Behind My Smile Is Everything You'll Never Understand Quotes & Sayings

We all scribble poetry. — Homer

People always say, 'A good man is hard to find.' You've never heard that about women, have you? — Frederick Lenz

I love writing. I love getting lost in creative projects when I'm going through a tough transition in life. I always keep in mind that it's not the first time something painful has happened, and just like I got through other troubles, the one at hand will pass as well. — Melanie Iglesias

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story ... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves. — Corin Tucker

Life is like a movie where you are both the director and the actor. — Steven Redhead

But you tell me when there has ever been a reign of terror that wasn't instigated by intellectuals and presided over by someone possessed of the madness of the artist. — Howard Jacobson

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times. — Nuno Bettencourt

In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more. — Norm Dicks

It is this experience of seeing something one has written come alive - literally, not metaphorically, a character or scene daemonically entering the world by its own strange power, so that the writer feels not the creator but only the instrument, or conjurer, the priest who stumbled onto the magic spell - it is this experience of tapping some magic source that makes the writer an addict, willing to give up almost anything for his art, and makes him, if he fails, such a miserable human being. — John Gardner

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly. — John Hodgman

If you would and you could brighten my northern sky. — Nick Drake

I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. — Sylvia Plath

It's like when someone says, 'How are you?' do you say, 'Well, mt head hurts and I'm lonely and depressed and I'm worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil? Or do you say, I'm fine? — Sara Shepard

I was always a doubter when it came to religion. How irrational of me, then, to love a zealot. But then, both love and zealotry are irrational states of mind. — Octavia E. Butler