Day Laborers Staten Quotes

#1. The ratio of people to cake is too big.

Stephen Root

#2. Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.

Gary Hume

#3. The adverb is not your friend.

Stephen King

#4. Religion of the Self [Soul] is that where no difficulty or trouble arises for anyone or any living being of 'our' own accord.

Dada Bhagwan

#5. I cannot undo myself, and the train is steaming.

Sylvia Plath

#6. We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.

Jerome Bruner

#7. Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and I thought I might do some good.

Hilary Mantel

#8. In California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

Rumer Godden

#9. Irrationally, Mosca felt she should have inherited her father's intimate knowledge of Mandelion. His throwaway comments about the city should have magically meshed in her mind, giving her a faultless instinct for finding her way around.

Frances Hardinge