Cicada Shaun Tan Quotes

#1. I regret, most of all, my shrivelled heart. So focused on the numbers. On the maths of my personal equation. Can a man change his heart? Are there ways to improve the spirit of who you are? Of why you choose?

Andrew Miller

#2. Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.

Nancy Kress

#3. We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

Robert Wright

#4. My opinion is a view I hold until ... well, until I find something that changes it.

Luigi Pirandello

#5. We have met once," she said, "at the Holcombes. If Mr. Roark remembers.

Ayn Rand

#6. Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

John Updike

#7. I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

Tyler Farr

#8. We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

Nathan Myhrvold

#9. Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

William A. Dembski

#10. Then most our trouble still when most admired,
And still the more we give, the more required;
Whose fame with pains we guard, but lose with ease,
Sure some to vex, but never all to please.

Alexander Pope

#11. probably never said I love you to another human being . . . How could Kate have said that? And then not called to apologize . . . or to say hello . . . or even to wish her a happy birthday?

Kristin Hannah

#12. I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.

Walter Kirn

#13. Even you, o Princess, in your cold room, watch the stars, that tremble with love and with hope. But my secret is hidden within me, my name no one shall know...

Giacomo Puccini

#14. I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f - king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That's really tempting.

Ben Folds