Shelmon Smith Quotes & Sayings

Authenticity is not possible without embracing the "and" within us. Our minds like to categorize things into neatly labeled boxes. Am I right, or is she right? Let's stretch our minds to I can be right and so can she. Embracing the "and" is like yoga for the brain. When we train ourselves to hold paradoxes by stretching ourselves out of the boxes our minds create, we stretch into new possibilities and adapt more quickly in a fast-changing world. — Henna Inam

So, you're telling me that this entire time you've actually been pretending to be small?"

"Not exactly pretending," he replied thoughtfully. "Being small is the same as being large."

I widened my eyes. "That makes no sense."

"I warned you, Ivy. I even asked you if you knew what you had living in your house." Ren kindly took that exact moment to remind me of this.

I turned devil eyes on him. "Did you know he was actually six-and-a-half-feet tall and anatomically correct?"

Ren's nose wrinkled. "Well, no."

"Then shut the hell up!"

Ren threw his hands up. "Alrighty then."

"Why would you think I wasn't anatomically correct in the first place?" Tink asked, sounding offended. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace. — Tony Bishop

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business. — William Feather

That, Kuwei, is the sound that death makes when she comes calling. — Leigh Bardugo

The lady of situations. — T. S. Eliot

Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away. — Daniel Bliss

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone. — Nicholas Sparks

The vaccinations are not working, and they are dangerous.. We should be working with nature. — Lendon Smith

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. — Berthold Auerbach

Is a reason for existence necessary? — John L. Evans

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times. — Gary Snyder

Do not judge a woman on her knees: you never know how tall she is when she stands. — Mie Hansson

I've always been frightened of karaoke, so I've never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me! — Johnny Depp