Quotable quotes

[opinterph]

“Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.”

— Emily Post

 

[rareboy]

 

[opinterph]

“It gives a message to people of love... it does not matter what's the color of your skin, what language do you speak, what religion do you believe in. It is that we should all consider each other as human beings and we should respect each other.”

— Malala Yousafzai

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

 

[opinterph]

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”

― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

 

[opinterph]

“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”

― Richard Adams, Watership Down

 

[Alistair]

“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”

― Richard Adams, Watership Down

A book that I think should be required reading. It’s one of my favorites.

 

[Alistair]

“If you’re gonna play with rattlesnakes, you better know what rattlesnakes do.”

Smokey Yunick

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“Power is an illusion of perception.”

― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

― Albert Einstein

 

[Rand]

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[Latimer]

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”

― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Elyot: I met her on a house party in Norfolk.
Amanda: Very flat, Norfolk.
Elyot: There's no need to be unpleasant.
Amanda: That was no reflection on her, unless of course she made it flatter.

Noel Coward, Private Lives

 

[opinterph]

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

 

[pornoboy]

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[purina]

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate...

 

[Alistair]

“I was so flooded with yearning I thought it would drown me.”

Denis Johnson, from “Two Men”, a short story in his bundle Jesus’ Son