Ben Rector Quotes
Other artists' music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music and a lot of soul music. I also really like a lot of new stuff.
Ben Rector
Quotes to Explore
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
A. B. Yehoshua
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
K. A. Applegate
I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
Sam Waterston
Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
W. E. B. Du Bois
Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
Rachel Zoe
I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
Maggie Stiefvater
I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.
LaToya Jackson
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
Nawal El Saadawi
A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.
Karl Marx
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
Mason Cooley
Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.
Jim Flaherty
