Short But Lit Quotes

#1. The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a "soundless music". It was the melody of friendship, the sound of a perfectly tuned quartet who got together by chance, four hearts playing in harmony.

You Jin

#2. Nature does not produce on the one side owners of money or commodities, and on the other men possessing nothing but their own labour-power. This relation has no natural basis, neither is its social basis one that is common to all historical periods.

Karl Marx

#3. I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

Billy Collins

#4. I'm going to kill you," she whispered.
He sat up once more, wrapped her hair around his fist and growled. "Fuck me, instead.

Tessa Bailey

#5. You know the type - will give herself to the first nobleman in a uniform who comes calling with a couple of eggs and a piece of rat meat."
"You're selling yourself short."
"I've just sold myself for rat meat," she said, and she turned from him and lit the stove.

Chris Bohjalian

#6. I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.

You Jin

#7. There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. Your life is just a bird's flight through a lit room. You pass from infinite darkness into endless night, with only a short time in between.

Conn Iggulden

#9. In short, Now is Google's attempt at becoming the real time interface to our lives - moving well beyond the siloed confines of 'search' and into the far more ambitious world of 'experience.' As in - every experience one has could well be lit by data delivered through Google Now.

John Battelle

#10. Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Augustus Hare

#11. Who lacks confidence speaks lies more readily.

Nachman Of Breslov

#12. Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all ...

Seneca The Younger

#13. We can bring into being, the things we dream. So much of what we are is, limited or expanded by, what we think.

Jaeda DeWalt

#14. Practice loving kindness wherever you may go.

Heather Wolf

#15. The bandleader is a musician trying to sell a mass commodity; and in order to do so successfully he must accommodate himself to mass standards. Unless he can do this comfortably, sooner or later he is sunk.

Artie Shaw

#16. I have seen so many eruptions in the last 20 years that I don't care if I die tomorrow.

Katia And Maurice Krafft

#17. Autumn Dusk
I saw above a sea of hills
A solitary planet shine,
And there was no one, near or far,
to keep the world from being mine.

Sara Teasdale