Sequestered Songwriters Quotes & Sayings

Virtue is too often merely local. — Samuel Johnson

Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it. — Dana Glossbrenner

God created human beings in his own likeness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Shut up about Leibniz for a moment, Rudy, because look here: You - Rudy - and I are on a train, as it were, sitting in the dining car, having a nice conversation, and that train is being pulled along at a terrific clip by certain locomotives named The Bertrand Russell and Riemann and Euler and others. And our friend Lawrence is running alongside the train, trying to keep up with us - it's not that we're smarter than he is, necessarily, but that he's a farmer who didn't get a ticket. And I, Rudy, am simply reaching out through the open window here, trying to pull him onto the fucking train with us so that the three of us can have a nice little chat about mathematics without having to listen to him panting and gasping for breath the whole way. — Neal Stephenson

Love was to blame for this. Because when love ends, the cold is what you're left with.
It was all I needed to feel. — David Levithan

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

You leave your neighborhood but you never want to forget where you came from," he says. "I have the best of best worlds. I'm street smart and book smart. You put that together in an African-American male and that's dangerous. — Anonymous