Honeyboy Williams Quotes & Sayings

I was not funny growing up. — Tim Meadows

More than anything else I wanted to get inside my readers' defenses, wanted to rip them and ravish them and change them forever with nothing but story. And I felt I could do those things. I felt I had been made to do those things. — Stephen King

My parents used to play music when we had gone to bed, especially on Friday and Saturday evenings. Often it was the last thing I heard before I fell asleep. Every now and again he played records when he was alone in his study. Steinar had told me once that he had brought a Pink Floyd LP into the classroom and played it. He had said this with awe in his voice. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Be an island unto yourself. Take refuge in yourself and not in anything else. — Thich Nhat Hanh

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer? — Rachel Cusk

Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth? — Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

I wanted to get through high school anonymously. — Alessia Cara

As soon as you start fulfilling your purpose your adversaries will appear — Sunday Adelaja

Hunger is my crime. — Sherman Alexie

. . . nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! — Hermann Hesse

Without that fear, we are all as good as dead. — Matt Bondurant

Change starts with awareness. — Chris Prentiss