Jesse Michaels Quotes

#1. I hated Shallow Grave, that movie made me angry. And I hated Happiness. I generally hate movies that use extreme violence or gratuitous shock value in place of having a heart. For example: movies that combine extremely sadistic violence with humor I find offensive.

Jesse Michaels

#2. I don't isolate too much or make the project my god. This helps a lot with negative ideation.

Jesse Michaels

#3. If they are monsters, we should ask ourselves who made them that way.

Pierce Brown

#4. I always quit while I am still inspired, while I could still write more. Never let the thread run all the way out.

Jesse Michaels

#5. "What did the pope say? I like the pope. I mean, was it good or bad?"Because if it's good, I like the pope. If it's bad, I don't like the pope.

Donald Trump

#6. Music is an indirect force for change

Jesse Michaels

#7. Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests.
"You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.

Rick Riordan

#8. I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

David Boreanaz

#9. In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.

Jesse Michaels

#10. In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.

Jesse Michaels

#11. It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

Warsan Shire

#12. Get used to eating cold toast. Draw your breakfast every day. Then eat it.

Danny Gregory

#13. Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was "dead" very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.

Jesse Michaels

#14. I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Elia Kazan

#15. It's the good loser who finally loses out.

Kin Hubbard

#16. I've known Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and they're two of the most independent people I've ever known in my life, and the thought we could somehow bend their views I find really beyond my capacity to believe.

Peter George Peterson

#17. Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience.
It is not necessarily comfortable.
It is not necessarily safe.

Lenore Kandel

#18. I'm not a vegetarian, and I like filet minion which is sort of a guilty pleasure because I have vegetarian leanings. I eat that once in a while, but generally speaking I like to eat vegetarian things. I really like pasta. I really like bread with olive oil and garlic and I like salads.

Jesse Michaels