Quotes

John D. Carmack photo

“This is a bit more expensive than my previous turbo-Ferrari habit, but not too bad.”

John D. Carmack (1970) American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman

On spending $2 million on building rockets, Quoted in "Carmack's Jet Vanes" http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.policy/msg/04e3682944fbcc74?hl=en (2004-05-13)

Henrik Ibsen photo
Samuel Butler (poet) photo

“Nor do I know what is become
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.”

Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist

Canto III, line 263
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

Meg Rosoff photo

“She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.'
'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?”

Meg Rosoff (1956) American-British children's writer

Source: The Bride's Farewell

Jonathan Safran Foer photo

“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”

Variant: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208

Libba Bray photo
Steven Pressfield photo

“A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

Confucius photo

“If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Juan Gabriel Vásquez photo
George Carlin photo

“People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
Source: When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

H.L. Mencken photo

“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

1910s
Source: A Little Book in C Major (1916)

Lewis Carroll photo
Ned Vizzini photo
Margaret Atwood photo