Curated Ear Quotes & Sayings

As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid. — Kola Boof

The kitchen guy wheeled out the tray of lunches. The salmon looked too fancy for institutional food, more at par with something Jacob would have cooked up at home as a way of saying, I'm sorry I stood you up at that party where all my friends were flexing so hard you could barely fit in the room with their delts. — Jordan Castillo Price

School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it. — Sandra Dodd

Men always want what they can't have, or what other men want. It's a scientific fact. — Gina L. Maxwell

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing. — Fanny Fern

Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed. — Matt Chandler

Live in the library, for Christ's sake! Don't live on your goddamn computers and the internet and all that crap. Go to the library! — Ray Bradbury

Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes. — Aziz Ansari

If you want to know everything about the market, go to the beach. Push and pull your hands with the waves. Some are bigger waves, some are smaller. But if you try to push the wave out when it's coming in, it'll never happen. The market is always right. — Ed Seykota

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show. — Jhonen Vasquez

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years. — Pope Francis

Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. — Viktor E. Frankl

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics. — Tracy Chapman