Stamporama Quotes & Sayings

Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself. — M. Kirin

The Wellcome Trust is a hugely important organisation, and it is vital that its fundraising continues unabated. — John Sulston

He was the closest thing she had to a pony. — Maureen Johnson

The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another. — David Souter

Words can be a fortress or a drawbridge to disaster — Benny Bellamacina

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. — Jonathan Swift

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing. — Alan Moore

When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you to lead a building project - to make the kind of big and costly decisions that, in Britain, have been handed over to project managers and cost-cutters. — David Chipperfield

Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life. — Dermot Davis

At its core, sinfulness is selfishness. It's enthroning yourself - your desires, your needs, your plans - above all else. You may still seek God, but you don't seek Him first. You seek Him second or third or seventh. You may sing "Jesus at the center of it all," but what you really want is for people to bow down to you as you bow down to Christ. It's a subtle form of selfishness that masquerades as spirituality, but it's not Christ-centric. It's me-centric. It's less about us serving His purposes and more about Him serving our purposes. — Mark Batterson

As my friend Oliver Platt used to say to me about hopes and dreams I'd share with him: 'It's coming, just not on your time frame. — Lauren Graham

I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself. — Dean Koontz

It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself. — John Mayer