Shevchuk Songs Quotes

#1. May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

James Russell Lowell

#2. Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.

Richie Norton

#3. When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

Dick Gregory

#4. Words on a page were seductive, free, inviting everyone, without distinction.

Leila Aboulela

#5. What's love when you're too fucked up to feel it right?
I think it's a weapon.

Hannah Moskowitz

#6. [Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.

Steven Pinker

#7. Confidence is good, but when they hold their heads high like that, it just makes them look cocky and snobbish.

Grace Fiorre

#8. After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

Iris Chang

#9. Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

Stephen King

#10. If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Can you surrender to the future that God has in store for you?

James Martin

#12. stored inside of them, in frigid clouds of nitrogen, are cell lines representing nearly a thousand species.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#13. Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.

Joseph Campbell