“Got to lose control before you take control.”
Patti Smith (1946) American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist
“Got to lose control before you take control.”
Patti Smith (1946) American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
February, 1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Source: Fire: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) American theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 124.
Susanna Kaysen (1948) American writer
Susan Cheever, "A Designated Crazy," The New York Times Book Review, June 20, 1993. (Reviewing Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted.)
On Girl, Interrupted
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Kernel development, 2007, Torvalds, Linus http://lwn.net/Articles/396997/,. <br class="br">2000s, 2007
“You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die (1998)
Dan Quayle (1947) American politician, lawyer
Speech to the United Negro College Fund (9 May 1989), mangling the Fund's slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
“Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.”
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones