519 quotes found
“My dreams couldn't defeat me!”
“Is there something wrong? he asked.She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. You could hold me now.It was almost hi...”
“it is an ocean of burning oil I am cast adrift upon, no seas repose; I pass from waking agonies to the semiconscious trance of torment in which the smaller, earlier, deeper rings of the brain know ...”
“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.”
“Basically, everyone thinks--knows--how sweet I am.Emma, you threw my sister through hurricane-proof glass.”
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern...”
“I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.”
“A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.”
“I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.”
“Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately of patterns of nothing; thats the bottom line, the final truth. So where we find we have any con...”
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
“You were built for this moment.”
“A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.”
“Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.”
“People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.”
“Although I don't know much about anything, I know that I have a story. I know that it is not over. There are shades and shadows of adventures and people and wild new places. Whatever Paris might tu...”
“I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me...”
“There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression o...”
“Nice shack”
“Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza."Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival.""So... your religion...”
