Sue Perry > Sue's Quotes

“Bash it out now, tart it up later.”
― Nick Lowe

“The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”
― Linus Pauling

“You've been making the wrong mistakes.”
― Thelonious Monk

“You can lead a horse to water but only very rarely can you drown him and get away with it.”
― Sue Perry, C.R.I.M.E. Science

“Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase

“Experience is what you get while looking for something else.”
― Federico Fellini

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“...and they buried him there, just off the trail, in a glade ten miles from the majestic Salween, a long way from home, but what dead man is not?”
― Stephen Becker, Blue Eyed Shan

“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

“Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.

1.Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.

2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.

3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.

4.”
― Richard Brautigan

“Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error. A book that is good for me would very likely be punk for you.”
― Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop