8sources Quotes

#1. Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.

Bertrand Russell

#2. I don't care about losing people who don't wanna be in my life anymore. I've lost people who meant the world to me and I'm still doing just fine.

Karl May

#3. I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.

America Ferrera

#4. Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.

Seth Godin

#5. My feeling says there is history here. But sometimes a thing might feeltrue to me, not because it is, but because the writer believes it is.

Pamela Dean

#6. I write to close my eyes.

Franz Kafka

#7. If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!

Dorothea Benton Frank

#8. Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Thomas Hobbes

#9. You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.

Tori Amos

#10. Indeed, there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and depleted.

Daniel Kahneman

#11. Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

Northrop Frye