Suburbanisation Quotes

#1. The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

J.G. Ballard

#2. Maybe poets get to you best when you're sort of dreaming, when you're hardly there at all.

David Almond

#3. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

Nikki Giovanni

#4. Success is boring ... failure is exciting and more entertaining.

Anupam Kher

#5. If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

Criss Jami

#6. The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

John Wooden

#7. He's stoic and proud, bigger than life. Sharp jaw, intense eyes, armor made up of metal and ink. He is intensity and want and desire. He's happiness and frustration and comfort and hope and fear. He is my roller coaster.

Brighton Walsh

#8. As I got older, my voice got better.

Daryl Hall

#9. I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you love me,' they're boring. If I'm going to write a love song, it's going to be a little bit tortuous.

Jane Wiedlin

#10. Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.

Lauren Oliver