"Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women"

-- Kristin Hersh

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Men Quotes

“Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!”
“There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.”
“All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.”
“I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.”

Source : Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com
“We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.”

Source : Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.315, Ballantine Books
“Observe more, do less. Do less, enjoy more.”
“A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.”
“Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (2004). “The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel”, p.95, Macmillan

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