Latest Quotes

“I've said what I'd said and you know what I mean But I still can't focus on anything We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves”

— Modest Mouse, Dramamine

“Did you ever love me Biopsy from the origin of sound Confirms you're speaking truthfully Concludes everything I thought about”

— Modern Baseball, Apple Cider, I don't mind

“We need to remember that at it's core a web page is simple.”

— Justin Jackson, I'm a fucking webmaster

“The world still needs some fucking webmasters. We might not all be making websites professionally anymore. But we should keep making websites. The passion, the freedom, the joy: we need to pass this on.”

— Justin Jackson, I'm a fucking webmaster

“What lazy lovers we are. Such reluctant soulmates. My hair comes out in the shower and I swear it misses your hands. I have weeks of unplayed Jeopardy!. I don’t want to ask questions. I know better than to ask anything at all.”

— Brenna Twohy, I'm Leaving At The End Of The Year You Say

“Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?”

— Andrea Gibson, Asking Too Much

“We flung so hard we flew!”

— Lola Albright, How 4 Cool Couples Keep The (Creative) Fires Burnin’!

“I want to quit, I want to quit, I want to quit. And when I’m done quitting, I’d like to quit again.”

— Andie Mitchell, It Was Me All Along

“You are endless days of summer. You are infinities. And in some other life, I choose to be all those things alongside you.”

— Heidi Priebe, A Hat Tip To The Universe Where We Chose Each Other

“Everything I know about my family’s history, I know in fragments. We are the keepers of secrets. We are secrets ourselves. We try to protect each other from the geography of so much sorrow. I don’t know that we succeed.”

— Roxane Gay, Ayiti

“It is always when I am leaving work that I realize what an odd country Haiti is, with the Internet, computers, fax machines and photocopiers in offices and the people who use them living in shacks with the barest of amenities. We are a people living in two different times.”

— Roxane Gay, Ayiti

“Progress is not kind and human nature cannot resist the lure of possibility.”

— Roxane Gay, Ayiti

“He is such a beautiful man, but I do not tell him this. He would take it the wrong way. It is a strange thing in some men, this fear of their own beauty.”

— Roxane Gay, Ayiti

“Freedom, it seems, has a price. We are defined by what we are not and what we do not have.”

— Roxane Gay, Ayiti

“You hate yourself for it, but you crave the stranger’s unwanted touch because the fight left in you is a reminder that you haven’t been broken. You haven’t been broken.”

— Roxane Gay, Ayiti

“So that here is a falling off. To the end of the inflamed limit, we lingered here, encouraged.”

— Lisa Robertson, The Weather

“High school, it seems, has changed. It has become competitive. Young men and women — 13 to 18 years old — must work more or less tirelessly to ensure their spot at a college deemed worthy to them and their families. So rather than living their adolescent lives — lives brimming with desires and vital…”

— Daniel Coffeen, The Scholastic Swindle: Quashing Adolescence

“It's a simple idea: Those who have benefited the most from our economy should pay their fair share in taxes.”

— Hillary Clinton, twitter.com

“The system is rigged. I watch Bernie Sanders win every night. And everyone says he can’t win. He wins and he wins and he wins. But because Hillary has these super delegates, she is 'winning.'”

— Donald Trump, Trump says Washington Post owner Bezos has 'huge antitrust problem' | Fox News

“I can’t believe that we’re even having this discussion. To be talking in America in 2016 about Mao is a good idea, and a socialist is running for president and that’s OK, and we’re going to go back to these crazy tax rates where we’re going to completely disempower the innovators in our country beca…”

— Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins Founder Billy Corgan Unloads on The Social Justice Movement