Armintrout Hillsboro Quotes & Sayings

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

And when we diverge, it will be impossible for the expendables and the ship's computers on all the ships to know which version of Ram Odin to obey," said Ram. "Therefore I order you and all the other expendables to immediately kill every copy of Ram except me."
"I'm so sorry," said the expendable. "One of the versions of Ram Odin did not include the word 'immediately,' and therefore his order was complete a fraction of a second before all the others. He is the real Ram Odin."
Ram gave a little half smile. "How ironic. By specifying that you should act at once-"
The expendable reached out with both hands, gave Ram's head a twist, and broke his neck. The sentence remained unfinished, but that did not matter, since the person saying it was not the real Ram Odin. — Orson Scott Card

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. — Georges Bizet

He asked us if we'd like to do it [deliver the baby] today. Today? You mean, this day? The day that is this one? — Heather B. Armstrong

A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves. — Richard Rohr

Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare

Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen? — Ian Frazier

You talk like there is no church or laws. Like you want to marry me. — Val Kovalin

I keep staggering forward because I have to, but what Linden said last night is true: It's not much of a plan. — Lauren DeStefano

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life. — Alison Owen

You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts. — Frederick Lenz

What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone to a fixed process, and I think it creates a very important challenge. It creates a way of writing that is, in a way, flatter or smooth, a surface conducive to release, to movement. And in this way, the form of writing gets delightfully melded with the process of the writing. — Sergio Chejfec

Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please other people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of God. (Gal. 1:10) — Holly Gerth