Quotes & Sayings About Artists Being Lonely

I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure. — Ben Lerner

To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable. — Patrick Rothfuss

I'm a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff. — Ellie Goulding

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers. — Noam Chomsky

If money could buy us happiness then some of the richest people on earth would be more than one million times more happier! — Avijeet Das

No soul willfully does wrong. — Plato

If I do commit myself to something, I will commit myself 100 percent. — Jim Webb

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category ... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress. — Frederic Bastiat

There was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after. — Matthew Lewis

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? — J.K. Rowling

Life has taught Alice Bhatti that every little step forward in life is preceded by a ritual humiliation. Every little happiness asks for a down payment. Too many humiliations and a journey that goes in circles means that her face is permanently in the red. She accepts that role. 'I'll do my best'. — Mohammed Hanif

Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too. — Oliver Sacks