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How long do you think it will take us to cross?” Jefferson asks.
“According to the Ma...
RAE CARSON Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history.
CHRIS WEITZ There is no place in the world where nobody dies. There is no place where nobody is hungry, or nobod...
CHRIS WEITZ There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to ...
CHRIS WEITZ But we're not sleeping," he points out.
"well, I would be," I say, "if you would let me off the...
LAUREN BARNHOLDT![]()
What went down well?" Mum asks, coming back to the table.
"Nothing," I say.
"The Titanic,"...
ZOE SUGG![]()
Loved heart, what can I say?
When I was a lark, I sang;
When I was a worm, I devoured.
THEODORE ROETHKE![]()
Where were you
when
I undressed and told the tales of my day?
Where were you
w...
KAMAND KOJOURI![]()
To express is to drive.
And when you want to give something presence,
you have to consult n...
LOUIS KAHN![]()
MY MOON
I'll always wonder what time it is there; if you're dreaming, or awake. My moon i...
COCO J. GINGER![]()
Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.'
'Well,' he says, 'I would onl...
VERONICA ROTH![]()
Well," I ask, leaning over him, "do you wish to stay?"
"I do."
"And why is that, Cole?" I ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB![]()
This meal we just ate?" says Aunt Lydia. "In many countries, this sort of meal would only be eaten b...
GEORGE SAUNDERS Where are You Now? I was there whilst you cried,
I was there to comfort you with smile, LUISA NATASHA PARKER ![]()
and when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off...
DAVID LEVITHAN![]()
Well I haven't fucked much with the past,
But I've fucked plenty with the future.
- ...
PATTI SMITH People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ...
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re...
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about...
Age withers only the outside.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
“According to the Ma...
RAE CARSON Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history.
CHRIS WEITZ There is no place in the world where nobody dies. There is no place where nobody is hungry, or nobod...
CHRIS WEITZ There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to ...
CHRIS WEITZ But we're not sleeping," he points out.
"well, I would be," I say, "if you would let me off the...
LAUREN BARNHOLDT
What went down well?" Mum asks, coming back to the table."Nothing," I say.
"The Titanic,"...
ZOE SUGG
Loved heart, what can I say?When I was a lark, I sang;
When I was a worm, I devoured.
THEODORE ROETHKE
Where were you when
I undressed and told the tales of my day?
Where were you
w...
KAMAND KOJOURI
To express is to drive.And when you want to give something presence,
you have to consult n...
LOUIS KAHN
MY MOONI'll always wonder what time it is there; if you're dreaming, or awake. My moon i...
COCO J. GINGER
Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.''Well,' he says, 'I would onl...
VERONICA ROTH
Well," I ask, leaning over him, "do you wish to stay?""I do."
"And why is that, Cole?" I ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB
This meal we just ate?" says Aunt Lydia. "In many countries, this sort of meal would only be eaten b... GEORGE SAUNDERS Where are You Now? I was there whilst you cried,
I was there to comfort you with smile,
and when hecatches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off...
DAVID LEVITHAN
Well I haven't fucked much with the past,But I've fucked plenty with the future.
- ...
PATTI SMITH People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ...
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re...
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about...
Age withers only the outside.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird. 
I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin... 
For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very prou... 
Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby. 
Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives. 
The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a cer... 
Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the res... 
Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Ro... 
The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except... 
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. 
There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing. 
I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen,... 
Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But th... 
It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other fo... 
Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want. 
Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to ... 
I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 millio... 
If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath a... 
I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percenta... 
I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a bas... 
I was in the room when Sundar convinced Eric Schmidt that it would be possible to unseat Internet Ex... 
I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, ... 
I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so ... 
While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants... 
I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I... 
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra... 
2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bun... 
Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionate... 
Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid ... 
Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, ... 
You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to d... 
I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes. 
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or &#... 
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the sim... 
There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Fr... 
...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better b... 
Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world. 
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey. 
You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to... 
I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers... 
Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no l... 
Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going... 
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and ... 
Jesus says, I love you just the way you are. And I love you too much to let you stay the way you are... 
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks. 
URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. 