Latest Quotes

“Mammy, a man isn't going to fix me.”

— Aisling Bea, Aine, Aisling Bea, Episode 4

“I don't think you need to be a mother, though, you know, to know unconditional love.”

— Aisling Bea, Shona, Sharon Horgan, Episode 4

“So, John Legend recently guest-hosted The Ellen DeGeneres Show—WAIT, SORRY, let me rephrase: Sexiest Man Alive John Legend recently guest hosted The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and your Friday morning is about to get even better thanks to Chrissy Teigen leaping out of a box to scare him.”

— Cosmopolitan, Mehera Bonner , Chrissy Teigen Scared the Crap Outta John Legend on ‘Ellen’ and Couldn’t Stop Swearing

“This week we sat down with Jenny Slate to talk about how she gets it done. And at the moment, Jenny’s got a lot to do: She just published a new book called Little Weirds, and her new comedy special is out now on Netflix.”

— The Cut, Jenny Slate on Getting Stage Fright for the First Time in Her 20s

“Shona: Just pretend it never happened. Aine: Ah, the old family motto.”

— Aisling Bea, Aine, Aisling Bea, Episode 3

“The neurological line between the saint and the savage, the creative and the unconscionable, turns out to be razor-thin.”

— Patrick McNamara, The dopamine switch between atheist, believer and fanatic – Patrick McNamara | Aeon Essays

“This is still a country that is less revolutionary than it is interested in improvement," Obama said. "They like seeing things improved. But the average American doesn't think that we have to completely tear down the system and remake it. And I think it's important for us not to lose sight of that.”

— Barack Obama, Obama tells Democratic candidates to ease off talk of revolution

“That individual philosophical concepts are not anything capricious or autonomously evolving, but grow up in connection and relationship with each other; that, however suddenly and arbitrarily they seem to appear in the history of thought, they nevertheless belong just as much to a system as all the…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Initiatory death is indispensable for the beginning of a spiritual life.”

— Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and The Profane

“Anxiety — which is ineradicable — can work against you, or for you.”

— Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning

“On one side, some Google employees say that the company shouldn’t cooperate at all with takedown requests from countries such as Russia or Turkey. Others say it is important to follow the laws of countries where they are based.”

— Kirsten Grind, Sam Schechner, Robert McMillan and John West, How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results

“Podcasters debate following the ad tech trail blazed by the internet.”

— Sahil Patel, Podcast Industry Grapples With the Prospect of Automated Ads

“Beyond the classics like Disney World, Universal and Six Flags, there are countless other theme parks with less name recognition but lots of fun to offer nonetheless.”

— Caroline Bologna, 19 Lesser-Known Amusement Parks Worth Visiting Around The World

“I'm actually cringing in my soul at the moment.”

— Aisling Bea, Aine, Aisling Bea, Episode 2

“I'm going to waste away like a leaf at the end of Autumn.”

— Aisling Bea, Aine, Aisling Bea, Episode 2

“But you know what? Love costs nothing.”

— Aisling Bea, Aine, Aisling Bea, Episode 1

“Pixar journeys through the cosmos to answer life's biggest questions.”

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, Pixar's first 'Soul' trailer sends Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey to the cosmos

“From late-period le Carré espionage thriller to cult Instagram read, for every kind of fiction lover, here are the novels we loved in 2019.”

— Vogue, Chloe Schama, The 20 Best Novels of 2019

“I’ve faked 2,000 orgasms in my life—give or take a few. I’m not joking. I’ve done the math: Two thousand divided by 18 years of fucking equals just over a hundred forgeries per year. Yup, sounds about right.”

— Vogue, Karley Sciortino, Why Do We Fake Orgasms?

“When you were younger, what did you wish for in life?”

— Karamo Brown, Japanese Holiday