The Alex Crow Quotes & Sayings

While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry. — Antoine Lavoisier

I want to do things that shock people. I think that persona attributes more to the roles that other people may consider me for, rather than the ones I consider for myself. — T.I.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure. — John Buchanan Robinson

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect. — Wynton Marsalis

I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we. — Andrew Smith

I've noticed a surge when I go out somewhere, or if I'm doing stand-up. — Kevin Nealon

If I could pray
and I'd stopped doing that nonsense long before the miracle of the refrigerator
I imagined praying, but I didn't know who to direct it to. — Andrew Smith

I don't let just anyone fine me, you know? — Andrew Smith

Shadows of deserts are as beautiful as the shining lights on the surface of oceans! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate. — Sun Tzu

It is easy to confuse a fantasy for a reality. — Duop Chak Wuol

Inspiration always arrives unannounced. — Vanna Bonta

Nat flung her arm over my shoulders and Alex leaned against my other side, the prohibition against touching gone for a few brief seconds as everyone collapsed together in a heap.
But I wasn't wulfen. I was still lonely. — Lili St. Crow

They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For although each man among them was discrete unto himself, conjoined they made a thing that had not been before and in that communal soul were wastes hardly reckonable more than those whited regions on old maps where monsters do live and where there is nothing other of the known world save conjectural winds. — Cormac McCarthy

I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them. — Rainer Maria Rilke

E ate so much that he became too fat to see to eat his vittels. — Anthony Trollope

I don't just let anyone find me, you know? — Andrew Smith

They stepped past the eunuch into a pillared courtyard overgrown in pale ivy. — George R R Martin

In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything. — Tom Peters