Hypertext Magazine Quotes & Sayings

He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover. — Kingsley Amis

Bands like R.E.M. and even The Replacements, during that initial wave of college rock, would sell 40, 50, 100,000 copies of a record, and that would be seen as extremely successful - and definitely enough to keep doing more. — Adam Schlesinger

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either. — Sam Raimi

The scars were not beautiful, but they were fascinating. They made him different. She liked different. — Jessica Clare

In this night too, in this night of his mortal eyes into which he was now descending, love and danger were again waiting ...
a murmur of glory and hexameters, of men defending a temple the gods will not save, and of black vessels searching the sea for a beloved isle;
the murmor of the Odysseys and Iliads it was his destiny to sing and leave echoing concavely in the memory of man.
These things we know, but not those he felt descending into the last shade of all. — Jorge Luis Borges

Things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible. — Catherine Opie

There is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. — Karen Armstrong

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production. — Alex Tabarrok

I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at the wheel of the airplane as we rolled down the runway, because I wanted to remember the exact moment that I first went flying ... the other thing growing up is that I was always interested in science. — David M. Brown

Hey, it's going to be hard to learn a great many things about me, but one I'll you for free...
I am no one's son. — Judd Winick

And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder, making a noise that sounded almost like rage.
'What's up?' he asked.
'Nothing. Oh, nothing. Just ... ' She looked up at him. 'I thought I'd finally got rid of you.'
'I don't think you can.' he said — David Nicholls

No one is satisfied with their life's work. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas