“He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean...”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“So what have you guys been up to?”
“Nothing, worshipping Satan.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“God, it drives me crazy when I know exactly what I want and I can't find it anywhere! It's like does anybody want my money!? I mean what the fuck!?”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer!”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“This is the Mona Lisa of bad diners.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“Dear Josh, we stopped by to fuck you but you didn't answer the door. Therefore you are gay.
Sincerely, Tiffany and Amber.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“You were right, everybody hates my new car. Becky said it was a goth dorkmobile.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
Daniel Clowes
Born place: in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
Born date April 14, 1961
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“Има пилоти, които са стигнали при нас след лупинг в точно определено място от Бермудския триъгълник. Има домакини, които са се промушили през гърба на кухненския си долап, и математици, които са открили някоя деформация в топологичното пространство и им се е наложило да се проврат през нея. Така че - ако сте много нещастни там долу и ако всякакви хора ви обясняват, че страдате от остро перцептивно разстройство - потърсете личния си начин да се доберете дотук и когато го намерите, моля, донесете колода карти, че тези топчета ни дойдоха до гуша.”
― Etgar Keret, quote from The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories
“The Weasel Cafferty’s lieutenant Aly the Weasel’s son Ellen Dempsey owner of MG Cabs in Edinburgh DI Bobby Hogan Leith-based detective WPC Antonia “Toni” Jackson experienced uniformed officer at St. Leonard’s PC John “Perry” Mason latest recruit to the uniformed branch at St. Leonard’s Laura Stafford a prostitute Donny Dow father of Laura’s child DS Liz Hetherington Dundee-based detective Ricky manager of the Sauna Paradiso Other Characters Claverhouse detective in the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency Ormiston Claverhouse’s”
― Ian Rankin, quote from Resurrection Men
“Let us not, however, exaggerate our power. Whatever man does, the great lines of creation persist; the supreme mass does not depend on man. He has power over the detail, not over the whole. And it is right that this should be so. The Whole is providential. Its laws pass over our head. What we do goes no farther than the surface. Man clothes or unclothes the earth; clearing a forest is like taking off a garment. But to slow down the rotation of the globe on its axis, to accelerate the course of the globe on its orbit, to add or subtract a fathom on he earth's daily journey of 718,000 leagues around the sun, to modify the precession of the equinoxes, to eliminate one drop of rain--never! What is on high remains on high. Man can change the climate, but not the seasons Just try and make the moon revolve anywhere but in the ecliptic!
Dreamers, some of them illustrious, have dreamed of restoring perpetual spring to the earth. The extreme seasons, summer and winter, are produced by the excess of the inclination of the earth's axis over the place of the ecliptic of which we have just spoken. In order to eliminate the seasons it would be necessary only to straighten this axis. Nothing could be simpler. Just plant a stake on the Pole and drive it in to the center of the globe; attach a chain to it; find a base outside the earth; have 10 billion teams, each of 10 billion horses, and get them to pull. THe axis will straighten up, ad you will have your spring. As you can see, an easy task.
We must look elsewhere for Eden. Spring is good; but freedom and justice are beter. Eden is moral, not material.
To be free and just depends on ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo, quote from The Toilers of the Sea
“But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from An Acceptable Time
“[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.”
― Aristotle, quote from Metaphysics
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