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“It's not cool to be an alcoholic.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which it grew, which means taking it back to Homer and beyond, it demands the written word - poetry and prose. [Bob] Dylan is no slouch at the written word, both in its own right, and transcribed from his lyrics, which have often been acclaimed as poetry and may well stand up as such. But that is not his métier.”
Source : Source: thequietus.com
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“Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.”
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“Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.”
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“In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.”
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“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”
Source : Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
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“The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.”
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“The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.”
Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton