Martha Rose
- The Problem with Long Nails
You see... the problem with long fingernails is that it is so hard to type with them. Whether they are fake or real, it's difficult. Especially if you are using a round key keyboard to type on it. That makes it worse in my opinion. So, don't keep your fingernails long. That's all folks!
Donald Trumbo
- Johnny Got His Gun
You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congresses. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead.
Paulina Simons
- The Bronze Horseman
Dear Pasha, she thought, we lost you and we didn't even know it. That's the saddest loss of all, to go on for a few weeks, a few days, a night, a minute, and think everything is still all right when the structure you've built your life on has crumbled. We should have been mourning you, but instead we made plans, went to work, dreamed, loved, not knowing you were already behind us.
Brandon Sanderson
- The Way of Kings - Shallan
The body needs many different foods to remain healthy. And the mind needs many different ideas to remain sharp. Wouldn't you agree? And so if I were to read only these silly romances you presume that my ambition can handle, my mind would grow sick.
Stansfield
- Leon: The Professional
I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven. Can you hear it? It's like when you put your head to the grass and you can hear the growin' and you can hear the insects. Do you like Beethoven?
sadqueer
- Deeply
I remember when I first looked at you, and to be honest, you scared me. Something about your aura threatened me, because deep down, I knew that I'd fallen too deeply too quickly.
Unknown
"Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'" This quote made me think of life as one grand play, and reminded me of something Shakespeare wrote - "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts."
Idy List
I've heard it said that "be yourself" is bad advice because some people are jerks and should not be themselves. However, I disagree. Being a jerk is not part of a person's identity. A jerk who stops being a jerk is becoming their true self.
We Are Just Like These Quotes
Quotes on this site are plentiful. They can be many things: funny, mean, deep, or profound... Just like us. We may choose to skip a quote, or we may choose to finish a quote. This feels exactly like when you finish a conversation or no longer wish to talk to someone in passing; you just continue walking. The quote disappears never to be seen again unless, chance wishes for it to be so. Did you continue talking to me? Or have you walked on already?
Norman Craig
- Incident
I look across the table and think (fiery with love), ask me, go on, ask me to do something impossible; something freakishly useless, something unimaginable and inimitable. Like making a finger break into blossom or walking for half an hour in twenty minutes or remembering tomorrow. I will you to ask it. But all you say is, Will you give me a cigarette? And I smile and, returning to the marvelous world of possibility, I give you one with a hand that trembles with a human trembling.
Ben Carson (not the famous one)
"Money can't buy happiness" is not advice for poor people. It's advice for rich people and upper middle class people who think that more money will make them happier. They have reached the point of diminishing return.
chips
- thoughts
Why do we practice arguments in our heads? I guess some people do it for fun, maybe others are actual practicing for one, but I still don't get why we do it. For the sake of winning? To feel powerful? I guess this is one of life's many unsolved masteries for me.
Yuval Noah Harari
- Root of Suffering - Sapiens
According to Buddhism, the root of suffering is neither the feeling of pain nor of sadness nor even of meaninglessness. Rather, the real root of suffering is this never-ending and pointless pursuit of ephemeral feelings, which causes us to be in a constant state of tension, restlessness and dissatisfaction.
Douglas Adams
- The Salmon of Doubt
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'
Agent Obscuro
This sentence is about you; it combines three independent clauses and is mostly self-referential, and as the most recent person to read this quote, you ought to appreciate it.
Theodore Roosevelt
You often hear people speaking as if life was like striving upward toward a mountain peak. That is not so. Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.
Theodore Roosevelt
To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.
unknown
- It will come.
With new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Tomorrow changes the face of reality. The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. Never regret yesterday because I have spent it with a person that matters the most.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
- Fleabag
Women are born with pain built in. It's our physical destiny: period pains, sore boobs, childbirth, you know. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives, men don't. They have to seek it out, they invent all these gods and demons and things just so they can feel guilty about things, which is something we do very well on our own. And then they create wars so they can feel things and touch each other and when there aren't any wars they can play rugby.
Far Heetael
What they don't tell you is that after the princess kissed the frog and it turned into a prince, she still got salmonella afterward. Don't kiss reptiles or amphibians.
