Latest Quotes

“I will not fail so you can be comfortable.”

— The Last Five Years, If I Didn't Believe In You

“I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story — I will.”

— Amy Schumer, Gloria Awards

“Wake up, decide to be confident, and then do it.”

— Kendra Syrdal, How To Be Confident

“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be someone who hates peaches.”

— Dita Von Teese, Twitter

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”

— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”

— Madonna, People

“I never used to be bothered by how small I was. Then something happened… and I was. Then I fell in love with myself again, and I wasn’t bothered anymore. I never will be again.”

— Quinta Brunson, Tumblr

“It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly, and authoritatively demand it.”

— Meryl Streep, 2007 Golden Globes

“Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. But other things are harder. Try it: “I’m not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it’s not a pr…”

— Laura Vanderkam, Are We As Busy As We Think?

“The very idea of ‘happily ever after’ is as much an illusion as the idea of 'a cure.’ We are all looking for a quick and complete fix, a cure. We want to be able to say, 'I was this way before and now I am better. It’s great and that’s that.’ Yet we know life doesn’t work that way.”

— Tommy Rosen, Recovery

“It was like the imminent arrival of Gargantuan, preparations had to be made to widen the gutters of Denver and foreshorten certain laws to fit his suffering bulk and bursting ecstasies.”

— Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“There’s a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“It is three at night. I have something to say. You are so valuable. You shine out. You are a magic star. You are a body of blood made beautiful. How I admire, sit back and adore you. How thirsty I am for that. How you feed me.”

— Anne Sexton, Letter to a lover

“Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, Honey

“Don't fall in love with the moment, and think you're in love with the girl.”

— The 1975, She's American

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that’s the way to live.”

— Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”

— Kait Rokowski, It just ends

“If anything, Live further exposes Facebook’s active, seemingly unquenchable thirst for more ways to become the middleman in your digital interactions. It literally wants you to broadcast your life on the platform.”

— Joshua Topolsky, Facebook as the consummate middleman

“There is a very real tension here — criminals either have encryption like the rest of us, or no one does — and it's on us to make the argument that we collectively have much more to lose than criminals have to gain”

— Ben Thompson, Update on the Fight over iPhone Security, Encryption Under Attack, WhatsApp Adds Encryption

“Let me be absolutely crystal clear: this bill, absent massive changes (which, given the previous statements of its authors — Democrat Diane Feinstein of California and Republican Richard Burr of North Carolina — is highly unlikely) is an unmitigated disaster. The only way for any company to abide by…”

— Ben Thompson, Update on the Fight over iPhone Security, Encryption Under Attack, WhatsApp Adds Encryption