Retractable Extension Quotes & Sayings

We grew up with social media. There was no iPhone when we started! I love technology; I love what it does to my life. What I really love about social media and the Internet is that it has shifted the power it has democratised everything. — Karen Walker

What is it that I especially find utterly unendurable? That I cannot cope with, that makes me choke and faint? Bad air! Bad air! The approach of some ill-constituted thing; that I have to smell the entrails of some ill-constituted soul! — Friedrich Nietzsche

But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before. — Jane Smiley

Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad. — Martha Gellhorn

You make pictures, not take them?
Yes. At least that's how I think of it. That's the difference between Sunday snapshooters and someone who does it for a living ... I don't just take things as given, I try to make them into something that reflects my personal consciousness, my spirit. I try to find the poetry in the image. — Robert James Waller

Behold how this drop of seawater
has taken so many forms and names;
it has existed as mist, cloud, rain, dew, and mud,
then plant, animal, and Perfect man;
and yet it was a drop of water
from which these things appeared.
Even so this universe of reason, soul, heavens, and bodies,
was but a drop of water in its beginning and ending.

...When a wave strikes it, the world vanishes;
and when the appointed time comes to heaven and stars,
their being is lost in not being. — Mahmud Shabistari

Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way. — Bill W.

The real story of Detroit [ ... ] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it. — Peter Schiff

We all need space in our lives just to be, rather than constantly doing. — Michael Fogler

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper. — Jules Renard

So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm writing that book review for every bad book reviewer I've ever known and it's a way of saying [thrusts a middle finger into the air] this is how you ought to do it. I like to rub their noses in it. — John Irving

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves. — Ron Paul