Scout Niblett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

  • Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.

  • You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.

  • Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

  • An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.

  • As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.

  • You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

  • I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

  • With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

  • The secret of a great melody is a secret.

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