Jayenge Bass Quotes & Sayings

There's no such thing as a 'writing talent.' Anyone can be taught to write a good sentence. What writers are born with is a 'third ear,' not for words but for human nature. And like people with an ear for music who can play the piano without lessons or notes, we can't explain how we know what we know - we just know. — Florence King

Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love? — Tom Spanbauer

I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive therefore, as to the business of being profound, that it is with writers as with wells; a person with good eyes may see to the bottom of the deepest, provided any water be there; and often, when there is nothing in the world at the bottom, besides dryness and dirt, though it be but a yard and half under ground, it shall pass however for wondrous deep, upon no wiser a reason than because it is wondrous dark. — Jonathan Swift

I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever. — Michel Faber

Chomsky is like the teenager who first discovers that those in authority - his parent, his teacher - are not as all-knowing as they claim to be and as their underlings once imagined them to be, and who persists in endlessly showing them up — Jeffrey C. Isaac

Today's market action is driven by the slower GDP growth rate. Despite oil being higher, I think the GDP kind of overruled everything and just makes the market feel better about what the Fed is going to do, or rather not do. — L'Wren Scott

Everyone plays guitar alone, but we can play side by side. — Jennifer Lane

...the pond remembers another
time: when flames were for warmth
and children didn't have to run from their light. — Patrick Woodcock

Now remember," Akira whispered, "if it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, pick it up. If you can't pick it up, paint it." "What if it is snoring?" Makki asked. "Then you wake it up. — Joe Bonadonna

The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on. — Vivienne Westwood

The character of Jesus can only be ultimately known experientially through the indwelling of His Spirit in union with us."


~"The character of Jesus can only be ultimately known experientially through the indwelling of His Spirit in union with us."


~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods