Brent Donenfeld > Brent's Quotes

“Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal”
― Jim Morrison

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.”
― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

“Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
― Kobe Bryant

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
― Steve Jobs

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what exactly were they good for?”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't