Latest Quotes

“Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The truckman, the trashman and the policeman on my block may call me Alice, but you may not.”

— Alice Roosevelt, Katharine Graham's Washington

“You can't make a soufflé rise twice.”

— Alice Roosevelt, Safire's Political Dictionary

“Father doesn’t care for me, that is to say one-eighth as much as he does for the other children….I pray for a fortune. I care for nothing except to amuse myself in a charmingly expensive way.”

— Alice Roosevelt, A Presidential Daughter You Could Pick On

“The truth is that I keep everyone at a distance, and it’s so fucking ironic because the truth is also that I look for comfort where it hurts.”

— Natalia Vela, We’re Just Two Strangers In A Bar

“Force yourself to become a regular somewhere.”

— Vijay Nathan, What It Means to Be a ‘Regular’

“These physiological changes may then lay the groundwork for our brains to start considering our uncomfortable surroundings.”

— Lila Reynolds, Why you're more likely to cry on an airplane

“With what should you smear your delicate tube of assorted animal offcuts?”

— Ian Lecklitner, Ranking Condiments by How Healthy They Are

“While mental illness may be somewhat less stigmatized than it was a few decades ago, shame combined with a lack of information and resources still contributes to a culture in which mental health concerns aren’t taken seriously.”

— Marina Watanabe, 8 Advocates to Follow during Mental Health Awareness Month

“Gonna put my head down and keep on truckin. It’s what Beto would have wanted. Drive on, Beto.”

— Jack Crosbie, I Refuse To Read This Incredibly Long Profile of Beto O'Rourke Driving a Van

“Science has an answer for why psychedelics have this effect on people: They work on a part of the brain known as the parahippocampal retrosplenial cortical network, which is thought to play a role in controlling our sense of self, or ego.”

— Kayleigh Roberts, What You Need to Know Before Microdosing to Treat Your Anxiety

“Book by book, I formed a new way of seeing the world.”

— Susan Gay Blue, I Grew Up In A Fundamentalist Evangelical Community. How I "Rewired" My Brain With Poetry.

“I'm drunk again, remember when we used to be?”

— John Mayer, Rosie

“Behind the products we use every day there are people with access to highly sensitive customer data, who need it to perform essential work on the service. But, without proper protections in place, those same people may abuse it to spy on users' private information or profiles.”

— Joseph Cox, Snapchat Employees Abused Data Access to Spy on Users

“The event was good, and made me think about how precious time is and why as 26-year-olds, memes from high school are still cool.”

— Money Diaries, I'm 26, Make $80,000 A Year & I Run A Blog In My Free Time

“After all, most writers (and other types of creatives) struggle with making a living from the thing, they love the most.”

— Tim Rettig, I‘m trying to make a living writing. But it just doesn’t work.

“Rowdies are never revolutionary, they are always reactionary. It is among the young that the greatest conformists and Philistines are found, e.g., the hippies with their group beards and group protests.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions

“The distortion of a remembered image may not only enhance its beauty with an added refraction, but provide informative links with earlier or later patches of the past.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions

“I have no purpose at all when composing my stuff except to compose it. I work hard, I work long, on a body of words until it grants me complete possession and pleasure. If the reader has to work in his turn—so much the better. Art is difficult. Easy art is what you see at modern exhibitions of thing…”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions

“Learn to distinguish banality. Remember that mediocrity thrives on 'ideas.'”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions

“Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only its own self to copy.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions