Slinkard Fire Quotes

#1. They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though.

Peter Hook

#2. I don't make a mistake once or twice, I make it five or six times just to make sure it was a mistake.

Anonymous

#3. History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.

Tony Judt

#4. Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

John Charles Polanyi

#5. I looked at the group of human remains that languished in the corner and smiled at them. It occurred to me that their very presence was testimony to the moral emptiness of the universe and the mechanical brutality with which it destroys the parts it no longer needs.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#6. I slipped into art to escape life. I sneaked off into literature.

Rabih Alameddine

#7. Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter, at least for a while, to see what the world looks like from outside it.

Garth Greenwell

#9. I'm a staple in my city, you can never ruin me.

Drake

#10. Looking at your day from a "golden day" perspective helps you prioritize.

Elizabeth George

#11. Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

Robert Breault

#12. There is no such thing as motivation in my world. I am not motivated to do what I do. As an artist, I am driven, I am compelled, I am thrust forward by a force so rooted inside me, so convincing, that it seems futile to try to explain it. Although it has a name: passion.

Philippe Petit

#13. If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

Paul Theroux