Latest Quotes

““Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.””

— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

““Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.””

— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“A coward judges all he sees by what he is.”

— Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.”

— Richard L. Currier, Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink

“We see paintings in time and place (no picture makes this clearer, putting us on the spot and in the moment) and always in the context of our own lives.”

— Laura Cumming, The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

“Say you have a text file, like a web server log, and a certain value that appears on some lines, such as an acct_id parameter that is present in the URL. If you want a tally of how many requests for each acct_id: cat access.log | egrep -o 'acct_id=[0-9]+' | cut -d= -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn”

— Joshua Levy, The Art of Command Line

“grep -R 'string' dir/”

— John Kugelman, How to grep a string in a directory and all its subdirectories' files in LINUX?

“What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's never a good sign.”

— Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.”

— Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.”

— Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.”

— Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...”

— Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“1. Do you want to be more multifarious or simpler? 2. Do you want to become happier or more indifferent to happiness and unhappiness? 3. Do you want to become more contented with oneself or more exacting and inexorable? 4. Do you want to become softer, more yielding, more human, or more inhuman? 5.…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power

“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”

— Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.”

— Prince, Unknown

“If only I can make this pain pretty, we tell ourselves, then it mattered.”

— Heidi Priebe, This Is Me Letting You Go

“It is mythology to think that forces obey laws.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power

“I go to the field where wild The lily grows, fearless, To the inaccessible Primordial vault Of the forest.”

— Friedrich Hölderlin, Selected Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics: Poets in Translation)