79 Quotes I Enjoyed From 2022
Below are my favorite quotes from 2022. Though most occurred throughout the year, some took place before but were encountered during.
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
“When you dip, you dip everywhere.” - Tate Frazier
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” - Oscar Wilde
“Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination.” - Andrew Lang
“I’d be losing my mind about this if I still had my mind.” - Mark Titus, on the Omicron surge
"When you destroy art, you make it stronger." - Jens Galschiot
“How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story ‘Nightfall,’ about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove men mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.” - Roger Ebert
“It's like trying to make a great homophobic musical. People who have the expertise in musical theater are, by default, not homophobic. People who are good at design are naturally artistic and open-minded. So they tend to also appreciate art from all kinds of cultures. Plus, so much great classical artwork is informed by science. DaVinci, for example, was an incredible artist AND scientist. So if you're getting quality design, you're probably not gonna find someone who hates science.” - Brian Crooks, on why anti-science and racist memes have such poor graphic design
“(P)erhaps the biggest tragedy of the Beatles’ career is the destroyed friendships, the dissolution of the bond among four fast mates who, despite the (passing) missteps that any armchair critic can point out, carried themselves through a maelstrom with a pretty consistent grace. It turned out that nothing could withstand the force of the Beatles, not even the Beatles themselves.” - Bill Wyman
“The two worst feelings in the world are not having a job and having a job.”
“Love always takes work, but it should never take suffering.” - Helen Rosner
“If it tastes good, spit it out.” - Charles Barkley
“People are just in charge of things for no reason, man.” - Brian Cook, on disgraced Michigan president Mark Schlissel
“Twitter is like ‘What if you could meet some cool people — at an unimaginable psychic cost?”
“The thing about weird people is they have to do some extra work to understand how normal people take things.” - Seth Fisher
“A franchise that, my whole life, has punished me for the sin of having dignity.” - Drew Magary, on the Minnesota Vikings
“If we ever stop talking… send me a song.”
“What happened to Mr. Let’s Crush These Quickly?”
“I will not get you wrong.” - Megan Filip
“Be on time or plan less stuff.” - Nawaar Farooq
“Sometimes tragedies happen because each person is waiting for someone else to say ‘no!’” - Roger Ebert
“One of life’s weirdest moods is ‘how do I go to bed after this internet thing.’” - Nora Princiotti
“At your highest moments, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you.” - Denzel Washington
“NO MUSIC, NO LIFE.” - Taylor Hawkins, via Tower Records
“When in doubt, chill out.”
“There’s a time to live and a time to die.” - Brad Back, via Rita Zamboldi
“You’re really the Boy Who Cried Meaningful Friend.” - Dave Rokos
“You’re done tagging her, and he’s still tagging her.” - D. Jones
“With nothing left to do, he cheated on his wife.” - Brian Andonian
“Stop auditioning your complaints.” - Rebecca, Ted Lasso
“Expectations are resentments waiting to happen.” - Anne Lamott
“Love is showing up.” - Sarah Smith
“Marry someone you can talk to. Because you’re going to be doing that a lot.” - Judy Brodhead
“I’m listening.” - Frasier Crane, Frasier
“With one hand the past moves us forward, and with the other it holds us back.” - Lillith Sternin, Fraiser
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.” - Kurt Vonnegut
“It’s weird how Republicans can implement their entire agenda even when they are in the minority, but Democrats cannot implement any of their agenda even when they are in the majority.” - David Sirota
"Protest is when you say you don’t like something, he said. Resistance is making sure no one likes it. Protest is when you say, I will not tolerate what they do. Resistance is preventing them from doing it. Protest means to detest the inhumanity of others. Resistance means to suppress their inhumanity to let humanity triumph." - Dale A. Smith, paraphrased by Malcolm Harris
"Suspicion isn’t wisdom." - Craig Finn
“You don’t remember the mixtape you give. You remember the mixtape you get.”
“I don’t wish to sound apocalyptic about this, but one has the sense that at present our society is simultaneously characterized by wildly disproportionate accountability for trivial transgressions and zero accountability for profound institutional failure.” - David Polansky
“When you’re tall, you’re ready.”
“There’s a difference between people who are born with that special thing and people who love the people who are born with that special thing so much that they want to try their best to get as close as they can to it.” - Japandroids
“Whatever you write… just try to make it sound like you did it on purpose.” - The French Dispatch
“Life at its best and its most vivid is often a mixture of fear and excitement.” - Anthony Bourdain
“Everything is dishwasher safe if you don’t care enough about it.” - Sophia Sopaipilla’s husband
“Home feels different after you’ve shed blood to defend it.”
“The personal is political.”
“‘Analyze it—it’s a silly game,’ he said. ‘I’m also a silly man because I enjoy it.’” - Bill Russell, on basketball
“The loudest voices rarely represent the majority. They're usually speaking for the extremes. You won't understand the views of a group until you've invited the quieter voices into the discussion. Don't mistake silence for disengagement. It's often a sign of deep reflection.” - Adam Grant
“I don’t care if you don’t drink, but you can’t go to sleep at 10 p.m.” - Kaitlyn Stanner
“The guy with the worst grades should get to give a graduation speech too. Let me hear both sides.” - Samuel Saulsbury
“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.” - Kurt Vonnegut
“You know, the truth can be really powerful stuff. You’re not expecting it.” - Kurt Vonnegut
“But I had a good uncle, my late Uncle Alex. he was my father’s kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest life-insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And his principal complaint about other human beings was they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’
So I do the same now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
“Email me, don't tweet me.” - Jonathan Tjarks
“Take away the Mona Lisa and the Louvre is just a collection of guys in silly hats.” - Brian Cook
“Do we feel good about the chef’s whim?” - Mandy Gilkes
“This is why people hate me now that we’re older.” - Tony Ochs
“To apologize for my absolutes is to apologize for my very existence.” - Up In The Air
“Sue Bird is like if Natalie Portman had a midrange game.” - Ricky O’Donnell
“Better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.” - J.J. McCarthy, before Michigan defeated Ohio State 45-23 to win in Columbus for the first time this century
“If you can’t be honest on the Internet, where can you be honest? Alternatively, if you can’t lie on the Internet, where can you lie?” - Lindsey Back
“Some good. Some bad. Dead.” - Dave Hernandez, on five words to describe the rest of his life
“Unlike love, respect can’t be bought.” - Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
“I'm not a nerd. I'm a jock who's too cool for sports.” - Bart Simpson, The Simpsons
“The new needs friends.” - Ratatouille
“Lagom.”
“God protects fools and drunks.” - Anthony Bourdain
