Hard Boiled Wonderland Quotes

#1. I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song.

Michael Moore

#2. If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

Larry Ellison

#3. And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.

Maurice Sendak

#4. Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

Haruki Murakami

#5. You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.

Barbara De Angelis

#6. 28. If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?

Epictetus

#7. It was as good as sealing yourself into a dungeon. Walled in, with nowhere to go but your own doom.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

Haruki Murakami

#9. I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.

Haruki Murakami

#10. A stocky zombie with curly orange hair

Brandon Mull

#11. Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

Cato The Elder

#12. I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water ... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

Eva Green

#13. Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

Haruki Murakami

#14. I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy.

Haruki Murakami

#15. I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.

Brett Dennen

#16. People say photographs don't lie, mine do.

David LaChapelle

#17. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws.

Haruki Murakami

#18. If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?

Keith O'Brien

#19. It's great for my daughter to see Beyonce and Taylor Swift, women that are in charge of their own careers, writing songs from their own perspective and taking people to task. That's very different from when I was growing up - it was all like, 'Stand by your man.'

Corin Tucker

#20. Various Horsemen are abroad, doing their various Apocalyptic things.

George Alec Effinger