Brinkster Bergman Quotes

#1. Give me courage.
Flash.
Give me heart.
Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.

John Legend

#3. Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

Laurence Sterne

#4. I didn't learn Chinese to write 'Confucius.' That would've been a monumental task. I have three friends who can translate Chinese text for me; all three helped me with my research on Confucius. They are acknowledged in my acknowledgements in the book.

Russell Freedman

#5. Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you're deeply conflicted about.

Marlon James

#6. The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

Thomas De Quincey

#7. Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk.

Neil Gaiman

#8. The gun jammed on the last shot and the baby stood holding the crib rail, eyes wild, bawling.

Louise Erdrich

#9. With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.

Alain Ducasse

#10. A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual.

Demetri Martin

#11. It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.

Richard Paul Evans