Downchild Harmonica Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps there is another kind of writing, I only know this one, in the night, when anxiety does not let me sleep, I only know this one. And what is devilish in it seems to me quite clear. It is the vanity and the craving for enjoyment, which is forever whirring around oneself or even around someone else ... and enjoying it. The wish that a naive person sometimes has: "I would like to die and watch others crying over me," is what such a writer constantly experiences: he dies (or he does not live) and continually cries over himself — Franz Kafka

Tradition and heritage are all dead peoples baggage. Stop carrying it. Move forward. — Doug Stanhope

Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results. — Angeles Arrien

It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase ... I bask in the majesty of the cosmos. I use words, compose sentences that sound like the sentences I hear out of people that had revelation of Jesus, who go on their pilgrimages to Mecca. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town. — Katherine Dunham

I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer. — Cristiano Ronaldo

was in the Gray family forever, way back to the early — John Grisham

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect. — George Orwell

It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret. — Dennis Lehane

sunbeams everywhere and mist floating like freshly minted — Haruki Murakami

It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult. — Mary Harron

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs. — Sendhil Mullainathan

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man. — Donna Woolfolk Cross

I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process. — Natalie Cole