Latest Quotes

“It seems like the better it gets, the more miserable people become. There’s never a technological advancement where people think, ‘Wow, we can finally do this!’ … And I think a lot of it has to do with advertising. Americans have it constantly drilled into our heads, every fucking day, that we deser…”

— Eric Spitznagel, Louis C.K.: “Starvation Can Be Character Building”

“There’s nowhere I won’t go. As long as it’s horribly, horribly true and/or wrong.”

— Louis C.K, Louis CK: interview

“No satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”

— Martha Graham, Blood Memory: An autobiography

“Under all circumstances, we must never desert ourselves.”

— Louisa Adams, A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams

“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”

— George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)

“Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.”

— George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.”

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Our scars make us know that our past was real.”

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“We spoke endlessly about everything and nothing. Now, I cannot even remember the sound of your voice.”

— Michael Faudet, Dirty Pretty Things (Michael Faudet)

“I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you’re with them.”

— Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

“Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, War Songs by Sade Andria Zabala

“The simulation argument is appealing, in part, because it gives atheists a way to talk about spirituality. The idea that we’re living in only a part of reality, with the whole permanently beyond our reach, can be a source of awe. About our simulators, one can ask the same questions one asks about Go…”

— Joshua Rothman, What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? - The New Yorker

“"In many ways, the decline of Macy's, as well as the pulverization of the stock of discount chain Kohl's after a terrible quarter and guidance today, is like what happened to the newspaper industry and the book store space," he said. Cramer explained that ‘both Macy's and Kohl's saw the Internet com…”

— Ken Doctor, Jim Cramer, The Macy's factor

“As one savvy newspaper strategist puts it, ‘The change in the large retail brands like Macy's, Kohls, Walmart, and JCPenney is to hold onto TV while investing into digital video and to spend more on digital, especially heavy programmatic advertising. ‘They tell us,’ he continues, ‘that print spendin…”

— Ken Doctor, The Macy's factor

“A society cannot CONSISTENTLY spew vitriol about gay people, legislate against them, then act like this shooting is an isolated incident.”

— Léonicka, via twitter.com

“In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.”

— Dan Hodges, via twitter.com

“We hardly believe any longer that a global situation can give rise to an action which is capable of modifying it – no more than we believe that an action can force a situation to disclose itself, even partially.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image

“No I'm not wearing a beanie today because the world is a fucking mess and I hate it.”

— Jacob Muilenburg, via twitter.com

“I'm definitely wearing a beanie tonight.”

— Jacob Muilenburg, via twitter.com