Sometimes when people get what they want, they realize how limited their goals were.
TV: Mad Men
People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well, that’s my burden, I guess.
TV: Dexter
The poor, the illiterate, the ignorant, the afflicted; Let these be your God.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
…But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget… I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another’s vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.
Book: “Watchmen” by Alan Moore
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
You see this? This is high school. We’re here for four years and then we move on. And all these people you see everyday vanish from your life and you never have to think about them again.
TV: Veronica Mars
There are so many things that have to happen for two people to meet.
Movie: 21 Grams
In my opinion, some people are worth more than others. But I wouldn’t judge people by accomplishment because that’s mostly a matter of luck. And I wouldn’t judge people by their mistakes, because that would mean everyone is worthless. I do however think you can judge people by how they learn from their mistakes.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
I have observed that the best people are frequently odd in one way or another. I have got in the habit of seeking them out, and declining to trust anyone who has no oddities.
Book: “Quicksilver” by Neal Stephenson
A government is a body of people usually notably ungoverned.
TV: Firefly
One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.
A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. It makes quite simple people feel they’re complex.
Just because you’re a programmer doesn’t mean you have to be the help desk for a dozen friends, relatives, and the people in the apartment next door. Does it?
I haven’t had a TV in 10 years, and I really don’t miss it. ‘Cause it’s always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.’
Article: San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 30, 2002
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
Book: The Great Gatsby
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.