Latest Quotes

“American media and politicians love pinning the blame on the whole muslim population so that they do not have to feel like part of the problem and because this, once again, is apparently a matter of religion so that they don't have to reexamine their own views on gun control or homophobia.”

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

“we are all museums of fear.”

— Charles Bukowski, 171: POEM FOR NOBODY

“Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.”

— Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“HEAVEN LIKE, YOU CAN BE HOLY, BUT ONLY IF YOU LOVE THE RIGHT WAY.”

— Schuyler Peck, Paradise

“Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.”

— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Call her by her first name. Her full name. Don’t make it sound like her mother’s leather belt tongue, but instead, say it so gently she begins to fall in love with every letter all over again, for the first time.”

— Schuyler Peck, Her First Name

“I'm going to pin this tweet.”

— Andrew Weatherhead, via twitter.com

“Consumers Want to Build Relationships With Each Other — Not Brands”

— Timothy Ingram, How Branding Has Changed

“Today, consumers’ attention may be the scarcest resource in this new world order. Without gatekeepers, anyone can create and broadcast media. As a result, consumers are over-messaged and exhausted.”

— Timothy Ingram, How Branding Has Changed

“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.”

— A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh)

“True love will triumph in the end - which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”

— John Green, Looking for Alaska

“You have to drown out those little voices in your head telling you that you can’t do anything spectacular, because you’ll fail, or because you’re simply not good enough, and what on earth makes you think that you have what it takes? Pay no attention to this. Hear those voices and make it your missio…”

— Shani Jayawardena, You Deserve To Love Yourself Unapologetically

“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”

— Alan Watts, Become What You Are

“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for hi…”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”

— Aristotle, The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics)

“Oh I will publish but always hold back the essential ingredient.”

— William S. Burroughs, William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination

“If one wishes to deceive, what one presents is the paining of a veil, something that incites them to ask what is behind it.”

— Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

“The very suggestion of a secret operates less as a barrier to communication than as part of a familiar code that defines communications as erotic. What the secret is — or whether a secret even exists — is irrelevant to the intelligibility given to the relation by the mere appearance of a secret.”

— Ulysse Dutoit, Leo Bersani, Caravaggio (Bfi Modern Classics)

“I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that... I don't know, it's just like magic.”

— Dave Chappelle, The Sixth Man

“In my letters it is my perpetual concern to free you of me, but when for once I seem to have succeeded, I go raving mad.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice (The Schocken Kafka Library)