Detlef Schrempf Quotes & Sayings

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about. — John Legend

As long as you have sufficient toilet paper, how far wrong can life go? — Sue Grafton

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking. — Osric Chau

If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government. — Ludwig Von Mises

Setting is the soul of your story...Improve upon it, and it will take your writing to the next level. — Ruth Ann Ridley

You don't have to compete against the best to be your best. Just compete against your best. — Tony Curl

The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living. — Nancy Spain

It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'. — Matt Ridley

My 20s were peaceful, privileged, but still I felt the desire to write angsty dramas. — Adrian Tomine

Poor soul, poor soul!' grandmother groaned. 'I'd like to think — Willa Cather

I can hear the library humming in the night,
a choir of authors murmuring inside their books
along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,
Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son,
each one stitched into his own private coat,
together forming a low, gigantic chord of language. — Billy Collins

That's the beauty of the summer holidays. It's as if life is just a big Etch-a-Sketch, and once a year you get to shake it vigorously up and down and start again. — Holly Smale