Non Friction Quotes

#1. A non-fucking fuck-friend, I guess. A non-friction friend.

Morgan Parker

#2. When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.

A.B. Simpson

#3. Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Nathanael West

#4. People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

Brian Eno

#5. Kenny, when's the last time you had a physical," Roddy asks.
"What're you...the designated driver of my life?"

"Mad Dog House

Mark Rubinstein

#6. If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

Pankaj Mishra

#7. If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone else's new realty. Which eliminates time, space, motion, and friction.

Ashton Kutcher

#8. With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Bruce Greenwood

#9. Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.

John Battelle

#10. Wealth in activity
capital with all its friction
is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.

Roger Glover

#13. One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.

Doug Aitken

#14. It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

Jose Maria Aznar

#15. There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.

Edward VII

#16. He was frightened for his country. Slowly and tragically it was drifting in the wrong direction. Something had to be done. Tiny gestures. Barely noticeable. A little resistance, some gentle friction, to break the fall.

Timothee De Fombelle

#17. People spent their lives searching for something beyond the simple friction of skin on skin, but there was nothing. The void between two people could never be closed, and in trying to close it, they would only learn everything that was to be despised in the other.

Maggie Shipstead

#18. Like magnets: opposites attract. People are the same. Everyone has their flaws, their quirks. Rub them together, you get friction. It's the places where they're different that locks them together.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#19. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive
coming perhaps once in a life-time
and approaching ectasy.

Daphne Du Maurier

#20. Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

#21. What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.

Isaac Asimov

#23. To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.

Aleister Crowley

#24. Where the human need for order meets
the human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear.

Ian McEwan

#25. What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.

Napoleon Hill

#26. She grabbed his shirt and tore it open, buttons popping off and flying everywhere. She insinuated a knee between his thighs, meaning to apply some provocative friction to his private parts while she undid his pants. But he misread her intention. 'Oh, no, you don't,

Emma Darcy

#27. Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#28. That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.

Ryan Reynolds

#29. The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.

Brad D. Smith

#30. For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#31. This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects that cannot be measured just because they are largely due to chance ...

Carl Von Clausewitz

#32. When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

Patti Page