Gaston Bachelard Quotes
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Quotes to Explore
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.
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I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.
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There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
