Moncrieffe Quotes

#1. Poetry was a barrier against raw
emotions. It distilled them into bearable
music, allowed one to accommodate them
a little at a time.

Alexander Moncrieffe

Julie Anne Long

#2. Nothing could be sillier than we got good people here. We got the same cross-section of assholes as anywhere.

H. G. Bissinger

#3. I tend to think too much, Bast. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do
what I did.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#5. And you, my friends! So few of you remain
That you are dearer daily. I rejoice
In you. How short the road has become,
That once appeared the longest road of all.

Anna Akhmatova

#6. I already have dragons chasing me. If I were rich, people would want to rob me. No, I'll stick with words. They're valuable, but they're light, and nobody else seems to want them as badly as I do.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. Life in San Francisco is still just life. If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk - and

Larry McMurtry

#8. I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.

Eric Massa

#9. He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.

George Steinbrenner

#10. I've had a great life. It was exciting. I worked with the most interesting people, and I traveled all over the country.

Dick Van Patten

#11. I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children's literature. This has been the bane of my life.

Sonya Hartnett

#12. Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.

Dani Shapiro

#13. Always using the same methods is not God's way

Sunday Adelaja

#14. 'Taxi Driver' was one of the happiest moments of my career.

Cybill Shepherd

#15. I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.

Loretta Napoleoni

#16. A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.

Garth Nix