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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 734ddaf | I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. | nuisance fools | Oscar Wilde | |
| c0e0771 | Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. | oscar-wilde fashion | Oscar Wilde | |
| 7a10f27 | Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 13a0018 | As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| d92a764 | She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 7ee2d95 | One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1a26a25 | Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! | arts diy funding grant self-support libertarianism support government | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| e437d94 | It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| eee9f80 | This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 5807db8 | Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 4c6945e | I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else. | love importance | Mary Balogh | |
| 1fd19d3 | You're not the last of the old Jedi, Luke, you're the first of the new | Timothy Zahn | ||
| 9c8241a | Time is money, but also money is money. | William Gibson | ||
| 03f66ca | Whenever I can't sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I've been assassinated. I've found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I'm in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| b996bcd | But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| c23e1d6 | The handwriting was a girl's. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| e459cea | What are the rules," The cop said. "There are none." Vishous spread his stance and braced himself. "Do whatever you want...but you have to break me. You've got to tear me apart." | jr-ward vishous butch | J.R. Ward | |
| 0121895 | Uh-huh, right. Let me count all the ways you and I aren't going there. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 0060fcf | But by God, he was going to stop running from his cowardice. He had to own his shit - even if it made him hate himself to the core. Because maybe if he did, he'd stop trying to distract himself with sex and drinking, and figure out what he want. Apart from Blay, that was. | lover-unleashded qhuinn black-dagger-brotherhood | J.R. Ward | |
| c8d8159 | Young Castle called me "Scoop." "Good Morning, Scoop. What's new in the word game?" "I might ask the same of you," I replied. "I'm thinking of calling a general strike of all writers until mankind finally comes to its senses. Would you support it?" "Do writers have a right to strike? That would be like the police or the firemen walking out." "Or the college professors." "Or the college professors," I agreed. I shook my head. "No, I don't th.. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| fc014e9 | You know -- we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God -- ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade." | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| e8904a3 | One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand. | humor satire sarcastic-humor | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| cb7930d | We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 985eb4e | Thinking about his first day if he were the Fuhrer] "On that day, all female officers will be required to wear... tiny miniskirts!" | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 3f340c6 | Augustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed | John Green | ||
| 8d32b49 | It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window. | love hazel-grace | John Green | |
| 3803879 | Nothing," I said. "I'm just..." I couldn't finish the sentence, didn't know how to. "I'm just very, very fond of you." | gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 50b2e9d | I fear your faith has been mis- placed--but then, faith usually is. | John Green | ||
| 6d7a679 | Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more." "Seventeen," Gus corrected. "I'm assuming you've got some time, you interrupting bastard. "I'm telling you," Isaac continued, "Augustus.. | humour eulogy | John Green | |
| 12dce6a | the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. | John Green | ||
| af7c45b | What am I going to do with you? I have suggestions, but this might not be the place for them. | Lora Leigh | ||
| d9f35e3 | One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 87f2894 | I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. | loneliness love fight | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 13a8706 | There are nights when the world is completely askew because he's gone. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 60d5071 | If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost. | T.H. White | ||
| fe1206c | When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself. | civics playerhaters the-internet anger-management envy internet | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 05980f3 | You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 569b5b4 | I am this fiery snail crawling home. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| ff41ab1 | Did you see that? Buffy just staked that poor vampire. He had yet to even do anything untowared, he just crawled out of his grave and she staked him. That is just not right. She is taking out her problems with that Angel fellow on a vampire, that is what she is doing. | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 850ca3f | He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| c7e9594 | I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself. | weakness | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 27dee6e | He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to the throne; he dances with others or moves from place to place through the room. The court thinks he is trying to be gracious, sharing his attention. Only I see that he moves always to the empty spot and the court always moves after him. He is like a dog trying to escape his own tail. He indulged himself in one brief.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| c385799 | It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| f3f9f3a | It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out." | artists indignation art | Irving Stone |