Tripoding Quotes & Sayings

What is your vision of ideal world? — Lailah Gifty Akita

I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be. — Zooey Deschanel

Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on. — Katherine Anne Porter

You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil. — Aesop

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. — Samuel Butler

Only useless things are indispensable. — Francis Picabia

That while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. — John Green

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think! — Friedrich Nietzsche

And you can call me Bertie. Unexpected use of Beatrice makes me think I'm in trouble. — Lisa Mantchev

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world. — Hannah Arendt

He was cheered by this. He was a scientist, not a mystic. — China Mieville

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other. — Rabindranath Tagore

Pray note that my chest does not appear to be a toast rack in a wet paper bag.
Mort glanced sideways at the top of Ysabell's dress, which contained enough puppy fat for two litters of Rotweilers, and forbore to comment. — Terry Pratchett

The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a toilet wall closing on the Last Erection. — William S. Burroughs