Mitigated Skepticism Quotes & Sayings

I write to escape; to escape poverty. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Surrender means seeing that "I am not separate" - just SEEING that "I am not separate." Nothing is surrendered, nothing is dropped; just a nonsense idea, a dream is no more there because you are awake. — Rajneesh

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song. — Rabindranath Tagore

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important. — Jim Butcher

I don't want to play stinking, beer-ridden clubs. It depresses me even thinking about that. I really hate it when you're finished with a show and you're in your dressing room with that stink of beer and sweaty girls. It brings back an ugly picture for me. I'd hate to have to do that again. — Steve Jones

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come. — Pauline Oliveros

In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you write well or ill, be assured that you will not escape from blame ... — Matthew Gregory Lewis

As a species we're pathetic in that way: imperfectly monogamous. If we could only pair-bond for life, like gibbons, or else opt for total guilt-free promiscuity, there'd be no more sexual torment. — Margaret Atwood

I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does. — James Richardson

Men and women sit penitent over their little displays, watching their little programs, forgetting where they are in favor of where they'd wish to be. — Pierce Brown

Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before. — Randy Anderson