Vastelaovend Quotes

#1. People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.

D.R. Silva

#2. My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

Gary Shteyngart

#3. Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.

Dani Shapiro

#4. The fencing masters adjust your pose, your wrist, just as singing masters try to rearrange your throat and tongue, as concert masters order the notes, the cadence. I've had many masters. I hear their voices. I don't need to, anymore, but they still speak to me, through me. Always.

Kelly Gardiner

#5. He had writing the way other people had religion

Paula McLain

#6. I made work specifically for them not to like. If you made paintings of flowers and someone says they hate it, it's like, "What do you mean? It's a flower!" But if you make a painting of your name and somebody says they hate it, it's like, "Well, why would you like a painting of my name anyway?"

Josh Smith

#7. I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.

Terrell Owens

#8. It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Richard Dawkins

#9. I can hardly bear to look at him; it's like staring into the brightness and warmth of the sun, knowing that it's burning you while understanding that it makes your whole life possible.

Claudia Gray

#10. Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

Method Man