Smelting Stick Quotes & Sayings

A Mystic And A Drunk

The Universe turns on an axis.
Let my soul circle around a table
like a beggar, like a planet
rolling in the vast, totally helpless and free.

The knight and the castle move jaggedly
about the chessboard, but they're actually
centered on the king. They circle.

If love is your center, a ring
gets put on your finger.

Something inside the moth
is made of fire.

A mystic touches the annihilating tip
of pure nothing.

A drunkard thinks peeing is absolution.
Lord, take these impurities from me.

The lord replies, First, understand
the nature of impurity. If your key is bent,
the lock will not open.

I fall silent.
King Shams has come.
Always when I close, he opens. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Is there a reason why you are still in my heart? Is there a reason why you are still trying to get me to fall for you? — Matt Trevitz

Allie sighed. It was an old, yellow sound, like turning pages. — Stephen King

I'm a lightweight better be careful what you say
With every word I'm blown away
You're in control of my heart — Demi Lovato

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves. — Tori Amos

The poorest Americans use three time the energy as the percentage of their income as the average American does. This is going to disproportionately hurt the poor. It may make the whole electric grid unstable, depending on how it is enforced. And it does nothing for the climate. — Charles Koch

They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat.
"Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper.
"Make Harry get it."
"Get the mail, Harry."
"Make Dudley get it."
"Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley. — J.K. Rowling

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year. — Mike McGavick

I would not give much for a man's Christianity if he is saved himself and is not willing to try and save others. It seems to me the basest ingratitude if we do not reach out the hand to others who are down in the same pit from which we were delivered. Who — D.L. Moody

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers. — Robert Giroux

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work. — Dennis Hughes

Dana can't stand the idea of an ugly tree not getting to be a Christmas tree," her husband the marshal explained with a shake of his head. "We do what we can for it. — B. J. Daniels

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world? — Richard Hooker

If you didn't love your past, when it was present ... there is no sense in loving it and being with it today ... — Mayank Sharma

Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera ... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far too controlled a setting. Besides, the camera liked to focus on individuals, and except for the single scull, crew was sport without faces. — David Halberstam

I prefer to regard myself as one who has the ability and the mental and nervous equipment to make his own laws and act according to them rather than accept the laws that suit the lowest common denominator of the people. — Ian Fleming