When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Although sex was something they both regarded as perilous, marriage had, by contrast, seemed safe– a safe house in a world of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I feel like people have more in common than the news reports. People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news.… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
It kind of depresses me when people decide to move away. I get it, you want your kids to have somewhere to… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
Sadly, there are some fine Christian people who believe that the only way to advance the gospel is to pray for revival… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
We have to always spread sugar on top of it in order that we can tolerate swallowing the things we're supposed to… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
If you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened,dispirited, or depressed,they would ask one of four questions: when did you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions,… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people.… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation… — Annie Smith Peck Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
At some point, I went to the studio and nothing happened. It can be really depressing to sit there and wait for… — Apparat Copy Share Image
They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
We should have absolute control over our borders. If we want cheap labor to depress wages and disempower the unions, then we… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion.… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
If you know someone whos depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isnt a straightforward response to a bad situation.… — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
Apparently, union bosses are so distraught about declining enrollments they will stoop to exploiting illegal workers. There is no doubt that this… — Lamar S. Smith Copy Share Image
Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine,… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and… — Harpo Marx Copy Share Image
There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama.… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You can cruise the world's millions of omega-3 Web sites without encountering any reflections about where these prized fatty acids are coming… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I am depression. Im the emptiness you feel at 2am. the tears with no meaning. The pain when you smile. I dont… — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
What's depressing, in a way, thinking of Margaret Thatcher legacy - and she was no doubt great in many ways - but… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
You hear some people saying, 'I'm alive on stage; it's where I feel most complete...' I don't understand that at all; I… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“He ran his fingers over the moist ends of her hair and across her face. Her eyes were wet. Jesus Christ. How… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the house, the armchair, the… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
I've seen few things more depressing than the end-of-season Giants-Padres series in 2001 in which Barry Bonds hit his 68th homer of… — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
