Stamell Stringed Quotes & Sayings

The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon as a species of Wantley dragon, whose daily food was the brain and blood of hapless writers ... On the other side, the author has been considered, like Shelley, 'an eternal child,' in all that relates to practical matters, and a terrible child at that, - incapable of comprehending details, and unreasoanably dissatisfied with results. — Mary Abigail Dodge

It wasn't you I was bowing to, but the whole of human suffering. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And what did you say?" "I said I think that all children do better with happy parents than married parents. — Caroline Kepnes

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory. — S. Parkes Cadman

Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing ... ? — Mason Cooley

Optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious. — Ambrose Bierce

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop. — Steve Hagen

Before New York, the cracks were already there, but now they began to split open and gape, and the difference between how a thing or a place or a person appears and the reality becomes alarmingly visible, garish. — Elizabeth Winder

The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings. — Glenn Beck

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free. — Harry Emerson Fosdick