#rites

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#been #emotional #fan #fears #hear

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#cow #like #milk #publisher #who

I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites. ↗

— Steve Vai

#favorites #greatest #i #i believe #i believe in

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites. ↗

— John Conyers

#comes #deaths #favorites #hostilities #play

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. ↗

— Edward Everett Hale

#doctors #ever #exquisite #form #hypocrites

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#deliver #felt #green #i #instead

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. ↗

— Len Wein

#matter #period #someone #work #writer

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#attention #beach #book #capital #considers

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#ancestors #bliss #conjugal #depend #due

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. ↗

— Anne Rice

#everything #impossible #know #obviously #she