"Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old."

-- Sharon M. Draper

#Song Quotes #Clever Quotes #Expression Quotes

“I don't really map anything out. I just let it happen [while writing]. But once it happens, it's always there. If it's laid, it's played. If I get to page 300 and it's not working, I junk it.”
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.”
“The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations, language. We live in manifestations of it - permanent war, environmental destrucution, poverty, racism, misogyny, the assault on labor, torture in our prisons, capital punishment - a corporate capitalist state controlled by oligarchical interests for their own private profit and gain.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.”
“It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.”
“If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.”

Source : Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart (2001). “The Shape of Irish History”
“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

Source : On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)
“All things are possible, only believe.”

You may also like: