Examinated Quotes & Sayings

Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing. — John Oliver

She almost smiled at the justice of it, at her ultimate foolishness in thinking that she could uncage chaos and then control it. — Dan Simmons

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played — Miles Davis

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer. — Franz Kafka

discovery and defense of the new. — Ed Catmull

If I could give you just one thing, I'd want it to be a simple truth that took me many years to learn. If you learn it now, it may enrich your life in hundreds of ways. And it may prevent you from facing many problems that have hurt people who have never learned it.

The truth is simply this:

No one owes you anything. — Harry Browne

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him. — James Hudson Taylor

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt. — Jairam Ramesh

What bizarre planet have I landed on? So Haley settles for a single kiss, and I lose it to the first guy to ask me out, after falling for some crazy theory involving my lucky bracelet? — Talia Vance

I'm not a super adventurous eater and I try to make myself try things. — Paul F. Tompkins

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. — Jane Austen

Ty's knee occasionally brushed against his under the table as they ate, but the conversation died down as the food was passed around. It was an odd, remarkable feeling, to be eating breakfast with Ty and his family and feel not only welcome, but like he might belong there.
Zane — Abigail Roux