39452 Quotes

#1. Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

Terence McKenna

#2. And you know what? You don't get to say it's not a big thing. This is a big fucking thing, okay? This was supposed to be - this is mine. I'm supposed to decide when and where and who knows and how I want to say it.

Becky Albertalli

#3. The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?

Demetri Martin

#4. She sits on the iron throne
She is one and three
The dark lady
the redgold lady
The blank lady
oracle
of blood, she who must be
obeyed
forever
Her glass wings are gone
She floats down the river
singing her last song

Margaret Atwood

#5. The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.

Rex Stout

#6. Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

Stewart Brand

#7. If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#8. She found it disturbing and difficult to fathom when he repeated that the starlight they saw that night had really happened hundreds of years in the past and only reached theirs eyes that day. It offended her that the past could intrude so literally on the present yet never return.

James Hannaham

#9. Unintended consequences, he thought miserably.
He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up
and took over.

Jeanne DuPrau

#10. I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

Cate Blanchett

#11. People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped Author unknown

Lynelle Clark