James Clear
- Leave a Buffer
Always leave room for the unexpected. A buffer of time, a little extra money, a reserve of goodwill. You won't be maximizing every opportunity or squeezing out every last dollar, but what you lose in reward, you gain in safety. Survival is the highest return of all.
Chris Ballas
- On Adulthood
The goal of adulthood is to let go of the other possible existences and to make the best of the one. A successful adult is one who understands that it doesn't matter which life you ultimately pick, only that you live it well.
John Gall
- Systems
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
The Narrator
- The Stanley Parable
Without entertainment we would have to face inward toward the cruel bleakness inside ourselves. We would turn to look at our deeper nature, and find a resounding emptiness gazing back with unyielding aggression. And so - so because of this, we require that our amusements, and our play things, and our flights of fancy be so impossibly captivating that they consume all of our attention, turn our heads completely away from the bleakness! In effect, we have demanded that our entertainment be the col.
F. Williams
You're afraid to fly. Why is that? Are you afraid of dying? That will happen anyway. Are you afraid that you will die by flying too close to the sun? That's happened before, and the person it happened to had no complaints.
Blow - movie
- Blow - quotes
"May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. And may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars." is a toast by George and his father in the movie Blow.
From Mamoru Hosoda's "Belle"
- Lend Me Your Voice
Lend me your voice. Let me see your face; let me start to show you what I see. Bring me close. Let me feel the beat of your heart, the secret you bury. Lend me your voice. Anything you want to say I'll be right here, I'll listen, so tell me. Open the door. Let me come and sit by the fire. Just let me come close to your heart.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Dani California
California, Rest In Peace. Simultaneous release. California, show your teeth. She's my priestess. I'm your priest. She's a lover, baby, and a fighter. Should've seen it coming when I got a little brighter. With a name like Dani California. Day was gonna come when I was gonna mourn ya. A little loaded, she was stealing another breath. I love my baby to death.
Carlitos
- Ever wonder why northern countries are so big?
I'm pretty sure we've looked at Google Maps and have wondered, why do countries seem to get bigger the farther they are from the equator? And the reality is that they are not as big as in Google Maps. This also happens on lots of other maps. For some reason, the farther land is from the equator, the bigger it gets on maps. But as you drag it toward the equator its real size is revealed.
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- I hope this comes back to me
I hope that I see this quote again when it all does turn out okay. I'm promising myself that it will, and I know it will, but there's that part of me that isn't quite sure. So I hope I see my uncertainty in words here in a little while and can be comforted by the fact that it really all was okay.
Infocom
- Zork Kitchen
You are in the kitchen of the white house. A table seems to have been used recently for the preparation of food. A passage leads to the west and a dark staircase can be seen leading upward. A dark chimney leads down and to the east is a small window which is open. On the table is an elongated brown sack, smelling of hot peppers. A bottle is sitting on the table. The glass bottle contains: A quantity of water.
Kelso
Fez, unfortunately, there are some people in this world that are going to judge you on the color of your skin, or your funny accent, or that girly little way you run. But you know what, you're not alone. Why don't you think the Martians won't land here? Cause they're green, and they know people are going to make fun of them.
Leo from that 70s show
I saw a UFO once, man. It was just hanging there in the sky. Then it sent me a message, in big bright yellow letters. It told me I was gonna have a good year.
Kelso
One day, I'm going to open a restaurant, and everything on the menu is gonna be special. So, when somebody comes in and says "Hey, Kelso, what's special on the menu?" I can say "Everything."
Neil Armstrong
- At the Foot of the Ladder
I'm at the foot of the ladder. The LM footpads are only depressed in the surface about 1 or 2 inches, although the surface appears to be very, very fine-grained as you get close to it. It's almost like a powder. Down there, it's very fine. I'm going to step off the LM now. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Carrie Underwood
- Blown Away
Shatter every window 'til it's all blown away. Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away. Until there's nothing left standing, nothing left of yesterday. Every tear-soaked, whiskey memory blown away.
Anonymous
"What you don't know can't hurt you?" Really? Tell that to the dinosaurs. I'm certain they didn't know about that asteroid. Otherwise they would've taken shelter.
Muse - Absolution
- Butterflies and Hurricanes
Change everything you are, and everything you were. Your number has been called. Fights and battles have begun, revenge will surely come. Your hard times are ahead.
Ish Me
- Accuracy Over Speed
I did not fully understand what people meant by, "Accuracy over speed," until I began to try the instant death mode on this site. Instead of giving you a penalty for mistakes, or letting you hit backspace to fix it, this mode ends the test immediately and counts the rest of the unfinished quote at 0 WPM. Even though I feel slower, focused on accuracy, I still get my best scores when I'm able to reach the end of a quote in this mode.
It is ME!
- I am too bored
I always get bored while at work. We work twelve to fourteen hours, and at least four of those hours are dead time. It can be more exhausting to go through longer periods of nothingness than shorter periods of high activity.
