Maintenance Reliability Quotes & Sayings

Well we never set out to write a concept album. I've always used song writing as a therapeutic release so in that process, I just do my best to be honest with myself and look inside myself and whatever comes out usually just reflects or depicts what I'm going through in my life at that time. — Chuck Ragan

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not. — Clare Boothe Luce

Sometimes," he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, "people just want to be happy, even if it's not real. — Veronica Roth

I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost anything that I write, I'll stay completely immersed in the electronic text of it for a period of time and in another period, I'll stay immersed in it as a physical thing that can cut your skin. So with the apocalypses, I had them taped all over the wall and they had codes on them. Sometimes I would color code them in terms of thematic elements, sometimes in terms of voice, sometimes visual forms or images. — Lucy Corin

I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me? — Carson McCullers

Then in my mind's eye I see the bronze statue of the college Founder, the cold Father symbol, his hands outstretched in the breathtaking gesture of lifting a veil that flutters in hard, metallic folds above the face of a kneeling slave; and I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding. — Ralph Ellison

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. — David Antin

Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story. — Samantha Shannon

What might be merely embarrassing in real life is made obscene and hostile by TV. — Ben Fountain

Okay, I'll admit, I want to kiss you like that again, every single day, every moment I'm with you. — Ashlan Thomas

We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix. — Jerry A. Coyne

All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish. — Frances Beinecke

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying. — Abel Hermant

I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money. — James Gray

It seemed as if, once aging led to debility, it was impossible for anyone to be happy. * — Atul Gawande