If It Bleeds Quotes

Free samples are fine, but if you give people too much for-free, whether it’s clothes or food or information, they come to expect it.

Which is what most of our modern communications amount to, when you stop to think of it; chatter for the sake of chatter.

When an old man dies, a library burns.

The universe is large, he thought. It contains multitudes. It also contains me, and in this moment I am wonderful. I have a right to be wonderful.

Films are ephemeral, while books – the good ones – are eternal, or close to it.

And what makes you think you’re a main character in anything but your own mind?

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a shame it’s wasted on children.

The human brain is finite – no more than a sponge of tissue inside a cage of bone – but the mind within the brain is infinite. Its storage capacity is colossal, its imaginative reach beyond our ability to comprehend. I think when a man or woman dies, a whole world falls to ruin – the world that person knew and believed in. Think of that, kiddo – billions of people on earth, and each one of those billions with a world inside. The earth their minds have conceived.

My grandmother used to say a person shouldn’t call out unless they want an answer. I’ve always thought that was good advice.

Love is a gift; love is also a chain with a manacle at each end.

Henry Thoreau said that we don’t own things; things own us. Every new object – whether it’s a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one – is something more we must carry on our backs.

Business is like football. If you have to knock someone down to reach the goal line, you better damn well do it, or you shouldn’t put on a uniform and go out on the field in the first place.[mmqi]to Craig[/mqqi]