Quotes of: Washington-post Keyword

I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would ...

Daniel Goldstein

Vincent Hanna: I'm angry. I'm very angry, Ralph. You know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband's dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. But you do not get to watch my...

Heat

Denethor: My sons are spent. My line has ended. Rohan has deserted us. Theoden's betrayed me. Abandon your posts! Flee, flee for your lives! [He turns around, and Gandalf knocks him out with his staff] Gandalf: Prepare for battle!

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Heroin had robbed Renton of his sex drive, but now it returned with a vengeance. And as the impotence of those days faded into memory, grim desperation took hold of his sex-crazed mind. His post-junk libido, fuelled by alcohol...

Trainspotting

Woody: Sergeant, establish a recon post downstairs. Code Red. You know what to do. Sergeant: Yes, sir! [jumps down] Sergeant: All right, men, you heard him! Code Red, repeat: we're at Code Red! Recon plan Charlie: Execute! Let's move, move, move, mov...

Toy Story

Jakob Elinsky: Jesus Christ! Frank Slaughtery: Yeah. Jakob Elinsky: Yeah, the New York Times says the air is bad down here. Frank Slaughtery: Well, fuck the Times... I read the Post. Frank Slaughtery: EPA says it's fine. Jakob Elinsky: Well, somebody...

25th Hour

The endless piles of genre fiction are the key to happiness. They’re the key to picking out the things that actually make you happy in this world instead of the things that you’re told are good for you. Ninety percent of everything you read is go...

Life

We are betrayed by our maps of salience. They plot our narratives, identify our enemies and then coat them in distorting layer of loathing and dread. We feel that hunch - withdraw - and then conduct a post factum search for evidence that justifies it...

Will Storr

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

Counterfeit Lies

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

John Kenneth Galbraith

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

Scipio Africanus

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

Susan Rice

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Frank Herbert

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

John Dryden

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

William O. Douglas

V.L.A.D.: Vampire League Against Discrimination.

Kitty Goes to Washington

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Voyage of the Beagle

I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.

Alonzo Mourning