Mayburn Davidson Quotes & Sayings

First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger. — Don DeLillo

Standing on the front porch was the kind of person who would probably elicit a question like 'You ain't from around here are ya, son?' from most people around there. — Jonathon Kane

So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind. — Antony Flew

You're right. Sorry. So-don't you think they'd notice you more if you smiled and seemed happier? — A.S. King

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention. — Mark Strand

I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she wasn't stirring. I went in to wake her, and she was laying in rigor mortis, and I'm done. I called next door, and the kid picked up the phone, and I was so wild, he dropped it. — Gil Scott-Heron

Warriors don't need saviours. Warriors save themselves. — Carmen Jenner

One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die. — Justin Cronin

So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom. — Pythagoras