Ryan Basche > Ryan's Quotes

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
― Banksy

“A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Mediocrity is contextual.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“...morning is the soul's night.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“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

“I am not what you see and hear.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut