Followup Quotes & Sayings

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. — Peter Ustinov

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea
that conserves it; ideas only save races. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve. — Ellen Wilkinson

There was never anything wrong with my life. Perhaps that was the problem ... The crack in my life was the fact that I had everything I wanted, or could ever want - and when you have it all, boredom grows like a fungus, coating everything you own and everything you feel. — Neal Shusterman

O friendship, how piercing are your darts - there, there, again there. — Virginia Woolf

Some nights the bed is endlessly wide, some nights it contains all the loneliness in the world. Some nights it is soft and promising, when waiting for sleep is the best part of the day. Some nights, like this one, the bed is hard, the mattress an enemy that wants to force your thoughts into the wrong track, that seems to want to mock you for lying there alone, without another body to rest into and against. — Mons Kallentoft

U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all day, and that is simply not in the interest of evolution. — Stefan Sagmeister

Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life. — Wendi McLendon-Covey

A: So you intend to return to your desert?
B: I am not quick moving. I have to wait for myself - it is always late before the water comes to light out of the well of my self, and I often have to endure thirst for longer than I have patience. That is why I go into solitude - so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think as I really think; after a time it always seems as though they want to banish me from myself and rob me of my soul - and I grow angry with everybody and fear everybody. I then require the desert, so as to grow good again. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. — Larry Wall