Like most people, I find watching the lazy and quiet underwater realm of a big aquarium exceptionally calming. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes aquarium big calm
Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts. Michael Dirda bookfurnishgift Change image and share on social
A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters. Michael Dirda bringexercisefamily Change image and share on social
Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style. Michael Dirda breezycallclose Change image and share on social
I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones. Jonathan Tropper 80sactionbad Change image and share on social
For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women. Sylvia Plath aquariumbelievebrittle share on social
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Izaak Walton anglecalmgod Change image and share on social