Rainmaking Ceremony Quotes & Sayings

I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book
everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside. (from Parade Magazine interview, 5/26/13) — Stephen King

The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted. — Milan Kundera

I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication. — Quentin Tarantino

To become a good clinical neurologist, you have to be intensely interested by what the brain does, how it works, how it breaks down. — Allan H. Ropper

The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be? — John Townsend Trowbridge

Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are. — Dave Eggers

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone. — Ellen G. White