Antiproductive Quotes & Sayings

And it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things. — Bill Bryson

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself. — Rebecca Pidgeon

Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny. — Vera Farmiga

I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger. — Tia Mowry

Never camp by the edge of a waterhole"; "don't screw with hippos"; "baboons are like German shepherds on crack"; — Marilyn Johnson

Me: Turn the porn down. It's so loud even I can hear it. — Colleen Hoover

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact. — Isaac Asimov

You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those. — William Shakespeare

Thems that die'll be the lucky ones. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you. — Morrissey

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash) — Larry Brown

For once, Evie didn't know what to say. She hadn't really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who occasionally remembered to put on a tie. But it was clear that he was, indeed, human, with a deep wound named Rotke. — Libba Bray

I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost. — H.P. Lovecraft

Social power is the power over nature, the living standards achieved by men in mutual exchange. State power, as we have seen, is the coercive and parasitic seizure of this production - a draining of the fruits of society for the benefit of nonproductive (actually antiproductive) rulers. — Murray N. Rothbard

Three duties of every Christian are giving, praying, and fasting. — Jentezen Franklin