Skylah Savannah Quotes & Sayings

What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be more compassionate. To orchestrate our mourning. And to celebrate ecstasy. — Susan Sontag

If you think you are capable of living without writing, do not write, — John Irving

You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what. — Paul Simon

The identification of any object in the first-person case is ruled out by the enterprise of scientific explanation. So science cannot tell me who I am, let alone where, when, or how. — Roger Scruton

My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas. — Jacob Lawrence

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team ... that's throwing the game. — Pete Rose

We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty. — E. M. Forster

So what you are accomplishing is entrenching yourself more and more in this world. — Frederick Lenz

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. — Eric Berne

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals. — Carl Von Clausewitz