Ear Stretcher Quotes & Sayings

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic. — Eddie Vedder

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real. — Jerry Stahl

It had been learned that my mother had died recently at the home. Inquiries had then been made in Marengo. The investigators had learned that I had "shown insensitivity" the day of Maman's funeral. "You understand," my lawyer said, "it's a little embarrassing for me to have to ask you this. But it's very important. And it will be a strong argument for the prosecution if I can't come up with some answers. — Albert Camus

I think it's a really good idea to be bumping into all kinds of people in all kinds of ways. So you make art with strangers. You give a reading. You move somewhere new and try to build a life. You grapple with humanity. — Laurel Nakadate

We offer you the landscape of your birth
Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame.
We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth
For killing what we cannot even name. — Dana Gioia

The cure to your self is that you are not yours. — John De Ruiter

your only barriers are what you let it be — Gino Norris

Like once we picked Jim Norton as the head of security, the writing flows pretty easily. — Ted Alexandro

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful. — Fran Lebowitz

Esti now discovered for the first time what intellectually fertile soil a railway compartment is. Here the lives of strangers appear before us in, as it were, cross section - suddenly and condensed - as in a novel opened haphazardly in the middle. Our curiosity, which otherwise we conceal by false modesty, can be satisfied under the constraint of our being enclosed together in a moving room, and we can peep into those lives and speculate on what the beginning of the novel must have been and how it will end. — Dezso Kosztolanyi

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't. — S.A. Tawks

With meditation, you become a sensitized superhero, completely in control, with endless possibilities at your fingertips. — Tara Stiles

I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting. — Paul Colman

Existence precedes and rules essence. — Jean-Paul Sartre