Yessssssss Quotes

#1. Schadenfreude,' Colin said. Finding pleasure in others' pain.

John Green

#2. It is enough for a Psychohistorian, as such, to know his Biostatistics and his Neurochemical Electromathematics. Some know nothing else and are fit only to be statistical technicians. But a Speaker must be able to discuss the Plan without mathematics.

Isaac Asimov

#3. I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

Andre Dubus

#4. There were only two options - something was wrong with everyone else, or something was wrong with me. Because either they were tricking themselves into thinking there was a tomorrow together, or I was the only person who was leaving.

David Levithan

#5. There was something, both in fiction and in his life (Nabokov), that we instinctively related to and grasped, the possibility of a boundless freedom when all options are taken away.
I could invent violin or be devoured by the void.

Azar Nafisi

#6. It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look.

Ron Livingston

#7. He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

#8. Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

George W. Bush

#9. The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the poets at the bus stop.)

Martin Amis

#10. I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.

Allison Tolman

#11. There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.

Robert Breault

#12. She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!".

Russell Howard

#13. You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.

Martin Luther

#14. From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

Petrarch