Jottings Quotes

#1. She would've made an excellent pirate.

Erica Ridley

#2. What I called jottings would not be a rendering of the text, not so to speak a translation with another symbolism. The text would not be stored up in the jottings. And why should it be stored up in our nervous system?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings
I haven't quite decided yet ... (Minora)

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#4. I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

Tim Finn

#5. For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

Saul Kripke

#6. The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

Kit Harington

#7. I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.

Maxine Kumin

#8. Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

Clive James

#9. To care for others is called humanity.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think for me the change from fiction to poetry was that in fiction I was writing about something, in poetry I was writing something.

Vito Acconci

#11. Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

Diane Johnson

#12. Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

Ike Skelton

#13. These are icons to be treasured.

Robert Stack

#14. Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the work The print and a proper one is the only completed photograph, whether it is specifically shaded for reproduction, or for a museum wall.

W. Eugene Smith

#15. The audience is smart and catch on pretty quick when they are sold the same old thing.

Ehren Kruger

#16. I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.

Edmund White