Aretelabs Quotes & Sayings

I had a Velcro wallet in a casino. That sound annoyed the hell out of me. Whenever I lost money, and I opened the wallet, it was like the sound of my addiction. — Mitch Hedberg

A realization washed over her in that cold, dark space: this was how virtually all living things born on earth have died - with teeth tearing through their muscle and bones. We humans have computers and soap and houses but it doesn't change the fact that everything that walks is nothing but food for something else. — David Wong

Creativity is like the light, the reason we see the light because the "switch" is on and the connection is made — Pearl Zhu

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men. — Harold Ramis

this consciousness I'm describing is gendered (and I think it is), it is clearly feminine. The single most damaging and distorting thing that religion has done to faith involves overlooking, undervaluing, and even outright suppressing this interior, ulterior kind of consciousness. So much Western theology has been constructed on a fundamental disfigurement of the mind and reality. In neglecting the voices of women, who are more attuned to the immanent nature of divinity, who feel that eruption in their very bodies, theology has silenced a powerful - perhaps the most powerful - side of God. — Christian Wiman

As an old acquaintance of mine used to say, "If you can't duck it, fuck it." I'm pretty sure he knew it was duct and not duck, but I'll forgive him for the sake of the rhyme. — Cherie Priest

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline. — James Blake

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. — Clare Boothe Luce

And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear. — Steven J. Carroll

I've been to weddings and I've been to wakes in either setting Love takes no breaks. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. — George Murray

Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed ignorance was going to change it. Ever. — Joe Schreiber