Ledisi I Blame Quotes & Sayings

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own. — Frank Herbert

It's ludicrous to even talk about (Marquis) de Sade, let alone indulge in all that, when people are being tortured and suffering for real, not for sexual games. I have no interest either in being a victim or in turning others into victims. — Francoise Gilot

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out. — William Blake

And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him. — Melina Marchetta

If I dismiss the ordinary - waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life ... To allow ourselves to spend afternoons watching dancers rehearse, or sit on a stone wall and watch the sunset, or spend the whole weekend rereading Chekhov stories - to know that we are doing what we're supposed to be doing - is the deepest form of permission in our creative lives. The British author and psychologist Adam Phillips has noted, 'When we are inspired, rather like when we are in love, we can feel both unintelligible to ourselves and most truly ourselves.' This is the feeling I think we all yearn for, a kind of hyperreal dream state. We read Emily Dickinson. We watch the dancers. We research a little known piece of history obsessively. We fall in love. We don't know why, and yet these moments form the source from which all our words will spring. — Dani Shapiro

The moment people move off land which has directly supported them, the necessities of life are removed from individual control. The things people could formerly produce for their survival must now be paid for. — Jerry Mander

The subject matter of the stories on the surface ... there seem to be a number of stories about travel. — Kenneth Koch

The meeting of the two lonely souls is the meeting of the dark sea with the moonlight. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

you need to ask yourself, "If our company isn't good enough to win, then do we need to exist at all? — Ben Horowitz