Danish Writer Quotes & Sayings

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people. — Shawn Colvin

She had horses who were the blue air of the sky. — Joy Harjo

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated. — Jack White

And then it seemed to me that even in prison one might discover an immense life. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face. — Joy Williams

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women. — Shirley Bassey

As someone who is both an ethnic minority and openly gay, I often talk about how simply being who I am has given me a double awareness of the vulnerability that some Americans may be facing. — Mark Takano

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst. — Plato

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire. — Andrew O'Hagan

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse. — John Scott Russell

Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be. — Wayne Gretzky

IN THE HEART OF AFRICA By Sir Samuel W. Baker, — Samuel White Baker

I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools. — George Lucas