1. something worthless or insignificant;
2. miserly economizing.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
- Ralph Ellison

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- Michel de Montaigne

zeitgeber
DEFINITION
noun
: an environmental agent or event that provides the stimulus setting or resetting a biological clock of an organism.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.
- Irwin Shaw

picayune
DEFINITION
adjective
: of little value : paltry; also : petty, small-minded.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?
- Neil Jordan

solatium
DEFINITION
noun
: a compensation (as money) given as solace for suffering, loss, or injured feelings.

sashay
DEFINITION
verb
1. to make a chassé;
2a. walk, glide, go;
b. to strut or move about in an ostentatious or conspicuous manner;
c. to proceed or move in a diagonal or sideways manner.