Solo Beckett Quotes & Sayings

I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a solo writer - to be able to try new things and experiment, and ultimately challenge myself as a performer and as a songwriter and just to commit to ideas, and not be afraid to be myself. — William Beckett

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world. — Vance Havner

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. — Horace

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. — Joe Abercrombie

It's so dreadful to be poor! — Louisa May Alcott

Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something. — William T. Vollmann

It isn't a matter of what's rational or justified, it is a matter of signals. It was the wrong signal to give me. The reason wolves don't kill each other off is that the smaller and weaker wolf always surrenders. It rolls over, bares its throat and puts its paws in the air to signal that it is beaten. When that happens the winner is physically unable to attack anymore. If it were not that way, there wouldn't be any wolves left. For the same reason men don't usually kill women, or not by beating them to death. They can't. However much he wants to hit her, his internal machinery vetoes it. But if the woman makes the mistake of giving him a different signal by hitting him first. — Frederik Pohl

Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the center of religion and morality and not put other's secondary goals, less demand goals, into the forefront — Karen Armstrong

I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen. — Devendra Banhart

I think especially since going solo it's pretty clear that I'm completely being myself. — William Beckett