Latest Quotes

“Mr. Trump has rendered useless the traditional rule books of American politics.”

— Jim Rutenberg, The Republican Horse Race Is Over, and Journalism Lost

“Wrong, wrong, wrong — to the very end, we got it wrong.”

— Jim Rutenberg, The Republican Horse Race Is Over, and Journalism Lost

“Whether or not we can create psychological effects as a result of working with imagery, it appears that sometimes our thoughts can have effects on our immune systems as found in a field of investigation that has come to be known as psychoneuroimmunology (O'Regan, 1983). In one study, rats were given…”

— Imants Baruss, Alterations of Consciousness (An Empirical Analysis For Social Scientists)

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”

— Joan Didion, The Writer on Her Work (Vol. 1)

“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Because on the other side of rejection, on the other side of that moment you question if you should say something, there comes bravery from within that allows you to continue with words you might regret. But under the surface is hope. Under the surface you wonder, can they reciprocate these intense…”

— Kirsten Corley, Because I Can’t Make You Love Me If You Don’t

“Hers is a soul so scattered it could never be anything but what it was born to be.”

— Eden Arielle Gordon, Ode to Chameleon Queens of Hollywood Sadcore

“For iOS, you’ll need to export at .5x (1x actual), 1x (2x actual), and 1.5x (3x actual). Does that make any sense at all?”

— Kurt Varner, Design at 1x—It’s a Fact

“If you’re designing at anything but 1x, you’ve decided to embark on a never ending journey of tediously converting your pixels for other device resolutions.”

— Kurt Varner, Design at 1x—It’s a Fact

“The ache to remember what it is to be alive, is just as beautiful today.”

— Orooj-e-Zafar, When Your Body Smiles

“It is sad to be able to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

“You are hard to look at not because you glow, but because you are the drop off of a skyscraper. You are the distance to the ground, you are what people fear to fall into, you are what people risk their lives to see. And when someone does finally see you, it is because they were courageous enough to…”

— Lillian Shelton, Untitled

“Remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.”

— Ocean Vuong, Someday I’ll Love

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever…”

— Aldous Huxley, Island

“I know people who have been stuck in doubt their entire lifetime. Each of these unfortunate individuals – some of them my very own friends and family – came at some point to a crossroads. They came to this crossroads and found themselves rooted there, with one foot firmly planted on each side of the…”

— Stephen Cope, The Great Work Of Your Life

“There isn’t a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“We counted 18 slightly different shades of the same gray”

— Marvel Engineering, The Marvel Styleguide

“If You Love Pure Functions So Much Then Why Don't You Marry Them?”

— BuzzFeedJS, twitter.com

“The GOP is going to nominate for President a guy who reads the National Enquirer and thinks it’s on the level.”

— Mark Salter, Anti-Trump Republicans confront a dilemma: Are they ready to help elect Clinton?

“Indiana further confirmed the ‘stop Trump’ efforts didn’t work and spending even more resources in an effort to keep him from the nomination will just be expensive political therapy or theatre at this point.”

— Tim Pawlenty, Anti-Trump Republicans confront a dilemma: Are they ready to help elect Clinton?