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"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

tags: comedy, life, yourself
1,783 people liked it

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

tags: activism
709 people liked it

"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

248 people liked it

"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."
— Dr. Seuss

212 people liked it

"Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: comics
80 people liked it

"poor empty pants
with nobody inside them."
— Dr. Seuss

84 people liked it

"Just tell yourself, Duckie, your real quite lucky."
— Dr. Seuss

37 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
5,283 people liked it

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: breakfast, brilliant, insults
480 people liked it

"I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: books, humor
532 people liked it

"To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time."
— Susan Sontag (On Photography)

tags: cameras, photography
33 people liked it

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."
— Susan Sontag

tags: photography, time
24 people liked it

"Today everything exists to end in a photograph."
— Susan Sontag

tags: photography
16 people liked it

"I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all"
— Susan Sontag

tags: identity
10 people liked it

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: equality, journalism, paparazzi, photographers, photography, reporters
41 people liked it

"He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera."
— Jhumpa Lahiri (Unaccustomed Earth)

tags: confidence, photography, photos, pictures, youth
10 people liked it

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: anger, freedom, truth
766 people liked it

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: feminism, humour
63 people liked it

"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
"
— Gloria Steinem

32 people liked it

"we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud"
— Gloria Steinem

8 people liked it

"Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. "
— Gloria Steinem

5 people liked it

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time
1,788 people liked it

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
— John Lennon

tags: activism, beatles, materialism, peace, society, television
502 people liked it

"If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal."
— John Lennon

tags: 1960s, beatles, love, peace, sixties
253 people liked it

"Women should be obscene and not heard."
— John Lennon

tags: women
25 people liked it

"I fall asleep with my friends around me, the only place i know. I'm going to call this home."
— Jimmy Eat World

tags: friendship, lyrics, music
187 people liked it

"So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus."
— Tori Amos

tags: lyrics, music, precious, things
34 people liked it

"Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

-Tally"
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

tags: alchemist, band, fma, full, lyrics, metal, quote, shay, tally, twilight, uglies
42 people liked it

"Love is watching someone die. So who's gonna watch you die?"
— Death Cab For Cutie

tags: lyrics, music
30 people liked it

"There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk."
— Tom Waits

tags: ironic, music, tom, waits
54 people liked it

"Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it."
— Tom Waits

tags: kill, kiss
20 people liked it

"A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't."
— Tom Waits

tags: freakin, tom, waits
14 people liked it

"Well I got a bad liver and broken heart,
yeah,I drunk me a river since you
tore me apart"
— Tom Waits

20 people liked it

"In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day."
— Tom Waits

11 people liked it

"I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train... "
— Tom Waits

8 people liked it

""I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.""
— Tom Waits

tags: alcohol, drinking
12 people liked it

"it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones"
— Tom Waits

11 people liked it

"Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On'"
— Tom Waits

5 people liked it

"Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?"
— Morrissey

4 people liked it

"Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page."
— Tori Amos (Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel)

tags: future, moving-on, music, progress
60 people liked it

"Get off the cross, we need the wood."
— Tori Amos (Tori Amos: American Doll Posse)

29 people liked it

"Never was a cornflake girl;
Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls."
— Tori Amos (Tori Amos: Under the Pink)

tags: absurd, bizarre
21 people liked it

"If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change, and all the women'll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to fucking regret it."
— Tori Amos

29 people liked it

"The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink"
— Tori Amos (Tori Amos: To Venus & Back)

17 people liked it

"On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream."
— Tori Amos

10 people liked it

"And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking."
— Bob Dylan

tags: music
128 people liked it

"The future for me is already a thing of the past -
You were my first love and you will be my last"
— Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan: Love And Theft)

tags: love
93 people liked it

"Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles."
— Bob Dylan

32 people liked it

"How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone."
— Bob Dylan

tags: does, feel, how, it, rolling, stone
20 people liked it

"She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique..."
— Bob Dylan

10 people liked it

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