"I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out."

-- Jerry Harrison

#Thinking Quotes #Starting Quotes #Eclectic Quotes

“Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.”
“The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.”
“The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences...”

Source : Rheta Grimsley Johnson (2010). “Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir”, p.190, NewSouth Books
“I felt for a really long time, "When I grow up I want to be an actor." And now I'm like, "Oh, this is it now. This is my life."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.”
“Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped.”

Source : Susan Wiggs (2015). “Summer by the Sea”, p.33, MIRA
“Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.”
“When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (1963). “The Celestial Omnibus”

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