Quotes About Unfitting

#1. To be entranced, to be driven, to be obsessed, to be under the spell of an emerging, not quite fully 'comprehended' narrative
this is the greatest happiness of the writer's life even as it burns us out and exhausts us, unfitting us for the placid contours of 'normality.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. She was Grandma Will. That term felt foreign and unfitting to the relationship they had. She wondered if her father had ever called her Mother, Ma, Mom, Mama? Maybe in private he might have, but to the world, all the world, it was Aunt Will.

Pamela Morsi

#3. I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].

Pope Gregory I

#4. I don't experience writer's block, I only have periods of severe writer's diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from "the shit" later on.

Kevin Focke

#5. I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

Pablo Picasso

#6. Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

Chris Cleave

#7. Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?

Ellen Hopkins

#8. I believe in working together to solve the problems we've got. And we need to get rid of the venom in the political atmosphere in D.C. It's a poisonous atmosphere.

Scott McClellan

#9. It's okay to be eccentric, as long as you are rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

Yvon Chouinard

#10. I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#11. How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.

W.G. Sebald

#12. I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

Van Morrison

#13. I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.

Ron Paul