Larysa Zaputowycz Quotes & Sayings

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both. — Lemony Snicket

Despite modifying his writing to suit the audiences, despite writing plays to draw large crowds, despite using other people's materials and copying plotlines from history, Shakespeare remains the preeminent artist of the English language and his reputation has reached such stratospheric heights as to border on idolatry (or Bardolatry as some people call it). Shakespeare was a product of his time and learned from his peers, but his plays transcend his time as all great works do - his genius is his own. As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? — William Shakespeare

A black sheep is a biting beast. — Thomas Bastard

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. — Stephen Koch

Love is love, and there will never be too much. — Fiona Apple

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity,
as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame — Charles Caleb Colton

Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life. — Steve Farrar

To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It is a substitute for love. Love is dangerous: to be in love is to be in a storm, constantly. You need courage and you need awareness, and you are to be ready for anything. There is no security in love; love is insecure. Marriage is a security: the registry office, the police, the court are behind it. The state, the society, the religion - they are all behind it. Marriage is a social phenomenon. Love is individual, personal, intimate. — Rajneesh

It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core. — Neige

Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it. — Marv Levy

Just as political correctness finds its most avid supporters on today's university campuses, the intellectuals of earlier times generally went along with the religious establishment. He who pays the piper calls the tune. — David P. Clark

Between the ages of 30 and 40 was the time when both my spirit and body were young and powerful and I could do anything! — Kansai Yamamoto