Surgener Crawford Quotes & Sayings

The missing links in my life's work, no less! — Robert Wyatt

Writing is like having a lover. Sometimes it's wonderful and sometimes it's a pain in the neck. — Rick Springfield

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York. — Ryan Gosling

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs. — William E. Gladstone

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger. — Philip Sidney

In my book tours I get to meet an audience every night. And I see that there are mostly young people, and there are a lot of more men than before, but always young, I don't get older men. As I'm getting older, my audience gets younger! — Isabel Allende

In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge. — Theodor Adorno

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. — Manuel Puig

We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please. — Stephen Graham Jones

To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. — Watchman Nee

It's age. It makes misers of us," he said dolefully. "Counting out our lives in small change from a thinning purse. — Peter Maughan