“Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.”
Martin Amis book London Fields
London Fields (1989)
“Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.”
Martin Amis book London Fields
London Fields (1989)
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
Source: The Theater and Its Double
“I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Introducing "Hallelujah"
Warsaw concert (1985)
Context: I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song, "Hallelujah".
“Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”
Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“There is only one way to see things,
until someone shows us how to look at them
with different eyes”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Jack Handey (1949) American comedian
Fuzzy Memories (1996), Andrews McMeel Publishing, ISBN 0-8362-1040-9
“When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection (1992)