Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Winehouse

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

Amy Winehouse

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

Amy Winehouse

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Amy Winehouse

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Amy Winehouse

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Alexander Pope

Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

Alexander Pope

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

Alex Turner

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

Alex Turner

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

Adam Faith

I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

Adam Duritz

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

Adam Duritz

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

Adam Duritz

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

Abraham Pais

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

Abraham Verghese

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

Thomas Hobbes

A great leap in the dark

John Tillotson

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

Tony Scott

Here's someone who loves touching the dark side.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.

Barry Zito

It was kind of strange. It is dark here and the lights aren't great.

E. Hicks

I've greased my hair and I'm a little f*****g poet tonight, alright. I'm the little dark poet, that's who I am.

Joseph Campbell

I've heard youngsters use some of George Lucas' terms -- "the Force" and "the dark side." So it must be hitting somewhere. It's a good sound teaching, I would say.

George Chapline

It's like we are living inside a giant dark energy star.

Douglas Booth

It's fun to play a dark character, but you go home at the end of the day not feeling very good about yourself. You go away feeling dirty. It seeps into the air.