Dyvell Thompson Quotes & Sayings

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it. — Steve Albini

I believe in giving people a second chance. — George Zimmer

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything. — Thomas Henry Huxley

I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love. — Augustine Of Hippo

Publishing a book is like planting a vegetable seed. The first day your book is out there is the same as seeing the first sprout from the ground. Is it ready for harvest? Obviously not. The fruit of your labor is still to come so long as you continue to nurture the soil by being persistent in letting readers know your book exists. If you give up on this process too early, your seed will dry up and be consumed by a most merciless sun. — Kevin Ortegel

America has amnesia ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters. — Paula Gunn Allen

Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one tried and found wanting; and so the entire field of speculation has been gradually exhausted without positive result: the only result reached being the negative one above stated, that the reality existing behind all appearances is, and must ever be, unknown. — Herbert Spencer

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus. — Sy Montgomery

most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days. — Jim Dodge

Even when she was pretending she wasn't hurt, she never pretended not to
miss him. — Priscilla Glenn