C6h14 Quotes & Sayings

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system. — Lawrence Wright

A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul. — Grant Bowler

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. — Aldous Huxley

Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good master, but they mean to be master. — Daniel Webster

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value. — Alain De Botton

Let our scars fall into love with each other... — Jose N. Harris

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. — Marcus Brigstocke

The concrete life of the individual is destroyed in order that the abstract idea of the whole may drag out its sorry existence. — Friedrich Schiller

You can work through the physics of interstellar radio attenuation,1 but the problem is captured pretty well by considering the economics of the situation: If your TV signals are getting to another star, you're wasting money. Powering a transmitter is expensive, and creatures on other stars aren't buying the products in the TV commercials that pay your power bill. The full picture is more complicated, but the bottom — Randall Munroe

I'm saying the structure and f the entire culture is flawed, chip said. I'm saying the bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain states of mind as 'diseased.' A lack of desire to spend money becomes a symptom of disease that requires expensive medication. Which medication then destroys the libido, in other words destroys the appetite for the one pleasure in life that's free, which means the person has to spend more money on compensatory pleasures. The very definition of mental health is the ability to participate in the consumer economy. When you buy into therapy, you're buying into buying. And I'm saying that I personally am losing the battle with a commercialized, medicalized, totalitarian, modernity right this instant. — Jonathan Franzen

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't. — Joan Chen

The Book Charm

Your Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared — Viola Shipman

He doesn't believe in "the one." There are zillions of people in the world; no one is that special. — Gabrielle Zevin

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence. — Walter Bagehot