Befuddling Strike Quotes & Sayings

Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'. — David J. Schow

Without prosperity the fullness of human happiness is not possible. — Sunday Adelaja

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening. — Henry A. Kissinger

Please, always you. — Stephen King

Each grabbing one silver-wrapped chocolate from Mrs. Cooper's basket, it struck Stella that everyone got the same thing, no matter which school they went to. — Sharon M. Draper

Do not go by my humble beginnings. Be wary of my enormous vision. — Manoj Arora

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to. — Sid Vicious

This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture - of sinfulness and hell and God's notable severity - is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you. — Matt Chandler

I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives. (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.) — Sue Monk Kidd

Arthur narrowly avoided tripping over his own skirt as he hurried out of the ladies' powder room in full pursuit. — Graham Moore

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education. — Abraham Lincoln

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money. — Mason Cooley

For a moment this day, for many moments this May, let us gape in awe at the strength of women, and look upon their sinewy courage with respect and humility, as the Lord looked on His Mother, and still does. Like Him we are of women born, and to women must pay our first respect, and owe our first love, for they are as strong as the very ribs of the earth. — Brian Doyle

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences. — Jim Hodges