Melton Brandenburg Quotes

#1. Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

Dee Rees

#2. You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

Tom Stoppard

#3. I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.

Philip Massinger

#4. I seem to offend everybody. I just never got into the universe. I don't seem to have a tremendous amount of discipline or patience with having to follow a story that is really multi-leveled and science-fiction.

Marc Maron

#5. Sometimes it takes some time out on your own to find your way back home.

Taylor Dane

#6. Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#7. A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.

Anne Carson

#8. I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college ... I did other things.

Jackie Kennedy

#9. Looking at these photographs, I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know the places I've been. I've learned for sure only what I don't know - and how much I have to learn.

Anthony Bourdain

#10. The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.

Leonard Ravenhill

#11. There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

Michael Eric Dyson

#12. I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

Camille Paglia