Staniforth Works Quotes & Sayings

Most merciful God, accept these two poor sinners into your arms. And keep the doors ajar for
the coming of the rest of us, because you are witnessing the end, the absolute, irrevocable, fantastic
end. I've finally realized what is happening. It is our last fling. We are doomed henceforth. Must
screw our courage to the sticking point and face up to our impending fate. We [255] shall be all of us
shot at dawn. One hundred cc's apiece. Miss Ratched shall line us all against the wall, where we,,,
face the terrible maw of a muzzle-loading shotgun which she has loaded with Miltowns! Thorazines!
Libriums! Stelazines! And with a wave of her sword, blooie! Tranquilize all of us completely out of
existence. — Ken Kesey

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained. — Thomas Jefferson

Marriage is contagious and so is monogamy. — Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. — Edith Wharton

We all make mistakes, everybody should be given a second-chance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking. — Samuel Laman Blanchard

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own. — Adam Lindsay Gordon

Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission. — Russell Sherman

There's nothing about me on the jacket because I have no credentials. I majored in English at school, but I only took one creative writing class. I think I got a B. And I never really thought about getting an MFA. I'm too spiteful to take criticism constructively and I'm only comfortable being honest about people behind their backs, so workshops or group critiques were never what I was looking for. For years I just wrote in journals and didn't really worry about turning any of it into stories or stuff for other people to read, so I guess I developed my writing style by talking to myself, like some homeless people do. Only I used a pen and paper instead of just freaking out on the street. If they switched to a different medium they might be better off. It would probably help if they had someplace to live too. — Paul Neilan

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself. — Ramana Maharshi

I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic books, and I began to create my own comic stories. I was a comic writer, even when I was five or six years old. I would just make up stories because I thought it was fun. — Floyd Norman