Beauty In Brokeness Quotes

#1. At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

Iggy Pop

#2. Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'

Joan Jett

#3. Be brave, be great!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. The difference between me in my work and the me who is here in front of you is that on the page I create a consistency, a voice that must sound really reliable; whereas in person I am free - obviously! - to sound every which way.

Vivian Gornick

#5. Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.

Ambrose Philips

#6. Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#7. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#8. Even if you don't believe in God and you're praying to the Universe, you're being honest with yourself. Putting your energy into the world shows that you are open to change, to learn, and to receive help.

Demi Lovato

#9. Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

Bill Gross

#10. For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

Eric Linklater

#11. Accidents have already become an important factor restricting the development of a harmonious economy and society, and have attracted the strong attention of the Chinese government and society

Li Yizhong

#12. I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken.

Unknown

#13. Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

Will Self

#14. People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Douglas Coupland