Jean Louis Jack Kerouac Quotes & Sayings

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. — Baltasar Gracian

The media, the corporations, the politicians ... have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it's come to the point where they don't need to give any reason at all. — Michael Moore

There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy. — Eula Biss

The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free. — John McLeod

Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home. — Henry Ward Beecher

If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student. — Malcolm Gladwell

Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks. — Eben Moglen

If its got tires or testicles it's going to give you trouble — P.C. Cast

The arctic loneliness of age. — Silas Weir Mitchell

Survival justifies any means. — Toba Beta

You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a resistance to that, and the resistance is strong, it just means you're not interested. Why put yourself through some sort of torture. It means you weren't that interested. — Frederick Lenz

Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y. — Jonah Lehrer

The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done. — Don Cornelius

Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else - Satan has us just where he wants us. — Hugh Nibley

The bat-and-ball problem is our first encounter with an observation that will be a recurrent theme of this book: many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions. — Daniel Kahneman