Cool Highlight Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity. — Bret Easton Ellis

Willfulness, such as yours, is exactly what a girl needs to raise herself up to do something useful with her life. — Cathy Marie Buchanan

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. — Alvin Toffler

Love is expressed. Words alone means nothing. — Ellen J. Barrier

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects. — Charles D. Broad

Unfortunately a lot of Bristol's creativity just gets marooned in Bristol. It is a cool place though, maybe too laidback for its own good. — Simon Price

We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties. (1976 — Margaret Mead

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer. — Sylvester Stallone

I draw manga, therefore I am! — Hiromu Arakawa

If I sound as if I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductive reasoning to generalize, and I suppose this sometimes ends up sounding like unlucky prophecies. You know why? Because reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. You have to only open a newspaper on any given day and weigh the good news versus the bad, and you'll see what I mean. — Haruki Murakami

Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
Begin it with weak straws. — William Shakespeare

I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic. — Paul Beatty

I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar. — John Diefenbaker

If your problem is being chronically starved of social bonds, then part of the solution is to bond with the heroin itself and the relief it gives you. But a bigger part is to bond with the subculture that comes with taking heroin - the tribe of fellow users all embarked on the same mission and facing the same threats and risking death every day with you. It gives you an identity. It gives you a life of highs and lows, instead of relentless monotony. The world stops being indifferent to you, and starts being hostile - which is at least proof that you exist, that you aren't dead already. The heroin helps users deal with the pain of being unable to form normal bonds with other humans. The heroin subculture gives them bonds with other human beings. — Johann Hari