Brevissima Quotes & Sayings

When I disconnect from Skype, I can let go of the cheerful face I've been trying to hold for Jess's sake. — Lark O'Neal

There are only two industries in this world that ever make any kind of progress: porn, and the military. And when they hop in bed together with crazy fundamentalists, we get things like you. — Madeline Ashby

Starting now and lasting until forever, your health and healthcare will be determined, to a remarkable and somewhat disquieting degree, by how well the technology works. — Robert Wachter

We've got to call 911," she said.
"Are you sure that's such a good idea?" he asked. "Our friends are dead. There's probably drugs all over the place. You look like an alien, and we're from out of town. Plus what are we going to report exactly? Think about it. We both know what we saw."
"It was a roach, right?"
"I guess," he nodded. "The size of an SUV. — Robert Dunbar

Love all, trust a few. — William Shakespeare

human beings, cans of living preserves — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

It was a shut door, and shut doors meant things kept to yourself. There were reasons you kept things to yourself, and they usually weren't good, happy, open-air sort of reasons. Still, I didn't want to see behind that door. You think you want to know everything there is to know about everything there is to know. But you don't. Not really. I had pried the lid off of the dark places of another person before, I had seen inside. Down deep. You don't want to look at what's rotting there. — Deb Caletti

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.
[Lat., Festinat enim decurrere velox
Flosculus angustae miseraeque brevissima vitae
Portico; dum bibimus dum sera unguenta puellas
Poscimus obrepit non intellecta senectus.] — Juvenal

An empty city was like an empty library or school, it made you feel as if the entire thing was built just for you and gave familiar landmarks an individualism that they usually lacked when surrounded by people. — Adrianne Brooks

To allow uncomfortable feelings is to be fully alive because it opens the emotional faucet that also supplies joy and excitement. — Deborah Sandella

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do. — Oscar Wilde

Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked. — Kathryn Stockett