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— J. Maarten Troost, Getting Stoned with Savages. 1-2. ¶“Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms is to be strenuously avoided. How do you expect to get ahead? people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn’t want to get ahead, he simply wants to get away.”
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— Lord Northcliffe, http://twitter.com/gruber ¶“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.”
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— Allison Weiss, http://allisonweiss.tumblr.com/post/102405427/90-people-get-the-swine-flu-and-everybody-wants-to-wear ¶“90 people get the swine flu and everyone wants to wear a mask. A million people have AIDS and no one wants to wear a condom.”
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— Gym Class Heroes, New Friend Request ¶“On a scale of 1 to awesome I’m the shit.”
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— Jean-Paul Sartre, http://zenhabits.net/2008/02/20-things-i-wish-i-had-known-when-starting-out-in-life/ ¶“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
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— Spanish Proverb ¶“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year”
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— Henry James, Real Simple Daily Thought ¶“Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.”
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— Merlin Mann, Merlin Mann / Twitter ¶“Problem is, the more time you spend thinking about creativity, the less time you spend actually making stuff. Which is a recipe for berets.”
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— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas. 63. ¶“Apart from her precious [horse,] Nefertiti, her hobbies are pouting and looking martyred.”
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— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas. 353. ¶“‘If Seoul is a Boardman’s faithful spouse,’ said Hae-Joo, ‘Pusan is his no-pantied mistress.’”
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— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas. 172. ¶“I do believe the ingredients in so-called melting pots take generations to melt.”
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— Eoin Colfer, The Artemis Fowl Incident. 44. ¶“Confidence is ignorance. If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.”
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— Anne Sexton, http://kscr.org/blog/2008/10/06/love-is-a-song-with-your-name-as-its-bassline/ ¶“Love is a song with your name as its bassline.”
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— Samantha LaRocca, Twitter / LadySam721 ¶“The kid next to me smells of despair.”
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— http://hometown.aol.com/ufopenguin/quotes.html ¶“TJ: Do you have a boyfriend?
Me: Nope. I’m single and as free as someone on acid.
TJ: That’s not funny. Cuz I am.
Me: On acid?
TJ: No no no. Single.”
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— Amy Fish, http://hometown.aol.com/ufopenguin/quotes.html ¶“I have that skirt, except it’s purple and it’s pants”