“And this was the thing about diving… in the water, self contained, a man could be what he was meant to be, when that happened, it was impossible to be lost.” - Robert Kurson on Steve Feldman’s love for diving from Shadow Divers

“I spend my life getting ready to play ‘Rocket Man’” - Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut’s Guide To Life On Earth

“Time heals all wounds, I guess. But usually just through forgetting,” - Hank Green, ‘An Ancient apocalypse’

“Treat passion not as a destination but a fuel: following not dreams but opportunities.” - Grant Sanderson

“What a wonder that we get to be here for a little while.” - John Green, ‘Views’

“That’s how they get us… They convince us that there is no future… [that] There is only an eternal now. And the best we can do is survive until dawn and then do it all again. That’s no way to live.” - Isaac, as portrayed in ‘Castlevania’

“But in Nora's journey, the film seems to suggest that the greatest, most breathtaking romance we might hope to have is the one we have with our own life.” - GQ on the film ‘Past Lives’

“… we must take care, lest - borne away by our passion - we make shipwreck of conscience.” - John Adams, as portrayed by Paul Giamatti

“They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters, these see the works of the lord and his wonders in the deep.” -Psalm 107

“In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.” - Iroh, Episode Twenty Five

“Fear exists in the one place you cannot escape: your mind.” - Shark Boy and Lava Girl

“For me, home is more about where my family is. Where my loved ones are. This thing that you kind of create and that you also bring with you, and I think that for these characters - even though they have been torn and fractured in innumerable ways - home is this big family that they have. Even if they don’t know it.” - Yaa Gyasi on Homegoing

“There’s a lot of messed up stuff in the modern world. I can’t fix most of them. But I can fix this thing.” - Aaron Hunt

“Smile my boy: it’s sunrise.” - Teddy Roosevelt, as portrayed by Robin Williams in ‘Night at the Museum 3’

“Today is a great day to start making choices no matter what happened yesterday.” - Adam Ragusea

“I am the story I tell to myself.” - Hank Green

“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.” - Stephen King


“this movie taught us : the minds can forget, but the hearts will always remember.” - Daniel Dagatan, on ‘Your Name’

“All men are fools, and all men are knights.” - Tanselle, George RR Martin, The Hedge Knight

“I’ve always loved how good public spaces are personal enough that you create your life in them (like the childhood park I’m sitting in right now) but impersonal enough so that they remain mostly the same, giving a beautiful continuity and allowing you to soak in where you came from and where you are now.” - Nathan Tang 

“There’s nothing you can say to me that I haven’t said six inches from the mirror.” - Comedian Troy Bond to a heckler

“Copernicus gave his reply

To those who had pledged to deny.

‘All your addictions

To ancient convictions

Won’t bring back your place in the sky.’” - David Morin, PhD

“Consider, when seeking gestalts,

The theories that science exalts.

It’s not that they’re known

To be written in stone.

It’s just that we can’t say they’re false.” - David Morin, Introduction to Classical Mechanics: With Problems and Solutions

“… the gift is being, itself.” - John Green

“L’aventure… c’est un mot romantique pour dire ‘galéré’.”- Laurent Ballesta

“The straight line is godless and immoral.” - Friedensreich Hundertwasser

“There’s a beast in every man. And it stirs when you put a sword in his hand.” - Ser Jorah Mormont, ‘Game of Thrones’

"Quelle chance vous avez, vous les acteurs, d’exercer le seul métier qui s'appelle 'jouer’.” - Françoise Fabien (portraying herself), Episode Two of ‘Dix Pour Cent’

“It’s kind of like you are sitting and breathing in a void… That can be scary, but it can also be very good because there’s nothing to do in a void but breathe.” - Sage Vousé on Dutch Springs’ limited visibility

“...in this world you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well for years I was smart, I recommend pleasant.” - Harvey

“It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves. It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side with our hearts still beating” - The Mountain Goats

“What is culture if not the stuff around us that is too common to contemplate?” - JJ McCullough, ‘Here’s why American candy is fruit flavored’

“You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce.” - Hank Green

“You did something wonderful: you reached out and did the best you could to help another person. That’s not failure. It’s compassion.” - PADI Rescue Diver Manual

“There is nothing more radical or counter cultural, at the moment, than laying down one’s cynicism in favor of tender vulnerability.” - John Green

“In a departure from just about everything else I’ve ever written, and everything else I’ve ever experienced, for that matter, I wanted very much to write just one story with an unambiguously happy ending.” - Anthony Bourdain, commentary on his short story ‘A Chef’s Christmas’ in The Nasty Bits

“Good is, indeed, good forever. And Atlantic City will be great again. Asbury park, Camden, all of my home state. I’m convinced that when the tide has come and washed all the greed heads away, we’ll once again be magic. I hope I’m there to see it.” - Anthony Bourdain, ‘Parts Unknown: NJ’

“It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description… seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end you’re just happy that you were there- with your eyes open- and lived to see it.” -Anthony Bordain, The Nasty Bits

“Snow doesn’t give a soft white damn who it touches.” - E E Cummings

“I have a list of [my] thoughts, and no you cannot see it: it is a silly place.” - Hank Green

“The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and political fabric of America.” - Jimmy Carter

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.” - Thoreau

“Destiny is not something that happens all at once: it’s something that happens only in retrospect.” - John Green

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“The test of a first rate intelligence is to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” - F Scott Fitzgerald

“Genius is a thing that happens: not a kind of person.” - Jordan Ellenberg

“I’m always slightly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.” - Flannery O’Connor, ‘Nature and Aim of Fiction’

“Facing what you fear will free you from yourself.” - Clone Wars Quote Season Six Episode Thirteen

“You need that conviction that you are brilliant. That this is the greatest idea that anyone’s ever had. And that by writing it you will set the world on fire.” - Neil Gaiman

“Being chosen is the greatest gift you can give to another human being.” - Trevor Noah, Born a Crime

“And on that night I was with just the right person at just the right time, and I’ll be damned if the weather wasn’t beautiful.” - John Green

“And no one ever says goodbye unless they want to see you again.” - John Green, Turtles All the Way Down