Specification Sections Quotes & Sayings

What puts you so in the zone that hours and hours pass and you've barely glanced at the clock? If money were no issue, what is the thing you feel so passionately about that you'd do it for free? What do you care about enough to want to put in the time required to get better and better at it? — Claire Cook

The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul. — Niki De Saint Phalle

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg. — John Lahr

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead! — Stokely Carmichael

I need to make myself strong on the inside instead of what is on the outside. I know all of this, but why can't I put any of it into action? I guess that's why I am in this place. — Piper Caleb

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul. — John Lancaster Spalding

The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY. — Erving Goffman

Bout to inhale like I'm finnin to see Satan. We're Satanic. It's the law. — Big Sean

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next. — Adam Johnson

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death. — Roland Barthes

This specification should be read like all other specifications. First, it should be read cover-to-cover, multiple times. Then, it should be read backwards at least once. Then it should be read by picking random sections from the contents list and following all the cross-references. — Anonymous