Bumblecore Quotes & Sayings

The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can. — William Wordsworth

In my early to mid-20s, a fear of confrontation made it difficult for me to end relationships in a mature or even quasi-sane way. Instead, I would hang on resentfully, praying that my doomed beau would end things first and spare me the displeasure. To add hindrance to hang-up, the men I chose were usually just as stoic as I was. — Koren Zailckas

I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people. — Walter Schloss

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. — Jo Nesbo

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people. — Terry Pratchett

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking. — Jimmy Fallon

Perhaps nothing in this broken world can be pure or of a piece, unfractured. — Dean Koontz

When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no matter from what section of the country they have come, stand together as men, as Americans, and are content to face the same fate and do the same duties because fundamentally they all alike have the common purpose to serve the glorious flag of their common country. — Theodore Roosevelt

I can say I didn't win, but I can't say that I didn't try. — Maribel C. Pagan

The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God. — Philip Yancey

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment. — Michael Chabon

If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary. — Roger Stone

The plants and animals all around us were waking from a long sleep, and our yard was slowly transformed into a carpet of soft green, and the skies above our house were filled with choruses of birdsong once again. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

Meditation is not something that you can "do"; it is something that has to happen spontaneously, only when the practice has been perfected. However, — Sogyal Rinpoche

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are. — Mindy Kaling

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet. — Euripides