"My biggest influences are strong, creative women that chart their own path, lead their own lives and drive the course of history."

-- Rachel Roy

#Strong Quotes #Creative Quotes #Path Quotes

“Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.”
“maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away.”
“I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.”
“Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.”

Source : Maryrose Wood (2014). “Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place 3-Book Collection: Book I, Book II”, p.45, Harper Collins
“Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.”
“And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.”

Source : Yasmine Galenorn (2012). “Shaded Vision: An Otherworld Novel”, p.171, Penguin
“I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.”
“There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures”

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