Latest Quotes

“And here you are living despite it all.”

— Rupi Kaur, via twitter.com

“When your past calls, don’t answer. It has nothing new to say.”

— Anonymous, The Artidote

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”

— John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I w…”

— John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”

— Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

“What happens to us are tiny matters compared to how we respond.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great Mind

“We judge ourselves by our intentions but others by their actions. We tend to think other people's mistakes are caused by character flaws while our mistakes are due to situational factors. Our good behavior is attributable to fundamental traits while other people's is temporary and situational. Thus…”

— Richard O'Connor, Rewire Your Brain

“Ah, but prophecies have a way of fulfilling themselves,' Khayman said. 'That's the magic of it. We all understood it in ancient times. The power of charms is the power of the will; you might say that we were all geniuses of psychology in those dark days, that we could be slain by the power of anothe…”

— Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which approaches, methodologies, epistemologies, or ways or knowing are "correct," the answer can only be, "A…”

— Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything

“A few more indications of my morality. A hearty meal is easier to digest than one that is too light. The whole stomach working, the first condition for a good digestion. You must know the size of your stomach.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“I guess if you draw one smiley face, you get the other smiley faces, but a lot of emojis don’t follow each other as formally as type does quite yet. The main suggestion I have is to choose a couple essential emojis from each set to develop a style.”

— TypeThursday, Colin M. Ford, Considerations When Designing Your Own Emoji: An Interview with Colin M. Ford of Hoefler & Co. — Type Thursday

“So what I’m trying to say is you should text me back. Because there’s a precedent. Because there’s an urgency. Because there’s a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and if you don’t respond soon, I won’t know if you’d wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”

— Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness

“You want to know what are the norms so you don’t design confusion. But then there’s some beautiful emojis that you’re free to do whatever you want. For instance, like the alien emoji. If you look across all of the sets that it exists in, there’s a wonderful, weird variety of them.”

— TypeThursday, Colin M. Ford, Considerations When Designing Your Own Emoji: An Interview with Colin M. Ford of Hoefler & Co. — Type Thursday

“The character, Cole, declares, we can invent an app, start a blog, sell things online—words repeated so often they might as well be a prayer: Give-us-this-day-our-daily-bread-for-we-can-invent-an-app-start-a-blog-sell-things-online.”

— Ayesha Siddiqi, Our Brand Could Be Your Crisis

“If meaningful work is now extracting the market value of your lifestyle brand, then life itself is ceaseless labor.”

— Ayesha Siddiqi, Our Brand Could Be Your Crisis

“Life under contemporary capitalism demands an aggressive alienation from each other and our bodies. Most of western culture is dedicated to recouping sensation amid that strain. When your life doesn’t seem to have much meaning, wringing the most out of moments of pleasure and friendship take on a ne…”

— Ayesha Siddiqi, Our Brand Could Be Your Crisis

“I’ll throw you in a vine and make you famous and shit. This, and other exchanges about favor-based social economies, exemplify how much social capital has replaced liquid assets for millennials. There isn’t much cash between us, but maybe we’ll get friendly with the right celebrity online who’ll thr…”

— Ayesha Siddiqi, Our Brand Could Be Your Crisis

“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”

— Paulo Coelho, Maktub

“Music, on the other hand, does not allow us to hide. It is a vehicle for emotion. Perhaps, in a way, it is nothing but feeling, even in its most precise form.”

— Irene Keliher, "When You Can No Longer Talk about It, You Have to Sing" in Narrative Magazine

“Any objective assessment of our campaign versus Clinton's campaign, I think, will conclude we have the energy, we have the excitement, we have the young people, we have the working people, we can drive a large voter turnout, so that we not only win the White House, but we retain, regain control of t…”

— Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders digs in