Lozier Scottsboro Quotes & Sayings

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners. — Harlan Howard

It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded. — Oscar Wilde

People trust too much in themselves. What they take for truth, they let rule their lives, and if I set out to find a way to live so I will be in control of my life, then I actually lose control, because the thing I have decided on, my truth, becomes the ruler and I become it's servant. And how can I be free to evolve if I'm submitting myself to a ruler, any ruler, even if that ruler is me? — Steve Toltz

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. — Herodotus

To find out what another human being feels, a person who isn't you; to get a look under the hood, so to speak. A deep look inside. That's what writing is supposed to do. — Meg Wolitzer

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened. — Joanna Trollope

All of life is a ceremony where we get to know and explore our wholeness. — Tehya Sky

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye! — Paul Cezanne

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome. — Saadi

What rivets me to history is seeing / acts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, / look back on us in mercy where we failed ourselves, / see us not one-dimensional but with / the past as your steadying and corrective lens. — Adrienne Rich

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth. — Steve Almond