Miles's favorite quotes

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."
— Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow)

38 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail

8,075 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

7,884 people liked it

"If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?"
— Jerry Seinfeld

tags: books, funny

560 people liked it

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

576 people liked it

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
— William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

tags: insults, shakespeare

472 people liked it

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
— Albert Einstein

478 people liked it

"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor

416 people liked it

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: malice, stupidity

351 people liked it

"Women are made to be loved not understood."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

477 people liked it

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
— Mark Twain

tags: clothing

350 people liked it

""Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.""
— Thomas Pynchon

5 people liked it

"You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else."
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)

tags: truth

71 people liked it

"What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?"
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men)

16 people liked it

"You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you."
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)

tags: romance, sex

20 people liked it

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