Stefon Diggs Quotes & Sayings

Here's the conundrum: We want to tell our stories! But if condensation is the language of wishes - especially the most verboten and destructive ones - the more you spell the story out, the less aesthetically charged it becomes. The question is whether untransformed experience can ever be aesthetically powerful, or whether it's simply interesting. Literary language is one solution, with its habits of duality - metaphor, irony - and other techniques for saying opposing things at once. For haunting the reader with ghosts of buried meanings.
Your story may be interesting, but what if, paradoxically, it's what you can't say that makes it lasting? — Laura Kipnis

I think God cares more about how you treat others than who you sleep with. — Ellen Hopkins

Don't feel useless. Even a spoilt clock is right twice a day. — Unknown

You must feel an almost pathological need - understandably - to stand guard between your son and the world." "Yeah, it's called being a mother." Ma nearly snarls it. — Emma Donoghue

If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it means. Then check the theorem; it could be false. Examine the consequences, verify as many particular instances as are needed to convince yourself of the truth. When you have satisfied yourself that the theorem is true, you can start proving it. — George Polya

The road to creativity passes ... — Ernest Becker

Comfortable giving anybody ... things that were all about what he had done in the shower and in his bed alone during the day ... was not getting airtime here. Besides, his mind and his heart weren't interested in any of that shit, and this was another reason she was perfect for him. Layla might well take his body up on the arousal; No'One never would. And there were worse betrayals to his shellan than wanting the unattainable. At least with No'One, and thanks to his self-control, — J.R. Ward

As I was sipping the hot liquid, I realized that I had developed a kind of liking for this little man on the verge of death. — Haruki Murakami

People have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist — Dean Koontz

The radiation detoxification process exists in nature. It is called: Hibernation. — Steven Magee

The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind. — Karl Pearson

I have a tendency to talk extremely fast ... I think the fastness comes from the fact that I get very excited about things and I just want to spit them out. — Shailene Woodley