Di Strada Electric Quotes

#1. Imagine willpower as a closed fist and longing as an open hand. Try closing your fist. How long do you think you can hold that pose? A closed fist requires a lot of attention and energy, and so does willpower. Longing is effortless; it's just there, like an open hand.

Gudjon Bergmann

#2. Necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals, or meaning. Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn't play a role shouldn't exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That's what you call dramaturgy.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.

Irving Howe

#4. Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien

Philip Zaleski

#5. This is how I found the strength not to get on with my former life. This is how I found the courage not to pick up the same old pieces.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

Matthew Quick

#7. The difference between a great man and a little man is their commitment to Integrity and Hard Work

Shiv Khera

#8. My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.

Nathan Fillion

#9. I've been fascinated over the years by the way refrains work. Think, say, of the refrains in Yeats' ballads. Ideally, each time the refrain comes back in a poem, it is both the same and different. It works by counterpoint and reiteration. It accrues meaning.

Edward Hirsch

#10. Miwanzo is the word in Swahili for "beginnings." But sometimes everything has to end first and the bottom drop out and every light fizzle and die before a proper beginning can come along.

Paula McLain

#11. Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Coretta Scott King

#12. I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Jamie Foxx

#13. I felt heat and
my body trembled
and forces
beyond my control
pulled me to him
as the music ripped
through our bodies

Lisa Schroeder