Stimbury Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom's daughter walks alone.
That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers. — Rick Riordan

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. — Christopher Eccleston

He who violates another's honor loses his own. — Publilius Syrus

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection. — Bjarne Stroustrup

I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty. — John Patrick Shanley

But pleasing to the eye isn't the same as pleasing to God. — Liz Curtis Higgs

I get in fewer arguments when I'm alone. — Paula Poundstone

I chose life over death for myself and my friends ... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all. — Ernest Shackleton

Hopefully it doesn't come as too much of a shock that artists we love watching or listening to for an hour or two aren't always people with whom we otherwise would want to spend 20 minutes. — Steve Erickson

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed. — C.S. Lewis

The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time. — Boris Yeltsin

In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists. — Mason Cooley

The open-minded pursuit of an educated life has the power to slay generational ignorance — Simon Boylan

All I knew was that he had the most beautiful eyes I'd ever seen and that his smile melted my heart like the sun melts butter — Anonymous