Spirytus Stawski Quotes & Sayings

The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer. — Bill Kurtis

Q: Where and when do you do your writing?
A: Any small room with no natural light will do. As for when, I have no particular schedules ... afternoons are best, but I'm too lethargic for any real regime. When I'm in the flow of something I can do a regular 9 to 5; when I don't know where I'm going with an idea, I'm lucky if I do two hours of productive work. There is nothing more off-putting to a would-be novelist to hear about how so-and-so wakes up at four in the a.m, walks the dog, drinks three liters of black coffee and then writes 3,000 words a day, or that some other asshole only works half an hour every two weeks, does fifty press-ups and stands on his head before and after the "creative moment." I remember reading that kind of stuff in profiles like this and becoming convinced everything I was doing was wrong. What's the American phrase? If it ain't broke ... — Zadie Smith

Whereas babies are essentially helpless creatures for many months, puppies come into this world as little survival machines, revealing their true animal natures almost immediately after they are born. — Anonymous

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice. — Douglas Horton

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs. — Lily Allen

We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a not-knowingness, I think, that leads us back to suffering humanity with a more compassionate vision than most of our politicians have. — Sam Hamill

If you accept that pets can love us as much as we do them, then the logic is clear and cannot be denied. If you believe that there is a heaven for people, then they must be there, waiting for us, when we cross over. Heaven is love, and pets always share that with us. — Wallace Sife

Black History Month has been extended indefinitely by The Bronzeville Press. — Harold Lee Rush

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit. — Mordecai Richler

They're here, though; not a creature failed,
No blossom stayed away
In gentle deference to me,
The Queen of Calvary. — Emily Dickinson