Tumblr Writer Quotes & Sayings

The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. — Eric Bell

I was stressed and scared and I had to hurry to be someone, become something, do something. I was running and talking and cursed myself when I wasted my time on things that wouldn't get me anywhere. It was work and it was money and I was never where I was, always somewhere else in my head far, far away. — Charlotte Eriksson

He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay. — Charlotte Eriksson

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I was curious as to how my words started circulating at such an alarming rate. After all, every author waits to be discovered by someone. Anyone. And so I found myself smack bang in the middle of the mad hatters head, and as someone put it, Tumblr might actually be worse than that. But yes, futilely, I was attempting to discover the elusive origin of my words by tracing back notes until I came across my quote right next to a selfie of a stripper, or hooker, with a fox tail butt plug ... and that was when I stopped. — Dimitri Zaik

Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life. — S.R. Crawford

I realized I needed my own love more than the people I selflessly gave it to. — Alishah Khan

I am going to hurt you.
You are going to hurt me.

But we will do it with practiced fingers
and passionate mouths
and I swear to god

it will be worth something. — Trista Mateer

Bring on the dancing girls and put the champagne on ice ... — Bon Scott

I was really inspired by photos of the "Forgotten Man" during the Depression, when men were wearing the last suit that they had at the time, just trying not to starve to death. It's the kind of suit that is worn in the rain and shrinks on the body and becomes a second skin, which is different than someone who willfully dropped out. — Autumn De Wilde

If we enjoy it fully, a moment becomes an unforgettable memory. — Debasish Mridha

I still remember you
as a little girl
who overwaters plants
because she doesn't know
when to stop giving. — Trista Mateer

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away. — Nikky Finney

You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me? — Charlotte Eriksson

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by. — Janelle Monae

Like a Rubik's Cube, I have many configurations; Do not just assume that you have "figured" me out, just because you've seen one side. — Andrea L'Artiste

I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it. — Ann Marie Frohoff

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture. — Andrea L'Artiste

I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to? — Joss Stone