Microblogging Service Quotes

#1. The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social media censors from blocking the movie's title from searches on the country's most popular Twitter-like microblogging service, Weibo.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#2. We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across the galaxy, sprinkled into gas clouds that then collapsed and formed stars and planets and life.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. vowing himself to "just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." After

Philip Roth

#4. When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

Lena Dunham

#5. I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. And then she did something completely unexpected. Having spent the last five minutes complaining about him, and not believing anything that he told her, she came over and hugged him, and kissed his hair.

John Connelly

#7. For most of us, once something was busted, it was game over. I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.

Sarah Dessen

#8. By writing quotes ...
I mark a trail
of my soul's journey in this realm.

Toba Beta

#9. See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#10. I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

May Sarton

#11. Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.

Thomas Sowell

#12. All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.

Desmond Tutu

#13. I've got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.

Beatrice Sparks

#14. Google+ will never have a user base to rival Facebook's. It just won't. Not even if you include the 'users' who create accounts so that they can use other Google services.

Shawn Amos

#15. Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.

Charles Barkley