Adam Nevill Quotes

What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.

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• There's an obvious attraction To the path of least resistance in your life Well there's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistence Could make you try tonight 'Cause it's easy not to So much easier not to And what goes around never comes around to you To you, to you, to you, to you, to you.

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Life
  • Path

• The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

  

  Ben Harper
  • American
  • Discover
  • American Music

• One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Think
  • Occupation
  • Nowadays

• He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

  

  Confucius
  • Ocean
  • Crosses
  • Washing

• The anti-choice folks across the country are feeling emboldened by the climate. You have an anti-choice president, you have an anti-choice U.S. House and Senate.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Senate
  • Anti-choice
  • U.S. House

• It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Humanity
  • Touch
  • Sweetness

• The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Trust
  • Arts
  • Bottom Line

• The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Write
  • Secret

• Chemistry between people is the strangest science of all.

  

  Bridgett Devoue
  • Science
  • Chemistry

• The internet is just a passing fad.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Internet

• Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • World
  • Successful
  • Trusted

• Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Opportunity
  • Blanks

• It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Enough
  • Creating
  • Draws

• A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • To Be
  • Approval

• There's 20 really cutting-edge, cool artists on there, so I was so thrilled to be a part of it, ... And it's a really fun song.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Song
  • Artists
  • Part

• Politicians have a lot to deal with these days. It's a different world. You know who I feel bad for? Arab Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting. Could be their life long dream and every time they ask for a pamphlet, all hell breaks loose.

  

  Brian Regan
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Faith
  • Poetry
  • Acknowledgement

• What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.

  

  Adam Nevill
  • To Be
  • Wished