Latest Quotes

“A dead man’s face can tell us better than anything else in this world how far removed we are from the true existence of physical substance, how impossible it is for us to lay hands on the way in which this substance exists.”

— Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“All you have to do is write one true sentence.”

— Ernest Hemingway, Complete Poems

“Write something, even if it’s a suicide note.”

— Gore Vidal, Conversations with Gore Vidal

“Guilt and remorse are retrospective by definition and exempt the guilty party from any redeeming act of expiation or creative renewal.”

— Marshall McLuhan, Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

“Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.”

— Marshall McLuhan, Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

“In general, though, women aren’t really allowed to be kick-ass. It’s like the famous distinction between art and craft: Art, and wildness, and pushing against the edges, is a male thing. Craft, and control, and polish, is for women. Culturally we don’t allow women to be as free as they would like, b…”

— Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band: A Memoir

“Before he’d quit doing interviews, the previous fall, he’d taken to dropping the word totalitarian. Younger interviewers, to whom the word meant total surveillance, total mind control, gray armies in parade with medium-range missiles, had understood him to be saying something unfair about the Intern…”

— Jonathan Franzen, Purity: A Novel

“Sit back down, I’m across from Dyer and he’s looking at his ice cream melting into the cobbler. No good. I put a spoon in his hand. You’ve got to do the basic things.”

— Phil Klay, Redeployment

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long…”

— Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Addres

“Tupac was one of the biggest thugs I know and he always wore his seat belt”

— Ice Cube, Ice Cube, Kevin Hart And Conan Help A Student Driver - CONAN on TBS

“We live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there’s remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost. But when you have a discussion about whether or not we can assist people who are suffering, then suddenly we become very cost-conscious.”

— Prof. Andrew Bacevich, Prof. Bacevich on Iraq

“Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury”

— Harper Lee, Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

“Yeah, trigger fingers turn to twitter fingers Yeah, you gettin' bodied by a singin' nigga I'm not the type of nigga that'll type to niggas”

— Drake, Back to Back

“If I wanted to see all of the times Donald Trump has been quoted about immigration, there is no way to extract that information, much less create compelling reading experiences around it. But if every quote we publish was tagged and attributed, that would be a much more approachable task.”

— Alexis Lloyd, The Future Of News Is Not An Article

“Tsuyokini, honkiMutekini, suteki Genki, yuuki!”

— Arina Tanemura, Kusakabe Maron, 神風怪盗ジャンヌ 1

“The poignancy of the photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred.”

— Allen Ginsberg, Literature and Photography Interactions, 1840-1990

“My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn’t exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.”

— Ryan McGinley, A Young Man With an Eye, and Friends Up a Tree

“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”

— Andy Weir, Mark Watney, The Martian

“The solipsism of the tech community sees Netflix as a satisfying disruption of the TV business. But that’s a striking inversion of what’s actually happening: TV is disrupting the Internet.”

— Michael Wolff, Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media In the Digital Age

“Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment