Seedword Quotes & Sayings

Don't be like a train; don't travel on the same path! Thousands of different paths are waiting for you to walk! Don't be like a train! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Anything that can be proven cannot last. — Jonah Blank

I grow more and more intrigued by this as I write: how words, even the most carefully chosen, can mean such different things from one person to another, so that others might think about what I write in ways I did not intend at all. — Dawn Hammill

Do you think we're making a mistake?" snapped the Bishop.
"Not at all," said Dom Cristao. "I think we've taken a step toward something truly magnificent. But humankind almost never forgives true greatness."
"Fortunately," said the Bishop, "humankind isn't the judge that matters. And now I intend to pray for this boy, since medical science has obviously reached the boundary of its competence. — Orson Scott Card

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. — Eleanor Roosevelt

A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seedword is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but and if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb. Good poems, therefore, are always close to banality, over which, however, they tower like precipices. — Alasdair Gray

The guys you see me bring home, we're only cuddling and making out like any other person would do, but we're on camera and the whole world's seeing it, and it does look like I'm having sex. — Nicole Polizzi

Pimping was the ultimate power play. My most powerful tools of persuasion however, were charm and sex."~Jesse — Jeri Estes