Quotes by Writers - Page 47

Canada is a free country, after all.
Rebecca McNutt
Information wants to be free.
Stewart Brand
Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
Alexander Berkman
The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.
John Cleese
Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.The same applies when you are stupid.
Ricky Gervais
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
Aldous Huxley
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He was looking for programs on which he might be allowed to appear. But it was too early in the evening for programs that allowed people with peculiar opinions to speak out. It was only a little after eight o'clock, so all the shows were about silliness or murder.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be objective, it's a lie: they want to be objects, so as not to suffer.
Eduardo Galeano
The internet in general and social networking sites in particular are making people more reclusive than social.
Sharanya Haridas
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
Clay Shirky
Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.
Clay Shirky
And next time we hear someone saying something like, 'We are pursuing this strategy because other strategies, when we had considered them, we concluded that, in terms of overall effectiveness, they were not sound strategies, which is why we enacted the one we are now embarked upon, which our enemies would like to see us fail, due to they hate freedom,' we will wait to see if the anchorperson cracks up, or chokes back a sob of disgust, and if he or she does not, we'll feel a bit insane, and therefore less confident, and therefore more passive.
George Saunders
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
János Arany
Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.
César Vallejo
The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.
César Vallejo
Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.
César Vallejo
Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.
Libba Bray
The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.
César Vallejo
Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living being, a rose and an apple, in the physical and ideal fusion of a true and daily paradise.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
And even though I adore the fact that Francesca has Ben's eyes, I also see now that her biological connection to us is irrelevant. She is her own little person. She is Francesca. If we weren't her "natural" parents, we would still have loved her just as much.
Liane Moriarty
It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.
Cyprian
Stay away to abuse and misemploy knowledge, and neutrality with jealousy since it reflects the lack of sense.
Ehsan Sehgal
The jealousy holds neither the colours and nor the places. It is voiceless and timeless a time bomb within you to blow up only you, not others.
Ehsan Sehgal
My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do.
Voltaire
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love
François de La Rochefoucauld
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
Samuel Johnson
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
H. Havelock Ellis
My dad’s contentment is all that matters to me. When he’s laughing, I’m laughing. When he’s happy, I’m happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.
Rebecah McManus
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no
Cyril Connolly
Her melodious laughter sounded like the distant tinkling of soft bells and he stored the sound in her temple- his heart.
Faraaz Kazi
Maturity,” Bokonontells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unlesslaughter can be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And then he began to laugh in a peculiar way of his own which was both violent and soundless. His heavy reclining body, draped in its black gown, heaved to and fro. His knees drew themselves up to his chin. His arms dangled over the sides of the chair and were helpless. His head rolled from side to side. It was as though he were in the last stages of strychnine poisoning. But no sound came, nor did his mouth even open. Gradually the spasm grew weaker, and when the natural sand colour of his face had returned (for his corked-up laughter had turned it dark red) he began his smoking again in earnest.
Mervyn Peake
Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commence from that point on.
Georges Bataille
If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.
Paul Graham
Laughter is the deadliest weapon of all: with laughter you can murder anything, even murder.
Evgeny Zamjatin
They were happy, I thought. As a child, laughter is all you need as proof of happiness. As a child you don't know there are so many different kinds of laughter - like different varieties of birds. Some are flightless.
Faiqa Mansab
In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it. I choose laughter.
Kevin Hart
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Aldous Huxley
There is not much left to see in this world if one sees her once.
Faraaz Kazi
In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become 'normal', the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.
Martijn Benders
She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics
Simon Doonan
Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
Aldous Huxley
In her unworldly voice she thanked them for finally understanding her. She reminded me of a female pirate captain alone on the deck of her sinking ship.
Raymond Radiguet
I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.
Dave Chappelle
Your lips are the only stimulant I need.
Faith Sullivan
Katie, when I saw you again, there was nothing I wanted to do more than stand by your side for the rest of my life.
Faith Sullivan
I sort of figured we'd be dating. It makes things like sharing a room a little easier.
Faith Sullivan
Well if it isn't little miss 'Call Me Maybe' back from the dead.
Faith Sullivan
You know I'm always ready to indulge your fantasies.
Faith Sullivan
Comb his Facebook page. See if he has a Twitter account. Follow up on every Google lead. I want to know what makes him tick, what makes him the man he is.
Faith Sullivan
I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen.
Faith Sullivan
He is who he is, but it's not enough for me. I want more. I don't want him for just a night. I want him beside me every night.
Faith Sullivan
He thinks he's comforting a friend after a bad breakup. Little does he know-he's the one who's breaking my heart.
Faith Sullivan
I'm making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I'm screwing women I have no business screwing. I'm pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I'm sinking fast.
Faith Sullivan