11 379 Quotes

#1. Be yourself. And if you're remotely interesting, you're bound to face a lot of rejection.

Maggie Young

#2. If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.

Nhat Hanh

#3. Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

Roy Fuller

#4. [O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

St. Jerome

#5. Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

Robert M. Hutchins

#6. There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer

#7. If a man who can't count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

Stanislaw Lem

#8. I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm an educated person means that I can't be on that convoy. I don't want to be on it. I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.

Arundhati Roy

#9. The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.

Catherine Breillat

#10. Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

Nancy Friday

#11. I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always getting myself tired by working in the afternoon and then I was just throwing out what I wrote in the afternoon, so writing then was counterproductive.

Robert Caro

#12. I really just concentrated on putting out solo stuff on my website, just trying things, but this time we thought it was time to do a proper record, where you make a bit of a fanfare about it. Something that says "listen everybody, I'm here".

William Orbit