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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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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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.
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A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
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The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of religious fervor, however ridiculous, not realizing that true religion must be according to God's will as the perfect measure; that He can never deny Himself and is no mere spirit form to be changed around according to individual preference.
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The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.
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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.
