Louis C.K. (1967) American comedian and actor
http://splitsider.com/2013/02/the-annotated-wisdom-of-louis-c-k/ (2011)
Source: UnSouled
Louis C.K. (1967) American comedian and actor
http://splitsider.com/2013/02/the-annotated-wisdom-of-louis-c-k/ (2011)
“Very occasionally, if you really pay attention, life doesn’t suck.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
Liner notes to the cast album Once More, with Feeling (2002)
“If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.”
Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 261
General sources
Variant: In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
“I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring.”
J. G. Ballard (1930–2009) British writer
Interview (30 October 1982) in Re/Search no. 8/9 (1984)
Context: I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
“I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity”
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
“The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.”
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Saving Francesca