Rachel Swirsky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

  • If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.

  • The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

  • Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

  • I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

  • Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you provoked him by the manner in which you are dressed.

  • People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

  • Love is more cruel than lust.

  • Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.

  • He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy."