Akumatized Quotes & Sayings

If you were never encouraged to be yourself, you often try to blend in instead of standing out. It's a sense of "if only I was 'this,' then someone would love me. — David Mezzapelle

When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm? — Cat Johnson

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us. — Erica Jong

The authors of the four passages share a number of practices: an insistence on fresh wording and concrete imagery over familiar verbiage and abstract summary; an attention to the readers' vantage point and the target of their gaze; the judicious placement of an uncommon word or idiom against a backdrop of simple nouns and verbs; the use of parallel syntax; the occasional planned surprise; the presentation of a telling detail that obviates an explicit pronouncement; the use of meter and sound that resonate with the meaning and mood.
The authors also share an attitude: they do not hide the passion and relish that drive them to tell us about their subjects. They write as if they have something important to say. But no, that doesn't capture it. They write as if they have something important to show. And that, we shall see, is a key ingredient in the sense of style. — Steven Pinker

I felt the heat of the animosity they bear towards me, the vindictive nature that drives a man to destroy his neighbour in a fire as if he were a banned book ... for what is the difference? Every book is imbued with the human spirit. — Sjon

aimed not at military concentrations, but at total populations. He — Clifford D. Simak

I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives. — Rob Zerban

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. — John Connolly

Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being "broadminded", are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the history of humanity. No primitive tribe worshipping with its witch-doctor was ever more vicious in its hatred and suppression of heretics than today's Marxist intellectuals, anti-racists and liberals. — George Lincoln Rockwell