Santino Hassell > Santino's Quotes

“Self-esteem. That's one of those catch-all terms that means nothing at all, but the mere mention of it leaves all the socially conscious liberal types nodding sagely and scratching their chins.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, Meatworks

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
― Isaac Asimov

“People shouldn’t be forced to categorize themselves as “gay,” “straight,” or “bi.” People are just people. Maybe you’re mostly attracted to men. Maybe you’re mostly attracted to women. Maybe you’re attracted to everyone. These are historical claims — not future predictions. If we truly want to expand the scope of human freedom, we should encourage people to date who they want; not just provide more categorical boxes for them to slot themselves into. A man who has mostly dated men should be just as welcome to date women as a woman who’s mostly dated men.

So that’s why I’m not gay. I hook up with people. I enjoy it. Sometimes they’re men, sometimes they’re women. I don’t see why it needs to be any more complicated than that.”
― Aaron Swartz

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.”
― Bob Ross

“Fuckin' wit a madman in a bad mood
It's like fuckin' wit a mad dog that wasn't fed food”
― DMX

“A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.”
― Eminem

“The prevention of emotional and behavioral disorders encompasses intervening in the early years”
― James Kauffman, Exceptional Learners: Introduction to Special Education

“Less talk more head right now, huh?”
― Kanye West

“You're like a motherfucking unicorn. Do you know any other male slash writers who bang chicks??”
― Em Anthony

“I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle”
― Kanye West

“I'd blow someone for a valium," I said in Jacob's ear.
"Maybe he's got one... but try offering a hand-job first so you retain some leverage.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, GhosTV

“I really hate threesomes when one of the participants is dead.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, Among the Living

“Gee, I wasn't as up on my Native American traditions as the chick who used to call herself Faun fucking Windsong even though she was fifteen sixteenths as lily-white as me. Imagine that.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, GhosTV

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”
― gerard way

“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
― Frank Zappa

“You know why Rabbit rhymes with Habit? Because it takes your whole life down a fucking bunny hole.”
― Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

“You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings – those turns of phrase or images of which you felt extra proud when they appeared on the page – but go back and look at them with a very beady eye. Almost always it turns out that they'd be better dead. (Not every little twinge of satisfaction is suspect – it's the ones which amount to a sort of smug glee you must watch out for.”
― Diana Athill

“I'd gone my whole life with people expecting things I didn't seem capable of giving, so why should now be any different?”
― Jordan Castillo Price, Elixir

“I'll walk in the middle of the road. No more standing safely to the side.”
― Ahmed Hassan

“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”
― Joss Whedon

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“Back when I was a two-handed bastard, I made the sheep of the population nervous by skulking around in my badass facial hardware and projecting the fact that I didn't give a shit.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, Meatworks

“I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.”
― William Gibson, Idoru

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”
― Aaron Swartz

“Nothing I did or said among the other boys came to me naturally. As a result, in every encounter, even the most glancing, I had to be a performer, for at all times I was aware I was impersonating a human being.”
― Edmund White

“We were losers who talked a winning game. No wonder honesty came to mean for my sister saying only the most damaging things against herself. If she began by admitting defeat, then something was possible: sincerity, perhaps, or at least the avoidance of appearing ludicrous.”
― Edmund White, A Boy's Own Story