Noah Isaac > Noah's Quotes

“Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.”
― Aaron Swartz

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people say intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”
― Aaron Swartz

“The indoctrination centers (notably schools) weren’t doing their job properly and so a back-to-basics approach with more rote memorization of meaningless facts and less critical thinking and intellectual development was needed. This was mainly done under the guise of “accountability,” for both students and teachers.”
― Aaron Swartz, The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

“I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God”
― Billy Corgan

“Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.”
― Billy Corgan

“Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.”
― Billy Corgan

“I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.”
― Billy Corgan

“Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose”
― Billy Corgan

“I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life”
― Billy Corgan

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you.”
― Chester Bennington

“Alright...here's the deal. What's happening in this piece is very simple, over here on this side...you see that there is a very scared little kinda guy over there...wanna know why he's scared? Because this guy over here is trying to eat him.”
― Chester Bennington

“When you're young artist, it's really important to like pay attention to what you're doing and be honest with yourself and in the creative proccess.”
― Chester Bennington

“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”
― gerard way

“If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.”
― Gerard Way

“Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.”
― Gerard Way

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
― Gerard Way

“Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying”
― Gerard Way

“Tears are words the heart can't express”
― Gerard Way

“A word to the unwise.
Torch every book.
Char every page.
Burn every word to ash.
Ideas are incombustible.
And therein lies your real fear.”
― Ellen Hopkins

“Funny how new facts pop up and make you doubt that there's any goodness in life. Everyone pretends to be normal and be your friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about...”
― James Franco, Palo Alto

“Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up.”
― Shia Labeouf

“Just do it!”
― Shia Labeouf

“I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads.

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See