Hipsonic Quotes & Sayings

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates, — Kurt Tucholsky

Everybody I meet who uses 'WhatsApp', I ask them a question: 'How did you hear about it?' And they say, 'My friends, my sister or my brother, somebody I know hounded me to install WhatsApp.' We think there is more power to the network when it grows organically. — Jan Koum

Mothering requires two impulses- the impulse to hold on, and the impulse to push away. — Andrew Solomon

These were rice paddies before they were parking lots. Rice was the basis for our society. Peasants planted the seeds and had highest status in the Confucian hierarchy. As the Master said, "Let the producers be many and the consumers few.' When the Feed came in from Atlantis, from Nippon, we no longer had to plant, because the rice now came from the matter compiler. It was the destruction of our society. When our society was based upon planting, it could truly be said, as the Master did, "Virtue is the root; wealth is the result.' But under the Western ti, wealth comes not from virtue but from cleverness. So the filial relationships became deranged. Chaos," Dr. X said regretfully, then looked up from his tea and nodded out the window. "Parking lots and chaos. — Neal Stephenson

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved — Joyce Carol Oates

My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires. — Ingmar Bergman

When I liked something I tasted it hesitantly, furtively, as though it were extremely bitter. — Osamu Dazai

It was only a matter of time. She would love him before the week was out and it would be gloriously terrible, wonderfully hopeless. — Tessa Dare

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation. — Jeff Kinney

I am an intelligent drunk because an intelligent drunk carries his liquor with him — Synyster Gates

If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club. — Hunter S. Thompson

I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle. — Zadie Smith

Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give. — Stephen Christian

I've learned from her [ Oprah Winfrey] really how to stand in one's truth, how if you just simply are who you are, you know, you're heavy, you're thin, you're happy, you're sad - if you just speak your truth as it comes into your mind, then that's what people relate to. — Suze Orman

Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;
And, being done, thus Wall away doth go. — William Shakespeare