Quodid The Ultimate Quotation Repository

All Quotes

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

—Zelda Fitzgerald

More about this quote

Tags:
love acceptance heart
Permalink for this quote

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

—Robert Byrne

More about this quote

Tags:
action time quality
Permalink for this quote

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

—Robert A. Heinlein

More about this quote

Tags:
innovation progress change laziness invention
Permalink for this quote

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

More about this quote

Tags:
life future knowledge uncertainty
Permalink for this quote

It’s amazing what you can get used to.

—Jeffrey Eugenides in Middlesex

More about this quote

Tags:
normalcy adaptation
Permalink for this quote

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

—Jean Rostand

More about this quote

Tags:
love ideas
Permalink for this quote

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

—Spike Milligan

More about this quote

Tags:
humor stillness land see seasickness
Permalink for this quote

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

—Arthur Koestler

More about this quote

Tags:
discovery invention novelty obviousness
Permalink for this quote

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

—Franklin P. Adams

More about this quote

Tags:
learning curiosity information serendipity
Permalink for this quote

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

—Hesketh Pearson

More about this quote

Tags:
privilege reading learning pride quotation misquotation
Permalink for this quote

Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realize all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travelers, if that makes any sense.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

More about this quote

Tags:
love relationship intimacy
Permalink for this quote

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

—E.M. Forster

More about this quote

Tags:
understanding learning memory
Permalink for this quote

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

More about this quote

Tags:
attention politics USA boredom television
Permalink for this quote

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

—Woodrow Wilson

More about this quote

Tags:
learning intelligence sharing
Permalink for this quote

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

—Hermann Hesse

More about this quote

Tags:
identity self hatred
Permalink for this quote