Renderings J Barrie Shepherd Poems Quotes & Sayings

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn. — Robin Williams

We're going to rush the hijackers. — Jeremy Glick

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society. — Sun Ra

It was a clear cold night and the stars shone down upon the mountains as bright and merciless as truth. — George R R Martin

I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around. — Elizabeth Peyton

The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority. — Felix Frankfurter

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood. — E. M. Forster

In summary, our world is doomed. — Charlie Brooker

For that I must descend into the depths, as you do in the evening when you go below the sea and bring light also to the underworld, you superabundant star! — Friedrich Nietzsche

You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay. — Emma Forrest

Funny way to get to a wizards' school, the train. Magic carpets all got punctures, have they? — J.K. Rowling

It's important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you, and not what others think is important for you. — Steve McCurry

[...] Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from purple to ultraviolet and took sixteen volumes of interminable epistles to get to the point [...] — Charles Stross

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary. — Patrick F. McManus