“It only takes a single night of frost to kill off an entire generation. To live, then, is a matter of time, of timing.”— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com
“Women are shamed, told they are uptight, nasty, bitter, can’t take a joke, are too sensitive. And the men? Well, if they’re lucky, they might get elected President.”— Molly Ringwald, newyorker.com
“Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad tea, as we have good and bad paintings—generally the latter. There is no single recipe for making the perfect tea, as there are no rules for producing a Titian or a Sesson. Each preparation of the l…”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“Why do people only show parts of the female body overdetermined to trigger men’s sexual desire? You don’t need to show your boobs to be sexy.’”— Jean Touitou, newyorker.com
“Please go easy on Lindsay Lohan. Being a child actor turned sex symbol twists the brain in ways you can’t comprehend.”— Rose McGowan, newyorker.com
“There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”— Susan Cain, ted.com
“...there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do...Well, a philosopher can always contradict other philosophers.”— William James, theatlantic.com
“I don’t have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.”— Edward Norton, independent.co.uk
“Trump’s political career began in advocacy of birtherism. But long before that, he had made his worldview clear.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“Barack Obama delivered to black people the hoary message that if they work twice as hard as white people, anything is possible. But Trump’s counter is persuasive: Work half as hard as black people, and even more is possible”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“A possible link between madness and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions; it is also one of the most controversial.”— Kay Redfield Jamison, amazon.com
“It's always a nice feeling, having people think that you feel things much deeper than you're allowed to say, but this isn't true. If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.”— Shel Silverstein, theatlantic.com
“So many people travel frequently to Bali, Europe and exotic places across the globe to be well-cultured. Yet, how many of these people travel within their own country to get to know the ‘other?’ Why travel the globe, but not make an effort to get to know your Midwest neighbor? We ask politicians to…”— Leah Singer, usatoday.com
“I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.”— Sophie Kinsella, independent.co.uk
“As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.”— Prince, amazon.com