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swegener:

the-star-stuff:

ALBERT EINSTEIN: The important thing
Credit: Gavin Aung Than

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swegener:

the-star-stuff:

ALBERT EINSTEIN: The important thing

Credit: Gavin Aung Than

Question
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)
You want to know what’s funny? On the outside I was straight as an arrow, I had to come to prison to be a crook.
Andy Dufrenese, Shawshank Redemption
It’s a uniquely American prudishness. You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they’ll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls.
Author George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire.) Interview published in May 2012 Rolling Stones Magazine. (via sweetupndown9)
wordbrooklyn:

STEPHEN KING SMASH
scribnerbooks:

damn right.

wordbrooklyn:

STEPHEN KING SMASH

scribnerbooks:

damn right.

I’m totally crazy, I know that. I don’t say that to be a smartass, but I know that that’s the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that’s fine. I don’t do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can’t not do it.
So congratulations, North Carolina. Last night, you struck a decisive blow for loneliness. And tonight, as you go to sleep beside your heterosexual life mate, you can rest assured that all across your great state, a gay man or lesbian woman is crying themselves to sleep in solitude and making your relationship stronger with each tear.
STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
oldfilmsflicker:

this one I really love

oldfilmsflicker:

this one I really love

redvelvetteacake:

“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

—Edward Hopper

redvelvetteacake:

“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

—Edward Hopper

You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You’re on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it’s not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well… which is easily done, because then you don’t have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.
Tom Waits (via tangledkitestring)
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
Neil Gaiman (via historicalasshole)

I was doing an interview once, and this guy goes, “So you must be pretty psyched about all this ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ stuff?”

And I was like, “Um, yeah, I am.” I have no idea why though. I had nothing to do with that movie. It’s just some people that kind of look like me are in this movie that everyone loves, and winning Oscars and stuff.

And then I was like, “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are white people just psyched all the time?” It’s, like, “‘Back to the Future’! That’s us! ‘Godfather’! That’s us! ‘Godfather Part II’! That’s us! ‘Departed’! That’s us! ‘Sunset Boulevard’! That’s us! ‘Citizen Kane’! That’s us! ‘Jaws’! That’s us! Every fucking movie but ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and ‘Boyz n the Hood’ is us! We are white people! Suck our dicks!”

Aziz Ansari (via joshishollywood)
“I’ve hated since before I knew of you.”

How horribly vain is it that I like this? I said it last night when some drunk frat types are being loud fucks and I was being tired and misanthropic.