Leah Polcar > Leah's Quotes

“[...] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt nefas est." (Roughly, "They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.")”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.”
― David Foster Wallace

“DO ANYTHING! SOMETHING! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with every breath you take.”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
― Mark Twain

“These are your peak earning years, my friend. You’ve got kids to think about. And soon enough, alimony.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“And so there was a fundamental scepticism about the ability of any institution, even one like the novel, to tell us anything true.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway