Quotes, May 2014

“History books do a good job of leaving out all the boy-fucking.”
-Julius Sharpe

“On behalf of all of psychiatry: I’m sorry. We have no idea what the he’ll is going on with any of you.”
-The Last Psychiatrist

“The internet makes everything not enough.”
-Alec Sulkin

“Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.”
-Raymond Chandler

“Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I’m not sure what takes more guts—giving it or getting it.”
-Seth Godin

“Studying history helps you predict the future by teaching you which things are old enough to be permanent.”
-Paul Graham

“Art precedes audience. All these people who don’t make shit wondering where all the eyeballs are…. Go figure.”
-Hugh MacLeod

“My mother on childraising: “All you have to do is love them and show them the world.””
-Paul Graham

“The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.” -Dave Chappelle on Richard Pryor

“FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say.”
-Nils Parker

“It always seems that people who bring nothing to the table take the most from it.”
-Alec Sulkin

“Nothing annoys me more than when I’m talking to someone about music and for some reason they think their opinion is as valid as mine.”
-@BillMc7

“If you say you had a zen moment, you already didn’t.”
-Alec Sulkin

“When aliens arrive in 2020 and want a symbol for all that went wrong in America in the past 60 years, they will pick the laugh track.”
-The Last Psychiatrist

“American Airlines should sell their planes and just become professional dicks.”
-Julius Sharpe

“And then a white BMW with New Jersey plates reminded everyone about the true meaning of asshole.”
-Alec Sulkin