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Chris Lavergne

4,096 Quotes
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4,096 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“My heart's been drunk on kerosene and you are my light.”
— Lost Under Heaven, Unites
Tagged: Light, Before I Met You, Exploding Boy
“I know we're going to make something of this great longing called life.”
— Lost Under Heaven, Unites
Tagged: Life, Potential, Hope, Feel Optimistic
“There's life in this early morning. A life that you want to lead, and if you're not ready, forget it — lay down and fall back to sleep.”
— Lost Under Heaven, I&I
Tagged: Good Morning, Energizing Lyrics
“I never said thank you for that, now I'll never have a chance.”
— Jimmy Eat World, Hear You Me
Tagged: Death, Regret, Best Emo Lyrics
“It just takes some time.”
— Jimmy Eat World, The Middle
Tagged: Patience
“Life is too short to last long.”
— Blink 182, Bored To Death
Tagged: Life
“You know he can't guide you. He's your fucking shoulder to lean on. Be strong.”
— Kittie, Brackish
Tagged: Leave
“And I’m trying to cry too, but mostly because marriage means change and it means life is just turning into a series of vignettes, a few pops of Major Events before the ultimate nothing.”
— Ryan O'Connell, All My Friends Are Turning Thirty
Tagged: Marriage, This Is Thirty, Death
“Language, like human reasoning itself, emerges at the nexus of our biological endowment and our environmental existence.”
— Daniel L. Everett, Language: The Cultural Tool
Tagged: Evolution, Nature and Nurture
“Soon speech will be recognized as the Fourth Kingdom of Earth. We have regnum animalia, regnum vegetabile, regnum lapideum (animal, vegetable, mineral)— and now regnum loquax, the kingdom of speech, inhabited solely by Homo loquax. Or is ‘kingdom’ too small a word for the eminence of speech, which can do whatever it feels like doing with the other three— physically and in every other way? Should it be Imperium loquax, making speech an empire the equal of Imperium naturae, the empire of Nature? Or Universum loquax, the Spoken Universe… this ‘superior intelligence,’ this ‘new power of a definite character’?”
— Tom Wolfe, The Kingdom of Speech
Tagged: Evolution