Intempestive Quotes & Sayings

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends. — Rashida Jones

There, alone in the sterile room, sitting on a pink vinyl chair that boasts many cracks in its once nice upholster, you wait. You think to yourself , who would have thought I would be ringing in the New Year by urinating into a cup to see if I have chlamydia? — Amanda Steele

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to. — Jeremy Grantham

I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head. — W.B.Yeats

I know very little with anything approaching certainty. I know that I was born, that I exist, and that I will die. For the most part, I can trust my brain's interpretation of the data presented to my senses: this is a rose, that is a car, she is my wife. I do not doubt the reality of the thoughts and emotions and impulses I experience in response to these things. . . . Yet apart from these primary perceptions, intuitions, inferences, and bits of information, the views that I hold about the things that really matter to me--meaning, truth, happiness, goodness, beauty--are finely woven tissues of belief and opinion. — Stephen Batchelor

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons. — Rick Riordan

A vast amount of psychiatric effort has been, and continues to be, devoted to legal and quasi-legal activities. In my opinion, the only certain result has been the aggrandizement of psychiatry. The value to the legal profession and to society as a whole of psychiatric help in administering the criminal law, is, to say the least, uncertain. Perhaps society has been injured, rather than helped, by the furor psychodiagnosticus and psychotherapeuticus in criminology which it invited, fostered, and tolerated. — Thomas Szasz

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it. — Ellen Gallagher

Hate is bait for the devil, love is the gate to god — Benny Bellamacina

The past is very useful, but only for what if can teach us about the present. The present is the rich thing. But I am very fond of the past. — Elizabeth Kostova

If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been. — Rabih Alameddine