You came to the right place, my friends. Here, I have compiled the top ten go-to grabber quotes that sound smart but don't really say anything definitive. Put them here, put them there, you can put them anywhere!
Don't worry, these are all taken completely out of context and of questionable origin.
1) "'Culture' is the name for all those things we practice without really believing in them, without taking them quite seriously. That is why we dismiss fundamentalist believers as 'barbarians', as anti-cultural, as a threat to culture - they dare to take their beliefs seriously." - Slavoj Žižeck (don't you love his name?)
2) "An echo, while implying an enormity of a space, at the same time also defines it, limits it, and even temporarily inhabits it. " - Mark Z Danielewski
3) "Nobody sees any one as her is, let alone an elderly lady sitting opposite a strange young man in a railway carriage. They see a whole - they see all sorts of things - they see themselves." - Virginia Woolf
4) "Because time is reversed. Tock, tick goes the universe and then recovers itself, but it was enough." - Tom Stoppard
5) "I am perhaps not particularly human, but who cares?" - Samuel Beckett
6) "Conceal me what I am, and be my aid / For such disguise as haply shall become / The form of my intent." - William Shakespeare
7) "They teach us to read as children, and for the rest of our lives we remain slaves of all the written stuff they fling in front of us ... The secret is not refusing to look at the written words. On the contrary, you must look at them, intensely, until they disappear." - Italo Calvino
8) "You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, And yet there is so little of it, It goes so slowly and yet it is so scarce ... Not to worry. Brevity is the soul of wit." - Margaret Edson
9) "But even men of the highest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the physical charms of others. Modern, no less than Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable." - Oscar Wilde
10) "Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" - Ralph Ellison
Now the true challenge in twisting someone else's words would be to try to work all of these into the same coherent essay. That would be epic.
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