Room44 Quotes & Sayings

Being in an empty mind increases my intuition, my sense of energy. — Rickson Gracie

She disinterred the wickedness in normality, cataloguing the ways conformity and repression tip into psychosis, persecution, and paranoia, into cruelty and its masochistic, injury-cherishing twin. Like — Shirley Jackson

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age. — Andre Gide

So as I shivered, naked and damp, in front of the bathroom mirror, I raised my eyes skyward. "I hope we're still okay."
I got no answer, but then, I didn't really expect one. Answer or not, it didn't matter. That's the thing about faith, I guess. — Chloe Neill

For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal. — Stewart Butterfield

Who is he who walks always beside you? No-fucking-body, thank you very much. I walk alone. — Claire Messud

Most people know more as they get older:
I give all that the cold shoulder. — Philip Larkin

It is only by starting at an unusually young age and by practicing with such ferocious devotion that it is possible to accumulate ten thousand hours while still in adolescence. Far from being an exception to the ten-thousand-hour rule, Mozart is a shining testament to it. — Matthew Syed

We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should be wary about tipping the scales too far. The community of selves shouldn't be a democracy, but it shouldn't be a dictatorship, either. — Paul Bloom

To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming. — Gautama Buddha

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you. — Cormac McCarthy