Sturmine Quotes & Sayings

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is
more knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe

The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does
or even should
contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it. — Charles De Lint

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler. — Albert Einstein

He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that
it didn't work. — Gary Paulsen

Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer. — Israel Shenker

Where would we go?' she asked.
'Far, far away.' His eyes dipped to her lips when she moistened them with her tongue.
'Ah.' Her voice was a breathless whisper. 'The very best place to go. — Mary Balogh

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there. — Story Musgrave

We cannot tell what the weather will be tomorrow (or the next hour) because we do not know accurately enough what the weather is right now. — Tzvi Gal-Chen

Human sympathy has its limits. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A strange smile was playing about his face, and Wendy saw it and shuddered. While that smile was on his face no one dared address him; all they could do was to stand ready to obey. — J.M. Barrie

Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we'd lost, they would have gouged out our eyes and thrown us naked onto hot coals and poisonous snakes for all the cheering and hugging at the end, strangers hugging like the end of The Omega Virus when Steve Sturmine finds the antidote. — Daniel Handler