1371 Quotes & Sayings

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence. — H.P. Lovecraft

Young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. — Charles Bukowski

There is a camera is between a man and a woman. — Nobuyoshi Araki

After he pulled the trigger, Bing sat with the old man and listened to the rain rattle off the roof of the garage, while John Partridge sprawled on the floor, one foot twitching and a urine stain spreading across the front of his pants. Bing had sat until his mother entered the garage and began to scream. Then it had been her turn - although not for the nail gun. — Joe Hill

Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job. — William Safire

Clearly," I said, "we should choose not to have good sense, if that good sense contributes to our misery."
Everyone agreed with me, and yet I found no one who wanted to accept the bargain of becoming ignorant in order to become content. From this I concluded that though we greatly value happiness, we place even greater value on reason.
But yet, upon reflection, it seems that to prefer reason to happiness is to be quite insane. — Voltaire

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it. — Thomas Szasz

The fruit flies we work with have the equivalent of about a 25 by 25 pixel camera. But that camera is very, very fast, about 10 times faster than the human visual system. — Michael Dickinson

No place is the same because everything is shifting always. — Frederick Lenz