Piddly Stuff Quotes & Sayings

Working is hard and distracts from having fun. — Orson Scott Card

You've got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You've got a black president. We've got wars. We've got unemployment. But the music doesn't reflect that. And I challenge anybody to show me a music that's on the radio that reflects that. — Ice-T

This was what she had signed up for - a good man and minimal pleasure. — Red Phoenix

Fear is killing us, but true love can survive. If we cooperate, we can beat doubt. But first, rebuild trust. Take responsibility. Happiness is still free, though not always apparent when it's right in front of us. So keep calm, it's gonna get better. — Patrick Stump

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. — Charles Dudley Warner

This moment was written in the stars, and it is everything he thought it would be. — Cynthia Hand

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. — Mitch Albom

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul ... — Marguerite Yourcenar

I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon, which is only a hole surrounded by steel - can be based only on what one does not have; and that ultimately one can write only to fill a void or at the least to situate, in relation to the most lucid part of ourselves, the place where this incommensurable abyss yawns within us. — Michel Leiris

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed. — Iyanla Vanzant

The path your words make as you herd them across the page is the only viable route, after all. — Anne Enright

People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct, or - at the very least - why their wrongness "felt right at the time," which is very, very different from being authentically correct. — Chuck Klosterman

Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his countenance that sort of comeliness which belongs to an open set of features, well formed by nature, modeled by art to the usual rules of courtesy, yet so far frank and honest, that they seemed as if they disclaimed to conceal the natural working of the soul. — Walter Scott

The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity. — George Gilder