Stamen And Pistil Quotes & Sayings

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back. — Richard M. Nixon

You must have a passion to coach. — Rick Majerus

Don't die with the story inside! — Gary D. Drechsel

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. — Gerald Jampolsky

I know we're gathered here for a very solemn occasion. Poor Great-Uncle Frankie has gone the way of the dodo bird, soon to rot in peace. Um, I mean, rest in peace.
- Dak — James Dashner

Orientation, the big O in the OODA loop, is the schwerpunkt. — Grant Hammond

An admirable line of Pablo Neruda's, "My creatures are born of a long denial," seems to me the best definition of writing as a kind of exorcism, casting off invading creatures by projecting them into universal existence, keeping them on the other side of the bridge ... It may be exaggerating to say that all completely successful short stories, especially fantastic stories, are products of neurosis, nightmares or hallucination neutralized through objectification and translated to a medium outside the neurotic terrain. This polarization can be found in any memorable short story, as if the author, wanting to rid himself of his creature as soon and as absolutely as possible, exorcises it the only way he can: by writing it. — Julio Cortazar

We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say. — Andy Partridge

The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest. — John Bytheway

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. — Paul Rudnick

Then I let the stories live
inside my head, again and again
until the real world fades back
into cricket lullabies
and my own dreams. — Jacqueline Woodson