Stumblestone Quotes & Sayings

They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants. — Bob Dylan

As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.
-Leonard Da Vinci — Leonardo Da Vinci

Another person: a door you can't enter, even by knocking. — Marty Rubin

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. — Herman Melville

Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option; it is the only option. A master is a master because he has had the courage to fail and the wisdom to learn from it. — Chris Matakas

When one is an artist, what else can he be? — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Life is an adventure, enjoy it! — Barbara Hettwer

Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company. — Jay Samit

Some have even suggested that this recent trend has transformed our democracy from one founded on, "We the people," to one ruled by, "We the court." — Mike DeWine

I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way ... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself. — Laurie Halse Anderson

To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire. — Xavier Dolan

In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue musk so powerful it seemed that even the fish and ducks would swoon. By night, the flower might wither but the perfume lasted. Fainter and fainter, but never quite gone. Even many days later, the lotus remained in the garden. Months would pass and a bee would alight near the spot where the lotus had blossomed, and its essence was released again, momentary but undeniable. — Anita Diamant

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. — John Dryden

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men. — Melinda Gates

I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself. — Hilton Als