Skinneejay's quotes

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"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: intellectualism
66 people liked it

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life
1,641 people liked it

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: reality
601 people liked it

"This is your life and its ending one moment at a time."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: life
275 people liked it

"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: love
318 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,600 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
10,005 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,733 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,914 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,302 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
7,870 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,898 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
7,255 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,902 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
6,078 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,582 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,950 people liked it

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: humor, philosophy
896 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,708 people liked it

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: individuality
364 people liked it

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
456 people liked it

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

257 people liked it

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: perspective, truth
236 people liked it

"What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

61 people liked it

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. "
— Bill Gates

tags: humor, work
3,906 people liked it

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion
4,163 people liked it

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor, time
1,556 people liked it

"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
— William Faulkner

tags: reading, writing
175 people liked it

"It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart."
— William Faulkner

48 people liked it

"I decline to accept the end of man... I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."
— William Faulkner

49 people liked it

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
— William Faulkner

54 people liked it

"My mother is a fish."
— William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying)

37 people liked it

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. "
— William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, truth
66 people liked it

"Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing."
— William Faulkner

33 people liked it

"Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be."
— William Faulkner

28 people liked it

"All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't."
— William Faulkner

18 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,662 people liked it

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

tags: religion, science
1,646 people liked it

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life, respect
1,516 people liked it

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
— Albert Einstein

tags: fav
1,311 people liked it

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
— Albert Einstein

875 people liked it

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning."
— Albert Einstein (Relativity: The Special and the General Theory)

tags: physics, science
626 people liked it

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life
604 people liked it

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
— Albert Einstein

370 people liked it

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
— Albert Einstein

tags: dangerous, evil, people, world
405 people liked it

"The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up."
— Albert Einstein

331 people liked it

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut"
— Albert Einstein

172 people liked it