Delia Derbyshire Quotes & Sayings

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it. — Jim Carrey

Her mother had always said that there was strength and power in the time right before dawn, and those who slept through it missed the best part of the day. — David Thurlo

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. — Hugh Jackman

And it's okay if you have to go away Oh just remember the telephone works both ways And if I never ever hear them ring If nothing else I'll think the bells inside Have finally found you someone else and that's okay Cause I'll remember everything you sang ((You and I both)) — Jason Mraz

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past. — Robert Frost

On various occasions I'd said to a woman I was interested in, "I would invite you to dinner, but I can't cook," at which point I would hope she'd say, "I'm a great cook," so I could ask her to come over and teach me; then we'd get drunk in the kitchen while I displayed what I hoped was my endearing clumsiness, never learning anything. — Ben Lerner

The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert. — Robert Charles Wilson

Turn your wound into wisdom, then help people to find true freedom. — Debasish Mridha

It's only been a few weeks and somehow I seem to have gotten far from shore. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'. — Arthur Rimbaud

Flowers produce an effect on me which can only be produced in an equal degree by music. — Charlotte Alington Barnard

You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.' — Wolfgang Puck

There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling. — Douglas Adams

The show's supposed to be a cross between Melrose Place and Breaking Bad (with a little Dukes of Hazzard thrown in for the hell of it), but done straight (the PR people actually say that). — Justin Bog