140 quotes found
“To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.”
“People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or ...”
“And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel st...”
“Hi! I'm Ethan, I shop at Ikea. I bought a $300 dining suite and it took me three days to assemble!”
“Personality is a slot machine, and the cherries, lemons, and bells are your SSRI system, your schizophrenic tendency, your left/right brain lobalization, your anxiety proclivity, your wiring glitch...”
“youre too old not to have had, how shall I say, certain experiences. Youve had bad internet dates. Youve had people be creeps to you. Youve seen what youve seen; youve felt what youve felt. Ideolog...”
“When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begunthat "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidayswhenever. But then suddenly you're old and ...”
“The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, Im kidding. But killing helps.”
“The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healinga blanketthe comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a...”
“The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.”
“Nostalgia for the 20th century brain helps nobody.”
“In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished colle...”
“One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world inst...”
“If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.”
“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.”
“Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.”
“Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.”
“The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.”
“I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense ...”
“I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.”
