Stump O Matic Quotes & Sayings

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. — Francoise Sagan

Everyone wishes for a better life, and yet they want nothing to change. — K. Weikel

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow — Norman Vincent Peale

My goal in changing how the world thinks about religion is not to make people stop believing in a god or gods; I care little for what people desire to believe in their own private lives. However, I care deeply about what they do with those beliefs. If their religious beliefs teach intolerance and hatred, are used to support war, genocide, female genital mutilation, honor killings or laws that protect or honor such rituals or beliefs, then we have a problem and I will stand up against every such instance and fight it with every means available to me. — Dan Arel

Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole. — Mark Nepo

You should be working on your speech instead of staring," Rider said, never taking his eyes off his notebook.
Paige's dark eyes flew to me and then narrowed.
Heat exploded across my cheeks.
"And you should actually be working on, I don't know, your speech?" Hector grinned as he gestured to his paper, which appeared to have actual words on it. "And please don't stare at him, Mallory. Because of Paige, his ego is already big enough. He doesn't need any help. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

There is so much you don't know or understand ... So don't claim to know what I really want or what I would do to protect it. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

You have to resist falling in love with the money they [producers] want to give you. You have to really resist that, and you have to just think about the work and whether it's a movie that you would want to see. — Ice Cube

Someone tried to bribe me the other day," she muttered, thinking of Charles Monroe and his black silk robe.
"With?"
"Nothing as interesting as steak. — J.D. Robb

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture. — Tom Vilsack

Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening — Pauline Oliveros