#sty

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#craft #craftsmanship #creative-process #crudeness #culture

I still got the nasty in me. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#i #me #nasty #still

You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#mess #pigsty #humor

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century. ↗

— Jeff Healey

#both #century #different #different styles #early

The trick to saying the word cock, is to do it like you have one in your mouth. ↗

— Geoffrey Knight

#tasty-treats #words-of-wisdom #life

Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man. ↗

— Cristina Marrero

#cristy-anne #lesbian #lgbtq #love #queer-youth

There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor — ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#honesty #attitude

You should not honor men more than truth. ↗

— Plato

#honor #secrecy #truth #men

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn ↗

— Orson Welles

#fuck #meaning #style #style

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#style