Aishe Hasne Quotes & Sayings

the recent changes in our reading habits suggest that the "era of mass [book] reading" was a brief "anomaly" in our intellectual history: "We are now seeing such reading return to its former social base: a self-perpetuating minority that we shall call the reading class." The question that remains to be answered, they went on, is whether that reading class will have the "power and prestige associated with an increasingly rare form of cultural capital" or will be viewed as the eccentric practitioners of "an increasingly arcane hobby. — Anonymous

I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!" — Kelly Hogan

This isn't me giving him a memory. This is me giving him my heart. — Katie McGarry

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style. — Yves Saint-Laurent

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature. — Aaron Siskind

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. — Albert Einstein

You wanna be the next Tolkien? Don't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. TOLKIEN didn't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. He read books on finnish philology. You go and read outside your comfort zone, go and learn stuff. And then the most important thing, once you get any level of quality
get to the point where you wanna write, and you can write
is tell YOUR story. Don't tell a story anyone else can tell. Because you always start out with other people's voices ... There will always be people who are better or smarter than you. There are people who are better writers than me, who plot better than I do, but there is no one who can tell a Neil Gaiman story like I can. — Neil Gaiman

Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person. — Janet Jackson

The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic. — Alfred Adler

Humility was never a loser. — Thomas Watson

The combination of a blazer over any T-shirt with a pair of jeans is foolproof. — Ryan Seacrest

You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to deal with an uncomfortable, painful moment. You should be with a person capable of great compassion and understanding. — Mallory Ortberg

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses — Ovid