Cyclically Adjusted Quotes

#1. Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who's exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is as boring as shit.

Chuck Klosterman

#2. I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

Toni Morrison

#3. Build what you want to see in the world.

Jack Dorsey

#4. You may be rich, but there is one thing you can't afford - that is, if you are a good sort - you can't afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Robert Baden-Powell

#5. Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

Eric Schmidt

#6. To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

Maria Montessori

#7. Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.

Bonnie Eaker Weil

#8. It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they're fucking with and then fight for it. If everyone did that--imagine the difference. (50)

David Gessner

#9. In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are ... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world.

Lisa Randall

#10. Betia kissed my forehead. "I won't leave unless you ask me to. I-" Her lips touched mine chastely. "The future will come. I will be there, if you want me.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#11. Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian
that's the kind of people for me.

Kurt Vonnegut