Pappy Van Quotes & Sayings

I've heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you're incredibly busy and stressed, in which case you need an hour. I promise you, it is there. Fight tooth and nail to find time, to make it. It is our true wealth, this moment, this hour, this day. — Anne Lamott

I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven. — Dennis Rodman

Everything you experience mirrors a part of you. — Alberto Villoldo

I think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, there's this time where anything is possible and the more things that you artistically and educationally have in your repertoire, the more you become a child of larger possibilities. — Mark Mothersbaugh

When you write, everything is possible, even the very opposite of what you are. — Silvina Ocampo

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life. — Isabelle Eberhardt

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket. — Donald Barthelme

I'm calling you Honey Tits from now on."
"Please don't."
"Why? Your boobs delivered the nectar of the gods."
"Now you're making it worse."
"Your bra is the stuff of legends."
"Don't make me regret my choice. — Stacey Marie Brown

Had you been able to guess bits of my destiny,
Perhaps you would bear your mediocrity with more ease. — Czeslaw Milosz

The ordinary is not good enough for us; our hubris wants something grandiose. But the ordinary done in obedience to Christ is beautiful, inspired, and oftentimes heroic. — Edward T. Welch

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind — Natalie Goldberg

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy. — James Black

Courage is living by the free will that one creates for themselves, not the life of monotony determined by another. — Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Creativity is the ability to form similar connections between disparate images and to create something new and hurl it into the future so it becomes a poem, or a building, or a dance, or a novel. Creativity is, in a sense, future memory. If the essence of creativity is linking disparate facts and ideas, then the more facility you have making associations, and the more facts and ideas you have at your disposal, the better you'll be at coming up with new ideas. — Joshua Foer

Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness. — Orison Swett Marden