Nonobvious Quotes

#1. Accelerated culture does not respond well to the nonobvious.

Chuck Klosterman

#2. It's best if we just keep this casual and sleeping together after sex isn't casual. At least not to me."

"You're right. Sleeping together after sex does complicate casual. You're anything but casual, Kate. I want you and I always get what I want.

K.L. Kreig

#3. Being humble is cooler than being famous.

Robin Sharma

#4. I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#5. The strange thing is that when a word is well established as a swear word, it seems to lose its original meaning; that is, it loses the thing that made it into a swear word. A word becomes an oath because it means a certain thing, and, because it has become an oath, it ceases to mean that thing.

George Orwell

#6. The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

Robert Wilson

#8. Do you want to receive a text from Friendly?" he finally asks.

Cynthia Sax

#9. But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.

Graham Greene

#10. What you collect says so much about who you are.

Ben Silbermann

#11. I scream at the top of my lungs for the longest time. And I know I should stop, but I can't. It just keeps coming out. But I don't cry. I won't let myself cry.

Alyson Noel

#12. Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.

Ally Condie

#13. Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.

Robert Jordan

#14. We just kept hanging in and fighting.

Troy Brown

#15. I couldn't call our friendship fate, but it was bigger than anything I'd know before

Kiera Cass