Patti Smith Quotes
When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
Patti Smith
Quotes to Explore
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Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
W. Bruce Cameron
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A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
Maggie Stiefvater
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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
Karl Rahner
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
Cab Calloway
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so the countess passed on until she came through the little park, where Niobe presented her with a cabinet, and so departed.
T. S. Eliot
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About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.
W. H. Auden
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As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'
Andre Aciman
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It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.
Anthony Stafford Beer
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There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore,
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.
Jonathan Zittrain
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A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.
Aaron David Gordon
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When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
Patti Smith
