Sprinted Single Quotes

#1. Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Allen Klein

#2. I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.

Cat Power

#3. As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades.'

David T. Hardy

#4. Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

Sarah Manguso

#5. In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Seamus Heaney

#6. No one can make you dwell on the past.
Control your thoughts and actions! Make your own decisions! Just because someone keeps bringing up your past doesn't mean you have to accept it --- you are not obligated to accommodate their recollections of you.

Michelle Word Hollis

#7. People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

Gail Porter

#8. It's a great euphoria when you reach that writing zone.

Paul T. Scheuring

#9. I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.

Nat Wolff

#10. In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

Emily James Smith Putnam

#11. In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.

Jo Brand

#12. I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.

Erin Morgenstern

#13. My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.

Blair Underwood

#14. Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

J.R.R. Tolkien