Monster Disguised Human Quotes & Sayings

Facts which were new to me were daily presenting themselves to my mind. — Noah Webster

When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre. — Steven Wright

I washed his tiny limp resting body; it was then that I finally released the cry, that for so long, had remained stifled. — Stacy Sorrells

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing. — Michael Dirda

We keep on burying our dead/
We keep on planting their bones in the ground/
But they won't grow/
The sun doesn't help/
The rain doesn't help. — Regina Spektor

The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity. — Christopher Alexander

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

Privacy is a rare commodity on a small island and secrets weigh heavy on their keepers — Christopher Moore