Latest Quotes

“Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. If that long. So be careful what you get good at.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

“Your curiosity will lead you to whatever you're here for.”

— Oprah, Forbes – An Evening With Oprah

“The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.”

— Andrew Weil, Lagom Happiness?

“Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same.”

— Jane Green, Second Chance

“I doubt anyone will be making cakes and cookies in the shape of the new Instagram logo and that’s the biggest problem the new logo faces: it’s not the old logo.”

— Bryony Gomez-Palacio, New Icon for Instagram done In-house

“I really am not interested in whether men are made uncomfortable by feminism because I am made uncomfortable by men every day of my life.”

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

“Now look, check it, it's simple, it's simple. See this? This the kingpin, a'ight? And he the man. You get the other dude's king, you got the game. But he trying to get your king too, so you gotta protect it. Now, the king, he move one space any direction he damn choose, 'cause he's the king. Like th…”

— David Simon, D'Angelo Barksdale, The Wire

“It is a soft, forgiving culture. Only in the Philippines could a leader like Ferdinand Marcos, who pillaged his country for over 20 years, still be considered for a national burial. Insignificant amounts of the loot have been recovered, yet his wife and children were allowed to return and engage in…”

— Lee Kuan Yew, 15 Things Lee Kuan Yew Said About The Philippines

“Either sign yourself into medical or go up on that roof wet”

— David Simon, Cedric Daniels, The Wire

“All in the game yo, all in the game.”

— David Simon, Omar Devone Little, The Wire

“None of our designs are likely to last forever. I can’t tell you how many things I’ve designed that don’t exist anymore. We’re just cogs in an evolutionary wheel , trying to make the world around us a little better. So don’t get too attached to any part of a design. Don’t fall in love with borders,…”

— Adam Morse, Getting Critiqued

“This became a liberating realization. I started to feel a lot more comfortable when people tore my work apart. Because I realized how I felt just didn’t matter. And what people said became more interesting. Some of it was good feedback that was well thought out. Some of it was bad feedback that wasn…”

— Adam Morse, Getting Critiqued

“What began it all was the bright bone of a dream.”

— Michael Ondaatje, Running In The Family

“What we call the beginning is often the end And to make and end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

— T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding," Four Quartets

“Will it hurt? Will it matter if it does?”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, Chasers Of The Light

“Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the 'Funky Chicken' on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance, so ar…”

— Baz Luhrmann, Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

“We can at least see what philosophy is not: it is not contemplation, reflection, or communication.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy? (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

“The book often leads one to believe it is all fun and games, when something essential is taking place, something of extreme seriousness: the tracking down of all varieties of fascism, from the enormous ones that surround and crush us to the petty ones that constitute the tyrannical bitterness of our…”

— Michel Foucault, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Develop action, thought, and desires by proliferation, juxtaposition, and disjunction, and not by subdivision and pyramidal hierarchization.”

— Michel Foucault, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Free political action from all unitary and totalizing paranoia.”

— Michel Foucault, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia