{"quotes":[{"text":"If you list down whatever you didn’t get to do, then whatever you did won’t feel like it mattered.","author":"Saim Cheeda","tags":["achievement","life","list","matter","satisfaction","thought-provoking-inspirational","worth"],"id":29385,"author_id":"Saim+Cheeda"},{"text":"I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. I’m fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on her short list of “World’s worst writers.” The list couldn’t get any shorter, because I’m the only name on it. I should tell her to stop calling it a list, and change the title to “World’s worst writer.” If you’re wondering why I rate all my work one star, it’s because the rating system doesn’t have a zero star option, or better yet, go into negative numbers.","author":"Orafoura","tags":["biography","books","humor","list","rating","ratings","readers","review","reviews","self-depreciation","stars","world-s-worst-writer","writers"],"id":60448,"author_id":"Orafoura"},{"text":"What is the matter with you?'You want an alphabetical list?","author":"Elisa Nader","tags":["list","matter","problem","surly"],"id":71071,"author_id":"Elisa+Nader"},{"text":"I did not ask for consciousness, yet it came to me.And I had to know.Once again, I crawled away from my bed and pushed the computer cord back into the socket.It took three minutes.I quickly identified myself and put in my password.Then it thought.I wanted to bounce impatiently, but I couldn’t make myself move.At last, I found the internet, and I typed in a name, on the company page, under my account.I searched ‘images’.And there, on the screen in front of me, was the most beautiful person I’d ever seen.I couldn’t stop the tears from welling up and spilling over as I stared back at the smiling face.It couldn’t be him.It was.Derek Erickson.And I was going to kill him.","author":"Alysha Speer","tags":["body-of-blade","derek","kill","list","love","murder","people","punishment","smile","sword"],"id":88184,"author_id":"Alysha+Speer"},{"text":"How To Be An Explorer Of The World1. Always Be LOOKING (notice the ground beneath your feet.)2. Consider Everything Alive \u0026 Animate3. EVERYTHING Is Interesting. Look Closer.4. Alter Your Course Often.5. Observe For Long Durations (and short ones).6. Notice The Stories Going On Around You.7. Notice PATTERNS. Make CONNECTIONS.8. DOCUMENT Your Findings (field notes) In A VAriety Of Ways.9. Incorporate Indeterminacy.10. Observe Movement.11. Create a Personal DIALOGUE With Your Environment. Talk to it.12. Trace Things Back to Their ORIGINS.13. Use ALL of the Senses In Your Investigations.","author":"Keri Smith","tags":["creative","creativity","explore","explorer","list","world"],"id":96447,"author_id":"Keri+Smith"},{"text":"I've got a quad copter on my Christmas list, as I suspect quite a few people do.","author":"Blake Farenthold","tags":["people","got","list "],"id":118587,"author_id":"Blake+Farenthold"},{"text":"Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christian","christianity","god","greed","life","list","petitions","prayer","prayerful","praying","requests","selfish","selfishness","supplication","surrendering"],"id":227699,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It is interesting how - depending on the person in power - our LGBT issues are either right at the top of the list - or right at the very bottom. And almost always for exactly the wrong reasons.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["bottom","depending","interesting","issues","lgbt","list","person-in-power","wrong-reasons"],"id":260156,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.","author":"Maud Hart Lovelace","tags":["list","writing-life"],"id":332079,"author_id":"Maud+Hart+Lovelace"},{"text":"Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion.","author":"Sarah Dessen","tags":["achievement","acomplishment","list","lists","order","positivity","productivity","tidy"],"id":355795,"author_id":"Sarah+Dessen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}