Biweekly Claim Quotes & Sayings

Life is too short so we must generalize. — Gordon Allport

You will last a lot longer, if you don't try to sing. — Kurt Vonnegut

It is by metaphor that language grows. — Julian Jaynes

After two kids, I hit the pillow and go straight to sleep. — Cate Blanchett

Magical obsession is the experience of radical curiosity and wonderment much like the consciousness of a child at Disneyland. It's a state of awareness that presents abnormal, spontaneous opportunities, effortlessly. It is the experience of your wish being the universes desire. — Christopher Zzenn Loren

Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument. — Gregory David Roberts

People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not ... I just have that one person I want to talk to. — Igor Levit

Do not afflict others with anything that you yourself would not wish to suffer. if you would not like to be a slave, make sure no one is your slave. If you have slaves, you yourself are the greatest slave, for just as freedom is incompatible with slavery, so goodness is incompatible with hypocrisy. — Epictetus

He breaks her waves on all his edges. — Gwen Calvo

All the great sadnesses, great temptations, and great mistakes are almost always the result of being alone in life, without a prudent friend to advise us when we are troubled by something more serious than our normal everyday problems. — Jose Saramago

No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes. — Erasmus Darwin

I like taking parts where I'm like: "I don't know how I'm going to do this exactly but I know I can do it." As opposed to doing something where you go: "There's nothing that I can contribute to this." — Scarlett Johansson

I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out.
Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice. — Marian Keyes