riftkind’s most recent Quotables

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

You know what hope is?
Hope is a liar, a cheat and a tease.
Hope comes near you, kick its backside.
Got no place in days like these.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex, and men need to have sex to feel loved, so the basic act of continuing the species requires a lie from one of you.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

Don't mind her. She's still upset that someone dropped a house on her sister.

He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand — if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Its no use! Everybody gets good enemies except me.

I understand my tests are popular reading in the teachers’ lounge.