Famous Bass Guitarist Quotes & Sayings

A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes. — Simone De Beauvoir

He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up and marched past his brain in terrified obedience. Division and multiplication were discovered. Algebra was invented and provided an interesting diversion for a minute or two. And then he felt the fog of numbers drift away, and looked up and saw the sparkling, distant mountains of calculus. — Terry Pratchett

I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. — George R R Martin

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. — Suzy Kassem

But to be liked, you must never disagree. And if you never disagree, it's like only breathing in and never breathing outl A man can suffocate on courtesy. What if God wanted to be liked instead of loved? What if the almighty delayed every decision until He was sure it would please the majority? — J. Lawrence

Time, sweeping through its rounds, gives birth to infinite nights and days ... — Sophocles

- It's their way. They don't understand suffering like we do. They live with it every day.
- It's not their way. It's the way of Teeleh. — Ted Dekker

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy] — Jerry Pournelle

Shit is another useful word. Also very common. For example, pleasantly surprised? You say 'No shit?' You think someone tells you tales, you scoff 'You're shitting me.' You find something you like very much, you exclaim 'That's good shit! — Jane Yolen

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. — Lauren Groff

I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow — Arthur Conan Doyle

Still, in the end, we all die just the same. — Haruki Murakami