Quotes & Sayings About Annoying Cocky Guys

Why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is write what you know? Perhaps that's not the right way to start at all. Imaginative literature is not necessarily about writing who we are or what we know or what our identity is about. We should teach young people and ourselves to expand our hearts and write what we can feel. We should get out of our cultural ghetto and go visit the next one and the next. — Elif Shafak

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part. — Dick Cheney

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand. — Nick Hornby

Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession. — Marc Riboud