Descrenable Quotes & Sayings

She spoke about it with such emphasis (somewhat affected) that I could see at once that I was hearing the manifesto of her generation. Every generation has its own set of passions, loves, and interests, which it professes with a certain tenacity, to differentiate it from older generations and to confirm itself in its uniqueness. Submitting to a generation mentality (to this pride of the herd) has always repelled me. After Miss Broz had developed her provocative argument (I've now heard it at least fifty times from people her age) that all mankind is divided into those who give hitchhikers lifts (human people who love adventure) and those who don't (inhuman people who fear life), I jokingly called her a "dogmatist of the hitch." She answered sharply that she was neither dogmatist nor revisionist nor sectarian nor deviationist, that those were all words of ours, that we had invented them, that they belonged to us, and that they were completely alien to them. — Milan Kundera

The truly happy people are those who have a source of happiness too deep to be seriously disturbed by ordinary troubles. — Marion K. Rich

If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing ... it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly. — Joseph Campbell

Is the point of all this. To make you terrified of a world where you do not rule. Security and justice aren't given. They are made by the strong. — Pierce Brown

Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life — Rhonda Byrne

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching. — Frank Auerbach

The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' will be commissioned. — Peter Capaldi

It never occurred to me to say no. — Sylvia Plath

Always write exactly what you're feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions into your work ... make yourself cry, feel joy if you are writing joyful things, feel lovey if it calls for it ... just put your heart and soul into all that you do ... then you will be a good writer when you can make whoever reads your work, feel. -Nina Jean Slack — Nina Jean Slack

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad. — Hilary Mantel

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. — Edgar Allan Poe