
“you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
The Organized Mind (2014)
Context: You’d think people would realize they’re bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.
“you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Page 63 (Act 2, Scene 1)
Long Day's Journey into Night (1955)
Source: Long Day's Journey Into Night
Context: But I suppose life has made him like that, and he can't help it. None of us can help the things life has done to us. They're done before you realize it, and once they're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever.
“If you talk to gangsters long enough, you’ll find out they’re just as bad as respectable people.”
Quoted in The Daily Telegraph, 4 Jul 2012 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/9375396/Eric-Sykes.html
“People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.”
Source: On the Contrary (1964), Ch. 7
“Ignore the normal people, who knows what they’re thinking.”
Film Quotes
Barbara Boxer, in Blind Trust, a novel, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 2009, p. 30. http://books.google.com/books?id=BehMxQNuLAMC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30
Interview with Newsweek, Nov. 2005, pub. 23 Feb. 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11522274/