Bawker Quotes

“Ever man dies, but not every man truly lives”  — Sonny Barger

“Fixing things may be a cure for narcissism.” – Matthew B. Carwford

“It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation” — Gary Vaynerchuk

“Trust Agents use today’s web tools to spread their influence faster, wider, and deeper than a typical company’s PR or marketing department might be capable of achieving” – Chris Brogan and Julien Smith

“You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.”  — Donald Miller

“Literature enlarges our being by admitting us to experiences not our own. They may be beautiful, terrible, awe-inspiring, exhilarating, pathetic, or comic… My own eyes are not enough for me. In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in a Greek poem, I see with a thousand eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself: and am never more myself than when I do.” – C.S. Lewis

“Nations are like people. When they grow old and rich and fat they get conservative. They exhaust their energy trying to keep things the way they are — and that’s against nature.”
- Pat Frank (Alas, Babylon)

“So it’s you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.”
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)

“She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.”
— Stieg Larsson

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
— Stephen King (On Writing)

“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

“We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore it knows it’s not fooling a soul.”
— Neil Gaiman (American Gods)

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea… and ideas are bulletproof.”
— Alan Moore (V for Vendetta)

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
— Dr. Seuss

“Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth.”
— Mark Twain

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
— Douglas Adams

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

“I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.”
— Seth Godin (Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?)

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
— Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich)