Stompled Quotes & Sayings

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

I aint sleepin when I say I'm in my dream car — Nicki Minaj

My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm bothered about. I only write about things that directly impact my life. When I write, there's a pain that I have to reach, and a release I have to work toward for myself. So it's really a question of the particular emotional circumstance that I want to express, a character that appears, a moment in time, and then I write the play backwards. — Paula Vogel

one negative teammate can sabotage a team. One person can't make a team but one person can break a team. — Jon Gordon

Now," Kvothe said angrily, "you've both acted understandably, but that does not by any means mean that either of you have behaved well. — Patrick Rothfuss

Perhaps the new way of evangelizing is not so much through confrontation and argument, but through conversation, dialogue, and affirmation — Charles M. Murphy

Surrendering to Christ is like signing your name to a blank check and letting the Lord put in the amount. — Billy Graham

It felt like a dream. — Brian Goodell

The only mainstream American household I know well is the one I grew up in, and I can report that my father, who was not a reader, nevertheless had some acquaintance with James Baldwin and John Cheever, because Time magazine put them on its cover and Time, for my father, was the ultimate cultural authority. In the last decade, the magazine whose red border twice enclosed the face of James Joyce has devoted covers to Scott Turow and Stephen King. These are honorable writers; but no one doubts it was the size of their contracts that won them covers. The dollar is now the yardstick of cultural authority, and an organ like Time, which not long ago aspired to shape the national taste, now serves mainly to reflect it. — Jonathan Franzen

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes when your world crashes down from above and you think there's no way to claw yourself out of the rubble of your life, a hand reaches for you. Finds you. Drags you from the depths of despair and refuses to let you go. — Olivia Cunning

Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep. — Geraldine Brooks

Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life. — Fatima Bint Muhammad

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words. — Elliott Erwitt