Distempered Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings

Anxiety is like a telescope that captures light from distant stars that may have already died. Use it at your own risk to observe things that are within easy reach. — Elaine Orabona Foster

The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations. — Jack Paar

Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive. — Naomie Harris

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. — Michel Legrand

It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.
from The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop — Lewis Buzbee

Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers. — Emma Thompson

Death, although of course completely eyeless, watched Rincewind disappearing with what would, had His face possessed any mobility at all, have been a frown. Death, although exceptionally busy at all times, decided that He now had a hobby. There was something about the wizard that irked Him beyond measure. He didn't keep appointments, for one thing. — Terry Pratchett

She looked at the tree. It was a tree. A leaf, a leaf. Some things just are. They don't signal other meanings. They aren't like a god, casting its meaning over an entire year, or like a conversation, which is itself and also all the things that aren't said.
A tree was not a tree. A leaf, not a leaf. She understood what he didn't say. — Marie Rutkoski

It's one of those easy stories because in essence it explains it all. — Junot Diaz

If you want to see God, simply look into the eyes of an animal. — J. Bartell

I had sex with Jett because I was attracted to him. Jett hired me because he wanted me. It was lust at first sight. — J.C. Reed

Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth. — Ian McGuire

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene. — Kevin Ayers

The paradigm of social media is one that Silicon Valley would like to extend to society at large: a technocracy of benevolent, but total, surveillance. In this kind of society, profits flow to platform owners, not those writing tweets and sharing YouTube videos. — Jacob Silverman

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov