Latest Quotes

“Being abused can seriously affect your ability to distinguish between “not obviously pleased” and “obviously displeased” because abusers go from Neutral to Hostile for absolutely no discernible reason, and eventually you start worrying that everyone is going to be like that and you start feeling thi…”

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what.”

— Andy Warhol, So what?

“You arrived in town like a tidal wave.”

— Ari Eastman, We Weren’t Forever, But That Doesn’t Mean We Didn’t Matter

“If you had a friend you knew you’d never see again, what would you say? If you could do one last thing for someone you love, what would it be? Say it, do it, don’t wait. Nothing lasts forever”

— Brooke Davis, One Tree Hill

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”

— Epictetus, The Discourses

“Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a fini…”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

“This is the use of memory: For liberation—not less of love but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the future as well as the past.”

— T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“=IF(ISERROR(FIND("keyword",A2)),FALSE, TRUE)”

— Alex Magnin, Basic Keyword Search For Excel - Returns True/False For Presence Of Keyword

“=INDEX(A:A,COUNTA(A:A),1)”

— Alex Magnin, Grab The Last Non-Empty Cell In A Column

“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens.”

— Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”

— Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

“Why give a bitch your heart when she'd rather have a purse?”

— Lil Wayne, Chris Brown

“Scruffy and laid-back in the distinct manner of 20-somethings without office jobs, Modern Baseball has led something of a charmed existence, despite its personal hurdles. By playing an outmoded style of music — somewhere in the much-derided space between pop-punk and emo — with zero pretense and alm…”

— Joe Coscarelli, Modern Baseball: Young, Resilient and Already Reborn

“It’s completely disarming to see a band at all these days, or from any era, that’s just not trying to be cool”

— Joe Coscarelli, Modern Baseball: Young, Resilient and Already Reborn

“cat file.txt | xargs -n1 curl -O”

— Eonil, How can I download multiple files stored in a text file with curl and xargs?

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing — they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that m…”

— Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death By Black Hold: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting,…”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.”

— Albert Camus, The Stranger