Sylvesters Stones Quotes & Sayings

Hexapodia as the key insight — Vernor Vinge

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. — Jim Harrison

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can. — Marin Hinkle

BEFORE HE CAME INTO a lot of money in 1839, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, led a largely uneventful life. — Bill Bryson

Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath - "The Spouter Inn: - Peter Coffin." Coffin? - Spouter? - Rather ominous in that particular connexion, thought I. But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I suppose this Peter here is an emigrant from there. As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee. — Herman Melville

To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good. — Jane Yolen

I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school. — Marc Almond

Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once. — Larry Brilliant

It's amazing how my mind opens up right when I have to run on the treadmill. I've finished three chapters rather than run a mile. — Dan Alatorre

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. — Shunryu Suzuki

When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him. — Malcolm X

He broke his heart into a million pieces before it could gather itself back and fall in love with her yet again.

Such was her charisma. — Abhishek Krishnan

When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you thousand stories ... .. Stories from your past even before you existed, then the photo is way above any description. — Sameh Elsayed

The fruit of the Spirit, in contrast, gives a sure sign of transformed character. When our deepest attitudes and dispositions are those of Jesus, it is because we have learned to let the Spirit foster his life in us. — Dallas Willard