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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d1b2015 | Yeah,' said Al. 'I'm very prone to boredom. I gotta go do something. Yeah. That's a fair statement. I'm not the most relaxed person in the world. My mind does not stop working all night.' | Jon Ronson | ||
| e8aa1e8 | A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone thought the yellow might calm them. But I couldn't see how. Such was the oppressive ugliness of this building it would have been like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald. | buildings cadaver humor oppression oppressive ronald-mcdonald ugliness | Jon Ronson | |
| 608d1c6 | The UFO community?" I said. "Why would government spies want to infiltrate that?" "Oh, Jon," said Steven. "Don't be naive." | Jon Ronson | ||
| f055b47 | The justice system in the West has a lot of problems," Poe said, "but at least there are rules. You have basic rights as the accused. You have your day in court. You don't have any rights when you're accused on the Internet. And the consequences are worse. It's worldwide forever." | Jon Ronson | ||
| 8f49a08 | his second message was that a smart orator could, if he knew the tricks, hypnotize the crowd into acquiescence or whip it up to do his bidding. Le Bon listed the tricks: 'A crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. Exaggerate, affirm, resort to repetition, and never attempt to prove anything by reasoning.' The | Jon Ronson | ||
| 79d8216 | It's not a remarkable note except for one thing. The typeface Tony used to print it is the exact typeface Kubrick used for the posters and title sequences of 'Eyes Wide Shut' and '2001'. 'It's Futura Extra Bold,' explains Tony. 'It was Stanley's favorite typeface. It's sans serif. He liked Helvetica and Univers too. Clean and elegant.' 'Is this the kind of thing you and Kubrick used to talk about?' I asked. 'God, yes,' says Tony. 'Sometimes.. | futura futura-extra-bold helvetica humorous stanley-kubrick stanley-kubrick-s-boxes typeface univers | Jon Ronson | |
| 23047c9 | In 1996 Hubacek had been driving drunk at 100 mph with no headlights. He crashed into a van carrying a married couple and their nanny. The husband and the nanny were killed. Poe sentenced Hubacek to 110 days of boot camp, and to carry a sign once a month for ten years in front of high schools and bars that read, I KILLED TWO PEOPLE WHILE DRIVING DRUNK, and to erect a cross and a Star of David at the scene of the crash and to keep it maintai.. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 7b88ed6 | One of my dad's colleagues said, "She wants to paint with her shit. Maybe we should give her paints." And it worked.' Mary Barnes eventually became a celebrated and much-exhibited artist. Her paintings were greatly admired throughout the 1960s and 1970s for illustrating the mad, colourful, painful, exuberant, complicated inner life of a schizophrenic." | Jon Ronson | ||
| b7206de | Maybe it was the trying so hard to be normal that was making everyone so afraid they were going crazy. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 9b1b62b | In a crowd we are "microbes" infecting everyone around us, a "grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will." We are impulsive, irritable, irrational:" | Jon Ronson | ||
| 22973e0 | There are obviously a lot of very ill people out there. But there are also people in the middle, getting overlabeled, becoming nothing more than a big splurge of madness in the minds of the people who benefit from it. Bob | Jon Ronson | ||
| 477c0f7 | For all our mythologizing, the margins can be painful and some people are there because they have no choice. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 61d57e1 | I didn't realize he was a drunk driver,' I said. 'The other superheroes inferred it was just a regular, random guy you were trying to force a taco onto. But still' - I indicate the nearby crack dealers - 'the Taco Incident surely demonstrates how things can inadvertently spiral. | phoenix-jones superheroes taco-incident | Jon Ronson | |
| 9acfeea | with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. It's all very sweeping, and not the way we actually are as people. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 5db418d | I think we all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We are a mass of vulnerabilities, and who knows what will trigger them? | Jon Ronson | ||
| 4aacb33 | Judge Ted Poe's critics--like the civil rights group the ACLU--argued to him the dangers of these ostentatious punishments, especially those that were carried out in public. They said it was no coincidence that public shaming had enjoyed such a renaissance in Mao's China and Hitler's Germany and the Ku Klux Klan's America--it destroys souls, brutalizing everyone, the onlookers included, dehumanizing them as much as the person being shamed. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 14bd31d | There are obviously a lot of very ill people out there. But there are also people in the middle, getting overlabeled, becoming nothing more than a big splurge of madness in the minds of the people who benefit from it. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 5f54cf8 | So you faked it to give Zimbardo a better study?" I asked. "It was completely deliberate on my part," he replied. "I planned it. I mapped it out. I carried it through. It was all done for a purpose. I thought I was doing something good at the time." | Jon Ronson | ||
| 2d986eb | Clive's point was that the criminal justice system is supposed to repair harm, but most prisoners--young, black--have been incarcerated for acts far less emotionally damaging than the injuries we noncriminals perpetrate upon one another all the time--bad husbands, bad wives, ruthless bosses, bullies, bankers. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 8949f37 | character. And I'll tell you, it outweighed anything I'd ever done." "What had she done?" I ask. "Shoplifting," says Tam. There is a silence. "People have their own little guilt trips," says Tam. "They look around. 'Who's a beast? Who's a pedo?' Now it's on my record for the rest of my life. If I want to go into business, I have to state that I was done for lewd and libidinous. Gross indecency. People think, 'Oh my God! He must have been cr.. | Jon Ronson | ||
| bde64af | if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one. | Jon Ronson | ||
| f2407d6 | In the middle sat Brad Blanton. He was a large man. His shirt, open to his chest, was yellow-white, like his hair. With his sunburned face, he looked like a red ball abandoned in dirty snow. | Jon Ronson | ||
