Category: Thought of the Day

"I’m going to go now. It’s been wonderful. I’ve make some great friends, had a lot of laughs. Consumating got me through one of the toughest times of my life. But I’m not going to sit around and watch it crumble. I’ve got a life to lead that Consumating helped give me. It’s the best tribute and legacy I have to give it back.

So goodbye all. Google Kevin Smokler anywhere and you’ll find me. We will all meet again someday, another day to ride, another place in the sun."

–The Weeg. (My final post on the site upon hearing this evening of its demise)

"Passion will drive you crazy but really is there any other way to live?"

—Howard Hughes

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."

—Noam Chomsky

"I wonder…Did Einstein think everyone else was a dumb shit?"

—Maya Rudolf in Idiocracy

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

—Emily Dickinson (via The Writer’s Almanac)

"How do these little black spider legs on pages hold so much power?"

—Italo Calvino

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and
look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them."

—George Bernard Shaw

"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits." 

—Robert Louis Stevenson (via The Writer’s Almanac)