Profit Arledge > Profit's Quotes

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“Being right does not always bring satisfaction,”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“It wasn’t just a matter of hiding what you really felt. If you hid your feelings well enough, it actually changed you. A”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“Apparently the part of the brain that identified things as funny kept running as a background process even when its contributions were useless.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you”
― Morris Berman

“how reality feels. People addicted to busyness, people who don’t just use their cell phones in public but display in every nuance of cell-phone deportment their sense of throbbing connectedness to Something Important—these people would suffocate like fish on a dock if they were cut off from the Flow of Events they have conspired with their fellows to create. To these plugged-in players, the rest of us look like zombies, coasting on fumes. For”
― Morris Berman, Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire