Boing Boing Store Quotes & Sayings

The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation. — Tullian Tchividjian

The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure — Michael Stean

Screens tell you not what is really out there but what the government or Facebook thinks you should see. If you searched for something and it wasn't there, how would you know it really was? To paraphrase an old philosophical question, if a tree falls on the Internet and no search engine indexes it, does it make any noise? As we live our lives increasingly mediated through screens, when it doesn't exist online, it doesn't exist. — Marc Goodman

I said excuse me you're a hell of a guy, I mean my my my my you're like pelican fly! — Nicki Minaj

The worse feeling is when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you hanging, and you have to act like you don't care at all. — Drake

Do you intend to make me cry, or are you just foolish? — Sarah J. Maas

Like infants with their mothers, we're helpless before the God who feeds us, cares for us and embraces us with even greater devotion than that of a loving mother with nursing babies." Does a nursing babe have to "be good" to earn that love-to deserve that tender, intimate feeding? No. He has only to open his mouth and be fed.
And so with us.
My — Rachel Marie Stone

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world. — William Hazlitt

There's truth in the idea we're never going to be perfect in love but we can get close. And the closer we get, the healthier we will be. Love is not a game any of us can win, it's just a story we can live and enjoy. — Donald Miller

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is. — Steven Hatfill

What does a person need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense. And we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by. — Sterling Hayden

I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships? — Peter Berg

If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game. — Jay Maisel

It's easy to believe in God when you wake up every morning knowing you are completely and unconditionally loved. — Tiffany Reisz

The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool. — Zoe Kravitz