Gaelic Tattoo Quotes & Sayings

I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of four different guys I knew growing up. Patsy , the waitress, is a mix of about three different people. I like doing it that way. I start with the characters, as opposed to plot, location, or some visual element. I write more by ear than by eye. I always work on the different sound of each character, trying to make sure each has a specific voice and speech pattern, which some writers could care less about. — Warren Leight

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy ... — Helen Oyeyemi

What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind — Byron Katie

The message of the diet-industry is that you can't possibly be spiritually and personally fulfilled unless you are leaner and lighter. — Scott Abel

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. — Carson McCullers

Instead of Gnostics, we have Existentialists and God-is-dead theologians, instead of Neo-Platonists, devotees of Zen, instead of desert hermits, heroin addicts and Beats (who also, oddly enough, seem averse to washing), instead of mortification of the flesh, sado-masochistic pornography; as for our public entertainments, the fare offered by television is still a shade less brutal than that provided by the Amphitheatre, but only a shade and may not be so for long. — W. H. Auden

Eventually we all get tired of any and everything! — Honeya

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. — Jeremy Taylor

I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor. — Gad Elmaleh

Sorry, I didn't see the big X with the words Top Secret Government Laboratory on the map, did you? — Julie Kagawa

Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever. — Frederick Lenz

How could a man become a god?" Nell asked. "By living in an extremely pragmatic society," said Constable Moore after some thought — Neal Stephenson

The me that's here now has been brought up without any brothers or sisters. If I did have brothers or sisters I wouldn't be the me I am. So it's unnatural for the me that's here before you to think about what it'd be like to have brothers or sisters ... . — Haruki Murakami

You are the universe - that's why it shines! — Jay Woodman