Stawell Gift Quotes & Sayings

Stories come in all different kinds." Hester scooted closer, clearly enjoying the subject at hand. "There's tales, which are light and fluffy. Good for a smile on a sad day. Then you got yarns, which are showy-yarns reveal more about the teller than the story. After that there's myths, which are stories made up by whole groups of people. And last of all, there's legends." She raised a mysterious eyebrow. "Legends are different from the rest on account no one knows where they start. Folks don't tell legends; they repeat them. Over and over again through history. — Jonathan Auxier

you see all night in your dreams. And the blue of my voice can't help but see you. — Alice Notley

The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great. — James Russell Lowell

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me. — Caroline Myss

I love America," he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had seen in dreams that night. — Charles Simic

Sammy Lee is another inbred player — David Pleat

No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety. — Summer Sanders

That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th' other. — William Shakespeare

Whenever I put the headset on now," he'd continued, "I really do understand what I find there. When those kids sing about 'She loves you,' yeah well, you know, she does, she's any number of people, all over the world, back through time, different colors, sizes, ages, shapes, distances from death, but she loves. And the 'you' is everybody. And herself. Oedipa, the human voice, you know, it's a flipping miracle." His eyes brimming, reflecting the color of beer.
"Baby," she said, helpless, knowing of nothing she could do for this, and afraid for him.
He put a little clear plastic bottle on the table between them. She stared at the pills in it, and then understood. "That's LSD? — Thomas Pynchon

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A. — Steve Aoki

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

Love is nourishment. Everything gets better with love. — Debasish Mridha

lay down. lay down like an animal and wait. — Charles Bukowski

Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the eternities. — Julie B. Beck