Quotes - Marta (Warsaw, Poland) Showing 1-30 of 37

#1

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading

5242 likes

#2

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

tags: books, power

3331 likes

#3

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
― Henry Miller

1402 likes

#4

“Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way”
― Paul Theroux, Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

44 likes

#5

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

1915 likes

#6

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

3941 likes

#7

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism

2549 likes

#8

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

1890 likes

#9

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: friendship, love

1630 likes

#10

“You are your best thing”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

896 likes

#11

“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.”
― Don DeLillio, Underworld

202 likes

#12

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20760 likes

#13

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: freedom, self

3054 likes

#14

“Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

84 likes

#15

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

26979 likes

#16

“Pay For Soup/Build A Fort/Set That On Fire”
― Jean-Michel Basquiat

28 likes

#17

“The Rose is without an explanation; She Blooms because She Blooms.”
― Angelus Silesius, The Cherubinic Wanderer

13 likes

#18

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

22082 likes

#19

“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
”
― AJ Liebling

8 likes

#20

“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and i can write faster than anybody who can write better.”
― A.J. Liebling

tags: humor

10 likes

#21

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

152072 likes

#22

“Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: re-reading, reading

106 likes

#23

“Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren’t we talking more about that?”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

206 likes

#24

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

3942 likes

#25

“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill

1404 likes

#26

“I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.”
― Yōko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear

tags: chit-chat, communication, cultural-differences, polar-bears, weather

15 likes

#27

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27757 likes

#28

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: action, attention, concentration, connection, eagerness, inspiration, intelligence, observation, vitality

2110 likes

#29

“The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.”
― Bernie Sanders

tags: politics

73 likes

#30

“And at a fruit boutique called Atelier du Soleil, one beautifully proportioned mango was selling for the equivalent of one hundred dollars. "That's not your average supermarket mango," one Tokyo fruit connoisseur told me. "That mango will change your mind forever about mangoes. That mango will blow your damn mind!”
― Adam Platt

3 likes

Marta > Marta's Quotes

Tags From Marta’s Quotes