"I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting."

-- Cyndi Lauper

#Writing Quotes #School Quotes #Band Quotes

“There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.”
“I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.”
“Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her best-known volume, "Diving into the Wreck," won the National Book Award in 1973.”
“I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds.”

Source : David Thewlis (2011). “The Late Hector Kipling”, p.83, Pan Macmillan
“It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”
“Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although the lay public considers mathematical equations to be rather opaque, to a scientist an equation is very much like a movement in a larger symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These are the qualities that have inspired some of the greatest artists to create their masterpieces, and they are precisely the same qualities that motivate scientists to search for the laws of nature. LIke a work of art or a haunting poem, equations have a beauty and rhythm all their own.”
“One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'”
“I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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