Ray Oldenburg Third Place Quotes & Sayings

Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural. — Larry McMurtry

Love. He recoiled from the very idea. He knew all about love: love was following his best friend around school like a lost puppy, putting up with all manner of shit just to be near him. Love was sobbing himself to sleep night after endless night because the guy who'd taken his virginity hadn't called him back. Love was a thousand shattered dreams and a flood of memories that made him cringe. Love could fuck off. — Kate Aaron

Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher. — Claudius Aelianus

The romance of your child's childhood may be the last romance you can give up. — Adam Gopnik

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity.
He who has the faith has the fun. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint ... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living. — Philip Guston

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States. — Pete Sampras

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being. — Robert Silverberg

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one ... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. — Henry David Thoreau

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it. — Evelyn Waugh

You're all so glued to your phones, tablets, and computers that life isn't even running away from you at this point; it's strolling, taking its own sweet time because it knows damn well you're not going to pull your nose out of your Facebook page long enough to realize it's already gone. — Corey Taylor

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work. — Joan Osborne

I'm here. You're safe now. It's okay to
remember. They can never hurt you again. — Karen Marie Moning

I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not. — Jay McInerney