Tempestini Ribbon Quotes & Sayings

Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace. — Chris Baty

If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun. — John Cage

Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.' — Nelson Algren

You keep your wine in a paper bag, you shouldn't be too upset when it leaks. — Joe Abercrombie

My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York. — Tamra Davis

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. — Eddie Vedder

The human psyche is not unitary; we all have different parts. This phenomenon is widely recognized, but in psychiatry the terminology and theories about it are far from unified. Nevertheless, I think dissociation, parts, sub-personalities, selves, and complexes are all referring to the same or to overlapping phenomenon. — Rick Doblin

A lot of filmmaking is an endurance contest between you and the people you're filming. Every time that you relax, I promise you, something interesting will happen. — Marshall Curry

I mean, when a man reaches ... a certain age," he tried again, "he knows the world is never going to be perfect. He's got used to it being a bit, a bit ... " "Manky?" Nobby suggested. Tucked behind his ear, in the place usually reserved for his cigarette, was another wilting lilac flower. "Exactly," said Colon. "Like, it's never going to be perfect, so you just do the best you can, right? But when there's a kid on the way, well, suddenly a man sees it different. He thinks: my kid's going to have to grow up in this mess. Time to clean it up. Time to make it a Better World. He gets a bit ... keen. Full of ginger. — Terry Pratchett

In greatness, life and death merge. — Dejan Stojanovic

All the world's stupidest people are either zealots or atheists. If you want to truly deduce how intelligent someone is, just ask this person how they feel about any issue that doesn't have an answer; the more certainty they express, the less sense they have. This is because certainty only comes from dogma. — Chuck Klosterman

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. — John Lancaster Spalding

The beauty of a Jewish education is that you learn how to argue. — Andrea Dworkin

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term. — Shakira