Jill Scott Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Wallace Stevens -
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear -
I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
Carine Roitfeld -
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
Tao Lin
-
With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
Garth Nix -
A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
Rajneesh -
I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
Laura Donnelly -
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid -
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
Rachel Cusk
-
The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
Yogi Berra -
It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
Ralph Fiennes -
I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.
Eden Robinson -
You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
Dan Millman -
I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.
Rachel Sklar
-
Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'
Alice Eve -
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset -
By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything
H. G. Wells -
The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them.
John Wycliffe -
Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
Madame de Stael -
I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.
Jill Scott