Darold Bowden Quotes & Sayings

I don't like a clever toilet looking at our butts. — Emma Donoghue

The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible. — Peter Block

I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor. — Shaun White

Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general I. The armies of Olympus. You shall henceforth lead you breathren into war whenever required by the gods. And you shall have a new ... um ... what kind of weapon would you like? A sword? An axe?"
"Stick!" Tyson said, showing his broken club.
"Very well," Zeus said. "We will grant you a new, er, stick. The best stick that may be found."
"Hooray! — Rick Riordan

A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident. — Patrick Rothfuss

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead. — Neil Young

You stand in a dark room and grow a tree in your chest.
The color pink is your national anthem.
You have fled the burning city, but your pocket smolders.
He bats his eyelids and dust flies.
You are a well trying to quench its own thirst,
a tiger licking its bloody paw. — Karen Finneyfrock

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it. — Idries Shah

The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts. — Gay Hendricks

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. — Emily Dickinson

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition. — Elihu Palmer

Humility oils the wheel of dialogue. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Forgiveness isn't my best thing.
Easier staying pissed. But I'm
tired of being pissed all the time.
Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that
can never be fixed because it is
an indelible part of the past. — Ellen Hopkins

If, however, the poetic end might have been as well or better attained without sacrifice of technical correctness in such matters, the impossibility is not to be justified, since the description should be, if it can, entirely free from error. — Aristotle.

I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now. — Anson Williams