Callum > Callum's Quotes

“Fucking bastard, I'll stab you in the chest with this pencil.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The greatest political paradox of our time is this: there are more elections than ever before, and yet the world is becoming less democratic.”
― Nic Cheeseman, How to Rig an Election

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

“There's nothing better than a rigged election, so long as you're the one rigging it.”
― Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics

“Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“College is fun as long as you don't die.”
― Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note, Vol. 4: Love

“But if you kill all the bad people.......you will be the only bastard left.”
― Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note Box Set

“If I were to sit normally, my deductive skills will immediately be reduced by roughly 40%
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― Tsugumi Ohba

“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“It's not fair," I said. "It cannot be."

"Those are two different things," my grandmother said.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“They don't realise that they've changed; they think it's the world that changed.”
― ryu murakami, Coin Locker Babies

“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”
― Ryu Murakami, Coin Locker Babies

“Only the moon never sleeps. From the window, it peers in on my heart.”
― Shion Miura, The Easy Life in Kamusari

“He lived one of those lives that seem otiose because they are not linked to any community of interest, because all the riches stored in them by a thousand separate valuable experiences will pass when their last breath is drawn, without anyone to inherit them.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

“But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.”
― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time, and then it would stop flying, and then stop being a plane.”
― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end.”
― Randall Munroe, What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.”
― Randall Munroe

“Sometimes I mistake this for a universe that cares.”
― Randall Munroe, xkcd: volume 0

“Sometimes a farewell and a greeting happened at the same time.”
― Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

“That's all there is to it. We look different, so we don't understand each other's inner thoughts, but we cherish each other in our own way. I respect you.”
― Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

“People’s lives never stay the same colour forever. There are times when the colour of life changes completely.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Les délices de Tokyo

“I began to understand that we were born in order to see and listen to the world. And that's all this world wants of us. It doesn't matter that I was never a teacher or a member of the workforce, my life had meaning.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste

“If I were not here, this full moon would not be here. Neither would the trees. Or the wind. If my view of the world disappears, then everything that I see disappears too. It’s as simple as that.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste