ZizzFeed Quotes

Inspiration

The fact is: Jesus wrote not a solitary word that survives. Equally astounding is historical silence: not a single historical account refers to him during his lifetime from any source whatsoever, Roman or Jewish, official or personal.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."

Richard Avedon

Inspiration

The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.

Alan Hodgkin

Inspiration

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.

Shia LaBeouf

"Writers are the ink of society."

Unknown

Inspiration

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Idries Shah

Inspiration

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

Ann Leckie

"Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason."

Anonymous

"I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have."

Andie MacDowell

"The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king truth comes riding on a donkey symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!"

David Kirk

"Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously 'born' in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality."

Antonio Gramsci

"One thing hatred can do very well is to attack what it hates!"

Anonymous

"When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them."

Michael Josephson

"In reality, though, most of the time we don’t choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing."

Steve Krug

Inspiration

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Marc Newson

"As I mentioned earlier, women get mixed messages in childhood: You can do anything you want... But it wouldn't hurt to find someone who will take good care of you."

Lois P. Frankel

"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"

Henry David Thoreau

"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at."

Unknown

Inspiration

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Thomas Fuller

"Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting."

Ptah-Hotep

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