Strommel Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. — James Altucher

I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain. — Casper Van Dien

Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries. — Tim O'Brien

The evil you do to others you may expect in return. — Publilius Syrus

They've got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special. — Deborah Cox

With faith, there are no questions; without faith, there are no answers. — Yisroel Meir Ha-Cohen

Let us pray to "be filled with the Spirit," that we may bring forth increasingly the fruits of righteousness. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity. It has been said that the difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything. — Boris Johnson

When the mind is tired, or the soul is disquieted, let us go to the woods and fill our lungs with the rain-washed and the sun-cleansed air, and our hearts with the beauty of tree, flower, crystal, and gem." The — Elizabeth Gilbert

Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page. — Chang-rae Lee