Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beck

You can't write if you can't relate.

Beck

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

Beck

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The subject’s pulse increased on contact,” he said. “Don’t write that.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.

Barry Mann

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

Barry Mann

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

Barry Mann

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

Barry Mann

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

Carl Sandburg

I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

Chuck Palahniuk

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.

Anne Carson

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

Brian Eno

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

Charles Frazier

Verbs. All of them tiring.

Evelyn Underhill

We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.

Gretel Ehrlich

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Franz Liszt

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

R. Buckminster Fuller

God is a verb, not a noun.

Brian Molko

I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.

Brett Favre

You know I used to listen to music a lot more.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

Alexander John Ellis

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

Alexander Hanson

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

Adrian Grenier

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it

Ram Dass

I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.

Davey Havok

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.

Bjork

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.