Dereque Nimzo Quotes & Sayings

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic. — Dennis Lehane

Every time you reach for food, ask yourself, 'Will this cleanse or clog me?' — Tony Robbins

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable. — Henry David Thoreau

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of. — Jon Lord

Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course-he dies, I have to listen to it. — Fran Lebowitz

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk. — John Fahey

In classical music, love is based on bitin'
imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement. — Todd Boyd

Theory sometimes seems to me a way of taking revenge on literature - the critic masters the text and rewrites it in his own image, instead of submitting to it and listening to what it has to say. The aggressive ungainliness of so much academic writing about literature is a sign of this - it is unliterary writing about literature, which should be a contradiction in terms. — Adam Kirsch

It's strange how death mocks us, that only in death do we cherish [the ones we love]. — Jamie Yeo

When Jesus was moved by compassion, it was not just a feeling he had, but an understanding and conviction of what those people meant to the Father. — Shawn Bolz

Half?" Ceony asked. "How do you have half of an apprentice? — Charlie N. Holmberg

People wonder when you're allowed to call yourself a writer. I think maybe the answer is when you recognize that is work." - Nina MacLaughlin, 'With Compliments — Manjula Martin

He has never won a game of Galactic Expansion against the repurposed interrogator droid. But he's close now. It's never been this close. — Chuck Wendig