"Songwriting is ... all about intuition - this thing pops into your head for a reason and it's up to you to follow it. It's like there's a spirit, or intuitive network, that comes through all of us, but most people don't take the time to think about it or remember it. These little things pop into our heads - it's just a process of intuition. The initial thought comes in a baby state, and you work on that some more."

-- Jim James

#Baby Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!”
“She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.”

Source : Anne Stuart (2012). “Ice Storm”, p.246, Harlequin
“When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.”
“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.”

Source : Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Taylor & Francis
“Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.”
“Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.”
“I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.”
“If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.”

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