Stara's favorite quotes

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. "
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspiration, problem-solving

13 people liked it

""I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.""
— Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika)

3 people liked it

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

989 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

9,492 people liked it

"No matter where you go, there you are."
— Buckaroo Banzai

6 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

3,844 people liked it

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friends

2,290 people liked it

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: castles-in-the-air, dream, dreams, foudnation, foundations, lost, security, work

103 people liked it

"Men have become the tools of their tools."
— Henry David Thoreau

20 people liked it

"Things do not change; we change."
— Henry David Thoreau

35 people liked it

"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes."
— Henry David Thoreau

4 people liked it

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend."
— Henry David Thoreau

15 people liked it

"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

994 people liked it

"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: fact-

217 people liked it

"Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
— Kurt Vonnegut

66 people liked it

"I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time."
— Steven Wright

tags: humor

97 people liked it

"I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything."
— Steven Wright

tags: humor, poem, reading

52 people liked it

"Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life."
— Steven Wright

tags: humor, mondays

23 people liked it

"Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I’m unfamiliar with…just to screw with my subconscious."
— Steven Wright

13 people liked it

"Why are there five syllables in the word “monosyllabic”?"
— Steven Wright

tags: humor

20 people liked it

"If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?"
— Steven Wright

10 people liked it

"What is the speed of dark?"
— Steven Wright

14 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship

7,559 people liked it

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time

4,281 people liked it

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten."
— Neil Gaiman

tags: sandman

234 people liked it

"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. "
— Jim Butcher

tags: family

112 people liked it

"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar"
— Jim Butcher (Dead Beat)

tags: humor, life, zen

57 people liked it

"The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault."
— Jim Butcher (Blood Rites)

34 people liked it

"Polka will never die."
— Jim Butcher (Dead Beat)

tags: polka

21 people liked it

"Kincaid! Bolshevik Muppet!"
— Jim Butcher (Blood Rites)

16 people liked it

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