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Mitch Albom quote: "If you're always battling against getting older, you're always..."
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow. Mitch Albom
INEZ: What's the matter? ESTELLE: I feel so queer. Don't you ever get taken that way? When I can't see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn't help much. Jean-Paul Sartre
Tom Lehrer quote: "If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will."
If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will. Tom Lehrer
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower. Stephen King
Charles Bukowski quote: "Sometimes I get too exhaustedto even feel bad"
Sometimes I get too exhaustedto even feel bad Charles Bukowski
George Carlin quote: "If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get..."
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders. George Carlin
The Joke... Audience as reflexive cast; 35 mm. X2 cameras; variable length; black and white, silent. Parody of Hollis Frampton’s ‘audience-specific events,’ two Ikegami EC-35 video cameras in theater record the film’s audience and project the resultant raster onto screen - the theater audience watching itself watch itself get the obvious ‘joke’ and become increasingly self-conscious and uncomfortable and hostile supposedly comprises the film’s involuted ‘antinarrative’ flow. Incandenza’s... David Foster Wallace
Plenty of couples, they start off loving each other, then get tired of each other, end up hating each other. Sometimes though it goes the other way. Kazuo Ishiguro
People try to get out of themselves and to escape from the man. This is folly; instead of transforming themselves into angels, they turn into beast; instead of lifting, they degrade themselves. These transcendental humors frighten me, like lofty and inaccessible heights. Michel de Montaigne
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often..."
If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham
Rincewind trudged back up the beach. "The trouble is," he said, "is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so. Terry Prachett
Martin Scorsese quote: "Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions."
Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions. Martin Scorsese
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty. Ludwig Wittgenstein
George R. R. Martin quote: "When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best..."
When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it George R. R. Martin
When she went out to the kitchen, I knew she would be getting her Triscuits. That was what she had for her snack at the end of every workday: six Triscuits exactly, because six was the "serving size" listed on the box. She showed a slavish devotion to the concept of a recommended serving size.... Anne Tyler

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