Mused Def Quotes & Sayings

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material ... .. — John Steinbeck

"Someone called him. Someone who seems to have set the whole things up, someone who knew me, my name." I looked at Liam. "Who is it?"
He choked on a laugh. "Seriously? I just died. Your boyfriend there killed me. You really expect me to stick around and chat? Love to, but I'm a little traumatized right now. Maybe later." — Kelley Armstrong

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice. — Bob Dylan

Be the cockroach — Amber Kizer

Bill Veeck was a charismatic and somewhat eccentric owner-fan during the post-WWII years. — Don Yaeger

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away. — Aaron Stanford

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. — William Carlos Williams

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people. — Paul Johnson

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages. — John Mahoney

Offer a wise man to be the king of the world, he will refuse it because wisdom is already a kingdom and the king is the kingdom itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. — Michael Pollan

I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth. — Max Lucado

Become a legend? But I am already. — Eric Cantona