Category: writer
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I do not like the human race. I don’t like their heads, I don’t like their faces, I don’t like their feet, I don’t like their conversations, I don’t like their hairdos, I don’t like their automobiles.
Charles Bukowski
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
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A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.
Kurt Vonnegut
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce
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Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
John C. Maxwell
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That’s a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it’s not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
Zadie Smith
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe