Powells Quotes & Sayings

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring — Sandra Lee

Be wary of what I might learn. "No. Do you think I should?" "I don't know. Maybe," she replied, and in my mind I saw her in her high-backed bar stool at the island in the kitchen where the kids scarfed down their Lucky Charms before walking down the hill to school. Then, before I could answer, she went on, "It will be weird if we're related to the woman in the photo." "In what way?" "She's so ... " "Go ahead," I said. "She's not like us. Even if she is related to us, she's not like us. I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just that she's from a different world. — Chris Bohjalian

I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it. — Lauryn Hill

I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world. That's what makes it juicy! — Jill Scott

The trick to creativity, if there is a single useful thing to say about it, is to identify your own peculiar talent and then to settle down to work with it for a good long time. Everyone has an aptitude for something. The trick is to recognize it, to honor it, to work with it. This is where creativity starts." - Denise Shekerjian — Thaddeus Cooper

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write ... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure. — Tanith Lee

But she would have to wait until there were not a hundred people crowded into the room. — Rosamund Hodge

Show me a writer that doesn't use their craft as a coping mechanism and I'll show you my unicorn. — Angelina Assanti

When people ask me how I develop recipes, I have to respond: "travelling, eating, watching, experimenting, and constantly asking myself: 'Do I want to eat this dish again?'" Will I yearn for it some evening when I'm hungry? Will I remember it in six months' time? In a year? Five years from now? — Paula Wolfert

I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are. — Jason Ritter

We all know the films that have affected us from the age of nine onwards, that mean so much to us. — Martin Freeman

There are a lot of good ideas that could benefit from big media. You have a lot of companies that hit a wall and can't get beyond a certain level. They need the infrastructure and distribution of a large company. — Ross Levinsohn

My whole life has been a lie. — Bobby Darin