#hp

If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. ↗

— Sarah Caldwell

#green #opera #sell #toothpaste #you

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. ↗

— Karl Marx

#course #create #history #may #mouthpiece

I was jealous of [Nora] at first, because she had prettier dresses and the naturally curly hair that had been my ultimate worldly desire at that age. In fact, when our mothers initially introduced us, i had chosen to greet her by yanking on a fistful of her hair to see if it was real. Her response was to deck me in the nose. It had been love at first fight. ↗

— Lia Habel

#age

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#philosohpy #age

Age of the geek, baby! ↗

— Keith R.A. DeCandido

#catchphrase #geek #leverage #age

I gave [Nora] as long as she needed, all the while mentally designing my tombstone. 'R.I.P., Captain Abraham R. Griswold. He was completely useless and made girls cry. ↗

— Lia Habel

#chp #design

I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#dreams

The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability. ↗

— Seth Godin

#family

It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven. ↗

— Johann David Wyss

#family

I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing...maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hp #humor