Latest Quotes

“Bernie Sanders has been treated terribly by the Democrats—both with delegates and otherwise. He should show them and run as an Independent.”

— Donald Trump, twitter.com

“This is not entertainment. This is not a reality show. This is a contest for the presidency of the United States.”

— Barack Obama, Obama tells Trump

“I don’t want the story of the feared-but-loved teacher, the book that hit like a thunderclap, the years of severe study followed by a visionary breakdown, the clench of repentance; I want each sequential change of mind in its true, knotted, clotted, viny multifariousness, with all of the colorful st…”

— Nicholson Baker, The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber (Vintage Contemporaries)

“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”

— Howard Zinn, On War

“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

— John Green, Fault In Our Stars

“I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train . . .”

— William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Let each one of you be alone, as the strings of a lute are alone, though they quiver with the same music. Stand together, yet not too near together:…”

— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“When the brain lights up, its activity is like a radio lighting up when music is played. It is an obvious fallacy to say that the radio composed the music. What is being viewed is only a physical correlation, not a cause.”

— Deepak Chopra, Good News: You Are Not Your Brain

“We had never stopped asking this question previously, and we already had the answer, which has not changed: philosophy is the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts.”

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

“We’re just a tiny spark of light between two darknesses,” I said. “And my spark can now start to flicker. I feel a sense of relief at this.”

— James Altucher, James Altucher, Thank God At Least Half My Life Is Over. Good Riddance.

“We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media…”

— Richard Foster, In Celebration of Discipline

“I want to kiss the kindness inside you. I want you to be loved in the exact way you love. We’re both ready with our, “You met me at a really weird time in my life…” monologues and I want to rehearse lines with you.”

— Ari Eastman, Ari Eastman, I’m Already Invested In You, And That Terrifies Me

“Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort…”

— David Foster Wallace, This Is Water

“This goes beyond me, beyond you: the white room by window where the sun goes through.”

— Thom Yorke, Daydreaming

“You just deliver shippable software in as continuous of a way as possible. This allows a team to pull whichever Agile principles and methods needed in order to achieve that goal.”

— Gradle, Agile is Dead, Long Live Continuous Delivery

“Sometimes the novel is not ready to be written because you haven’t met the inspiration for your main character yet. Sometimes you need two more years of life experience before you can make your masterpiece into something that will feel real and true and raw to other people. Sometimes you’re not fall…”

— Jamie Varon, To Anyone Who Thinks They’re Falling Behind

“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, 'Morning, boys. How's the water?' And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, 'What the hell is water…”

— David Foster Wallace, This Is Water

“I have my freedom today because nothing really happened and nobody came to see me, only the slow growing of the garden in the summer heat and the silence of that unborn life making itself known at my desk my hands still dark with the crumbling soil as I write and watch the first lines of a new poem…”

— David Whyte, The House of Belonging

“Broken hearts — if used wisely and compassionately — are absolutely necessary for spreading the fire of love.See, when your heart breaks open, all the love that has been hidden and buried within it for years has the opportunity to now spill forth — and to cover everyone around you with love...and al…”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, DISCOVERING FIRE FOR THE SECOND TIME...

“The times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw as a sport as it gets.”

— Kelly Slater, via Tumblr