Discest Quotes & Sayings

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out. — John D'Agata

Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession. — Suzanne Farrell

For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. — Jose Saramago

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album. — Tanya Tucker

We broke camp together and set off in our opposite directions: we of the XIIth and our allies marched east, towards the rising sun, combat and honour; the IVth went west, to the setting sun, to ignominy and a wealth of digging. We sang as we marched. They did not. — M.C. Scott

I have the same feeling I get right before I start crying. — Jandy Nelson

Anne Shirley, how often have I told you never to let one of those Italians in the house! I don't believe in encouraging them to come around at all. — L.M. Montgomery