Sawyier Williams Quotes

#1. You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.

Brian Wilson

#2. So, on top of the betrayal, I got to feel ashamed. I got to hate myself, when the rage of Medea would have served me better; but I was ever a stranger to rage.

Susan Spano

#3. I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.

Charlie Kaufman

#4. People always say that they want to understand so that they can believe. But in MY reality it's just the opposite. I believe because I DON'T understand. I HAVE to believe, because there's no other way to explain what I'm seeing, feeling, or experiencing.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#5. Autonomy is the capacity to act on principles that are one's own and one will exercise this capacity by means of a process of rational reflection on these principles. Autonomy is thought to be necessary for attributing political responsibility.

Alison Assiter

#6. All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.

Etgar Keret

#7. I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

Kim Carnes

#8. I mix all different oils - my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I'm really into natural beauty and natural healing. Peppermint is really good if you put it on your stomach for a tummy ache; lavender is kind of all-purpose - I think everyone should carry it.

Liz Goldwyn

#9. A perceptive French critic has argued that in an age of deepening illiteracy, when even the educated have only a smattering of classical or theological knowledge, erudition is of itself a kind of fantasy, a surrealistic construct.

George Steiner

#10. Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

V.S. Pritchett

#11. People like Eunice just never had quite figured out how to get along in the world. They might be perfectly intelligent, but they were subject to speckles and flushes; their purses resembled wastepaper baskets; they stepped on their own skirts.

Anne Tyler

#12. I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

C.P. Snow

#13. I have patient to wait for what I desire.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Your eyes are my stars of happiness.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#15. With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that's unlike anyone else's, creating an atmosphere you don't so much interpret as breathe.

Kevin Brockmeier