| ffefa84 | This is bizarre," Dan said. "I find it really strange--the way you're approaching this. You must be one of the very few people who have chosen to come on Twitter and use their own name as their Twitter name. Who does that? And that's why I'm a little suspicious of your motives, Jon. That's why I say I think you're using it as brand management." | Jon Ronson | ||
| 534a632 | But if I could choose how and when I wanted to die, I would want to be an eighty-year-old man shot by a jealous young husband who had caught me in bed with his teenage wife. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| f3c8677 | I spent most of my money on booze and broads and I wasted the rest of it. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 8028ae1 | I thought again about throwing language all over a scene, wondered if the emotional mystery of one's response to place doesn't lie in the inchoate play of possible words, of felt meanings and poetries, of the sublime, the romantic, the picturesque, Zen; even, perhaps, something new. And perhaps that twinge of disappointment one always feels at the words chosen - and thus also at the glorious scene-comes from the dream that in that instant o.. | Daniel Duane | ||
| 7f43030 | Mrs March knew that experience was an excellent teacher, and, when it was possible, she left her children to learn alone the lessons which she would gladly have made easier, if they had not objected to taking advice as much as they did salts and senna.* | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 7a6965f | There is no harder worker than a former government employee who has discovered the word incentive. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| f48649d | Credo quia impossibile.' I believe it because it is impossible. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| a48df2b | Sherlock said, 'He eats Cheerios for breakfast with our son, Sean,' and smiled. 'I eat a slice of wheat toast with crunchy peanut butter. | Catherine Coulter | ||
| ca06db2 | I beg leave to assure my honored readers that most of the incidents are taken from real life, and that the oddest are the truest; for no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| fc4a17f | SAVICH STOOD OVER the metal parcel cage he'd been told was called an OTR, looked at the boxes scattered around it on the floor, streaked and smudged with blood like abstract paintings. Only the packages beneath the body had kept the blood from dripping out of the OTR. He looked down to see the body of an older man with a circle of gray hair around his head. He was torqued into a tight fetal position--difficult because he was heavy--his arms.. | Catherine Coulter | ||
| 3c89a25 | Savich carefully steered the Porsche around an eighteen-wheeler, accelerated, and seamed back between two cars. Traffic would lighten later as they approached Quantico. It was a day you were happy to be alive. The sky was a clear blue, no summer heat yet to blanket Washington, but it would come. He wished Sherlock were with him, especially this morning, but she'd been pulled back to New York to interview Conklin. He'd promised her he'd take.. | Catherine Coulter | ||
| 6184ed8 | did your husband have to do with your appointment as | Catherine Coulter | ||
| 4fc956c | Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| adbd04a | and I shall think her very mean indeed if she does not give me some of her gloves, for she has many of them, I've seen them myself.......and as you can see, I took the hint.......but not much love went into THAT package did it, my dear? | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| d4e2efe | The more important factors are a man's perseverance, his ability to innovate and think of new ideas, to be willing to adapt to changing conditions, to push almost tirelessly at a task or several at a time, during the difficult seasons as well as the prosperous. Certainly a man may be all these on his own, and succeed, wife or no - but to have a wife who possessed these qualities, who could bring out in her husband such steadiness and streng.. | character husband spouse wife | Trix Wilkins | |
| c375ac2 | You speak as though they cannot be trusted with freedom to build a future for themselves, given the opportunity. Certainly humanity as a whole shares a collective guilt for incompetency in crafting a decent future for ourselves - more often than not, we seem eager to destroy others for our own selfish gain. If you truly care for their prospects once freed, then raise a voice and a hand towards that cause! But do not condemn those who work t.. | freedom liberty slavery social-justice | Trix Wilkins | |
| 8ba950e | Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around. | parenting | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| ba31a1f | I don't think you have ever really inhabited a city until you have walked down the street and seen every single person, no matter how unlikely or different from yourself, how disheveled or foreign, as a potential ally or recruit. | city connection | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| be18edf | If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well. | teenagers | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| 274a70b | We were beginning to see that the medical profession, at the time still over 90 percent male, had transformed childbirth from a natural event into a surgical operation performed on an unconscious patient in what approximated a sterile environment. Routinely, the woman about to give birth was subjected to an enema, had her pubic hair shaved off, and was placed in the lithotomy position - on her back, with knees up and crotch spread wide open.. | childbirth risks woman | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| 196f754 | I smoke. It's expensive. It's also the best option. You see, I am always, always exhausted. It's a stimulant. When I am too tired to walk one more step, I can smoke and go for another hour. When I am enraged and beaten down and incapable of accomplishing one more thing, I can smoke and feel a little better, just for a minute. It is the only relaxation I am allowed. | smoke stimulant tired | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| b29dc0c | We do not look into mirrors, for example, to see our "true" selves, but to see what others are seeing, and what passes for inner reflection is often an agonizing assessment of how others are judging us." | Barbara Ehrenreich |