Sourced and curated.

How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home A complete unknown Like a rolling stone?

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song) · 1964

★ 7.6

Song · Folk music · Folk rock

Like a Rolling Stone · 1965

★ 7.5

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The order is rapidly fadin' And the first one now will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 7.3

Song · Protest music · Folk music

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?... The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song) · 1965

★ 7.3

Song · Folk music

This right of privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

Blowin' in the Wind · 1963

★ 7.1

Supreme Court opinion · Legal writing

Harry A. Blackmun

1973

★ 7.0

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence · 1974

★ 6.9

I don't have a girlfriend, I just know a girl who would get really mad if she heard me say that.

Comedy Central Presents · 1999

★ 6.9

That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

How many times can a man turn his head, And pretend that he just doesn't see?

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 6.4

Song · Folk music

Come Senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall.

Blowin' in the Wind · 1962

★ 6.4

Song · Protest music · Folk music

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song) · 1963

★ 6.4

Catharine MacKinnon

1983

★ 6.1

I saw soda pop for $1.20 a six pack, and that price fucks with your head, because then you start to think that you're gonna sell pop.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 6.0

I bought a donut, and they gave me a receipt for the donut. I don't need a receipt for the donut, man, I'll just give you the money, then you give me the donut—end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a donut.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 6.0

I never joined the Army because "at ease" was never that easy to me. It seemed rather uptight still. I don't relax by parting my legs slightly and putting my hands behind my back.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 6.0

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 5.5

I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain.

Tender is the Night · 1934

★ 5.5

Song

Not Dark Yet · 1997

★ 5.5

What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star.

1927

★ 5.4

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.

In order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth or power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence, for esteem is awarded only on evidence.

Tender is the Night · 1934

★ 5.4

Sociology · Economic literature

Thorstein Veblen

The Theory of the Leisure Class · 1899

★ 5.3

I've seen a human pyramid before. It was very unnecessary.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 5.3

You know you can't please all the people all the time, and last night all those people were at my show.

Comedy Central Presents · 1999

★ 5.2

My lucky number is 4 billion, that doesn't come in real handy when you're gambling…come on, 4 billion! Fuck, 7. Not even close.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 5.2

If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker and you were walking down the sidewalk with him and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.

Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 5.2

Feminist literature

Kate Millett

Sexual Politics · 1970

★ 5.1

I like a escalator because a escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. You would never see a "Escalator temporarily out of order" sign, just "Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. We apologize for the fact that you can still get up there."

I have 14 other grandchildren and if I pay one penny now, I'll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 5.1

J. Paul Getty

1973

★ 4.4

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

Midge Decter

1972

★ 4.3

Song · Folk rock

They're selling postcards of the hanging.

Desolation Row · 1965

★ 4.0

The girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

This Side of Paradise · 1920

★ 3.9

Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 3.9

Short story

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

1926

★ 3.8

Personal journal

1940

★ 3.8

There are no second acts in American lives.

You don't need a weather man To know which way the wind blows.

1940

★ 3.8

Song · Rock music

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Subterranean Homesick Blues · 1965

★ 3.8

Sociology · Economic literature

Thorstein Veblen

1899

★ 3.7

Short story

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

1920

★ 3.7

He loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons.

It Can't Happen Here · 1935

★ 3.7

It isn't what you earn but how you spend it that fixes your class.

It Can't Happen Here · 1935

★ 3.7

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

It Can't Happen Here · 1935

★ 3.7

Personal journal

I love mankind…it's people I can't stand!!

1940

★ 3.7

Comic strip

Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts · 1959

★ 3.7

Song · Folk music

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords, in the hands of young children… It's a hard rain's a gonna fall.

She talks just like a woman, yes, she does She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does And she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl.

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall · 1963

★ 3.7

Song · Folk rock

Just Like a Woman · 1966

★ 3.7

A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 3.7

This shirt is dry clean only, which means it's dirty.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 3.7

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 3.7

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

2004

★ 3.7

I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know 's I've accomplished anything except just get along.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Babbitt · 1922

★ 3.6

Essay · Magazine

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

1936

★ 3.6

The wise and tragic sense of life. By this I mean...the sense that life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, and that the redeeming things are not "happiness and pleasure" but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

1938

★ 3.6

Letter

1940

★ 3.6

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence · 1974

★ 3.6

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence · 1974

★ 3.6

Why are you so afraid of the word ‘Fascism,’ Doremus? Just a word-just a word! And might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays, and living on my income tax and yours-not so worse to have a real Strong Man, like Hitler or Mussolini-like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days-and have ‘em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again. ‘Nother words, have a doctor who won’t take any back-chat, but really boss the patient and make him get well whether he likes it or not!

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.

It Can't Happen Here · 1935

★ 3.5

J. Paul Getty

1965

★ 3.5

I especially hate turtlenecks. Like wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day.

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in a bed.

Comedy Central Presents · 1999

★ 3.5

Personal journal

Charles Lindbergh

1938

★ 3.5

I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk. Liquor severely screws up the way I walk. It ain't like a crutch, it's like a step I didn't see.

Comedy Central Presents · 1999

★ 3.5

I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out of focus monster, roaming the countryside.

My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 3.5

Garrison Keillor

1990

★ 3.4

Whenever I walk people try to hand me out flyers. And when someone tries to hand me out a flyer it's kinda like they're saying, "Here, you throw this away."

Comedy Central Presents · 1999

★ 2.6

My friend said to me, "I think the weather's trippy." I said, "no man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it is the way that we perceive it that is indeed trippy." Then I thought "man, I shoulda just said 'yeah'."

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 2.6

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

This Side of Paradise · 1920

★ 2.2

Novel · Magazine

Metropolitan Magazine · 1922

★ 2.2

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 2.2

If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 2.2

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 2.1

Comic strip

Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts · 1961

★ 2.0

I hate flossing, I just wish I had one long curvy tooth. It didn't need to be split up.

The dog... Commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery, and as he is also an item of expense, and commonly serves no industrial purpose, he holds a well-assured place in men's regard as a thing of good repute.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 2.0

Sociology · Economic literature

Thorstein Veblen

1899

★ 1.9

Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.

Babbitt · 1922

★ 1.9

Why, America’s the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country’s too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn’t happen here!

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

It Can't Happen Here · 1935

★ 1.9

Newspaper

J. Paul Getty

Observer · 1957

★ 1.9

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 1.9

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure-wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

Main Street · 1920

★ 1.9

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers...coax us, "Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just give us a bit more time and we’ll produce it; trust us; we're wiser than you." For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now-and we're going to try our hands at it.

Main Street · 1920

★ 1.9

But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.