Unfancy Quotes

#1. When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

Dan Auerbach

#2. The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. I found Deborah waiting for me, slumped into my chair and looking like the poster girl for the National Brooding Outrage Foundation.

Jeff Lindsay

#4. Stretch your limits once a while, lest you lose your elasticity

Anonymous

#5. I once heard Don DeLillo quip that a fiction writer starts with meaning and then manufactures events to represent it; a memoirist starts with events, then derives meaning from them.

Mary Karr

#6. Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

David Hume

#7. Most employees are never made or allowed to understand the real meaning behind the work that they are doing. So, for how long can someone remain motivated about chasing something without knowing what he is chasing and why?

Abhishek Ratna

#8. It looks like President Obama has a new campaign slogan: 'Yes I Did.'

Jay Leno

#9. That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and one has to lose the one who has lost everything ...

Steven Harrison

#10. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

Mary Baker Eddy

#11. David slayed Goliath with a single stone.
You crippled my heart with a single lie.
This is the enormity of small things.

Key Ballah

#12. those days, back then, these were the years of . . . Or how about, 'Now that the mirror tells a different story, I can say it and get it out of the way. I really was pretty.' Too cruel? No need

Ian McEwan

#13. I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Annie Lennox