I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so. Nora K. Jemisin Believe • Context • People • Privilege • Think • Who
I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories. Qorianka Kilcher Celebrity • Feel • Important • Important Stories • Responsibility • Tell
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. B. B King Anymore • Blue • Blues • Play • Then • Tonic • Whatever • You
Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me. Kurt Cobain Axl Rose • Beginning • Me • Rock • Rock And Roll • Rose
How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here. Vladimir Putin Control • How • Magic • Magic Pills • One Control Weight • Shape • Shape One Plays • Sports • Stay
You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems – in their own minds. L'Wren Scott Everyone • God • Minds • Not Perfect • Perfect • Perfect Person • Problems • Special Set • You
When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them. Zac Brown Amazing • Amazing Cook • Dad • Every Weekend • Everyone • Family • Go • Growing Up • Lot • Weekend
To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse. X. J. Kennedy Black • Black And White • Certain Successful Pieces • Color • Difference Between • Film • Free • Me • Poem • Rhyme
I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care – not in a lasting way – about what's happening to them. Victoria Elizabeth Schwab Care • Characters • Enough • Firm Believer • Fun • Fun Enough • Good • Good Plot • I Am • Lasting Way • Way
All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous. Vladimir Putin Agreements • Attempts • Between • Dangerous • Harmful • Nazis • Politically • Through • Various
It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing. Nora K. Jemisin Anything Unique • Doing • Field Period • Practice • Unique • Within • Writing
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem. Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett Art • Bands • Business • Dangerous • Health • Learning • People • Problem • Record Business • Something • Ways People
You have to believe in yourself, challenge yourself, and push yourself until the very end; that's the only way you'll succeed. G-Dragon Believe • Believe In Yourself • Challenge • Way • Yourself
Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club? Frederick Edwin Smith Club • God • Good • Mean • Place • Say • You
'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives… how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful. C. C. H. Pounder Bagdad Cafe • Cafe • Film • Life • Little • Lives • Mail • Many • Movie • People • Situation • Thought • Wonderful
Nobody talks about cancer until they have to, and then, it's really all you can talk about. Yael Cohen About • Cancer • Nobody • Nobody Talks • Talk • Then • You
I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me. B. B King Anything • Blues Around • Doing • Felt • House • Me • Parents • Proud • Think • Today • Wrong
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. Kurt Cobain Answers • Know • Opinion • Right • Until
I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form. Kurt Cobain Creativity • Little Notepads • Myself • Paper • Person • Portion • Prolific Person • Small • True
I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes. Victoria Elizabeth Schwab Bad Weather Keeps • Hate • Known • Life • Love • Me • Multiple Occasions • New Places • Planes • Soul • Weather
The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism. Vladimir Putin Authoritarianism • Our • Statehood • Times • Times Deliberately
I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled. Victoria Elizabeth Schwab Complexity • Lot • Natural • Overcomplicating Things • Readers • Remember • Simple • Start • Think • Writers • Yourself
We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over. Zac Brown Friends • Game • Kiss • Me • New Year • Remember • Show • Stood • Two Minutes • Walkin • Year
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. Kurt Cobain Adds • Anger • Bent • Body • Curvature • Damaged • Guitar • Music • Pain • Psychosomatic • Red • Red Irritation • Scoliosis • Spine • Stomach • Two • Ways
I was so tall and so skinny – I was that kid who couldn't find anything to wear. All the cool kids would have jeans the right length and I would just think, 'What am I going to do?' L'Wren Scott Anything • Cool • Cool Kids • Find • Jeans • Kid • Length • Right • Skinny • Tall • Think
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. Alan Alexander Milne Mixed • Organizing • Something • Up • Work • You
Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too. B. B King Could • Jivin • Me • Mother • Nobody • She • Too
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street – you live in Time Square, you know how they do it – they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues. B. B King Blues • Hometown • Indianola Mississippi • Live • Me • People • Songs • Start • Street Corners • Time • Time Square • Tunes • You
Nora K. Jemisin
Qorianka Kilcher
B. B King
Kurt Cobain
Vladimir Putin
L'Wren Scott
Zac Brown
X. J. Kennedy
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Victoria Elizabeth Schwab
Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett
G-Dragon
Frederick Edwin Smith
C. C. H. Pounder
Yael Cohen
Alan Alexander Milne
