Rorshach's Quotes

#1. Rorshach's journal. October 16, 1985. Been waiting in Moloch's fridge for three hours. Ate two raw eggs and packet of honey mustard sauce. Just realized I am sitting on baking soda. Freezing ass off. Really have to take leak.

Alan Moore

#2. When I was small, the wind sang me lullabies. Lilting, humming, high-pitched things, filling the space around me so that even when all seemed quiet, it wasn't. This is a wind I have lived with.

Victoria Schwab

#3. He glanced to his left, which for most people is a neurolinguistic sign of recall rather than of construction. Had he looked in the opposite direction, I would have read it as a lie.

Barry Eisler

#4. No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)

David McCullough

#5. One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

John Gay

#6. That'd be good. That'd be a right good laugh, man. Ye cannae catch me shuttin' up, man

Charlie Flynn

#7. I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.

Jacques Derrida

#8. It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.

Robert Genn

#9. He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. I've always said that L.A. is the city of America's future. It is to the world what London was in the 19th century and New York in the 20th because of the growth of the Pacific Rim countries. We're the portal to the emerging world.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#11. Life's too short to cavort with fork-tongued carnivores.

Jonathan Heatt

#12. My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

Bernard Tschumi

#13. Often, what seems like an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.

Robert Brault

#14. If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become ... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?

Muriel Barbery

#15. Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?

Clare Vanderpool