Systematically Def Quotes

#1. Geeks are running the world, anyone who's seen The Social Network knows the dynamic has shifted, but what I think is iconic and timeless about Peter Parker is that he's an outsider, on the outside looking in, and that was something I thought was very important to protect.

Marc Webb

#2. No matter how much a man may study, reflect and meditate on all the books in the world, he is nothing more than a minor scribe unless he has read the great book.

Denis Diderot

#3. When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

Bruce McGill

#4. It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

Robert Mugabe

#5. The literal mind can never understand the ironic mind.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. It would have been so stupid, Niki went on, If you would just accepted everything the way it was and just stayed where you were. At least you made an effort.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#7. I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.

R. Lee Ermey

#8. Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

Graham Greene

#9. So much of what we experience emotionally as cataclysmic, even life-threatening, sounds utterly trivial when we say it out loud.

Susannah B. Mintz

#10. I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love.

Haruki Murakami