There was never a moment in George Carlin's career where he dipped below an A+. When he came out with the "Hippie… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Fling yourself at life and let yourself feel what you do feel upon the very tick of the second; snatch the images… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I think in certain ways sex work has been romanticized. I can only speak from my experience, but what surprised me about… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conventional and perhaps… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There are things which happen through effort, and there are things which happen only through effortlessness. There are things which will never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To me, the idea of a weatherman is really powerful. There's a guy on television or on the radio telling us the… — Gregory Alan Isakov Copy Share Image
True love was forever lost. The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image