Quotes of the day, November 20

Mr. Hunt was in sympathy with the methods we ourselves were in the habit of using when we painted butterflies and seaweeds, placing perfectly pure pigments side by side, without any nonsense about chiaroscuro.

Edmund Gosse

• Habit
• Sympathy
• Nonsense

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

Miguel de Cervantes

• Stone
• Hits
• Pitcher

...at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we are ready to move on, to go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self.

Bernadette Roberts

• Life
• Self
• Function

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

Henry Rollins Black Flag

• Want
• Tired
• Talking

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

Taylor Swift

• Great
• Career
• Cool

People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.

Talib Kweli Black Star

• People
• Female
• Killing