Lemn Sissay Quotes
I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.
Lemn Sissay
Quotes to Explore
Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
Ian MacKaye
We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
Gary Bettman
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob Bronowski
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
Patricia Marx
The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
Rainn Wilson
I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
Oprah Winfrey
My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
Rachel Zoe
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
Gabriele Nanni
I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
Wanda Sykes
One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.
M. J. Rose
In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, 'stripeys,' which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.
Daniel Boulud
When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
Bart Stupak
I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.
Brian Azzarello
Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
Soren Kierkegaard
As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.
Patrick Ness
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Lord Byron
I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.
Lemn Sissay
