Insolently Def Quotes

#1. The kind of music that God must hearing, no matter how busy or distracted, because it comes out of hundreds of square Miles of nothingness, out of the emptiness of the hills and the silence of the moors ...

Simon Armitage

#2. For that was mom's trump card: she was the mother, and so possessed a mysterious and unquestioned authority. Dad was the boss, but Mom was the power.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. I never thought I was the best; I just thought I was one of the best.

Moses Malone

#4. The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

Eliza Haywood

#5. Hold all men in mind as being healthy, happy, and prosperous. When you do this you are helping others and sowing good for yourself. Always send out thoughts of love and service. They will come back to you laden with their kind.

Venice J. Bloodworth

#6. I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

Feist

#7. Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That's great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?

Seth Shostak

#8. A king is no king without his people, but a people without their king would be lost as well.
Lan Fan (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)

Hiromu Arakawa

#9. Sometimes choice works like that. One person's choice is another's loss of choice.

William Campbell Powell

#10. I'm not a late-night person. After 10 P.M., I'm falling asleep. If I'm out at that time, I'll be the one falling asleep at dinner.

Blake Mycoskie

#11. That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

Hannah Gadsby

#12. I hate that I can't take back what I said. I would never hit Dylan. I would never hurt her. But just beat her up with words.

Katie Kacvinsky

#13. A point of view, a single way of thinking that encompasses all elements of a subject, allows essays more or less to write themselves.

Stephen Fry

#14. When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.

Martin Parr