Steenblock Quotes & Sayings

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside. — Coco Chanel

Suicide Note:
The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
-Langston Hughes — Kay Redfield Jamison

When one forgets the distinction between method and truth, one becomes foolishly prone to respond to any question that cannot be answered from the vantage of one's particular methodological perch by dismissing it as nonsensical, or by issuing a promissory note guaranteeing a solution to the problem at some juncture in the remote future, or by simply distorting the question into one that looks like the kind one really can answer after all. — David Bentley Hart

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody. — Juvenal

My foster mother always laughed and said it was his reputation for knowing everything that allowed for him to appear infallible: all he had to do was walk through the room and see who looked guiltiest when they saw him. Maybe she was right, but I tried looking innocent the next time, and it didn't work. — Patricia Briggs

After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing. — Erin Hunter

Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast. — Jenny Lawson

He wasn't always like this. Nobody is ever always like this. — David Levithan

We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry. — Lynn Coady

Fuck the Inners, and fuck their magic Jell-O ... Just wearing their fancy arm probably turns you into an asshole, — James S.A. Corey

As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership. — Robert Dallek

Well that's what I generally do with books - I read them. — Mary-Kate Olsen

I'm going to outplay you. That's the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me. — Brian Jordan

Some things one doesn't want to remember. — Anne Rice

There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall ... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it ... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean. — Agnes Martin