Miscellaneous quotes
973 quotes from 439 people
Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change
To something new, to something strange
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Kéramos (1878), st. 3Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Bruce Lee1940–1973Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey (2000); here, Lee was reciting lines he wrote for his short lived role on the TV series Longstreet.
Charles Mingus1922–1979Statement to Nat Hentoff , as quoted in California Rock, California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California (1979) by Anthony Fawcett, p. 56
Eldridge Cleaver1935–1998Soul on Ice (1968)
Doris Lessing1919–2013Salon interview (1997)
Thomas Pynchonborn 1937Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Pt. 1 (First lines)
Harlan Ellison1934–2018“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (1967)- PSPublilius Syrus101–101 BCSentences, Maxim 469
What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions.
Denis Diderot1713–1784Dying words of Nicholas Saunderson as portrayed in Lettre sur les aveugles [Letter on the Blind] (1749)The gods throw the dice, and they don’t ask whether we want to be in the game or not.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)The thing we must do intensely is be human together. People are more important than things.
Frank Herbert1920–1986“Introduction” to New World or No World (1970)
Pema Chödrönborn 1936When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957Behave (2017), ch. 12, “Hierarchy, Obedience, and Resistance”, p. 451
Karen Blixen1885–1962Out of Africa (1937), First lines.We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)