Archex Quotes & Sayings

The figure dropped like an acid tab into the mouth of Time. — Thomas Pynchon

It's better to be passionate about beautiful women than gay men. — Silvio Berlusconi

It is quite impossible to write a worth-while novel about a Jew or a Gentile or a Homosexual, for people refuse, unhappily, to function in so neat and one-dimensional a fashion. — James Baldwin

Is it the lack of opportunity that creates the lack of ambition, or has that always existed? Most of them must have parents who work, or who studied, and who of course want the same thing for their kids. But how do you find that in a town where the major achievement was always seen as escaping it? Eventually — Matt Dunn

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can't be shared. — Andrew Harvey

I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music. — Nicki Minaj

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle. — Josh Billings

Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there. — Janey Colbourne

I live an hour from NASA's HQ in Washington, D.C., and sitting in a jam stresses me out. — Ellen Stofan

I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things. — Melvin Van Peebles

In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be swaying the branches of the plum tree and dust may slowly be gathering on the bookshelves in the living room. But we are aware that such serenity does not do justice to the chaotic and violent fundamentals of existence and hence, after a time, it has a a habit of growing worrisome in its own way. — Alain De Botton

You love and you hate and you grieve and you don't even feel it. — Lev Grossman

What turns you on more?" he asks, his hands grasping my thighs as he pulls me up. "The fighting or the fucking? — J.M. Darhower

The reputation of a great work ethic that took years to build can be forgotten with one act of misjudgment. — Mark W. Boyer