Maximillia Scheider Quotes & Sayings

Wild horses couldn't drag me away — Rolling Stones

I can't speak for other writers, but I write to create something that is better than myself, I think that's the deepest motivation, and it is so because I'm full of self-loathing and shame. Writing doesn't make me a better person, nor a wiser and happier one, but the writing, the text, the novel, is a creation of something outside of the self, an object, kind of neutralized by the objectivity of literature and form; the temper, the voice, the style; all in it is carefully constructed and controlled. This is writing for me: a cold hand on a warm forehead. — Karl Ove Knausgard

At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos. — Frederick Lenz

I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them. — Tim Matheson

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept. — Alison Jackson

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next. — Rachel Cusk

I was in a mental asylum? When the fuck did that happen? — Darynda Jones

Many times in life, God waits while a situation goes from bad to worse. He appears to let it slip over the edge, so that you and I say, "There's no way now for this ever to work out." But that is the point when the omnipotent God intervenes in our hopelessness and says, "Oh, really? Watch this ... ! — Jim Cymbala

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession. — Julia Ward Howe

A moment comes when "other" is no longer other. — Ram Dass

My words of encouragement for teen girls suffering with eating disorders, self-harm, anything ... is to get help. It's the most important thing you can do for yourself, and it can change your life and potentially save your life. — Demi Lovato

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided. — Publilius Syrus