Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

2519 Activist Quotes

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

Albums Confidence Could Different
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.

BeDifferent Different DifferentStyles Done
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.

Ahead Business Did Doing
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.
Affects Creative CreativeEnvironment Environment
  Favorite Make wallpaper

As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

According Architect Behavior Changes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

About Amazing Awesome Being
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

Man Men World You
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
Afraid Any End Leaving
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Almost Artist Chaos Confusion
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

Given Infidelity Notice Physical
  Favorite Make wallpaper

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

Both Did Face Gave
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

After Anyone Before Even
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

Any Being Capable Chances
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
Experience Finally Happens Long
  Favorite Make wallpaper
It is such a relief to be told the truth.
Relief Told Such Truth
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Fiction Result Shall Tell
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Anything Anything Else Apprenticeship Craft
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.
Again End Learned Love
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Abuse Against Beauty Been
  Favorite Make wallpaper

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Courage Gift Marks
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Bad Experience Good Good Judgment
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Better Deadline Inspiration Negative
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Anybody Love Only People
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Logical Men Place Ride
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

American Best Every Form
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Art Entertainment Married Moral
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Car Cliff Drives Like
  Favorite Make wallpaper

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Bad Happiness Keys Memory
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Action Either Every Strong
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Action Fight Intellectually Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Authority Believe Disrespect Forms
  Favorite Make wallpaper

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

Balls Embarrassing Find Meeting
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Decency Morals Private Public
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

Bargain Believe Dollars I Believe
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Entertainment Moral Passion Propaganda
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Because Between Define Lesbian
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Creativity Hope Instincts More
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Alive Enjoy Figured Finally
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
Androgynous Bisexual Further Go
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

Because Bet End Enough
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Humor comes from self-confidence.

Humor Self-Confidence
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can

Age Believe Fast Function
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Find I Can Lead Me
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Writers will happen in the best of families

Best Families Happen Will
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience

Due Impatience Intuition Logic
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Any Decision Even Follows
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Love Plays Power Revolution
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Hidden Language Like Moon
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Good Good Manners Manners Rude
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being

Always Being Function Precedes
  Favorite Make wallpaper