Stukenborg Quotes & Sayings

The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things. — Meghan Daum

Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you. — Daniel Black

I want to get up at 6 A.M. and go swimming and do 30 lengths. — Sadie Frost

What's good about March? Well, for one thing, it keeps February and April apart. — Walt Kelly

She added, perhaps to herself, "You have to become old and ugly before anyone listens to you, and then they don't, because you're ugly and old. — Gregory Maguire

No one should be judged for what they read, nor should authors by what they write. — Karina Halle

It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there. — Oswald Chambers

The journals want the papers that make the sexiest claims. And scientists believe that the way you succeed is having splashy papers in Science or Nature - it's not bad for them if a paper turns out to be wrong, if it's gotten a lot of attention. — Michael Eisen

The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for the good it did me. The — Sylvia Plath

J.J kissed Jason and said, "I'm going to freshen up and change into something more comfortable." She walked toward the bathroom, big bag swinging at her side.
I called after her, "Is it really more comfortable, or just the opposite?"
She laughed. "You'll see soon enough."
"Shit, that means I need lingerie too. — Laurell K. Hamilton

We don't read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are experiencing. — Darynda Jones

It was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. — Louise Penny