Duh Quotes

“In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already been preselected for their willingness to say what we want to hear.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspected him of being unfaithful to her and was looking the other way. It even seemed to him that she, a worn-out, aged, no longer beautiful woman, not remarkable for anything, simple, merely a kind mother of a family, ought in all fairness to be indulgent. It turned out to be quite the opposite.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“For some strange reason, beans always fall off knives.”
― Basil Wolverton, The Culture Corner

“I welcome the liberation of music from the prison of melody, rigid structure, and harmony. Why not? But I also listen to music that does adhere to those guidelines. Listening to the Music of the Spheres might be glorious, but I crave a concise song now and then, a narrative or a snapshot more than a whole universe. I can enjoy a movie or read a book in which nothing much happens, but I'm deeply conservative as well—if a song establishes itself within a pop genre, then I listen with certain expectations. I can become bored more easily by a pop song that doesn't play by its own rules than by a contemporary composition that is repetitive and static. I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea—do I have to choose between the two?”
― David Byrne, How Music Works

“There's a line in David Lean's punishingly long 1962 desert flick, Lawrence of Arabia: 'Truly for some men nothing is written unless they write it.'

Duh.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film

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“People constantly stare at me in disbelief ; "she is crazy", "what is she doing" . I tell them the same thing our wise scientists have taught us, "if I knew what I was doing, it wouldn't be called research.”
― Sofia Gomez Puente”
― Sofia Gomez Puente

“Kalen: Um, hello. It’s Isobel.

Elijah: Good. You’re alive.

Gabriel: How was the cuddle?

Theodore: What cuddle?

She clicked on Kalen’s profile, changing his screen name to her own. Isobel: How do you know about that?

Gabriel: Who do you think told him how to do it?

Theodore: WHAT. CUDDLE?”
― Jane Washington, Tourner

“Orange is the New Black is a really boring porn.”
― Mitty Walters

“Duh hiše se je prižel k meni pod odejo z ledenimi prsti,
ki so pogasili moje erotične slike in metafizične bolhe uma.
Medtem ko se je moja odtekajoča toplota borila z njegovo
ledeno sapo, sem si rekel, da je umna nevednost razmeroma
dober izraz za zlato iskrenje, ki se pretaka po umobolnici
mojega duha.”
― Iztok Osojnik, Iz novega sveta

“Lesson one, for anyone interested: stalking never was, is, or will be romantic. Ever.”
― Victoria Evers, Viperous

“Naročito je bio obziran prema ženama. Kad su mu se jadale da od rođenja njihovim tijelima vladaju muškarci, on ih je spremno tješio.
- Ali ne vladaju vašim duhom: on je samo vaš. Tijelom pomičete predmete, duhom cijeli svijet.”
― Robert Međurečan, Tako neka bude