Toshi Seeger Quotes & Sayings

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My dad wrote to me. My mum put him up to it because she got this great idea that hearing from someone I'd never met and who didn't give a fuck about me might cheer me up... — Helen Falconer

Guys who can't get a job on Wall Street get a job at Moody's, as one Goldman Sachs trader-turned-hedge fund manager put it. — Michael Lewis

I go from chords to cords, amped to amps. — Rachel Cohn

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee. — Amity Gaige

Let there be bass. — Leo Fender

The problem is, when I talk about heartbreak or whatever, people want to melt it down to some break-up of a relationship, but it's not about that. If you're a sensitive person, just stepping outside can be heartbreaking. — Lykke Li

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another. — Diogenes Laertius

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not. — Charles Dudley Warner

I said once that lies have no rights against truth. I was wrong. In daily life, it's the truth that's disenfranchised. What fits the popular narrative, what makes an observer happy with the consistency of events, is what is believed. — Adrian Lamo

A novel is a long confession in which you expose your heartaches, complain about all the things that are wrong in the world, then try to put those things right for the sake of the reader, as well as your own well being. — Chloe Thurlow