“Remember, girl on fire,” he says, “I'm still betting on you.”
Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire
Source: Catching Fire
“Remember, girl on fire,” he says, “I'm still betting on you.”
Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire
Source: Catching Fire
Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer
Source: Suicide Notes
Jennifer Aniston (1969) television and film actress from the United States
Interview for Vogue magazine (December 2008)
“I'm like the legs of a paraplegic really? Cuz I'm still part of you even if you cant feel me.”
Immortal Technique (1978) American rapper and activist
"Death March:
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
I'm Still Standing
Song lyrics, Too Low for Zero (1983)
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Saving Francesca
Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"This Just In!" (30 January 2007)
Context: Don't you think that it's amazing that I'm singing into this silly camera with the desk lamp, and it's going through all these wires and everything else, and these computers, and you still feel what I'm feeling, and you still get what I'm trying to do? Yeah. I think its amazing. And I think it's so nice in a period when we're very isolated people, and kind of emotionless people, I think it's great that we can still touch one another and we can still feel what we're feeling, and we can still have fun, and we can be sad, and we can be happy, and to know that someone cares about you — because I really do. I really do.
And I can't believe that I have over 10,000 subscribers. What is wrong with you people?
“Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.”
Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer
Source: The Calling
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
On Writing Poetry (1995)
Context: I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it. I'm still writing, I'm still writing poetry, I still can't explain why, and I'm still running out of time. Wordsworth was sort of right when he said, "Poets in their youth begin in gladness/ But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." Except that sometimes poets skip the gladness and go straight to the despondency. Why is that? Part of it is the conditions under which poets work — giving all, receiving little in return from an age that by and large ignores them — and part of it is cultural expectation — "The lunatic, the lover and the poet," says Shakespeare, and notice which comes first. My own theory is that poetry is composed with the melancholy side of the brain, and that if you do nothing but, you may find yourself going slowly down a long dark tunnel with no exit. I have avoided this by being ambidextrous: I write novels too. But when I find myself writing poetry again, it always has the surprise of that first unexpected and anonymous gift.